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Last of The Old-Time Cowboys
ISBN: 9781556226137 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working cowboys live on as genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history. In the 1980s historian/ author Patrick Dearen went looking for the last of these fading icons.
The trail took him to dozens of onetime cowhands in their 80s, 90s, and even 100s whose aged eyes lit up and voices seemed young again as they spoke of their experiences on the trail. From these honest-to-goodness cowhands he collected priceless, spellbinding true stories of the incredible hardships of braving the elements, dealing with stampedes and runaways, and good-natured hoorawing with their... Working cowboys live on as genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history. In the 1980s historian/ author Patrick Dearen went lo...
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100,85 |
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King Ranch Story : Truth and Myth
ISBN: 9781556226809 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The King Ranch Story is the love story of an ambitious young man and his dream of creating a great empire on Texas land. It's about the love between a man and woman, Captain Richard King and his wife Henrietta Chamberlain, the driving force behind King's success. It's a story of passion and power and success on a scale never seen before on this continent. King began his great enterprise with 15,500 acres of arid land called Rincon de Santa Gertrudis, purchased for $300 in 1853. From there it has grown to become an international legend. It was here that the great Santa Gertrudis cattle, and...
The King Ranch Story is the love story of an ambitious young man and his dream of creating a great empire on Texas land. It's about the love between a...
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90,74 |
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Browser's Book of Texas History
ISBN: 9781556226984 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together some 700 noteworthy quotations from or about Texas. Collectively they form a portrait of this unique place in the words of the people who have lived and created the Texas experience
This book brings together some 700 noteworthy quotations from or about Texas. Collectively they form a portrait of this unique place in the words of t...
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95,80 |
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Cartoon History of Texas
ISBN: 9781556227806 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning millions of years and using cartoons, this book is a primer on Texas history, best read in brief intervals.
Spanning millions of years and using cartoons, this book is a primer on Texas history, best read in brief intervals.
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100,85 |
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The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel
ISBN: 9781556227929 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history. Generously illustrated, this is the fascinating story of the people who owned the Menger and the noteworthy folk they entertained.
This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history. Generously illustrated, this is the fasci...
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100,85 |
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Humor & Drama of Early Texas
ISBN: 9781556228438 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This large collection of historical vignettes focuses on the human interest aspects of the people and events of frontier Texas.
This large collection of historical vignettes focuses on the human interest aspects of the people and events of frontier Texas.
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95,80 |
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Singin' a Lonesome Song: Texas Prison Tales
ISBN: 9781556228452 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
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95,80 |
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Jon McConal's Texas
ISBN: 9781556228933 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jon McConal, longtime columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, takes readers on a trip back through 20 years of writing about Texasits history, people, and unusual places. The native Texan writes about a wide variety of subjects including ghosts, cemetaries, celebrations, pets, veterans, and personal stories.
Jon McConal, longtime columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, takes readers on a trip back through 20 years of writing about Texasits histor...
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95,80 |
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Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archeology of the State
ISBN: 9781556229374 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive book contains illustrations and photographs of artifacts, sites, and digs in progress and surveys the most important archeological sites, described in lay terms.
This comprehensive book contains illustrations and photographs of artifacts, sites, and digs in progress and surveys the most important archeological ...
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95,80 |
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Remember Goliad: Their Silent Tents
ISBN: 9781571681959 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The battle of Goliad and the execution of the Texas survivors
The battle of Goliad and the execution of the Texas survivors
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75,98 |
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The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold
ISBN: 9781571687760 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to lead Spaniards back to their cache, eventually formed an intricate web that has lured treasure seekers and captured them in its mystery. But the question still remains: Has the Spider Rock treasure ever been found? Steve Wilson first began his research on the treasure in 1960. The story he unraveled is an incredible tale riddled with murder, mystery, and adventure. Wilson left no stone unturned...
Hidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved int...
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94,84 |
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Along the Texas Forts Trail
ISBN: 9781574410358 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The task of providing military defense for the Texas Frontier was never an easy one because the territory was claimed by some of the greatest querrilla fighters of all times-the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, and Lipans. Protecting a line running from the Red River southwest to El Paso was an impossible task, but following the Mexican War the federal government attempted to do so by establishing a line of forts.
During the Civil War the forts were virtually abandoned and the Indians once again ruled the area. Following the war when the military began to restore the old forts, they found that... The task of providing military defense for the Texas Frontier was never an easy one because the territory was claimed by some of the greatest querrill...
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56,83 |
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The LH7 Ranch, in Houston's Shadow: The E.H. Marks' Legacy from Longhorns to the Salt Grass Trail
ISBN: 9781574411119 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Emil Henry Marks and the LH7 Ranch he founded records not only the history of a unique family but also tells something of the cattle business on the coastal prairies of Texas when ranching was the principal industry of the region, before Houston became a major metropolitan center and industry became king. It also chronicles the beginning of the Salt Grass Trail, one of Houston's most enduring traditions.
Marks registered the LH7 brand in Harris County in 1898 and started the ranch with 63 acres of grass west of Houston and a few Longhorn cattle. By the early 1930s the LH7 was... The story of Emil Henry Marks and the LH7 Ranch he founded records not only the history of a unique family but also tells something of the cattle busi...
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82,53 |
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Tales from the Big Thicket, 1
ISBN: 9781574411423 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with untamed nature. The secretive beauty and mystery of this pocket of wilderness lying between the sandy East Texas forests and the prairies of the Gulf Coastal region would inevitably inspire tales-and the pioneers who came to terms with this land were an individualistic and legend-creating lot. In Tales from the Big Thicket, Francis E. Abernethy presents a collection of stories about the Big Thicket and its people. He begins with a background...
The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with un...
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72,03 |
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Big Thicket Legacy: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781574411560 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Big Thicket Legacy," Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
In "Big Thicket Legacy," Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storyte...
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125,24 |
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Rise of the Lone Star: The Making of Texas
ISBN: 9781585440535 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patriotic Texans have long sung the praises of their "revolutionary heroes," such as Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. Some historians have even contributed their own encomiums, while others have cast a less romantic gaze upon Texas' past. But a complete, scholarly analysis of the persons, politics, and events that created the Republic of Texas was not among the material on Texas' so-called revolution that has been published in the last century.
Andreas V. Reichstein offers this volume to fill that gap in the literature. From the perspective of a non-native, he has analyzed modern and... Patriotic Texans have long sung the praises of their "revolutionary heroes," such as Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston. Some historians have even cont...
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126,25 |
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Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier
ISBN: 9781585440641 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas' frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes with Mexico and attacks by Indian tribes who refused to give up their life-styles to make way for new settlers. To ensure some measure of peace in the far reaches of Texas, the U.S. Army established a series of military forts in the state. These outposts varied in size and amenities, but the typical installation was staffed with officers, enlisted men, medical personnel, and civilian laundresses. Many soldiers brought their families to the frontier stations. While faced with the hardships of post life, wives and children helped create a...
Texas' frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes with Mexico and attacks by Indian tribes who refused to give up their life-styles to make way ...
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125,24 |
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Early Tejano Ranching: Daily Life at Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo
ISBN: 9781585441631 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two and a half centuries Tejanos have lived and ranched on the land of South Texas, establishing many homesteads and communities. This modest book tells the story of one such family, the Saenzes, who established Ranchos San Jose and El Fresnillo. Obtaining land grants from the municipality of Mier in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, these settlers crossed the Wild Horse Desert, known as Desierto Muerto, into present-day Duval County in the 1850s and 1860s.
Through the simple, direct telling of his family s stories, Andres Saenz lets readers learn about their homes of piedra... For two and a half centuries Tejanos have lived and ranched on the land of South Texas, establishing many homesteads and communities. This modest book...
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75,83 |
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Come to Texas: Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915
ISBN: 9781585442676 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Come to Texas" urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century. Expansive acres lay fallow, ready to be turned to agricultural uses. Entrepreneurial Texans knew that drawing immigrants to those lands meant greater prosperity for the state as a whole and for each little community in it. They turned their hands to directing the stream of spatial mobility in American society to Texas. They told the "Texas story" to whoever would read it. In this book, Barbara Rozek documents their efforts, shedding light on the importance of their words in...
"Come to Texas" urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century. Expansive acres lay fallow, re...
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165,17 |
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Remembering the Hacienda : History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
ISBN: 9781585445110 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Remembering the Hacienda", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States. It is the site in which the Mexican American community's "heroic," genteel forebears lived in dignity and pride, and it is the heritage from which they were cast out as "orphans," both in mother Mexico by the Revolution and in the American Southwest when the wars of 1836 and 1846-48...
What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Reme...
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204,03 |
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