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The Great Persuader: The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
ISBN: 9780870814761 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1,500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices-an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swindled dollars, and America itself richer by a national railroad system which contributed greatly to the country's westward expansion.
How did... The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, Californi...
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Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American War
ISBN: 9780812218602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The ferocity and magnitude of the American Civil War eclipses that of all other nineteenth-century conflicts, but the hard fighting and tactics that played out between the North and South were first developed during the Mexican-American War of the late 1840s. It was during this struggle between two regional powers that the United States showed that it could muster soldiers representing far-flung states of the Union--Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi--and officers fresh from West Point, testing the military preparedness of the young nation. In Climax at Buena Vista,...
The ferocity and magnitude of the American Civil War eclipses that of all other nineteenth-century conflicts, but the hard fighting and tactics that p...
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119,53 |
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De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo
ISBN: 9781023482585 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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76,42 |
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California: A Bicentennial History
ISBN: 9780393331530 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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87,23 |
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River Runners of the Grand Canyon
ISBN: 9780816509409 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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38,82 |
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De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo
ISBN: 9781023482622 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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131,75 |
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The Great West
ISBN: 9780618001897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An American Heritage(R) Book
The Great West is a sweeping history of the commissioned expeditions, failed settlements, and land speculation that conquered the American West. A noted historian of the region and a dramatic storyteller, Lavender portrays the moments and movements that shaped the growing United States, from the founding of provisional governments to the laying of the railroads. An American Heritage(R) Book
The Great West is a sweeping history of the commissioned expeditions, failed settlements, and land speculation that c... |
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98,78 |
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One Man's West
ISBN: 9780803260306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers such as David Lavender remembered "not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow." And as the nation exhausted its gold and silver veins, as law reached the boomtowns on the frontier, and as the era of the great cattle ranches and drives came to an end, Lavender felt compelled to document his...
The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely...
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94,84 |
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Leopard
ISBN: 9781682775684 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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45,57 |
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Leopardo
ISBN: 9781682776940 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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45,57 |
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California: Land of New Beginnings
ISBN: 9780803279247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the Americans, the fabulous gold rushes, statehood in 1850, railroad wars, furious labor upheavals, the disastrous scandals and bankruptcies of the 1920s, and the recent gigantic tamperings with nature. David Lavender tells, with unusual clarity and grace, the story of a beautiful state's rise to giganticism. In an afterword to this Bison...
From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal...
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133,04 |
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Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy
ISBN: 9780806131900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Let Me Be Free, David Lavender tells the tragic story of the Nez Perce struggle against annihilation. Encroaching settlers and violent disputes resulted in the Nez Perce War of 1877, a desperate attempt by Chief Joseph and his small band of Nez Perce Indians from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon to elude strong forces of U.S. Cavalry and civilian volunteers and escape to Canada. In Let Me Be Free, David Lavender tells the tragic story of the Nez Perce struggle against annihilation. Encroaching settlers and violent disputes ... |
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Bent's Fort
ISBN: 9780803257535 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.
Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Establis...
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113,84 |
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Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail
ISBN: 9780803279155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the "westward vision" that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers' routes, that vision gradually grew into a sense of a manifest American destiny. Lavender describes the efforts of emigration societies, of...
"In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of hi...
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82,53 |
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
ISBN: 9780803280038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Critics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his book "a balanced, learned, and lively history of an epochal human exploit" (Choice). Lavender sets the stage with a lucid account of the imperial rivalries between England, Spain, France, and the United States, and their role in Thomas Jefferson's decision to sponsor an expedition that might strengthen the young country's claims to lands it had purchased but never seen. Lavender then takes us through the steps that led to the selection of...
Critics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his b...
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The Southwest
ISBN: 9780826307361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) First published in 1980 as part of Harper & Row's Regions of America series, this lively account is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. Focusing on New Mexico and Arizona, it also touches on neighboring states Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, as well as northern Mexico. Lavender writes of the Southwest from the time of the earliest Indian inhabitants to the eras of the Spanish conquerors, the French fur trappers, and the eventual expansion of the United States into the area. He describes conflicts between Mexico and Spain, Mexico and Texas, and Mexico and...
First published in 1980 as part of Harper & Row's Regions of America series, this lively account is now available only from the University of New Mexi...
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101,97 |
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Land of Giants: The Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950
ISBN: 9780803279056 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The exploration and conquest of the Pacific Northwest is the dominant theme of Land of Giants, a book which (in the words of William O. Douglas) "gives one a sense of participation in moulding the manifest destiny of America." English and Spanish seadogs seeking a northwest passage to the Orient were the first comers; then, following Bering's explorations, Russian fur traders descended on the Aleutians. In turn, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the activities of the great fur companies, and "Oregon fever" spurred on overland traffic westward; and as gold silver, and copper drew thousands more...
The exploration and conquest of the Pacific Northwest is the dominant theme of Land of Giants, a book which (in the words of William O. Douglas) "give...
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113,84 |
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Fist in the Wilderness
ISBN: 9780803279766 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and other legendary trappers, Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for the fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competition,...
The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overal...
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