wyszukanych pozycji: 33
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The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos
ISBN: 9781556228292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it. Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they dare? To find it, they must cross a desert prowled by Apache warriors. They must ride a trail haunted by devil animals and Indian spooks. Even with the help of a young Apache boy, the journey won't be...
The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawling...
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38,06 zł |
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Halff of Texas: A Merchant Rancher of the Old West
ISBN: 9781571684363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild western country waiting to be tamed. Throughout his life, he was at ease whether dining with a U.S. President at a plush metropolitan banquet or squatting across a campfire from a dirt-streaked cowboy in some forsaken cow camp. Immigrating as a fourteen-year-old, Halff began as a foot peddler. He quickly built the largest dry goods business in the Southwest and by 1861 was pursuing his passion-cattle ranching. He founded several of Texas' famous...
Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild ...
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84,84 zł |
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On the Pecos Trail: The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings
ISBN: 9781493069538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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63,70 zł |
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To Hell or the Pecos
ISBN: 9780875655055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed her. Now, he is dead-set on returning to her unmarked grave above the river to make one final atonement. His journey is interrupted when a group of Mexican bandits burn down the 7L's ranch house, kill the ranch boss, and rape and abduct his daughter, Liz Anne. The 7L's greenhorn wagon boss, Jess Graham, desperately begs for Tom's help in rescuing Liz Anne, the girl Jess loves. Tom obliges and sets out with Jess and his posse of ranch hands...
Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed h...
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97,60 zł |
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Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River
ISBN: 9780806152011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin -probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.- In the twenty-first century, the river's problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire... Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one ... |
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184,61 zł |
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Perseverance
ISBN: 9781571682352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels or in a sea of emptiness. Their fate seemed certain-until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train bound for a dying relative on the Texas Gulf Coast. He brought with him the traits bestowed by his rural upbringing faith, conviction and dedication. But now he faced thundering wheels ready to mutilate and knife-wielding hobos restless to kill, a barreling train...
It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tr...
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72,08 zł |
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Starflight to Eternity
ISBN: 9798890220103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,83 zł |
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The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos: The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings
ISBN: 9781493069552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
63,70 zł |
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Haunted Border
ISBN: 9781432876395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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106,21 zł |
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Dead Mans Boot
ISBN: 9781432833084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Clay Andrews is like a dead man, adrift in an uncaring dark. But he s also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers.
Back in Central Texas, Clay s sister has died, and only on this river might he learn why. The person perhaps responsible may have fled here, but no one enters this no-man s-land except at his own peril. Comanches are on the prowl, and across the Pecos, Mescalero Apaches range all the way to the mysterious Guadalupe Mountains. In a dead man s boot, Clay finds a map to rumored gold in the Guadalupes. When Comanches approach, he flees upriver... Clay Andrews is like a dead man, adrift in an uncaring dark. But he s also searching, and in 1869 he has ridden to the Pecos River to find answers. |
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95,58 zł |
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When the Sky Rained Dust
ISBN: 9781571688309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker bring rain? Will their families lose their homes? Will Josh's and Shan's friendship survive? From rabid animal attacks to a deadly flood to a barreling freight train, Josh is in for an adventure he will...
Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and...
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63,58 zł |
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Grizzly Moon
ISBN: 9798890221698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,83 zł |
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The Big Dry: A Novel
ISBN: 9780875658872 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
106,10 zł |
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Dead Man's Boot
ISBN: 9781645404644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,22 zł |
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Saddling Up Anyway: The Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys
ISBN: 9781493032976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Author Patrick Dearen brings the reckless and risky adventures of real cowboys to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in the West before 1932 as well as 150 archival interviews and written accounts from as early as the 1870s and well into the mid-twentieth century.
Author Patrick Dearen brings the reckless and risky adventures of real cowboys to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who cowboyed ...
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72,08 zł |
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The Big Drift
ISBN: 9780875655703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon himthe likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds an unexpected (and unwelcome) savior in the form of Zeke Boles, a former slave on the run from a bloody, guilt-filled past.
In Zeke s dark features Will sees a reflection of the haunting memories he has been trying to escape for so long, but he reluctantly offers him shelter for the night at the Slash Five camp. Little does he know that their... Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon himthe likes of whi...
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cena:
97,60 zł |
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Grizzly Moon
ISBN: 9798885781046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
114,61 zł |
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When Cowboys Die
ISBN: 9780875658209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
106,10 zł |
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Comanche Peace Pipe: The Old West Adventures of Fish Rawlings
ISBN: 9781493069514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
63,70 zł |
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Apache Lament
ISBN: 9781432855710 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 2020 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
122,15 zł |