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The Cowboy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-Time Cattle RangeThe American cowboy has long been a popular figure in fiction, motion pictures, and studies of the West, but over the years inaccuracies have crept in, distorting the image of the real cowboy. Philip Ashton Rollins, in The Cowboy, sets out to provide a...
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James J. Hill, Volume 12: Empire Builder of the NorthwestIn this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Malone explores Hill's complex life and...
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The Xit Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado: Volume 34Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT--The XIT Ranch of Texas. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in...
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter Volume 26On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and King of Cowboys-was hanged like a...
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The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate"[Those in the Donner camp] could scarcely walk, by the twenty-eighth, and their sensations of hunger were diminishing. This condition forebode delirium and death, unless stayed by the only means at hand. It was in truth a very pitiful alternative offered to the sufferers."-Eliza...
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The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America"If the moral issues raised by the Sioux people in the federal courtroom that cold month of December 1974 spark a recognition among the readers of a common destiny of humanity over and above the rules and regulations, the codes and statutes, and the...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeThey were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most...
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President John Quincy Adams's Quarrel With The Freemasons: John Quincy Adams's Letters And Opinions Of The Masonic InstitutionSuch was the revulsion in the United States over the purported murder of William Morgan, an upstate New Yorker who in 1826 disappeared after threatening to expose Masonic secrets, that political groups campaigned to drive Masons out of office and close down their lodges....
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A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier2020 Reprint of the 1857 Edition. This edition edited by James Howard and illustrated by Mary Sloan. Early in the year 1854 the author, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas...
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The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush2010 Reprint of 1958 edition. This thrilling story of the Klondike Gold Rush is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Some of the anecdotes of the last great gold rush have been told by others, but Pierre Berton is the first to distill...
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La Escuela de Las Novias NazisAuthor: Aimie K. RunyanPublisher: Planeta PublishingPublished: 09/26/2023Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9786073902304Language: Spanish
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twetieth Century#1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new...
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An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: an Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Chiricahua Apaches in Arizona, 1883With Crook in pursuit of Geronimo and his band The author of this book was a U.S soldier in addition to being a well known and highly regarded author on the Apache Wars of the later nineteenth century-in which he was an active participant....
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The Nez Perce Campaign, 1877: Two Accounts of Chief Joseph and the Defeat of the Nez Perce---The Battle of Big Hole & Chief Joseph, the Nez PerceA great Indian chief and giant of the history of the western frontier Many of the names of the leaders of the tribes of native American Indians of the nineteenth century have become known to the entire world. Though they often appear in tandem...
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Captives! The Narratives of Seven Women Taken Prisoner by the Plains Indians of the American WestTaken by the Indians of the West As the inexorable passage of pioneer immigrants pushed westward into the vastness of the American wilderness it was inevitable that the new settlers would collide with the indigenous peoples in their path and that this clash of...
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With the California Column: Against Confederates and Hostile Indians During the American Civil WarOn the South Western FrontierThe California ColumnFrontier Service During the RebellionKit Carson's Fight With the Comanche and Kiowa Indians Union men against rebels and Indians in the South West The story of the California Column is one of the most remarkable of the American...
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My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968This is the story of the drive to free the American South from the shackles of legally sanctioned racial segregation. In a lively and compact narrative, John Salmond sets the scene with the first stirrings of revolt prompted by the New Deal and the...
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The Cocoanut Grove FireA gripping narrative of the worst nightclub fire in American history, which killed 492 people in World War II Boston.Author: Stephanie SchorowPublisher: Commonwealth EditionsPublished: 06/22/2012Pages: 84Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.60w x 0.29dISBN: 9781889833880This title is not returnable
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Boston's AbolitionistsIn the years before the Civil War, Boston's black leaders helped fight slavery from a vibrant African-American community on Beacon Hill.Author: Robert Allison, Kerri GreenidgePublisher: Commonwealth EditionsPublished: 11/22/2019Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.58w x 0.23dISBN: 9781933212197This title is not returnable
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Memories of Ben Hill Drive: A Southern Story"I wish I had sat in a rocking chair on the front porch on Ben Hill Drive with Mama and Papa, drawing out from each of them memories of the life they had lived. No doubt most of us have made the same wish....
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