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Reel Rangers: Texas Rangers in Movies, TV, Radio & Other Forms of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781571688408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For nearly a century the worlds most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Texas Ranger," from Zane Greys "The Lone Star Ranger" to Larry McMurtrys "Lonesome Dove," Texas Rangers have been portrayed on the silver screen, network radio and television. John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Clint Eastwood, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and a host of lesser Western stars each took his turn at depicting Texas Rangers. Decade by decade, movie by movies, "Reel Rangers" explores in detail rich popular that has dramatized the heroic...
For nearly a century the worlds most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Tex...
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85,89 zł |
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Captain Harry Wheeler, Arizona Lawman
ISBN: 9781571680648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Captain Harry Wheeler was a Captain of the Arizona Rangers, Sheriff of Cochise County, Cavalry sergeant and World War I army captain. Intensely dedicated to duty and service, Harry Wheeler carved out a notable career as a Western lawman and soldier. His turbulent life was punctuated with fatal shootouts and personal tragedy. After Wheeler's beloved Ranger company was discontinued in 1909, this nemesis of lawbreakers repeatedly won election as sheriff, operating out of historic Tombstone and conduction the controversial Bisbee Deportation. Although in his forties when the United States entered...
Captain Harry Wheeler was a Captain of the Arizona Rangers, Sheriff of Cochise County, Cavalry sergeant and World War I army captain. Intensely dedica...
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105,83 zł |
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The Bloody Legacy of Pink Higgins: A Half Century of Violence in Texas
ISBN: 9781571683045 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A half century of violence in Texas by a family man who killed more than 30
A half century of violence in Texas by a family man who killed more than 30
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85,89 zł |
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Great Gunfighters of the Old West
ISBN: 9781681790596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the West during the late 1800s, guns were tools-as good or as bad as the men who used them. Buffalo hunters used guns to earn their living. Many Westerners hunted wild game to feed themselves and their families. Outlaws used their guns for evil reasons-to rob banks and trains, and to murder people. But lawmen used their guns to stop outlaws.
The struggle between lawmen and outlaws was a battle between good and evil. It was a life and death struggle that took place in towns like Tombstone and Dodge City. But the forces of law and order finally won, and the West was tamed. Profiles include... In the West during the late 1800s, guns were tools-as good or as bad as the men who used them. Buffalo hunters used guns to earn their living. Many We...
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62,44 zł |
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The Pacific Coast League 1903-1988
ISBN: 9781681791166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,42 zł |
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Sam Houston: A Study In Leadership
ISBN: 9781681790374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sam Houston is a Texas icon. General Houston signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on his 43rd birthday, and six weeks later he led the Texas Army to a spectacular victory at San Jacinto. "Old Sam Jacinto" twice was elected president of the Republic of Texas; he served thirteen years as U.S. Senator from the State of Texas; and he won election as governor of the Lone Star State. Before he came to Texas, Houston twice lived with the Cherokee. As a young army officer he was severely wounded while leading charges at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and while still in his twenties Houston...
Sam Houston is a Texas icon. General Houston signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on his 43rd birthday, and six weeks later he led the Texas A...
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85,89 zł |
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John S. "Rip" Ford: Texian Hero
ISBN: 9781681793535 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,35 zł |
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Billy and Olive Dixon: The Plainsman and His Lady
ISBN: 9781681791456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |
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Doris Miller-Hero of Pearl Harbor
ISBN: 9781934645017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although only a cook, Doris Miller fought bravely against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor. The young African-American from Texas was one of the first sailors to earn the Navy Cross during World War II, and the first African-American. He became a hero to the country and a proud icon for the African-American community and the war effort in general. Despite his notoriety and accolades, Miller returned to combat and was killed in action. This is the story of his heroic life from one of the top non-fiction writers in the West. From his boyhood in Waco, Texas, to his death in the Pacific, Bill...
Although only a cook, Doris Miller fought bravely against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor. The young African-American from Texas was one of the fir...
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43,16 zł |
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Bill Neal's Southern Cooking
ISBN: 9780807842553 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingredients. He also shows how the meeting of Native American, Western European, and African cultures has created this cuisine.
Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a s...
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128,94 zł |
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John S. "Rip" Ford
ISBN: 9781681793528 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,19 zł |
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Biscuits, Spoonbread, & Sweet Potato Pie
ISBN: 9780807854747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This delightful cookbook celebrates the glories of southern baking, with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations.
From his first chapter on cornmeal--with recipes for dumplings, hushpuppies, and four styles of spoonbread--to his delicious array of desserts--including persimmon pudding, lemon chess pie, and pecan cake with caramel icing--Bill Neal interweaves fascinating bits of culinary history with a native's knowledge of the cooking secrets of the rural South. He demystifies beaten biscuits,... This delightful cookbook celebrates the glories of southern baking, with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that h...
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146,37 zł |
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Lampasas 1855-1895: Biography of a Frontier City
ISBN: 9781940130644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During summer "watering seasons," hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to "take the waters" at Lampasas Springs. Most of the summer visitors camped for weeks in shady groves beside the springs-enjoying such simple recreations as visiting, singing, communal meals, and preaching services-while children swam and played in large gangs. Lampasas merchants learned to rely upon an annual...
For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded ...
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144,41 zł |
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The Tumultuous Reign of Donald the First: A Highly Partisan Cartoon History of the Trump Presidency
ISBN: 9780982892428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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113,01 zł |
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Long Before the Pilgrims/Anos Antes de Los Peregrinos: The First Thanksgiving, El Paso del Norte, 1598/El Primer Dia de Accion de Gracias, El Paso del
ISBN: 9781571684981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 39 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621, a similar feast of thanks was shared in the New World. In the 1500s, Mexican conquistador Juan de Onate led an expedition north of the Rio Grande into an area now known as Texas. To celebrate his successful journey, he and his colonists joined Native Americans in a feast on April 30, 1598-the First Thanksgiving. Bilingual with both English and Spanish translations."
Long before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621, a similar feast of thanks was shared in the New World. In the 1500s, Mexican con...
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55,76 zł |
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East Texas in World War II
ISBN: 9781531656447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,72 zł |
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Cattlemen Vs Sheepherders: Five Decades of Violence in the West
ISBN: 9781571688569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. During five decades of irregular but vicious warfare, scores of attacks were launched by cattlemen, at least twenty-eight sheepmen and sixteen cowboys were killed, and more than 53,000 sheep were shot, clubbed, knifed, poisoned, dynamited and rimrocked. There were 120 raids and skirmishes across the west, including famous events such as the Pleasant Valley War, the murder of Willie Nickell, the Diamondfield Jack trial and the...
From the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washingto...
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98,81 zł |
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Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials
ISBN: 9780896726512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old South s Victorian code of chivalry and...
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth s finest hotel, a ...
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81,59 zł |
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Cheyenne: 1867 to 1903: A Biography of the Magic City of the Plains
ISBN: 9781571688392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of the formative period of Cheyenne is, to a remarkable degree, the story of America's last West. Founded as a railroad boomtown, Cheyenne was a raucous and violent Hell on Wheels. Rising as if by magic from an empty prairie, Cheyenne was known the "Magic City" of the Plains. The cast of this great Western saga was colorful and imposing. Cattle barons and merchant kings. Cowboys and soldiers. Vigilantes and lawmen. Gamblers and gunfighters. The railroad brought to Cheyenne a parade of celebrities, from President Grant to Teddy Roosevelt, Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane, Sarah...
The story of the formative period of Cheyenne is, to a remarkable degree, the story of America's last West. Founded as a railroad boomtown, Cheyenne w...
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128,94 zł |
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Van Alstyne
ISBN: 9781531675523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Images of America: Van Alstyne relates the story of a Texas town born in an era when small-town life was deeply ingrained in America. Founded by 1873, Van Alstyne is a close-knit, patriotic, religious, hardworking, and progressive-minded community. Surrounded by prime farmland, Van Alstyne thrived as a center for cotton ginning. In addition to railroad service, a far-ranging interurban line enhanced Van Alstyne's transportation system for 40 years. The Van Alstyne Grays, a semiprofessional team that placed its stars into baseball's big leagues, represented the national pastime. The town's...
Images of America: Van Alstyne relates the story of a Texas town born in an era when small-town life was deeply ingrained in America. Founded by 1873,...
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137,72 zł |
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