wyszukanych pozycji: 23
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The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection
ISBN: 9780803292420 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father s house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and ignoring debts, to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife. But the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit as neighbors arrived to feast and dance and enjoy musical selections ranging from Lucia di Lammermoor to Casey at the Telephone. Even old enmities dissolved under the spell, for, as Old Jules said, The music is for everybody....
Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father s house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an...
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39,91 zł |
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Miss Morissa, Doctor of the Gold Trail
ISBN: 9780803291188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Miss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. Fortune hunters, desperadoes, horse thieves, murderers make up the frontier society, while Indians roam the plains refusing to surrender their land to the gold-hungry white men. Near lawless Clarke Bridge she sets up her practice, treating white and Indian alike, receiving horses (if anything) in return for her services. Then, even as fame...
Miss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the East an...
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63,98 zł |
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Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist
ISBN: 9780803258334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and ruthless cattlemen. . . . Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) is one of Nebraska's foremost authors. She wrote twenty-three books...
The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, who] became a worl...
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65,56 zł |
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Winter Thunder
ISBN: 9780803291614 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, miles and miles from the nearest ranchhouse. Thus Mari Sandoz introduces a situation that will stretch the limits of human endurance. The exposed little group is armed with no more than the lunches they started out with and only the clothing required for a normal winter's day. As a killer storm takes hold and the mercury plunges below zero they become desperate. How each character facesthe terrifying prospect of freezing to death is a story that has...
In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, miles ...
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39,91 zł |
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Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections
ISBN: 9780803291485 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West," said John K. Hutchens. The proof of that is in her powerful re-creation of pioneer days in the Sandhills of northwestern Nebraska in these autobiographical pieces written between 1929 and 1965. Those who have not read her classic Old Jules (1935) will find Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections a colorful introduction to Sandoz Country, and those who have will look for the same landmarks and unforgettable people. They include the...
"No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West," said John K....
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59,97 zł |
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
ISBN: 9780803293243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of -the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts, - Sandoz recalls. -Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the train, ' of the droughts, the storms, the wind and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told me by Old Jules himself.-...
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of -the silent hou...
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80,02 zł |
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Horsecatcher, The-Pa
ISBN: 9780803291607 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves. Young Elk is expected to be a warrior, but killing even an enemy sickens him. He would rather catch and tame the mustangs that run in herds. Sandoz makes it clear that his determination to be a horsecatcher will require a moral and physical courage equal to that of any warrior. And if he must earn the right to live...
Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever...
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59,97 zł |
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Slogum House
ISBN: 9780803291232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old gray carcass to dry and bleach at the foot of the hogback." Ruled by Gulla Slogum, the house was headquarters for a clan that terrorized what it couldn't seduce or steal. Using her daughter as poisoned bait and her sons as predators, Gulla plotted to put a whole county under her control. She had been insulted too often and worked too hard; now she sought power, land, and revenge.
Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old gra...
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80,02 zł |
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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
ISBN: 9780803217874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being strange, fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government s efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, only to meet a violent death. More than a century later Crazy Horse continues to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of his people. Mari Sandoz offers a powerful evocation of the long-ago world and enduring spirit of...
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being st...
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100,08 zł |
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The Story Catcher
ISBN: 9780803291638 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting, the daily routine-and shows it all in pictures drawn in the dust or on skins with charcoal and color sticks. But catching the story of Sioux society in the 1840s is not for an impetuous and unseasoned youth. Many adventures, sorrows, and hardships must pass before the village sings Lance's new name: Story Catcher, recorder of the history of his...
Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his see...
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59,97 zł |
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The Tom-Walker
ISBN: 9780803291478 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A hold, biting novel by the author of Old Jules and Crazy Horse, The Tom-Walker spans three generations in a Midwestern family. The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant's army, is the Tom-Walker, circus slang for man on stilts. After the Civil War he takes his family west to the Missouri country. There he gains a reputation as a raconteur and as a passionate defender of the little man who works hard, fights the wars, and gets squeezed out by powerful interests. He lives to see his son and grandson fight in World War I and World War II, respectively, and return home from...
A hold, biting novel by the author of Old Jules and Crazy Horse, The Tom-Walker spans three generations in a Midwestern family. The patriarch, Milt St...
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105,95 zł |
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The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780803226562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham s Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species."
Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous...
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85,75 zł |
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These Were the Sioux
ISBN: 9780803291515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, writtenin her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle."
"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead ...
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45,37 zł |
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Cheyenne Autumn
ISBN: 9780803293410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.
In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their ho...
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88,04 zł |
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Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book Was Published
ISBN: 9780803291362 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respected interpreters of the American West. Old Jules Country is made up of the region that Sandoz has written about most frequently -- the High Plains of the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming -- the Black Hills, the Bad Lands, the sandhills, and the great rivers: the Missouri, the Platte, and the Yellowstone.
Here are selections from the six volumes of her acclaimed Great Plains Series -- The Beaver Men, Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, The... By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respecte...
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100,28 zł |
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
ISBN: 9780803218802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz s vast canvas is charged with color and excitement accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, and famous frontier characters such as Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheridan, Custer, and Indian chiefs Whistler, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting...
In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had d...
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85,75 zł |
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The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias
ISBN: 9780803229839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz s contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to animal species."
The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the ea...
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90,80 zł |
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Love Song to the Plains
ISBN: 9780803251724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues-courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish-their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman,...
Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable histor...
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120,33 zł |
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Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz
ISBN: 9780803292086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1959 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) and other Indian pieces; a novelette, Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman; and nine short stories, mostly with a rural setting, including The Vine," her first to be published. Introducedby an autogiographical sketch of the author's early years and linked by a commentary derived from her letters, articles, and interviews, the separate pieces coalesce into an illuminating picture both of the Niobrara River country and of Mari Sandoz's...
Here in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) an...
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88,24 zł |
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Capital City
ISBN: 9780803260313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s-John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty-Capital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in...
First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important...
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80,02 zł |