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Securing Borders, Securing Power: The Rise and Decline of Arizona's Border Politics
ISBN: 9780231203777 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,89 |
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Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
ISBN: 9780195170436 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than a century.
Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, Chaco Canyon draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of the people of the canyon, from foraging bands and humble farmers to the elaborate society that flourished between the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. Brian Fagan is a master story teller, and he weaves the... Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attract...
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129,21 |
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Lampasas 1855-1895: Biography of a Frontier City
ISBN: 9781940130644 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During summer "watering seasons," hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to "take the waters" at Lampasas Springs. Most of the summer visitors camped for weeks in shady groves beside the springs-enjoying such simple recreations as visiting, singing, communal meals, and preaching services-while children swam and played in large gangs. Lampasas merchants learned to rely upon an annual...
For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded ...
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129,27 |
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Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920
ISBN: 9781681790329 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920" documents all of the known hangings in Dallas County including . . . Jane Elkins, a slave, hanged for the ax murder of Andrew C. Wisdom and the first female to be legally hanged in Texas . . . Four young men, two of whom were brothers, accused of being horse thieves and cattle rustlers were lynched by vigilantes . . . Reuben "Rube" Johnson, lynched by three men for refusing to give false testimony in an upcoming theft trial . . . Henry Miller, hanged after being tried and convicted for the 1892 murder of Dallas Police Officer C....
"Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920" documents all of the known hangings in Dallas County including . . . Jane Elkins, a sla...
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129,27 |
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The Valley between the Colorado and the Pedernales
ISBN: 9781681791654 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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A Pictorial History of Marble Falls: The Land Embracing the Falls of the Colorado
ISBN: 9781681792231 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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History of Bell County
ISBN: 9781948986595 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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Black Gold to Bluegrass: From the Oil Fields of Texas to Spindletop Farm of Kentucky
ISBN: 9781571688873 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Gold to Bluegrass is the first such work that concentrates wholly on the Second Spindletop Oil Boom and what happened afterward-taking the story from the oil fields of Southeast Texas and Louisiana to the Bluegrass of Kentucky.
After partnering with Thomas Peter Lee of Houston, Frank Yount, water-well driller turned wildcatter, struck it rich, and the Yount-Lee Oil Company began a remarkable march that almost took it to the top of the oil industry. Although he used some of his wealth to benefit his fellowman, Frank Yount, also put together a priceless collection of antique violins, and... Black Gold to Bluegrass is the first such work that concentrates wholly on the Second Spindletop Oil Boom and what happened afterward-taking the story...
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129,27 |
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They Slept Upon Their Rifles
ISBN: 9781571689931 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Captain Robert H. Kuykendall family in America and the entry of the family with the Anglo Settlement into Mexican/Texas in Stephen F. Austin's Colony in 1821. -Includes Allied families - Early, Hardin, Moore, Shannon and Swift -Includes the Kuykendalls from Texas in the Civil War -Includes the Texas Kuykendall Death Records from 1903-2000 The Kuykendall family roots go deeper in Texas than most oak trees. This book is a family history, but it's also the history of Texas. -MIKE COX Austin, Texas In They Slept Upon Their Rifles, sixth-generation Texan, Marshall Kuykendall,...
The story of the Captain Robert H. Kuykendall family in America and the entry of the family with the Anglo Settlement into Mexican/Texas in Stephen F....
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129,43 |
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Texas Ranger Leo Bishop: His Legendary Life and Times . . . A Personal Glimpse
ISBN: 9781681793498 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,43 |
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The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement
ISBN: 9781681791784 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,43 |
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Ben Lilly's Tales of Bear, Lions and Hounds
ISBN: 9780944383841 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,48 |
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Genealogical Abstracts of Wood County, Texas, Newspapers Before 1920
ISBN: 9780788402371 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weekly newspapers were published in at least four communities in Wood County, Texas, before the turn of the century. Original copies and/or microfilm are known to survive for only two of these communities: Winnsboro (Winnsboro Wide Awake, Winnsboro Weekly News, and Winnsboro News) and Quitman (Wood County Democrat), the county seat. These newspapers are fertile researching ground. The flu and pneumonia epidemics of the later nineteen-teens caused the deaths of many of the original pioneers of Wood County. The Wood County Democrat was very good about printing biographical sketches about these...
Weekly newspapers were published in at least four communities in Wood County, Texas, before the turn of the century. Original copies and/or microfilm ...
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129,48 |
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Guide to Manuscript Collections, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma
ISBN: 9780788401176 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dating from the early 19th century, these materials include census records of the Five Civilized Tribes; records of attorneys specializing in Indian citizenship claims; and a variety of records from the Cherokee Nation. Other manuscript holdings include the Indian-Pioneer Papers; records of railroads, banks, businesses, and physicians; diaries of frontier and pioneer life, the Civil War, travel in western states, and life in Indian Territory; and collections relating to women. Designed for easy use, the guide is arranged alphabetically by collection title. Each entry has seven information...
Dating from the early 19th century, these materials include census records of the Five Civilized Tribes; records of attorneys specializing in Indian c...
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129,48 |
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Births, Deaths and Marriages from El Paso Newspapers Through 1885
ISBN: 9780893081713 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,48 |
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The Spanish Archives of the General Land Office of Texas.
ISBN: 9780893081799 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,48 |
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Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire
ISBN: 9781630269876 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS
""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."" -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove ""This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the... Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS
""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written... |
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130,83 |
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Silver Wings: The U.S. Army Airforce in Texas, 1940-1946
ISBN: 9781933337739 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Silver Wings: The U.S. Army Airforce in Texas, Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorful portrait of Texas during World War II, illustrating how the arrival of thousands of strangers in military uniforms forever changed the faces of eight towns and cities across the Lone Star State. Based on extensive on-site research, rich anecdotal material, and personal interviews, the book briefly describes each community, establishing each location's pre-war condition, then analyses the permanent social and economic impact each wartime airfield had on its host community."
In Silver Wings: The U.S. Army Airforce in Texas, Thomas Alexander has created a concise and colorful portrait of Texas during World War II, il...
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130,83 |
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Tracks Along the Clear Fork: Stories from Shackelford and Throckmorton Counties
ISBN: 9781603447843 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history essential. This collection of stories recounts the colorful past of the Clear Fork country--the land along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in present-day Shackelford and Throckmorton counties. The editors focus first on the area's military past--Camp Cooper, Fort Griffin, and the society they spawned. The second focus is on the pioneers--the people who made the Clear Fork country their home and helped to establish its character."The editors have...
"In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history ess...
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130,83 |
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The Nogal Mesa: A History of Kivas and Ranchers in Lincoln County
ISBN: 9781540205391 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,98 |
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