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The Saga of the Outlaw Harry Tracy
ISBN: 9781456373504 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exciting story of the outlaw, Harry Tracy, who was the subject of the most famous manhunt in the Pacific Northwest in the sping and summer of 1902. The book gives details of Tracy's life as well as a historical perspective of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century settings in which the chase took place. The accounts of the manhunt are built from daily newspaper accounts of the actual events.
The exciting story of the outlaw, Harry Tracy, who was the subject of the most famous manhunt in the Pacific Northwest in the sping and summer of 1902...
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Objectivism Lost and an Age of Disillusionment
ISBN: 9781467938723 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first decade of the 21st century, many educated men believed that the libertarian philosophies of limited government and strong individual liberty, based on reason and rational analysis could run with minimal oversight. Key decision makers on Wall Street chose not to apply critical thinking, but to intentionally take advantage of people, resulting in the widespread collateralized mortgages that led to the meltdown of the economy. With over a 30% reduction in the major investments of the middle class-homes and pensions-there is anger and disillusionment with the people running the...
In the first decade of the 21st century, many educated men believed that the libertarian philosophies of limited government and strong individual libe...
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84,04 |
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The World of Indigenous North America
ISBN: 9780415879521 / Angielski / Twarda / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world, the... The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume ca... |
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1163,48 |
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A Knucklehead in 1920s Alaska
ISBN: 9781470039059 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nineteen-year-old Bill Collins travels to Alaska in the 1920s to work and save for college. He finds adventure, misadventure, and not much money. He faces hardships, finds friends, and has experiences that change a boy into a man. During three summers and one winter, Bill survives hunger, earthquake, stomping caribou, and icicle frost. He learns about stopes, sluice boxes, and powder smoke. He finds friends who will do anything for him and enemies eager to knife him or smash him with a twenty-pound sledge. He has one lucky day and more than a few really bad days. This is the story of one...
Nineteen-year-old Bill Collins travels to Alaska in the 1920s to work and save for college. He finds adventure, misadventure, and not much money. He f...
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50,02 |
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Tombstone By Tombstone: Here Lies the Old West
ISBN: 9781470153854 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within these pages you will find stories of the real Old West...THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY. These are interesting stories of folks that you may or may not have heard of previously. Elmer McCurdy was killed by a posse and then spent 66 years touring the country before he was buried. Three ladies were kidnapped by Indians; one made a harrowing escape; one was killed and mutilated; one died of a broken heart when she could not return to her adopted tribe. "Big Nose" Kate set a town on fire to help her man escape the law. One young sheepherder was murdered by two brothers and ended up buried...
Within these pages you will find stories of the real Old West...THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY. These are interesting stories of folks that you may or...
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35,98 |
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Our American West
ISBN: 9781470120054 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Our American West, Volume I you are sure to discover humor, tragedy and courage in every one of these delightful stories. Gary McCarthy has been writing about the American West for thirty years and these are some of his favorite topics written-not for the expert or scholar-but for all the armchair admirers of things historically western. Some of these exciting subjects are fairly well known such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but even here you will discover things about these daring outlaws that you probably didn't know. And in this first volume, you'll be delighted and amused at...
In Our American West, Volume I you are sure to discover humor, tragedy and courage in every one of these delightful stories. Gary McCarthy has been wr...
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27,81 |
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A History of Lutsen
ISBN: 9781468009880 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Robert Mc Dowell has written the quintessential history of Lutsen in this handy paperback. The book is full of fascinating historical photographs and documents...as well as lots of anecdotes and memories of those who carved a world out of the wilderness." - Joan Farnam, Northern Wilds Newspaper, June 2012 Lutsen is Minnesota's heartbeat. Sometimes gentle and reassuring as a civilized small town should be. Sometimes on edge, knowing untamed wilderness lies on one side with the cold frowning depths of Lake Superior on the other. Only a thin ribbon of road stops the town from being engulfed....
"Robert Mc Dowell has written the quintessential history of Lutsen in this handy paperback. The book is full of fascinating historical photographs and...
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51,83 |
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Memories of Bull Town-Tuxedo a Cotton Mill Community
ISBN: 9781477520123 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having grown up in a cotton mill community my life was impacted and influenced in a wonderful way by the people in our village. Our little village was named Tuxedo and my parents were cotton mill workers. During the mid 1950's after a Union strike our lives begin to change in many ways for the better. In this book I will share some stories of our community and my own personal stories of the people and places that remain dear to me.
Having grown up in a cotton mill community my life was impacted and influenced in a wonderful way by the people in our village. Our little village was...
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36,98 |
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Blessed Marie of New France: The Story of the First Missionary Sisters in Canada
ISBN: 9780895554321 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It's almost upon us " yelled a frantic voice aboard the Saint Joseph, as the iceberg neared the ship. The huge mountain of gray-green ice looked like a floating castle-which would shatter the poor little wooden ship in a moment or two. Just then the helmsman, confused and panic-stricken, turned his wheel in the wrong direction, bringing the iceberg even nearer "It's the end of everything " groaned the Captain. "God's Will be done," prayed Mother Marie, as the collision loomed closer. If God wished her to drown in the icy Atlantic before ever reaching New France (Canada), His Holy Will be...
"It's almost upon us " yelled a frantic voice aboard the Saint Joseph, as the iceberg neared the ship. The huge mountain of gray-green ice looked like...
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76,04 |
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Once Upon A Picket
ISBN: 9781937273538 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the hearts of three men: Osceola, Major Cooper and Johnny, unearthed by the blade of a bulldozer. Experience the real Florida in undisturbed wild woods, murky swamps and the dark water of the Withlacoochee River. The fusion of their missions entwines their lives in defense and protection and preservation of the land. The essence of those before us exists beneath the hammock and palmetto thickets.
Discover the hearts of three men: Osceola, Major Cooper and Johnny, unearthed by the blade of a bulldozer. Experience the real Florida in undisturbed ...
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63,83 |
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Pennsylvania, Our Beloved Freedom State
ISBN: 9781475254860 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pennsylvania, Our Beloved Freedom State gets down to the founder William Penn and his feelings of religous freedom. He was persecuted in England following the Quaker religion. More is to follow with other famous names then and what they did to further this state, we love.
Pennsylvania, Our Beloved Freedom State gets down to the founder William Penn and his feelings of religous freedom. He was persecuted in England follo...
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71,84 |
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The Jackson Hole Settlement Chronicles: The Lives and Times of the First Settlers
ISBN: 9781477664445 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authenic and richly illustrated account of Jackson Hole's earliest settlers and cast of Old West characters: Native Americans, mountain men, government explorers, miners, outlaws, cavalry, posses, squatters, game poachers, and eccentric frontier figures. The Hole's "bachelor settlers" are profiled and pictured, and the valley's infamous frontier episodes recounted. Exploitation of abundant wildlife played a crucial role in settlement. The tools of the early-day settlers were rifles, traps, and poison. The plow, sun bonnets, and the family cow followed much later; as did also, recognition...
An authenic and richly illustrated account of Jackson Hole's earliest settlers and cast of Old West characters: Native Americans, mountain men, govern...
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79,84 |
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Floating Poverty: The Poor in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780615651330 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " T]hese are the Conveniences and ornaments of a Life of Poverty. These the Comforts of the Poor. This is Want. This is Poverty " Braintree selectman John Adams wrote down these words soon after he visited the neighbor Robert Peacock and family in March 1767. If Adams knew the poor all too well from his personal encounters, eighteenth-century poverty could be elusive for later generations to comprehend. Perhaps, rarely was Massachusetts ever free from poverty throughout this period, nor did that poverty always remain undivided, monolithic, static, or one dimensional. By bringing together the...
" T]hese are the Conveniences and ornaments of a Life of Poverty. These the Comforts of the Poor. This is Want. This is Poverty " Braintree selectman ...
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160,08 |
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Rock Island: An American History
ISBN: 9780615661827 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rock Island: An American History is the entertainingly unvarnished history of the United States. History books tend to be boring, Rock Island isn't. It's a delightful history of the Native Americans who first settled on the scenic bluffs at the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers and of the white men who fought for the Indians' lands and built one of America's prototypical cities on the rivers' edge. Through Rock Island's 340 year history, since Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first white men to walk the rivers' banks until the information age, Rock Island tells the...
Rock Island: An American History is the entertainingly unvarnished history of the United States. History books tend to be boring, Rock Island isn't. I...
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106,05 |
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Rebels in the Front Yard
ISBN: 9780983863106 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liberty Augusta Hollinger was a sixteen-year old girl living in Gettysburg when the greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent erupted around her. With courage and strength, she dealt with the trials of occupation by the invading Confederate army. In her own front yard she was a witness to the fears of the South's greatest general, Robert E. Lee. For three days she lived with the horror of the battle. After the armies departed she gave herself to the task of caring for the wounded they left behind. Through Liberty's rst hand accounts, follow her experiences during the battle,...
Liberty Augusta Hollinger was a sixteen-year old girl living in Gettysburg when the greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent erupte...
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
ISBN: 9781469600864 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War.
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eig...
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174,52 |
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Bipoints Before Clovis: Trans-Oceanic Migrations and Settlement of Prehistoric Americas
ISBN: 9781612331362 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This archaeological publication covers the development, definition, classification, and world-wide deployment of the lithic bipoint and includes numerous photographs, drawings, and maps. Lithic bipoint technology originated 75,000 years ago, and it continued to the discovery of metal for tools. It was brought into the U.S. on both coasts; the Pacific Coast introduction was around 17,000 years ago and the Atlantic Coast was 23,000 years ago. This book presents and discusses bipoints from nearly every U.S. state. Bipoint function, usage, and resharpening are also presented. The book is indexed...
This archaeological publication covers the development, definition, classification, and world-wide deployment of the lithic bipoint and includes numer...
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177,18 |
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North of the Grouseland Line: A Brief History of South-Eastern Indiana
ISBN: 9781477623787 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine with me if you will that your parents immigrated to Indiana in the 1820s, shortly after it was acquired from the Miami Indians and became a State. There were no sawmills, thus no lumber for housing. There were few roads, thus no easy way to transfer food or clothing to your "log cabin" home. Those tough times were experienced by many of the people who reside in this book
Imagine with me if you will that your parents immigrated to Indiana in the 1820s, shortly after it was acquired from the Miami Indians and became a St...
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159,88 |
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Into The Valley Of Death
ISBN: 9781480105942 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Into the Valley of Death" is a unique combination of historical fact and fiction which depicts the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana where Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. The reader will thrill to the accounts of not only the Little Big Horn battle but also the lesser known 1866 Fetterman Massacre in an easy to read format. It is educational and entertaining.
"Into the Valley of Death" is a unique combination of historical fact and fiction which depicts the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana where Li...
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64,00 |
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Kind Eyes
ISBN: 9780615305127 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1859. Abraham Lincoln has just finished an unsuccessful quest for the U.S. Senate. His legal career is intertwined with his love of politics and his belief that one can support the other. His celebrity as a politician is on the rise, but his love of the law is hard to give up. Lincoln has tried nearly 20 murder cases and still craves the courtroom and its drama. Months before he will receive the Republican nomination for President, he accepts the defense of Peachy Quinn Harrison, accused of killing a childhood friend in Pleasant Plains, Illinois. Harrison's younger sister, Virginia,...
It is 1859. Abraham Lincoln has just finished an unsuccessful quest for the U.S. Senate. His legal career is intertwined with his love of politics and...
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79,84 |
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