Product Description: In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool's Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America's most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume. Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells, Fargo and company's detectives, who ranged all over the West in search of robbers of the firm's express shipments...read more

Product Description: Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon's fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on scores of helpless victims...read more

Product Description: Richard Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list, presents these California Pioneers in short, lively and informative sketches that capture the special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives...read more

Product Description: A scholarly but entertaining ethnographic study of the early Indian population of Napa Valley, California.

Chronicles the planning, development, and construction of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, two works of architectural and engineering genius built during the 1930s

Recounts the story of the conflict between the Great Plains and Prairie Indians and the white settlers, and looks at major clashes, including Grattan's Massacre and Wounded Knee

A history of the wars of North American natives, from the coming of whites to the end of the nineteenth century, discusses massacres, broken treaties, and the native Americans' struggle to halt white expansion westward.

Traces the combat experiences of U.S. special forces in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia and looks at special operations and guerrilla warfare techniques

Product Description: In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool's Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America's most gifted lawmen, James B. Hume. Dillon paints a vivid picture of Hume, the greatest of Wells, Fargo and company's detectives, who ranged all over the West in search of robbers of the firm's express shipments...read more

Scenes of the Sacramento River Delta, including rural homes and abandoned towns, accompany a description of the area's history

Product Description: Book by Dillon, Richard H.