Wyniki wyszukiwania:
wyszukanych pozycji: 6
 |
Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma
ISBN: 9780806110332 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Within the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma experienced boom and bust. Comprising approximately 1,200 square miles, this area was once the world's leading producer of zinc and lead ores. With Joplin, Missouri, as its financial, distribution, supply, and wholesale center, the district included bonanza fields at Galena and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Commerce and Picher, Oklahoma. But the deposits were shallow, scattered, and short-lived, and by the 1950s few companies and fewer...
Within the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern...
|
cena:
82,36 |
 |
The Chickasaws, Volume 109
ISBN: 9780806110424 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle. Against an ethnohistorical background, the author relates the story of the Chickasaws from their first recorded contacts with Europeans in the lower Mississippi Valley in 1540 to final dissolution of the Chickasaw Nation in 1906. Included are the years of alliance with the British, the dealings with the Americans, and the... For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the... |
cena:
82,36 |
 |
The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border
ISBN: 9780806112640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders' every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they continued to wage war and acted as traders for border captives and goods. In 1873 they reluctantly settled on a reservation in Indian Territory. There, corrupt politicians, land swindlers, gamblers, and whiskey peddlers preyed on the tribe. Not until the twentieth century did the Kickapoos received just treatment at the hands of the United States government. Arrell Morgan Gibson (1921-87) was the George...
The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders' every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River t...
|
cena:
101,76 |
 |
Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries
ISBN: 9780806141534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner State" The drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history covering prehistory, Spanish and French exploration, the removal of Indian tribes to what the federal government called Indian Territory, and the modern period of state politics and economic development. Gibson informs his readers with refreshing candor: betrayal of the Indians, racism, and political corruption are told in their entirety. Later chapters tell of the vibrant modern period, when Oklahoma politics became more sophisticated, the... "For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner State" The drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history co... |
cena:
96,90 |
 |
The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain
ISBN: 9780806112312 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The last Thursday in January, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, one of New Mexico's most talked-about mysteries. That course of the territory's development had pitted the man of law and order, Fountain, against relentless outlaws, who finally got their man on a lonely stretch of road with the White Sands...
The last Thursday in January, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buc...
|
cena:
82,36 |
 |
The Chickasaw Rancher
ISBN: 9780870816352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) First published in 1960, Neil R. Johnson's "The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition, " tells the story of Montford T. Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. Abandoned by his father after his mother's death and then left on his own following his grandmother's passing in 1868, Johnson became the owner of a piece of land in the northern part of the Chickasaw Nation in what is now Oklahoma.
"The Chickasaw Rancher" follows Montford T. Johnson's family and friends for the next thirty-two years. Neil R. Johnson describes the work, the ranch parties, cattle rustling, gun fights,... First published in 1960, Neil R. Johnson's "The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition, " tells the story of Montford T. Johnson and the first white settl...
|
cena:
110,04 |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
