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Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
ISBN: 9780803282179 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Horse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in Little Britches and continued at points east and west in Man of the Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma & Company, Shaking the Nickel Bush, and The Dry Divide. All have been reprinted as Bison Books.
Horse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in Little Britches and contin...
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67,50 zł |
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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
ISBN: 9780803281783 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as...
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and...
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67,50 zł |
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Come on Seabiscuit!
ISBN: 9780803282872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Master storyteller Ralph Moody tells the thrilling story of a plucky horse who refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey who didn't let horrendous accidents keep him out of the saddle, and a taciturn trainer who brought out the best in both. During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured the hearts of Americans from the streets to the White House, winning more money than any horse at that time and shattering speed records across the country. In this real-life story Moody captures the hoof-pounding excitement of the explosive early races to an unforgettable showdown with the feared Triple...
Master storyteller Ralph Moody tells the thrilling story of a plucky horse who refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey who didn't let horrendous ac...
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62,31 zł |
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Shaking the Nickel Bush
ISBN: 9780803282186 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive, risking his neck as a stunt rider for a movie company. With an improvident buddy named Lonnie, he camps out in an Arizona canyon and...
Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prosp...
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67,50 zł |
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Mary Emma & Company
ISBN: 9780803282117 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life....
The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls...
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62,31 zł |
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Wells Fargo
ISBN: 9780803283039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells, Fargo & Company and went into the express business in California, carrying gold, letters, packages, and freight between the mining regions and the financial centers of the East. They registered the miners to receive deliveries, guarded the gold-dust shipments, apprehended stage robbers, recovered stolen gold and silver, and established a reliable, conservative banking house in the world's wickedest...
Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal ...
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57,12 zł |
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Man of the Family
ISBN: 9781948959070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,00 zł |
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The Dry Divide
ISBN: 9780803282162 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing was easy. The tension between opposing forces never lets up in this book.
Without preaching, The Dry Divide warmly illustrates... Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. T...
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67,50 zł |
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Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
ISBN: 9780803283046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809 68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and respected fur trapper of his time.From 1842 to 1848 he guided John C. Fremont s mapping expeditions through the Rockies and was instrumental in the U.S. military conquest of California during the...
In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing t...
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62,31 zł |
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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
ISBN: 9781948959902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,96 zł |
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Man of the Family
ISBN: 9780803281950 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.
Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch earl...
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The Fields of Home
ISBN: 9780803281943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures.
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to ...
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67,50 zł |
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Riders of the Pony Express
ISBN: 9780803283053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri-across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts, and plains-guaranteed in ten days or less. Russell hired eighty of the best and bravest riders, bought four hundred of the fastest and...
Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texa...
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67,50 zł |
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American Horses
ISBN: 9780803283015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Horses came to America from Spain, England, the Low Countries, and Arabia. Here they interbred and flourished as never before. "Out of the melting pot have come four entirely new breeds that rank among the finest horses of the world. Three of them originated through the painstaking and intelligent efforts of American horsemen, one through a freak of nature."That "freak" was a little bay stallion born when George Washington was president. This chunky, short-legged horse proved to be not only hardy and gentle but also able to outpull and outrun any other horse in New England or New York....
Horses came to America from Spain, England, the Low Countries, and Arabia. Here they interbred and flourished as never before. "Out of the melting pot...
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62,31 zł |
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Stagecoach West
ISBN: 9780803282452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportation, Moody moves on to paint a lively and informative picture of western stagecoaching, from its early short runs through its rise with the gold rush, its zenith of 1858 68, and beyond. Its story is one of grand rivalries, political chicanery, and gaudy publicity stunts, traders, fortune hunters, outlaws, courageous drivers, and indefatigable detectives. We meet colorful characters such as Charlie Parkhurst, a stagecoach driver who took an...
Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportat...
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98,69 zł |
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The Home Ranch
ISBN: 9780803282100 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw horse.
Following Little Britches and developing an episode noted near the end of Man of the Family, The Home Ranch... Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. D...
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67,50 zł |
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A Brief History of U.S. Marine Corps Officer Procurement, 1775-1969
ISBN: 9781499740394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This publication is derived from official records and appropriate published manuscript sources. It is published for the information of those interested in the history of Marine officer procurement from 1775 to 1969. In order to chronicle the history of Marine Corps officer procurement, a clarification of terminology is needed. "Procurement" is the normally accepted term to describe the obtaining of officers for the military. Actually, "procurement" is defined "as obtaining or securing." There are, of course, further definitions of the word, but all basically refer to the process of obtaining...
This publication is derived from official records and appropriate published manuscript sources. It is published for the information of those intereste...
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73,16 zł |
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