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Ozark Country
ISBN: 9780878057290 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ozark Country by W. K. McNeil A stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the Ozarks This study of folklife in the Ozarks surveys one of America's most fascinating regions and shows its distinctive cultural imprint. The living heritage of Ozark country is detailed here beside the history of its earliest settlements and its unique folkways. Although many who pioneered in the Ozarks migrated from southern Appalachia, Ozark is not "Appalachia West," for the flavor of Ozark culture is rare and particular. This book is an expression of that lasting...
Ozark Country by W. K. McNeil A stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the Ozarks This study of folklife in...
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137,09 |
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From the Native American viewpoint a personal yet carefully documented chronicle about the lands that became the state of Mississippi
From the Native American viewpoint a personal yet carefully documented chronicle about the lands that became the state of Mississippi
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205,71 |
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Native Land
ISBN: 9780878057344 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Native American viewpoint a personal yet carefully documented chronicle about the lands that became the state of Mississippi
From the Native American viewpoint a personal yet carefully documented chronicle about the lands that became the state of Mississippi
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97,90 |
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Bloody Bozeman
ISBN: 9780878421527 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie Jr. as "among the very best in the American Trail series, " The Bloody Bozeman weaves an "almost seamless" pattern of destiny and adventure.
The Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red...
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77,07 |
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wyoming place names
ISBN: 9780878422043 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wyoming Place Names provides a fascinating look at not just the background of each name but also the state's history.
Wyoming Place Names provides a fascinating look at not just the background of each name but also the state's history.
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61,66 |
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Lochsa Story
ISBN: 9780878423330 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lochsa Story explores the lessons drawn from two centuries of human interaction with northern Idaho's Lochsa country and how those lessons can affect management philosophies of similar regions across the continent and beyond. This personal narrative is thoroughly documented and includes maps and scores of rare, old photographs.
The Lochsa Story explores the lessons drawn from two centuries of human interaction with northern Idaho's Lochsa country and how those lessons can aff...
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115,61 |
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From Angels to Hellcats: Legendary Texas Women, 1836 to 1880
ISBN: 9780878424436 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Angels to Hellcats treats readers to fascinating facts, amazing adventures, and unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Texas frontier, when anything could happen and usually did.
From Angels to Hellcats treats readers to fascinating facts, amazing adventures, and unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Texas frontier, whe...
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46,24 |
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Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society
ISBN: 9780878463343 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated catalog, published in 1991 to accompany the Massachusetts Historical Society's 200th-anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides the reader with an engaging view of the books, manuscripts, artwork, and historical artifacts collected by the Society over two hundred years. Filled with color plates, black-and-white illustrations, detailed item descriptions, and entertaining anecdotal information, the catalog brings many of the most vital events in American and Massachusetts history to life through the examination of material artifacts. The book... This fully illustrated catalog, published in 1991 to accompany the Massachusetts Historical Society's 200th-anniversary exhibition at the Museum of... |
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410,92 |
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The Winds Erase Your Footprints
ISBN: 9780879612634 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of a Navajo family in the 1930s. When white Juanita marries a Navajo man and is taken to New Mexico to live with his family, she must learn to cook on the central fire pit in the hogan, care for sheep and horses, adapt to the lack of funds, and welcome the many friendly neighbors constantly dropping by. She is the first white woman most of the children have seen. This is a story of true love and achievement as she and Luciano build their own lifestyle, but also a story of struggle and tragedy.
A true story of a Navajo family in the 1930s. When white Juanita marries a Navajo man and is taken to New Mexico to live with his family, she must lea...
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69,17 |
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Populist Assault Sarah E Van D
ISBN: 9780879722036 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the money power.
Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the ... |
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58,73 |
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Love Valley: An American Utopia
ISBN: 9780879727604 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker s utopian experiment.
The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as... Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated ...
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63,62 |
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Coastal Maine: A Maritime History
ISBN: 9780881505559 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating and comprehensive chronicle of four hundred years of maritime history along the Maine coast.
A fascinating and comprehensive chronicle of four hundred years of maritime history along the Maine coast.
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123,12 |
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The Railroad and the Canyon
ISBN: 9780882899862 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploration of the Grand Canyon has attracted Exploration of the Grand Canyon has attracted |
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52,40 |
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The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
ISBN: 9780884482871 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cameras float coastward. Almost every old family photograph album contains snapshots of children and sand pails, teenagers frolicking in surf or rowing a rental skiff, young couples half blinded by love and half blinded by beach-reflected sun, mothers with infants shaded by makeshift tents, and old-timers ensconced in folding beach chairs, often shielded by umbrellas.... Now and then the rummager of attics and antique shops finds other photographs, usually made from ferries or other commercial craft passing parallel to industrial waterfronts, beneath drawbridges, beside shipyards, sweeping...
Cameras float coastward. Almost every old family photograph album contains snapshots of children and sand pails, teenagers frolicking in surf or rowin...
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137,14 |
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A Loose Herd of Texans
ISBN: 9780890960448 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixing the profile with the personal essay, plain storytelling with reporting and the fanciful, Bill Porterfield, in this collection of short pieces, prances out a memorable cast of his characters from the Texas heartland.
"Loose herd" is about as tight a noose of definition as you can draw around their collective necks. Clarence of Green Mansions is a mystic with a two-thousand-year-old memory; J. D. Graham ekes out a living as owner of a general store in the dried-up crossroads of The Grove; Old Juan lives in a hole in the ground and defies anyone to bother him; Larry Bowman became... Mixing the profile with the personal essay, plain storytelling with reporting and the fanciful, Bill Porterfield, in this collection of short pieces, ...
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102,81 |
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Landscapes of Texas: Photographs from Texas Highways Magazine
ISBN: 9780890960882 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many outlanders think of Texas as a land of cactus flats or High Plains ranches, its landscape broken only by barbed wire fences of perhaps an oil derrick. Texans, of course, know better. Here, in 202 magnificently reproduced, full-color photographs from "Texas Highways" magazine, the astonishing diversity and beauty of Texas landscapes are splendidly and dramatically displayed. The damp pine forests, shaded lakes, and tangled thickets of East Texas; the fertile fields of the rolling prairies; the vast wheat and cotton farms and rangelands of the Panhandle plains; the rugged peaks... Many outlanders think of Texas as a land of cactus flats or High Plains ranches, its landscape broken only by barbed wire fences of perhaps an oi... |
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102,81 |
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Lambshead Before Interwoven
ISBN: 9780890961223 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "For more than a hundred years the vigorous Matthews and Reynolds clans have graced the land and enhanced the genteel traditions of western living. I know no writer who could hold the subject in more affectionate regard than the imaginative author of this book, Frances Holden. It is a beautiful book."--J. Evetts Haley.
Along the Clear Fork of the Brazos in northwest Texas lies the Lambshead range--good water, protected valleys, and rich grasses, a cowman's dream. The story of the Reynolds and Matthews families, who made that dream a reality, has been beautifully chronicled in Sallie... "For more than a hundred years the vigorous Matthews and Reynolds clans have graced the land and enhanced the genteel traditions of western living. I ...
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205,71 |
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Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle
ISBN: 9780890961230 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote "Interwoven" so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on the Texas frontier. Far beyond her modest intentions, the book became a classic soon after its original publication in 1936.
As Robert Nail wrote in his introduction to the 1958 edition designed by the renowned bookman Carl Hertzog, "When you read her account of the day her family moved into a mysterious, abandoned ranch house on the very edge of the unconquered prairie and see, as her small girl eyes saw, the broken window glass littering... Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote "Interwoven" so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on...
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123,31 |
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Castro's Colony: Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865
ISBN: 9780890962107 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresario system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder.
In 1842, French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans to immigrate to Texas and populate his...
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122,40 |
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Cannibals and Condos: Texans and Texas Along the Gulf Coast
ISBN: 9780890962763 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A third book in the series is scheduled for publication this fall." CANNIBALS AND "
Robert Lee Maril, a professor at Texas Southmost College, has recently written a book that explores the Texas coast and the diverse people who call it home considering the many ways Texans have altered these lands. In Cannibals and Condos: Texans and Texas along the Gulf Coast Maril talks with rich, poor, and in between to show how today's decisions will affect future lives. For eons the Texas Gulf Coast stretched undisturbed for nearly four hundred miles of quiet wetlands and long beaches. The... A third book in the series is scheduled for publication this fall." CANNIBALS AND "
Robert Lee Maril, a professor at Texas Southmost College, has ... |
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122,40 |
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