Stark, Peter

Summary: "The conquest of indigenous land in the American East through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence laid the groundwork for the conquest of the American West. Acclaimed author Peter Stark exposes the fundamental conflicts at play through the little-known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders. William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, son of one of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.004 STA

Stark, Peter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 STA

Stark, Peter

Contents: Prologue -- Where the Acadians disappeared in northern Maine -- The wild lands of western Pennsylvania -- The lost country of southeast Oregon -- The high, haunted desert of New Mexico -- Epilogue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STA

Stark, Peter

Summary: Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.5 STA

Summary: Peter Falk plays a worldly, cynical gumshoe who takes on San Francisco, thugs, crooks, Nazis, femme fatales and the Golden Gate Bridge in this tribute to Bogie and the Hammett/Chandler school of hard-boiled detectives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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