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The Back Road to Thurber
ISBN: 9780963847621 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Back Road To Thurber, Leo Bielinski looks through the eyes of ethnic immigrants to tell the story of life in a Texas coal mining town. The story is based in part on actual events, and those who know Thurber, Texas, will recognize it immediately as the setting. In Bielinski's novel, Thurber becomes the stage upon which Italian, Polish, and other immigrants come face to face with the realities of life in America. Through flashbacks, The Back Road To Thurber covers the period from the late 19th to late 20th century - a tumultuous era of boom and bust for many towns like Thurber.
In The Back Road To Thurber, Leo Bielinski looks through the eyes of ethnic immigrants to tell the story of life in a Texas coal mining town. The stor...
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79,62 |
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Boerne
ISBN: 9780738579436 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1849, German Freethinkers had been dreaming of a communal utopia, free from oppression by church and state. They settled in Texas on the Cibolo Creek, where Native Americans and Spanish explorers had gone before them. The experiment evolved into a frontier outpost, a stage stop, a health spa, a railhead, a small village, a brief chapter in the Civil War, and a farm and ranch community. Boerne is now a tourist destination and a lovely place to live. This collection of pictures and stories explores what has been amazing, unique, and a little odd about this bend in the Cibolo, as well as the...
In 1849, German Freethinkers had been dreaming of a communal utopia, free from oppression by church and state. They settled in Texas on the Cibolo Cre...
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94,98 |
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Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson
ISBN: 9780822961314 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phoenix is known as the Valley of the Sun, while Tucson is referred to as The Old Pueblo. These nicknames epitomize the difference in the public s perception of each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America s largest and fastest-growing cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of growth, and has only one quarter of Phoenix s population. This was not always the case. Prior to 1920, Tucson had a larger population. How did two cities, with such close physical proximity and similar natural environments develop so differently? Phoenix is known as the Valley of the Sun, while Tucson is referred to as The Old Pueblo. These nicknames epitomize the difference in the public s ... |
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229,86 |
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To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
ISBN: 9780061368295 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. "
--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America's mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett's thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, "A masterpiece," and Robert M. Utley calls it, "Superb narrative history." This is spellbinding... "So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. "
--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling ... |
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64,58 |
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Old Town Houston: A Tour of the Last of 19th Century Houston
ISBN: 9780615384009 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old Town Houston provides readers a chance to experience the history of the last remaining 19th century commercial and public buildings in Houston. The lives of the men and women who worked in or owned these buildings are brought to life with historical facts, background information, biographical essays, photos, and newspaper clippings. A map is also included, making it easy to visit all the buildings discussed. Take the book with you and create your own walking tour. Read it in black and white, but experience it in full color.
Old Town Houston provides readers a chance to experience the history of the last remaining 19th century commercial and public buildings in Houston. Th...
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51,84 |
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Death Clouds on MT Baldy: Tucson's Lost Tragedy
ISBN: 9780982874103 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This haunting historical adventure drama relays harrowing accounts of rescue, survival, bravery, and tragic loss. On November 15,1958, an arctic-like blizzard roars out of nowhere across the mild desert terrain of southern Arizona. Boy Scouts are feared caught out in the open, perhaps buried under the three to seven feet of snowfall in the mountains.
This haunting historical adventure drama relays harrowing accounts of rescue, survival, bravery, and tragic loss. On November 15,1958, an arctic-like ...
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75,83 |
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A History of Spirituality in Santa Fe: The City of Holy Faith
ISBN: 9781540202550 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac
ISBN: 9781603443012 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Swett Henson examines the actions of John Davis Bradburn, an American-born man whose early involvement in filibustering brought him to the Mexican state of Coahuila-Texas and won him Mexican citizenship in the Mexican army. Although he was branded as an arrogant, unprincipled tyrant by Anglo Texans of his time and later historians for his 1832 arrest of William Barret Travis, Henson concludes that Bradburn was simply doing his duty as a Mexican career officer. Winner of the Summerfield G. Roberts Award, when it was first published in 1982, this provocative revisionist look at a...
Margaret Swett Henson examines the actions of John Davis Bradburn, an American-born man whose early involvement in filibustering brought him to the Me...
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63,11 |
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Legends of Dublin: Personalities of the Irish Capital of Texas
ISBN: 9781439236420 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the span of 150 years, a small Texas town served as home to a number of great heroes, men and women unparalleled in their chosen professions. That town is Dublin, Texas, and in Legends of Dublin the stories of those men and women are told in detail. Among the biographies presented in this book are those of the peerless golfer Ben Hogan, country crooner Johnny Duncan, Medal of Honor winner Lt. Col. George Davis, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John E. Hickman, Texas founding father William Carroll Crawford, Dr Pepper distributor Sam Prim, rodeo promoter Everett Colborn, Baptist crusader...
Over the span of 150 years, a small Texas town served as home to a number of great heroes, men and women unparalleled in their chosen professions. Tha...
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99,78 |
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African Americans in South Texas History
ISBN: 9781603442282 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the function and importance of the South Texas cattle trade, proximity to Mexico, and the history of anti-black violence. The essays in "African Americans in South Texas History "give insight into this fascinating history. The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some esp... |
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184,60 |
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Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
ISBN: 9781416594833 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed Yellow Dirt, "will break your heart. An enormous achievement--literally, a piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism--illustrates exactly what reporting should do: Show us what we've become as a people, and sharpen our vision of who we, the people, ought to become" ( The Christian Science...
This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and go...
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72,18 |
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Santa Fe, Its 400th Year (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780865347953 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The timeline of American history has always swept through Santa Fe, New Mexico. Settled by ancient peoples, explored by conquistadors, conquered by the U.S. cavalry, Santa Fe owns a story that stretches from the talking drums of the Pueblos to the high math of complexity theory pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute. This fresh presentation, 400 years after the Spanish founded the town in 1610, presents the full arc of Santa Fes story that sifts through its long, complex, thrilling history. From the moment of first contact between the explorers and the native peoples, Santa Fe became a...
The timeline of American history has always swept through Santa Fe, New Mexico. Settled by ancient peoples, explored by conquistadors, conquered by th...
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151,85 |
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Fullerton's Rangers: A History of the New Mexico Territorial Mounted Police
ISBN: 9780786464265 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1890, the U.S. government declared the frontier settled, and the Wild West was history. In the territory of New Mexico, however, crime still knew no limit and the gun was the final answer to all problems. Aware that New Mexico would never achieve statehood without effective law and order, its leaders decided they needed a mounted police force like those that had tamed Texas and Arizona.
In 1890, the U.S. government declared the frontier settled, and the Wild West was history. In the territory of New Mexico, however, crime still knew n...
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165,68 |
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Devils River: Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900
ISBN: 9780875654232 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his newest book, "Devils River, " Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the coming of the railroad. In his newest book, "Devils River, " Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers... |
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87,39 |
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Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912
ISBN: 9780822347835 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south of the newly drawn borderline. In this fascinating history, Anthony Mora analyzes contrasting responses to the treaty s provisions. The town of Las Cruces was built north of the border by Mexicans who decided to take their chances in the United States. La Mesilla was established just south of the...
The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-...
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505,22 |
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On the Border with Mackenzie; Or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches: Volume 23
ISBN: 9780876112465 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Capt. Robert G. Carter, quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s. And even today it still stands as one of the most exhaustive histories ever written by an actual participant in the Texas Indian Wars-one who rode with the legendary Col. Ranald Mackenzie. L. F. Sheffy refers to On the Border with Mackenzie as "a splendid contribution to the early frontier history of West Texas . . . a story filled with humor and pathos,...
When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Capt. Robert G. Carter, quickly became known a...
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135,98 |
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Santa Fe, Its 400th Year (Softcover)
ISBN: 9780865347960 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fresh presentation, 400 years after the Spanish founded the town in 1610, presents the full arc of Santa Fe's story that sifts through its long, complex, and thrilling history.
This fresh presentation, 400 years after the Spanish founded the town in 1610, presents the full arc of Santa Fe's story that sifts through its long, ...
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113,84 |
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Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity
ISBN: 9780896727243 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state s roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western historians who don t know what to make of the state ignore it altogether. In his innovative settling of the question, Glen Sample Ely examines the state s historical DNA, making sense of Lone Star identity west of the hundredth meridian and defining Texas s place in the American West.Focusing on the...
Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state s roots in slavery...
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132,85 |
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Texas Depression-Era Desperadoes
ISBN: 9781540209153 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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A New Mexico Primer
ISBN: 9780865347977 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hill offers a simple, no-nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to the Land of Enchantment and for those who want a quick, uncluttered story based on the theory that history should be fun.
Hill offers a simple, no-nonsense telling of New Mexico history and geography for those who are new to the Land of Enchantment and for those who want ...
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49,22 |
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