or after she was travelling with her husband, and one of the books was following the guidon. my father was a great custer collector and my mother loved the civil war and enarmored with the west and it's military. we've got books on western american history and we focused a lot on arizona. of course, the southwest indians, the apaches and navajo history and a lot of people enjoy reading about tombstone, the wyatt earp and the doc holiday, and the supersition mountains south of here looking for the lost dutchman mine, but they're also interested in cowboys. there are a lot of early cowboy recollections. how-toes. >> custer again, a great selection of custer and then the civil war. scottsdale has one of the largest civil war round tables so we have people interested in the civil war here. we have a small connection to the actual events during the civil war. lincoln created the separate territory of arizona in 1863. he wanted to be sure that our mining properties, the gold and silver, stayed with the union. arizona was part of new mexico territory. it was more leaning towards the

. >> guidon books was started in 1964 by my parents.hey wanted to open a western history and civil war bookstore in scottsdale, and the first store was on main street. there's a story that when somebody saw what was going in, they told my father, well, you're only going to be here six months. it's now been over 52 years that we've been in scottsdale. guidon books, to what i believe, is ruby coster, george's wife, wrote three books when she was traveling or after she was traveling with her husband. and one of the books was following the guidon. my father was a great coster collector. my mother loved the civil war but was also enamored with the women in the west, so i'm sure they came up with guidon books. it fits both military. we have books in western and eric in history. we focus a lot on arizona. of course the southwest indians, the apache and navajo history. a lot of people enjoy reading about tombstone, the wyatt earp and doc holiday characters. sometimes superstition mountains which are just south of here, looking for the lost dutc

some sure they came up with guidon books.have books on western american history, we focus on arizona. of course southwest wind indians, the apache navajo history. a lot of of people enjoy reading about tombstone, wyatt earp and doc holliday characters. sometime superstition mountains which are south of here looking for the lost dutchman mines. they're also interested in cowboys and early cowboy collections and how to's. custer again a great selection of custer. and then the civil war. scott still has one of the largest civil war roundtables. so you people interested in the civil war. we have a small connection of the events during the civil war. lincoln created the separate territory of arizona in 1863. he wanted to be sure that our mining properties, the gold and silver stayed with the union. arizona was part of new mexico territory. it was more leaning toward the confederate. there had been a large texas contingency in there. they came over, did a bit a bit of invasion into southern arizona. had a battle, a very small but i

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question, the very first thing he asks me is "what was it like growing up in such a historic visit guidon books wh specializes in civil war history and americana. >> my father was a custer collector, my mother loved the civil war but was enamored with the women in the west so i'm sure they came up with guidon books, it fits both military. >> and on american mystery ist n c-span 3, hear about the founding of scottsdale from the arizona state historian marshall trimble. he shares the story of winfield scott, a civil war hero who saw potential in the arizona salt river valley. >> he'd just graduated from seminary school and was assigned to a church when the civil war broke out and lincoln called for volunteers and he really wanted to get into it so he went back to his hometown in new york, a little tiny town, and he started recruiting and raising his own company of soldiers and i think he recruited about 33 of his own cousins and his bible study class and he even recruited the town band. >> and we'll visit the winter home of architect frank lloyd wright. >> really example of how to live in t

wrote three books after she was traveling with her husband and one of the books was following the guidonfather was a great custer collector. my mother loved the civil war but was very enamored with women in the west. we have books on western history. we focus a lot on arizona. of course, the southwest indians, apatchies and navajo history. a lot of people enjoy reading earp tombstone, the wyatt and doc holliday characters. sometimes the superstition mountains, just south of here. looking for the lost -- mine. but they're also interested in cowboys. we have a lot of early cowboy recollections. how-to ease. custer, a great selection of custer and then the civil war. scottsdale has one of the largest civil war round tables so we have people interested in the civil war here. we have a small connection to the actual events during the civil war. lincoln created the separate territory of arizona in 1863. he wanted to be sure that our mining properties, the gold and silver, stayed with the union. arizona was part of new mexico tessitore. it was more leaning towards the confederate. there had bee

. >> and visit guidon books which specializes in civil war history and western americana. >> my father was a great custer collector. my mother loved the civil war but was also very enamored with the women in the west. i'm sure they came up with guidon books, it fits american military. >> then, hear about the founding of scottsdale from arizona state historian marshal tremble. mr. tremble shares the story of wilson scott, a civil war hero who saw potential in the arizona salt river valley. >> he just graduated from seminary school and was assigned a church when the civil war broke out and lincoln called for volunteers. and he really wanted to get into it. so he went back to his hometown in new york there and little tiny town, and he started recruiting and raising his own company of soldiers. and i think he recruited about 33 of his own cousins. and his bible study class. and he even recruited the town band. >> and we will visit the winter home of architect frank lloyd wright. >> really an example of how to live in the desert southwest. it was a building that frank lloyd wright used as a

i'm sure they came up with guidon books, it fits american military. >> then, hear about the founding of scottsdale from arizona state historian marshal tremble. mr. tremble shares the story of wilson scott, a civil war hero who saw potential in the arizona salt river valley. >> he just graduated from seminary school and was assigned a church when the civil war broke out and lincoln called for volunteers. and he really wanted to get into it. so he went back to his hometown in new york there and little tiny town, and he started recruiting and raising his own company of soldiers. and i think he recruited about 33 of his own cousins. and his bible study class. and he even recruited the town band. >> and we will visit the winter home of architect frank lloyd wright. >> really an example of how to live in the desert southwest. it was a building that frank lloyd wright used as a laboratory. wright was working to create a new kind of architecture for america. >> the c-span cities tour, saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-spa

i bargain the guidon from $.35 a book to 20 cents a book, and got 200 books. went up to the university of california. we left our guns at home because we were there to sell books. most of the time, we do not carry guns all the time. my point is, we were up around university of california selling these red book, $1.00. i thought that was a pretty good profit, which we needed bad, because we were a ragtag organization. i ain't got but 13 or 14 members at this period. we sold those 200 red books. this is the early days of the black panther party around oakland and berkeley. went back to the bookstore, got 200 more. sold those in an hour also. went out and bought huey a shotgun that he wanted. paid the rent on the office. found out there is going to be an antiwar, anti-vietnam rally at the football stadium in san francisco in two weeks. so, i took my next paycheck from the city government and ran over and bought 2,500 books, red books. and we took, i guess i had about 16 of us selling red books. it was more than 25,000 people there. we sold all of those red books

love the civil war but was also enamored with the women in the west so i'm sure they came up with guidoneen on c-span3, here about the founding of scottsdale from marshall trimble. mr. turnbull shares the story of winfield scott, a civil war hero who saw potential in the arizona salt river valley. tohe had just graduated seminary school when the civil war broke out, and lincoln called for volunteers, and he wanted to get into it, so he went back to his hometown in new york and he started recruiting and raising his own company of soldiers, and i think he recruited about 33 of his own cousins, and his bible study class, and even recruited the town band. home will visit the winter of architect frank lloyd wright. >> a real example of how to live in the desert southwest. it was a building that flank lloyd wright used as a laboratory. working to create a new kind of architecture for america. workingcities tour, with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. now, president obama reviews his administration's achievements. he also talks about syria, russian hacking, and the in