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Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story
ISBN: 9780806146829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave "looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler." Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, "guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of." In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five/Black Jack gang, which was responsible for Arizona's first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach... Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave "looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler." Yet he was a cattle rus... |
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160,71 zł |
The Bronco Bill Gang
ISBN: 9780806141657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.
William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the late 1880s and quickly gained a reputation for his ability to sit a horse and for his violent ways. The Bronco Bill Gang skillfully dissects his propensity for trouble and shows... The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of th...
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191,66 zł |
Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
ISBN: 9780806133201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, " Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday's genteel upbringing never... John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In "Doc Holliday: A Fa... |
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97,03 zł |