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A Shadow in the Forest: Idaho's Black Bear$18.95 ISBN 0-89301-172-x University of Idaho Press Beecham and Rohlman This comprehensive report of bear behavior should well serve students, hunters, and anyone fascinated by our Ursus americanus neighbors. . .—Idaho Wildlife Hunting Paper, 273 pages, 26 photographs, 2 illustrations, 5 maps, 56 tables [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Fires, Faults and FloodsA Road and Trail Guide Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin $19.95 0-89301-206-8 University of Idaho Press Marge and Ted Mueller Marge and Ted Mueller lead you on a fascinating tour of the Columbia River Basin, helping you explore the geologic events that shaped the region's unique features. 5.5 x 8.5, paper, 288 pages, 60 photographs, 75 maps, Index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
At Home AfloatWomen on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-253-x University of Idaho Press Nancy Pagh Women were considered bad luck on boats at sea until far into the 19th century. Nancy Pagh studies women travelers as these prohibitions eased. Copublished with the University of Calgary Press. 208 pages, 17 photographs, map, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
At the Hemingways50 Years of Correspondence Between Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway $34.95 ISBN 0-89301-216-5 University of Idaho Press Marcelline Hemingway Sanford Marcelline Hemingway Sanford’s reminiscence of growing up with her younger brother Ernest in Oak Park, Illinois, includes eighty-one letters, cards, and telegrams between the two siblings. Cloth, 400 pages, 26 photographs, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Automobile Gold Rushesand Depression Era Mining $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-195-9 University of Idaho Press Charles Wallace Miller Jr. During the Depression, gold fields that had been abandoned for decades saw the return of people, this time in cars, who camped and worked areas wherever they could. Cloth, 212 pages, 23 photographs, 5 maps, 7 tables [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
A Fair Barbarian$15.95 ISBN 0-89301-187-8 University of Idaho Press Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett, best known for The SecretGarden and The Little Princess, first published this social satire in 1880. Her heroine, a beautiful and brash young heiress from Nevada, unexpectedly descends upon her aunt in the sleepy village of Slowbridge, England. Paper, 258 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Bonanza West: The Story of Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900$16.95 ISBN 0-89301-116-9 University of Idaho Press William S. Greever Greever’s generous inclusion of the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural aspects of the 19th century rush for gold complete this panorama of the West in its bonanza days. Paper, 6x9, 444 pages, 8 maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
British Investments and theAmerican Mining Frontier 1860-1901 $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-178-9 University of Idaho Press Clark C. Spence This significant study offers information on the British investors who brought capital to America’s mining industry in the late nineteenth century. Paper, 300 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Chief Pocatello$14.95 ISBN 0-89301-222-x University of Idaho Press Brigham D. Madsen Looking beyond popular opinion and historical belief that characterized the legendary Chief Pocatello as an overly bold and intransigent leader, Madsen offers the Northwest Shoshoni in a balanced light. Copublished with the Idaho State Historical Society. Paper, 142 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Common CourageBill Wassmuth, Human Rights and Small-town Activism $16.95 ISBN 0-89301-264-5 University of Idaho Press Andrea Vogt A thoughtful book that grew out of the last interviews with noted Northwest human rights activist and former Catholic priest Bill Wassmuth. Vogt documents Wassmuth’s unique story. Paper, 5.5x8.5, 225pages, photos, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Coxey's Army:An American Odyssey $19.95 ISBN 0-89301-174-6 University of Idaho Press Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes On May 1, 1894, Jacob S. Coxey led an army of tattered, hungry, unemployed people from western and mid-western states to Washington, D.C., to persuade Congress and President Cleveland to create public works and increase the money supply to stimulate the economy. Cloth, 336 pages, 14 photographs, 1 map [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Death and the Good Life$13.95 ISBN 0-89301-261-0 University of Idaho Press Richard Hugo Al Barnes is a good but admittedly “mushyhearted” homicide cop who trades his stressful Seattle beat for a small-town deputy’s life in rural Montana. The peace is disrupted when a local fisherman and a millowner are foundg ruesomely axed. Barnes goes on a multistate search for the alleged killer. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Gold Town to Ghost Town: Silver City, Idaho$12.95 ISBN 0-89301-087-1 University of Idaho Press Julia Conway Welch This book chronicles the story of the most fabulous of ghost towns, Silver City, Idaho. The photographs of the town are excellent . . .as is the map of the mining district . . .a sound background to an interesting era. a sound background to an interesting era. —Idaho Librarian Paper, 5.5 x 8.5, 128 pages, 54 photographs, 4 maps, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Governor Smylie Remembers$29.95 ISBN 0-89301-212-2 University of Idaho Press Robert E. Smylie This the autobiography of Idaho’s only three-term governor. Robert E. Smylie led the state from 1954 to 1967, a era of great change. Smylie, a moderate Republican, tells how he became one of the first casualties of the G.O.P. conservative revolution when he was upset in the primary in his bid for a fourth term as chief executive. Cloth, 250 pages, illustrations, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Hate is My Neighbor$14.95 ISBN 0-89301-254-8 University of Idaho Press Tom Alibrandi with Bill Wassmuth In the 1980s, a northern Idaho community unwittingly became the home to the Aryan Nations, one of the most virulent white supremacist groups in the United States. Bill Wassmuth and other local civil rights leaders banded together to shine light on hateful and malicious acts. Paper, 285 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Hemingway and the Natural World$39.95 ISBN 0-89301-214-9 University of Idaho Press Edited by Robert E. Fleming This groundbreaking essay collection is the first consolidated effort to study Hemingway’s relationship to the natural world. Cloth, 276 pages, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Hike Lewis and Clark's Idaho$14.95 ISBN 0-89301-257-2 University of Idaho Press Aegerter and Russell The 45 trails in this book take hikers into a terrain of forests, mountains, and meadows that is virtually the same as when Lewis and Clark traversed it two centuries ago. The 200-page book has a descriptive text and a topographic map for each trail. Paper, 5.5x8.5, 224 pages, 45 maps, 4 illustrations [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Honey in the Horn$19.95 ISBN 0-89301-155-x University of Idaho Press H. L. Davis AS OF JULY 31, 2009, CAXTON NO LONGER WILL DISTRIBUTE THIS BOOK. Winner of the 1936 Pilitzer Prize for fiction H. L. Davis’ earthy and humorous look at a young man learning self-reliance in the Oregon wilderness after family problems push him out on his own among horse traders, jail breakers, fortune hunters, and wide-eyed innocents. Paper, 6x9, 408 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Idaho's Constitution:The Tie That Binds $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-265-3 University of Idaho Press Dennis C. Colson Idaho’s Constitution opens a door for the reader into the political struggle and turmoil of a century ago but also into the spirit of compromise and common purpose that conquered the divisions the first legislators faced. Revised in 2003. Paper, 6x9, 316 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Lewis and Clark's Mountain Wilds$19.95 ISBN 0-89301-258-0 University of Idaho Press Sharon A. Ritter Wildlife ecologist Sharon A. Ritter takes the reader from high on the Lolo Pass through the Bitterroot Mountains, while describing more than 100 plants and animals first recorded by Lewis and Clark. Color throughout. Paper, 5.2x9, 330 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Mining Engineers and the American West $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-167-3 University of Idaho Press Clark C. Spence Voted No. 1 Mining History Book by Mining History News. This book is a treasure trove of tales about the early mining engineers and their experiences on the Western frontier.—Mining History News Paper, 420 pages, 17 photos, 4 illustrations, 5 maps, 6 tables [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Minnesota Diary, 1942-46$39.95 ISBN 0-89301-219-x University of Idaho Press Edited by George Killough In 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. During the 1940s, he kept this diary, which reveals the introspective man rather than an embattled celebrity author. Cloth, 320 pages, 9 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Mountain Man$9.95 ISBN 0-89301-251-3 University of Idaho Press Vardis Fisher Vardis Fisher captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the West (which served as the inspiration for the Sidney Pollack/Robert Redford film, Jeremiah Johnson). Paper, 368 pages, 1 map [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Mushrooms of Idahoand the Pacific Northwest Volume 2 -- Non-gilled Hymenomycetes $15.95 ISBN 0-89301-097-9 University of Idaho Press Edmund E. Tylutki Volume 2: Paper, 256 pages, 114 color plates [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Mushrooms of Idahoandthe Pacific Northwest Volume 1 -- Discomycetes $13.95 ISBN 0-89301-062-6 University of Idaho Press Edmund E. Tylutki Both of these volumes provide field and technical keys, along with technical descriptions and photographs—to aid both amateurs and professionals in identifying and collecting regional varieties. Volume 1: Paper, 136 pages, 79 photographs, 8 illustrtions [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Native Plants Materials Directory$20.00 ISBN 0-89301-508-3 University of Idaho Press Native Plants Journal staff The Native Plants Materials Directory is a comprehensive listing of producers and suppliers that provide products needed by those working in the native plants industry. It is revised annually. perfect bound, 6 x 9, 154 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Nez Perce Women in Transition 1877-1990$49.95 ISBN 0-89301-188-6 University of Idaho Press Caroline James Unique individual accounts recorded directly from personal in-terviews with NezPerce women ranging in age from 20to 90. Cloth, 274 pages, 209 photographs, 2 maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion$22.95 ISBN 0-89301-126-6 University of Idaho Press Jordan Paper Paper presents an encyclopedic array of archaeological, as well as documentary, evidence in support of his conclusions.—Western Historical Quarterly Paper, 181 pages, 43 photographs, 9 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Radical Heritage$19.95 ISBN 0-89301-175-4 University of Idaho Press Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on eithe side of the 49th parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia. Paper, 310 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Rediscovering Vardis Fisher: Centennial Essays$34.95 ISBN 0-89301-223-8 University of Idaho Press Edited by Joseph M. Flora Vardis Fisher was one of Idaho’s most accomplished writers. His attention to western landscape and rural culture left a lasting, albeit controversial, legacy. These twelve evocative essays explore the impact and achievement of Fisher’s work and life. Cloth, 248 pages, 25 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Six Decades Back$19.95 ISBN 0-89301-137-1 University of Idaho Press Originally published by The Caxton Printers Charles S. Walgamott Charles Shirley Walgamott arrived by stage at Rock Creek Station, Idaho Territory, in 1875. In an untamed land, far from his native Iowa, he survived illness, hardship, and lawlessness. Walgamott mined, trapped, ranched, and hunted, while living with settlers, Indians, and outlaws. Paper, 6x9, 384 pages, 7 photos [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Smokechaser$14.95 ISBN 0-89301-180-0 University of Idaho Press Warren Yahr In Smokechaser, Warren Yahr recalls his experiences as a teen-age lookout in the remote Bungalow Ranger Station, 28 miles from Pierce, Idaho. Winner of the 1996 Idaho Library Association Book Award, Honorable Mention Paper, 6x9, 264 pages, 12 photographs, maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
So Incredibly Idaho!$49.95 ISBN 0-89301-193-2 University of Idaho Press Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes Using colorful images from his own photographic collection, Schwantes describes the hidden forces and his-torical events that have impacted thel andscape of Idaho. 10.5x9.5, 178 pages, 147 color photographs, 3 maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Bannock of Idaho$15.95 ISBN 0-89301-189-4 University of Idaho Press Brigham D. Madsen This classic study of the Bannock Tribe of southern Idaho explores broken U.S. government agreements, diminishing food supplies, and the pride of a tribal nation. Paper, 390 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Great Poem of the EarthA Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril $39.95 ISBN 0-89301-196-7 University of Idaho Press Andrew Elkins The first study of the great Colorado Poet Laureate and first poetic voice to emerge from the Rocky Mountain West. Winner of the 1998 Thomas J. Lyon Award. Cloth, 238 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Milwaukee Road Revisited$29.95 ISBN 0-89301-198-3 University of Idaho Press Stanley W. Johnson The Milwaukee Road’s route from Three Forks, Montana, to Spokane,Washington, touched many lives. Milwaukee Road enthusiasts will enjoy the description of their railroad in the 1930s and ‘40s . . —George Drury, Train Cloth, 240 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Nez Perce Nation Divided$49.95 ISBN 0-89301-256-4 University of Idaho Press Dennis Baird, Diane Mallickan and W. R. Swagerty Contemporary accounts, mostly unpublished, about the Idaho gold rush of 1860 and the resulting decrease of the Nez Perce Reservation in the controversial Nez Perce Treaty of 1863. Cloth, 8.5x10, 488 pages, photographs, maps, bibliography, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Story of IdahoMillennial Edition $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-259-9 University of Idaho Virgil M. Young An updated edition of the classic textbook on the history, geography and culture of Idaho. Approved by Idaho Department of Education in 2003. Available to schools from the State School Book Depository Cloth, 8.5x11, 257 pages, photographs, timelines, bibliography, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Sunshine Mine Disaster$12.95 ISBN 0-89301-181-9 University of Idaho Press James Brock Brock’s poems poignantly express the grief that lingers from 1972 when the Sunshine Mine Disaster took the lives of ninety-one miners near Kellogg, Idaho. Paper, 75 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The World of David Wagoner$35.00 ISBN 0-89301-200-9 University of Idaho Press Ron McFarland The definitive biography of writer and poet David Wagoner, whose lifetime achievements have been largely ignored, until now. Cloth, 222 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback$9.95 ISBN 0-89301-205-x University of Idaho Press George W. Wingate In this 1885 travel account, those who love Yellowstone Park will find something of interest—from the lithographs of how the park appeared in the late 1880s to the flora and fauna. Copublished with the Idaho State Historical Society. Paper, 256 pages, 21 illustrations [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-79$8.95 ISBN 0-89301-250-5 University of Idaho Press Andrew Garcia This book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia. Bennett Stein edited the manuscript to tell Garcia’s story of the 1877 Nez Perce War, the end of the buffalo herds, and other historic events in Western life. Paper, 410 pages, 2 maps [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Travelers in an Antique Land$29.95 ISBN 0-89301-203-3 University of Idaho Press Poems by William Studebaker Photographs by Russell Hepworth This elegant book delivers the emotional body blows only possible when artists boil prose down to poetry and render kaleidoscopic sceneryin black and white. To read Bill’s words and scan Russell’s images is to feel what it’s like to be on the high desert, free and alone—Diane Ronayne, Idaho Wildlife cloth, 10.5x10.5, 100 pages, 42 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
We Sagebrush Folks$21.95 ISBN 0-89301-122-3 University of Idaho Press Annie Pike Greenwood This intimate record of anacute mind and sensitive spirit to joys, sorrows, poverty, and personalities of the early West describes the author’s fifteen years as a farmwoman on the last American frontier. Paper, 514 pages, 32 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Women on the Run$16.95 ISBN 0-89301-217-3 University of Idaho Press Janet Campbell Hale In this first collection of her short fiction, Hale offers a forth-right perspective of contemporary Native and non-Native American women living and surviving outside of the boundary of mainstream America. Cloth, 186 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Written on WaterEssays on Idaho Rivers $16.95 ISBN 0-89301-224-6 University of Idaho Press Edited by Mary Clearman Blew Award-winning author Mary Clearman Blew asked her friends and fellow writers from the Rockies to write intimately about the power of water on the human spirit. Essays include those by Kim Barnes, Robert Wrigley, Lance Olsen, John Rember, and Claire Davis. Paper, 204 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
In Nez Perce Country$16.95 ISBN 0-89301-503-2 University of Idaho Press Compiled and edited by Lynn and Dennis Baird A rare collection of many never-before-published firsthand accounts of the Nez Perce Tribe. These pieces span more than 100 years of history and were gathered from archives all over North America. 6 x 9, 325 pages, paper [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Bitterroot Crossing:Lewis & Clark Across the Lolo Trail $12.00 ISBN 0-89301-509-1 University of Idaho Press Gene & Mollie Eastman A history of the management of the Lolo Trail, a ancient travel route used by American Indians and well as Lewis and Clark in crossing the Bitterroot Range. Based on years of field and archival research. 8.5 x 11, 80 pages, paper, 32 maps, 8 photos [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Frontier Duty:The Army in Northern Idaho, 1853-1876 $14.95 ISBN 0-89301-510-5 University of Idaho Press Donna M. Hanson, editor This book documents the work of the frontier Army in northern Idaho in the years before the arrival of the agricultural frontier in the 1870s. It includes many primary accounts, maps, and photos, most published for the first time. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Green Culture Studies $35.00 ISBN 0-89301-209-2 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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The Arams of Idaho $19.95 ISBN 0-89301-186-x University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Building with Logs $19.95 ISBN 0-89301-208-4 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Conservation of Neotropical Landbirds $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-168-1 University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Historical Celebrations $14.95 ISBN 0-931406-13-7 University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Interpreting Local Culture and History $17.95 ISBN 0-931406 University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Loaded Fictions $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-194-0 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Old West - New West $36.00 ISBN 0-89301-166-5 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Monkey Mountain Madness $14.95 ISBN 0-89301-192-4 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Old West - New West $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-163-0 University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Parallel Expeditions $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-177-0 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Pioneers of American Folklore $39.95 ISBN 0-89301-185-1 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Raising the Roof $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-211-4 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Rationality and Ethics in Agriculture $24.94 ISBN 0-89301-179-7 University of Idaho Press [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Reading the Earth $50.00 ISBN 0-89301-213-0 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Reading the Earth $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-220-3 University of Idaho Press Paperback [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Tricky Tribal Discourse $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-201-7 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Wise Economies $35.00 ISBN 0-89301-202-5 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Work as Art $29.95 ISBN 0-89301-190-8 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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Cowboy Memories of Montana $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-207-6 University of Idaho Press Cloth [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
For Wood River or Bust$29.95 ISBN 0-89301-215-7 University of Idaho Press Clark C. Spence Noted mining historian Clark C. Spence details the mining history of the Wood River region and captures the bedlam of the early camps and communities. Copublished with the Idaho State Historical Society. Cloth, 278 pages, 16 photographs, 3 maps, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
MavericksThe Lives and Battle of Montana's Political Legends $39.95 ISBN 0-89301-199-1 Unitersity of Idaho Press John Morrison and Catherine Wright Mossison Montana’s remarkable political heritage is examined through nine essays. Cloth, 310 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Amphibians and Reptilesof the Pacific Northwest $24.95 ISBN 0-89301-086-3 University of Idaho Press Nussbaum, Brodie, Storm This Northwest guide tells in readable fashion how to find and identify the various salamanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, and snakes that inhabit Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Paper, 336 pages, 95 photographs, 59 maps, 2 tables [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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