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San Fernando, Rey de Espaa: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780870623387 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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308,55 |
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Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land
ISBN: 9780870710070 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Above the Clearwater explores one family's joys and struggles on an Idaho homestead--on land taken from the Nez Perce Indian Reservation as a result of the Dawes Act--it illuminates the tangled relationship between the history of a particular place and the history of the families who inhabit that place over time.
As Above the Clearwater explores one family's joys and struggles on an Idaho homestead--on land taken from the Nez Perce Indian Reservation as a resul...
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Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography
ISBN: 9780870713712 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here forty Oregonians, from the prominent to the plain, tell their own stories.
Here forty Oregonians, from the prominent to the plain, tell their own stories.
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166,52 |
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The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity
ISBN: 9780870714924 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than 150 years, Pacific Northwest writers have sought out the region's shared stories and traditions in an attempt to explain the common features of its places and people. A key element in the study of place and region is the relationship between human experience and the natural world. This newest volume in the acclaimed Culture and Environment in the Pacific West series offers a compelling blend of ideas and perspectives on regional identity in the Pacific Northwest.
In The Great Northwest, historian William G. Robbins gathers writings that explore the idea and reality of the... For more than 150 years, Pacific Northwest writers have sought out the region's shared stories and traditions in an attempt to explain the common feat...
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97,90 |
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River Pigs & Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780870714948 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ron Strickland's oral histories recover a part of the original Northwest character that is rapidly disappearing. In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from old-timers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Brimming with lively accounts both humorous and poignant, the book illuminates cadences and traditions that Strickland hopes will survive long after the storytellers are gone. Here a moonshiner, a fish pirate, a timber cruiser, a branding iron maker, a smoke jumper, a frontier bride, and twenty-five other fascinating individuals speak vividly, revealing their personal histories in their...
Ron Strickland's oral histories recover a part of the original Northwest character that is rapidly disappearing. In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers...
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78,32 |
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Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780870714955 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home. In Whistlepunks and Geoducks, Strickland introduces readers to a remarkable group of storytellers, from old-timers to new arrivals.
In searching for people whose stories would add up to a portrait of the Evergreen State, Strickland discovered a region as alive with folklore as it is with natural beauty. Ranchers and wheat farmers, fishers and loggers, Indians and city folk, saloonkeepers and Prohibition agents, oystermen and hippies, and,... Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home....
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78,32 |
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Frontier Doctor: Observations on the Changing West
ISBN: 9780870715211 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urling Coe came to the new town of Bend, Oregon, in 1905, a young medical school graduate seeking adventure and opportunity in the West. Frontier Doctor, Coe's autobiographical account of his thirteen-year residency, details the extraordinary experiences of a young physician in frontier Oregon and offers a vivid social history of town and ranch life on the Oregon high desert. His memoir also documents the development of a western town: with the arrival of the railroad in 1911, the wide-open settlement known as Farewell Bend was transformed into an important metropolitan center. In a new...
Urling Coe came to the new town of Bend, Oregon, in 1905, a young medical school graduate seeking adventure and opportunity in the West. Frontier Doct...
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68,52 |
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Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: 1810-1813
ISBN: 9780870715280 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vivid historical account of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the battle for furs and empire waged in the Oregon Country.
A vivid historical account of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the battle for furs and empire waged in the Oregon Country.
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68,52 |
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Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska
ISBN: 9780870715365 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frigid Embrace explores how the drive to extract natural resources has shaped Alaskans' understanding of the environment and their relationships with the region's Native peoples. This insightful account of Alaska's colonial struggles offers readers a key to understanding the roots of current environmental controversies.
Frigid Embrace explores how the drive to extract natural resources has shaped Alaskans' understanding of the environment and their relationships with ...
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97,90 |
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Crater Lake National Park: A History
ISBN: 9780870715372 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Half a million people visit Crater Lake each year, and tens of millions throughout the world have been captivated by photographs of this deep blue jewel of Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Rich in detail and extensively illustrated, this comprehensive history, published to mark the hundredth anniversary of Crater Lake National Park, recounts the people and events that created and shaped Oregon's only national park.
Half a million people visit Crater Lake each year, and tens of millions throughout the world have been captivated by photographs of this deep blue jew...
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88,11 |
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Backwoods to Border
ISBN: 9780870740114 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society begins with "A Buffalo Hunter and His Song," by Texas folklorist and Society editor J. Frank Dobie. The book is a collection of nineteen Texas folk tales, including "Cowboy Dance Calls," "Grave Decoration," "The Ghost Nun," "Ghost Stories from Texas College for Women," "Folklore of Texas Plants," "Mexican Animal Tales," and "Anecdotes About Lawyers."
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society begins with "A Buffalo Hunter and His Song," by Texas folklorist and Society editor J. Frank Dobie. The...
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122,40 |
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Mesquite and Willow
ISBN: 9780870740183 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains fifteen folk tales. The title of this book alludes to two branches of folklore that exist side by side in Texas, the English and the Mexican.
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains fifteen folk tales. The title of this book alludes to two branches of folklore that exist side...
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78,32 |
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Song of the Hammer and Drill
ISBN: 9780870815317 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry and the state. First published in 1982, Song of the Hammer and Drill, with the help of more than 100 historical photographs, traces the mining and urban history of the San Juans from 1860-1914 through the lives of the people who opened, settled, and developed the beautiful but rugged mineral-rich peaks of southwestern Colorado.
As one of the great mining regions of Colorado and the United States, the San Juan Mountains provide insight into the development of both the industry...
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167,87 |
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Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879 - 1893
ISBN: 9780870815928 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All those who delight in modern Aspen as a ski resort and cultural center, as well as those who enjoy reading about all the old Wild West, will be charmed by this book. In its heyday as a mining town, Aspen rivaled the camps of the California Gold Rush, Virginia City in Nevada's Comstock Lode, and Leadville in Colorado, and from 1887 to 1893 it was the riches silver-mining center in America. Aspen's story begins in 1879 with seven prospectors camped in tents by the intersection of the Roaring Fork River and Castle Creek at the foot of Aspen and Smuggler Mountains. The first great spurt of...
All those who delight in modern Aspen as a ski resort and cultural center, as well as those who enjoy reading about all the old Wild West, will be cha...
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115,42 |
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Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
ISBN: 9780870815997 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study takes a fresh look into the lives of families living in the coal camps of southern Colorado between 1890 and the Great Depression. Historian Rick J. Clyne examines the experiences of the men, women, and children who lived and worked in these isolated, company-dominated towns. With the dangerous nature of mining coal a daily reality, the fear of death and injury was pervasive--not only for the miners venturing into the earth day after day, but for their dependents as well.
Clyne reveals that a strong sense of community and tolerance existed in the camps, into which families... This study takes a fresh look into the lives of families living in the coal camps of southern Colorado between 1890 and the Great Depression. Historia...
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65,32 |
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Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780870816840 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the south-western corner of Colorado. Duane A. Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 "discovery" of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. Smith also details the resulting creation of a national park in 1906 and assesses the impact of more recent developments -- railroads and highways, air pollution, and the growing significance of tourism -- on the...
Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assem...
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76,88 |
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Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780870817205 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boomtown Blues examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry's continual cycles of boom and bust.
Boomtown Blues examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc ...
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108,21 |
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Silver Saga: The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780870817298 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a study of Caribou, Colordao, a silver mining town.
Presents a study of Caribou, Colordao, a silver mining town.
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113,16 |
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Colorado's Colorful Characters
ISBN: 9780871085955 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vignettes of colorful individuals who have had an impact on Colorado's history, including Zebulon Pike, Chief Ouray, Horace Tabor, Mollie Brown, Nicholas Creede, and cannibal Alferd Packer, whose judge said, "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five of them "
Vignettes of colorful individuals who have had an impact on Colorado's history, including Zebulon Pike, Chief Ouray, Horace Tabor, Mollie Brown, Nicho...
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46,05 |
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Ohio's Western Reserve: A Regional Reader
ISBN: 9780873383721 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources--many now out of print and difficult to locate--to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the "New Connecticut" region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic, and political study of the region: "Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders"; "The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy"; "The Transition Years; Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880"; and "A Changing Legacy:...
This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources--many now out of print and difficult to locate--to provide a highly readabl...
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97,90 |
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