ilość książek w kategorii: 2930
Celia Hill\'s Headin\' West: To a Remote Canyon Paradise
ISBN: 9780875658469 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celia Smith Hill’s journal provides a glimpse of hardscrabble life in far West Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Hill’s family moved to Texas from Tennessee in the late 1800s. After her death, Bill Wright and Marianne Wood researched the history of the area and interviewed family and friends to provide context for Hill’s colorful tale of endurance in an unforgiving landscape. Hill’s family suffered lean times during the Depression before cinnabar—mercury ore—was discovered on her family’s property. During World War II, the Fresno Mines supplied one tenth of...
Celia Smith Hill’s journal provides a glimpse of hardscrabble life in far West Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. Hill’s family...
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108,98 zł |
Tempest Over Texas: The Fall and Winter Campaigns of 1863-1864
ISBN: 9781649670182 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,45 zł |
Xit: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana
ISBN: 9780806192017 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin. That land became the XIT Ranch, briefly one of the most productive cattle operations in the West. The story behind the legendary XIT Ranch, told in full in this book, is a tale of Gilded Age business and politics at the very foundation of the American cattle industry.
The capitol construction project, along with the acres that would become XIT, went to an Illinois syndicate led by men... The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the stateR...
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95,88 zł |
Historical Sketches of New Mexico: From the Earliest Records to the American Occupation
ISBN: 9781632935151 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,50 zł |
Will Rogers and His America
ISBN: 9780806191768 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will Rogers was a mainstay of early American mass culture. Although he is remembered today for his success in vaudeville and the nascent American film industry, history has largely forgotten his influence as a political commentator, an aspect of Rogers's life that Gary Clayton Anderson explores at length in this brief but complete biography.
Will Rogers was a mainstay of early American mass culture. Although he is remembered today for his success in vaudeville and the nascent American film...
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158,88 zł |
Poison For Profit
ISBN: 9781681793009 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,21 zł |
Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico
ISBN: 9780806192024 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 14,000 New Mexicans served in uniform during World War I, and thousands more contributed to the American home front. Yet today in New Mexico, as elsewhere, the Great War and the lives it affected are scarcely remembered. Lest We Forget confronts that amnesia. The first detailed study to describe New Mexico’s wartime mobilization, its soldiers’ combat experiences, and its veterans’ postwar lives, the book offers a poignant account of the profound changes these Americans underwent both during and after the war. By focusing on New Mexico, historian David V. Holtby underscores...
More than 14,000 New Mexicans served in uniform during World War I, and thousands more contributed to the American home front. Yet today in New Mexico...
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137,32 zł |
Early History of Hopkins County, Texas.
ISBN: 9780893081867 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,07 zł |
Great Plains Forts
ISBN: 9781496207715 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prairies from precontact times to the present. Using stories to introduce patterns in fortification construction and use, Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes explore the eras of fort-building on the Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Stories about fortifications and fortified cities built by Indigenous peoples reveal the lesser-known history of precontact violence on the plains. Great Plains Forts...
Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, a...
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72,99 zł |
Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon
ISBN: 9781646423781 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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202,91 zł |
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: Resilience through Adversity
ISBN: 9780806192208 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a fuller, more nuanced, and more complete portrayal of Native American historical experiences, this book serves as a resource for both future scholars and tribal members to reconstruct the Eastern Shawnee past and thereby better understand the present.
Providing a fuller, more nuanced, and more complete portrayal of Native American historical experiences, this book serves as a resource for both futur...
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158,88 zł |
Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780826364630 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and history in New Mexico, northern Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, the Middle East, Nepal, and the Philippines, situating New Mexico's acequia heritage and its inherent sustainable design within a global framework. The lush landscapes of the upper Río Grande watershed created by acequias dating from as far back as the late sixteenth century continue to irrigate their communities today despite threats of prolonged drought, urbanization, private...
Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and his...
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130,82 zł |
1926: American Scenes
ISBN: 9798987624562 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,14 zł |
1926: American Scenes
ISBN: 9798987624586 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,76 zł |
The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
ISBN: 9781639366057 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,57 zł |
More Historic Homes of Waco, Texas
ISBN: 9781648431180 / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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183,46 zł |
New Mexico Stories: Truths, Tales and Mysteries from Along the Río Grande
ISBN: 9781632934345 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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187,60 zł |
Children of the Normal School: 60 Years in El Rito, 1909-1969
ISBN: 9781632934147 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,66 zł |
Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid?
ISBN: 9781632934185 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,66 zł |
Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters
ISBN: 9781648432699 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,66 zł |