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| 2 | Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by 4.14 avg rating — 27,797 ratings | Rate this book |
| 3 | Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by 4.21 avg rating — 44,610 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 6 | Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by 4.18 avg rating — 11,002 ratings | Rate this book |
| 7 | The Journals of Lewis and Clark by 4.11 avg rating — 4,539 ratings | Rate this book |
| 8 | Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by 4.01 avg rating — 1,052 ratings | Rate this book |
| 9 | Elsie: Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916 by 3.62 avg rating — 626 ratings | Rate this book |
| 10 | Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by 4.03 avg rating — 1,106 ratings | Rate this book |
| 11 | The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by 3.99 avg rating — 8,913 ratings | Rate this book |
| 12 | The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by 4.02 avg rating — 2,309 ratings | Rate this book |
| 13 | Crazy Horse and Custer by 4.14 avg rating — 5,513 ratings | Rate this book |
| 14 | Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by 4.14 avg rating — 2,414 ratings | Rate this book |
| 15 | A Dynasty of Western Outlaws by 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings | Rate this book |
| 16 | Roughing It by 3.90 avg rating — 7,372 ratings | Rate this book |
| 17 | A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by 3.94 avg rating — 7,661 ratings | Rate this book |
| 18 | Life on the Mississippi by 3.88 avg rating — 11,075 ratings | Rate this book |
| 19 | No Life for a Lady by 4.10 avg rating — 260 ratings | Rate this book |
| 20 | The War on Powder River by 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings | Rate this book |
| 21 | Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier by 4.15 avg rating — 446 ratings | Rate this book |
| 22 | The Year of Decision 1846 by 4.20 avg rating — 289 ratings | Rate this book |
| 23 | Across the Wide Missouri by 4.20 avg rating — 369 ratings | Rate this book |
| 24 | Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by 4.09 avg rating — 930 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 26 | Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier by 3.53 avg rating — 734 ratings | Rate this book |
| 27 | The Children's Blizzard by 3.91 avg rating — 8,991 ratings | Rate this book |
| 28 | The Oregon Trail by 3.70 avg rating — 1,961 ratings | Rate this book |
| 29 | Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Covered Wagon Women, #1) by 4.07 avg rating — 327 ratings | Rate this book |
| 29 | America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by 4.15 avg rating — 4,007 ratings | Rate this book |
| 31 | A Bride Goes West by 4.01 avg rating — 220 ratings | Rate this book |
| 32 | Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane by 3.50 avg rating — 90 ratings | Rate this book |
| 33 | Crazy Horse: The Strange Man Of The Oglalas by 4.25 avg rating — 1,261 ratings | Rate this book |
| 34 | And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight by 4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings | Rate this book |
| 35 | The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by 3.92 avg rating — 149 ratings | Rate this book |
| 35 | Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California by 3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings | Rate this book |
| 37 | Desert Solitaire by 4.22 avg rating — 35,367 ratings | Rate this book |
| 38 | We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher by 4.24 avg rating — 234 ratings | Rate this book |
| 39 | Ever the Wayward Sky by 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings | Rate this book |
| 40 | The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by 4.07 avg rating — 3,765 ratings | Rate this book |
| 41 | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by 4.18 avg rating — 5,818 ratings | Rate this book |
| 42 | Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered by 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings | Rate this book |
| 43 | Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 by 3.47 avg rating — 138 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 45 | A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by 3.78 avg rating — 5,981 ratings | Rate this book |
| 46 | Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail by 4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings | Rate this book |
| 47 | Wild Bill Hickman and the Mormon Frontier by 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings | Rate this book |
| 48 | Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of Don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706 by 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings | Rate this book |
| 49 | Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest by 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings | Rate this book |
| 50 | The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest by 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings | Rate this book |
| 51 | The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by 3.92 avg rating — 1,613 ratings | Rate this book |
| 52 | Quantrill's War: The Life & Times Of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865 by 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings | Rate this book |
| 53 | The Course of Empire by 4.16 avg rating — 154 ratings | Rate this book |
| 54 | The Dillinger Days by 3.79 avg rating — 160 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 57 | High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier by 4.18 avg rating — 67 ratings | Rate this book |
| 59 | The Book of the Navajo by 3.89 avg rating — 90 ratings | Rate this book |
| 59 | The Fox and the Whirlwind: General George Crook and Geronimo, a Paired Biography by 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 62 | Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West by 3.54 avg rating — 829 ratings | Rate this book |
| 62 | Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by 4.07 avg rating — 439 ratings | Rate this book |
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| 78 | Letters of a Woman Homesteader by 3.95 avg rating — 5,177 ratings | Rate this book |
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I didn't create the list but I have a feeling it's for nonfiction only. Alas ... because otherwise I'd be the first to add Angle of Repose ... I LOVE Stegner's writing, both fiction and non, and that book in particular!!
I will update the description to be a bit clearer. I do like Western fiction too (I write it after all). But this list was for me to boost the history books that were so important to my personal library and let others do the same.
Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
I question Krakatoa's presence. While non-fiction, the vast majority of it has nothing to do with American history.
#54 - Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) by Patricia MacLachlan - also fiction
#92 - The Last Letter (Letter #1) by Kathleen Shoop - fiction
#92 - Knight of the Purple Ribbon by Jennifer Leigh Wells - more fiction
# 92 - Fire Wind (The Wind Drifters, #1) by Guy S. Stanton III - fiction
#92 - An Unexpected Widow (The Colorado Brides #1) by Carré White - fiction
#92 - Chief of Thieves by Steven W. Kohlhagen - fiction
#92 - The Practical Jokers by Richard A. Davis - looks like fiction
#114 - An Unexpected Bride (The Co... An Unexpected Bride (The Colorado Brides #2) by Carré White - fiction
#114- Prairie by Anna Lee Waldo - fiction
#114 - How the West Was Won - by Louis L'Amour - great writer, but fiction
#129 - An Unexpected Annulment (The Colorado Brides #3) - more fiction
#129 - The Littlest Hero by Dan Vanderburg - fiction
#140 - Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson - fiction
#140 - An Unexpected Mother (The Colorado Brides #4) by Carré White - still fiction!
Fool's Crow
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Last Letter
Knight of the Purple Ribbon
Fire Wind
An Unexpected Widow
Chief of Thieves
The Practical Jokers
Legacy of Dreams [fiction]
Give Us this Valley [fiction]
The Blessing Stone [fiction]
Locomotive
An Unexpected Bride
How the West Was Won
Trail of Hope [fiction]
Prairie
My Great-Aunt Arizona [children's picture book/historical fiction]
An Unexpected Annulment
The Littlest Hero
Sweetgrass
An Unexpected Mother
An Unexpected Love [fiction]
Sing Down the Moon [YA fiction]
Bride of the Wild [fiction]
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey [picture book/children's historical fiction]
The Man From Cripple Creek [fiction]
Cassie [fiction]
Wild Wild Widow [fiction]
Black Nile: Mungo Park And The Search For The Niger [Mungo Park's explorations were in Africa, as is the Niger.]
In addition, I did not remove, but do question, non-fiction about Thomas Alva Edison, Andrew Carnegie, and Robert E. Lee, among others.
Independence! [fiction]
#55 - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded - by Simon Winchester - Does it really belong on this list? Krakatoa, while being a large eruption had no where near the impact of Tambora in 1815. Tambora's clouds caused world wide cooling, loss of crops and the 'Year without a Summer' in 1816.
#102- The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest by Ellen Meloy - Not really a ' frontier ' book since its set in the mid-20th century.
#155 - The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey - not about the historical frontier, but a book on rouge waves and other types of waves.
#173 - Electrified Sheep: Glass-Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese - Seems to be more of a science book?
Do any of these belong on this list?
One of my favorite works of Southwestern history is Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West by CL Sonnichsen. He deliberately links the pioneers of the covered wagon age to the pioneers of the space age which seemed to involve some interesting thinking about the frontier. So in that vein, let's keep Last Cheaters.
David,
I'm responsible for the additons of the Robert E. Lee biographies, as well as those of Carnegie, Fulton, and Perry. My view is that the American frontier moved from east to west as time progressed. My comments in the 'Why You Added This Book' feature attempt to explain my reasoning for the additions, but I'm not wedded to any of them, so please remove as you see fit. 'Electrified Sheep', for example, was added for its lengthy discussions about Benjamin Franklin's pre-revolutionary experiments with electricity, Crawford Long's experiment in anesthesizing a patient with ether in 1842, and Horace Wells' and William Morton's experiments with nitrous oxide in the 4 years that followed. My reason for adding 'The Black Nile' had nothing to do with the Niger River's location in Africa, nor with Mungo Park's African journeys, but rather the book's discussions of the slave trade between west Africa and the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as the discussion of Scotsman Hugh Clapperton's near-marriage to an Amerindian princess. Similarly, my addition of Meloy's 'Last Cheater's Waltz had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project, but rather her discussions of the shape-shifting Navajo skinwalkers and her observations on petroglyphs and pit houses. All just FYI, I don't want to clutter this list with anything deemed irrelevant or inappropriate.
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Orbitz.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine. The website is owned by Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Expedia Group. It is headquartered in the Citigroup Center, Chicago, Illinois.[2]
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Background[edit]
Originally established through a partnership of major airlines, and subsequently owned by various entities, Orbitz.com – the flagship brand of Orbitz Worldwide – has been in operation since 2001. Other Orbitz Worldwide online travel companies include CheapTickets in the Americas; ebookers in Europe; and HotelClub and RatestoGo, based in Sydney. Orbitz Worldwide also owns and operates Orbitz for Business, a corporate travel company.
Orbitz was the airline industry's response to the rise of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Travelocity, as well as a solution to lower airline distribution costs. Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines, subsequently joined by American Airlines, invested a combined $145 million to start the project in November 1999. It was code-named T2, some claimed meaning 'Travelocity Terminator', but adopted the brand name Orbitz when it commenced corporate operations as DUNC, LLC (the initials of its first four founding airlines) in February 2000. The company began beta testing early the next year, and Orbitz.com officially launched in June 2001.[3][1]
Pre-launch government review[edit]
Even before the site began operating, the company faced intense antitrust scrutiny because five of the six major airlines were collaborating on the project. Collectively, they controlled 80% of the US air travel market. Several consumer organizations, as well as Orbitz's primary competitors at the time (Expedia, Sabre, Travelocity, Galileo), spent significant amounts of money lobbying the United States Department of Transportation to block the project from the outset, and some 23 state attorneys general voiced concerns due to the complaints of local competitors. When the DOT permitted the company to move ahead in April 2001, the competitive lobbying effort was switched to the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice and the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.[citation needed]
Among the concerns raised were these:
- above all, the so-called Most Favored Nation provision, by which the airlines agreed not to cut deals with competing sites under more favorable terms than with Orbitz
- the airlines' agreement to release certain discount fares only to Orbitz or other entities at Orbitz low distribution cost, at the expense of its online and offline competitors
- that Computer Reservation System fee discounts extended to partner airlines would undermine competitors and damage the fledgling online travel industry
- that the airlines would coordinate efforts secretly to reduce discounts
- Orbitz was breaking out the service fee from the ticket price, not making the total price clear
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In July 2003, two years after the Orbitz launch, the Department of Justice ruled that Orbitz was not a cartel and did not pose a threat to competition. Orbitz's rapid growth had not impeded its online competitors' businesses which had continued to grow apace, and no evidence was found of price fixing. Additionally, changes in the marketplace had eroded both the advantages of the Most Favored Nation clause and the web fares that Orbitz had due to its low supplier cost. The efforts by its competitors to generate government scrutiny and the corresponding media attention only heightened consumer interest in Orbitz and the new ways it would allow travelers to shop. Nielsen's Net rating division reported in July 2001 that the Orbitz launch in June 2001 was the biggest e-commerce launch ever.[4]
Ownership history[edit]
In November 2003, Orbitz filed paperwork to sell shares at between $22 and $24 each in an initial public offering.[5] The company went public on December 18, 2003 at a price per share of $26. After the IPO, the airlines held 70% of the outstanding stock and over 90% of the voting power.[6]
On September 29, 2004, Orbitz was acquired for $1.25 billion by New York City-based Cendant Corporation. Cendant paid $27.50 per share.[7]
In 2006, The Blackstone Group acquired Travelport, the travel distribution services business of Cendant, for $4.3 billion in cash. At the time, Travelport included the Orbitz travel reservation website used by consumers, the Galileo computer reservations system used by airlines and thousands of travel agents, Gulliver's Travels and Associates wholesale travel business, and other travel related software brands and solutions.[8]
Travelport announced in May 2007 that it had filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell a portion of Orbitz Worldwide in an initial public offering (IPO). Travelport said it planned to use a portion of the proceeds to pay down its debt. Trading began on July 20, 2007, and the IPO transaction closed on July 25, 2007. Travelport owned approximately 48 percent of Orbitz Worldwide following the IPO.[9]
In February 2015, Expedia announced that it would acquire Orbitz for $1.2 billion in cash, to better compete with Priceline.com. The deal was announced a few days after Expedia agreed to purchase Travelocity.[10][11]
Technologies[edit]
Orbitz runs on a mixed Red Hat Linux[12] and Solaris based platform and was an early adopter of Sun Microsystems' Jini[13] platform in a clusteredJava environment. JBoss is used as application servers within their environment along with various other proprietary and open source software.[14] Orbitz licenses ITA Software'sLisp-powered QPX software to power their site. Orbitz Worldwide brands have been migrated to a common technology platform, which enables the same platform to service multiple travel brands in multiple languages in different markets and currencies as well. Orbitz has released parts of its Complex Event Processing infrastructure as Open Source.[15]
Controversies[edit]
Southwest Airlines[edit]
Southwest Airlines filed a lawsuit against Orbitz for trademark infringement and false advertising in May 2001. Southwest, which had opposed the project from the outset,[clarification needed] claimed Orbitz misrepresented its prices and used its trademarks without permission. In July, it withdrew its fares from Airline Tariff Publishing Company, the entity that distributes fare information to Orbitz and others, and dropped its case against Orbitz. Southwest went on to remove themselves from every other online outlet except their own. In June 2008, Orbitz For Business became one of the first Online Travel Agents to offer Southwest flights on the Orbitz For Business website.[16]
WebLoyalty[edit]
In July 2009, CNET revealed that Orbitz, along with other popular consumer websites Buy.com and Fandango, have been routinely giving post-transaction marketers access to their customers' credit cards. The Senate Commerce Committee investigating these companies has described their services as a 'scam'.[17] The scam works by charging a monthly fee (many users report a $12 charge from Reservation Rewards or Webloyalty showing up on their credit card statements) that is piggybacked[clarification needed] with the Orbitz sale (as it stands, Orbitz Terms of Service agreement currently allows them to share customers' credit card information with third parties for their own uses). Orbitz claims to have ended its affiliation with the controversial marketer and further claims not to share consumer credit card information with third parties any more.[citation needed]
Milgram v. Orbitz[edit]
In 2009, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against the company alleging violation of their Consumer Fraud Act surrounding events with a Bruce Springsteen concert, where tickets were allegedly offered for sale on their website which did not actually exist. The court in Milgram v. Orbitz granted summary judgment for Orbitz, finding that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act preempted the state law consumer fraud claims.[18]
American Airlines[edit]
In December 2010, American Airlines temporarily ceased offering fares through Orbitz following pressure from American to convince Orbitz to use its AA Direct Connect electronic transaction system.[19] AA tried to establish that Direct Connect would have full control over the distribution of its products and reduce GDS segment fees. Furthermore, Direct Connect enables AA to sell ancillary services to its customers.[20] American was later ordered by an Illinois Court to resume offering fares and flight schedules.[21] The court order came only days after American released a video jabbing Orbitz on YouTube.[22]
Media Matters' 'War on Fox'[edit]
Media Matters runs a website called DropFox.com, aiming to get advertisers to boycott Fox News. Orbitz initially referred to Media Matters' efforts as a 'smear campaign',[23] but agreed, on June 9, 2011, following a three-week campaign by prominent LGBT organizations, to 'review the policies and process used to evaluate where advertising is placed'.[24]
Skiplagged lawsuit[edit]
In 2014, Orbitz and United Airlines initiated a Federal lawsuit against 22-year-old skiplagged.com founder Aktarer Zaman.[25][26][27] The complaint alleges that Zaman 'intentionally and maliciously' interfered with airline industry business relationships “by promoting prohibited forms of travel.”[28] The complaint is centered on airline policies against 'hidden city tickets.' Although the hidden-city practice itself is not illegal,[29] the complaint alleges that Zaman's website is disruptive to their business.
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- ^PREPETITION SOLICITATION OF VOTES WITH RESPECT TO PREPACKAGED PLAN OF REORGANIZATION
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- ^Carol Sliwa (September 6, 2004). 'Have Jini, will travel'. Computerworld. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
- ^Gruman, Galen (2006-04-03). 'Orbitz gets up and running fast with open source'. InfoWorld. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
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- ^Greg Sandoval (November 23, 2009). 'E-tailers snagged in marketing 'scam' blame customers'. CNET. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^'N.J. judge dismisses lawsuit over concert-ticket sales', David Porter, A.P. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 1, 2001; accessed September 8, 2010.
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The Value Frontier
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