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Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News DebatesConservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's "unconventional convention coverage." The debates were fiery and...
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Last Rides, Cowboys, Indians & Generals & Chiefs: The Legacies of the Early Photographers of the American WestThis book presents the closing days of America's untamed West as lived and recorded through the lens of three of the best-known photographers of the era: David Francis Barry, John C.H. Grabill, and L.A. Huffman. These men knew Custer and the 7th Cavalry, as...
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Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal, they followed the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of their slaveholders, suffering the same life-threatening hardships...
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Through Others' Eyes: Published Accounts of Antebellum Montgomery, AlabamaThrough Others' Eyes is a collection of twenty-seven published accounts of Montgomery, Alabama, covering the thirty-six years between April 1825 and May 1861. With two exceptions, the stays in Montgomery were quite short. Each account is preceded by biographical information about the author. The...
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A Century of Progress: A Photographic Tour of the 1933-34 Chicago World's FairDrawn from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, A Century of Progress is a collection of rare--and in many cases, previously unseen--photographs that document the Century of Progress International Exposition, the world's fair held in Chicago from 1933 to 1934. Conceived during the Roaring Twenties...
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Sputnik: The Shock of the CenturyOn October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly polished shell, became the first artificial satellite in space; while...
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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels: In the Interior of North America (Volume 2)The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region, including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer. While...
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The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold WarThis volume features a detailed examination of the perspectives and actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union during the final stage of the Cold war, beginning with the Reagan administration; and analyzes the recent transition from the Cold war to a...
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A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian WarsThe historical remains of nineteenth-century Western frontier military posts and battle sites of the Plains Indian wars are disappearing. Time and weather have taken their tolls, and many would have no traces left were it not for the worthy attention of local groups and...
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San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining LegacyColorado's San Juan Mountains are home to some of the most historic, and notorious, gold and silver mining towns in the West: Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and Creede. For five centuries, the San Juans were the summer home to the Ute Indians. They were explored...
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Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and ClarkOne of the foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, Ronda grounds Finding the West in the insights and reflections he has gleaned from some twenty years of research and writing about this pivotal era. But above all else, Ronda's book is centered on stories...
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Voices of Wounded KneeIn Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources-Lakota, military, and civilian-on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the events leading...
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The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 2The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the fur trade with the development of North America. Hiram Chittenden...
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Harvest of Barren Regrets: The Army Career of Frederick William Benteen, 1834-1898 (Revised)Frederick William Benteen (1834-98) was a military officer during the Civil War and the Black Hills War against the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyennes. He was in command of a battalion at the Battle of Little Bighorn, and some say that his controversial actions...
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Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's FrontierBefore Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length...
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The Republicans: A History of the Grand Old PartyLewis L. Gould's 2003 history of the Republican Party was a fast-paced account of Republican fortunes. The Republicans won praise for its even-handed, incisive analysis of Republican history, drawing on Gould's deep knowledge of the evolution of national political history and acute feel for...
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Battle for Skyline Ridge: The CIA Secret War in LaosIn late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign "Z" into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last Royal Lao Army troops. The NVA troops numbered 27,000 and brought with them 130mm field guns and T-34...
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Hu-16a: AlbatrossThe backbone of the SAR, the HU-16A Albatross has played a fundamental role in the birth of the specialty in the air force.Author: Federico AnselminoPublisher: Aviation CollectablesPublished: 01/01/2017Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788894105094This title is only available via back order
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F-16a: Air Defense FighterEverything you need to know about Viper's Italian operation!Chapters include: IntroductionOrigins and developmentIn service with the Italian Air ForceWar useModeling notesTechnical data - armaments - serialsThis book contains 124 color photographs, 13 reproductions of patches, 11 documents, and 6 profiles.Author: Federico AnselminoPublisher: Aviation CollectablesPublished:...
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From Rube to Robinson: SABR's Best Articles on Black BaseballFrom Rube to Robinson brings together the best Negro League baseball scholarship that the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) has ever produced, pulled from its journals, Biography Project, and award-winning essays. The book includes a star-studded list of scholars and historians, from the...
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