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1	The Mormon Landscape more books like this by Richard V. Francaviglia add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50! new only from $6.50! \| first editions
2	Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia, Prof. Wayne Franklin (Foreword by) add to wishlist Main Street has come to symbolize a place of honest aspirations and few pretenses, a place where economics, community pride, and entertainment generate an intuitive appreciation of the small town as a vital part of the American experience. As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $22.00! \| SVS
3	From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900 more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist "The maritime history of Texas is a critical but overlooked topic. This book is a significant contribution, a very nice new synthesis. It will be very useful for a general audience." -- J. Barto Arnold III, State Marine Archeologist, Texas Historical Commission The Gulf Coast has been a principal place of entry into Texas ever since Alonso ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
4	Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to European-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin's gradual emergence from its "large ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $18.70! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania", and contends that the Texas ... see all copies from $8.14! new only from $21.50! \| first editions
6	Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscapes he ... see all copies from $5.34! new only from $23.61! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia (Editor), Bruce S Narramore (Editor), David Narrett (Editor) add to wishlist The American Southwest has been variously celebrated as a place of enormous beauty with a sense of deep historical roots and condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present. The extremes of southwestern life modern and traditional, urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure - pervade the region. ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
8	Dueling Eagles: A Reinterpreting Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia (Editor), Douglas Richmond (Editor) add to wishlist z4 see all copies from $8.48! new only from $12.93! \| SVS
9	Railroad Station Planbook more books like this by Harold A. Edmonson (Editor), Richard V. Francaviglia add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $23.21! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices more books like this by Roberto R Trevino (Editor), Richard V Francaviglia (Editor), Steven M Avella (Introduction by) add to wishlist Like the rosary itself, the influence of Catholicism on the social and historical development of the American West has been both visible and hidden: visible in the effects of personal conviction on lives and communities; hidden in that the fuller context of this important American religious group has been largely marginalized or undervalued in ... see all copies from $29.90! new only from $29.90! \| SVS
12	The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers cover large portions of south-eastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and north central Texas. Home to Native Americans over several thousand years, the Cross Timbers were considered a barrier to westward expansion in the nineteenth century, until roads ... see all copies from $12.06! new only from $18.07! \| SVS
13 view cover	Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin more books like this by Richard V Francaviglia add to wishlist This publication explores how spiritual beliefs affect both the environment and the human spirit in the vast region between California's Sierra Nevada and Utah's Wasatch Mountains. It is a reflection on the ways in which human needs and spiritual traditions can shape perceptions of the land. see all copies from $18.71! new only from $18.71! \| SVS
14	Mining town trolleys : a history of Arizona's Warren-Bisbee Railway more books like this by Richard V. Francaviglia add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions

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