Horsecatcher, The-Pa, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

Reducere. Newbery MedalPraised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Wit...

Reducere. Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old ...

DescriptionMari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She exp...

Reducere. DescriptionHere in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and ...

Reducere. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, mil...

Reducere. "No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West, " said Joh...

Reducere. Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered...

Reducere. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their...

Reducere. "The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, " writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homest...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even grea...

Reducere. In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure ha...

Reducere. Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable his...

Reducere. Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of ...

Reducere. The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early ...

Reducere. DescriptionMiss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the ...

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DescriptionA Mess of Relatives is designed to support early literacy skills development and a life-long love of reading. The front cover is more il...

The princess and the pea

Reducere. Britton Davis's account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885-86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior ...

Reducere. " Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler wo...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs.

Reducere. In 1939 with the threat of World War II soon to become a reality the luxury cruise liner, the Queen Mary, is dramatically transformed into a wartim...

Reducere. DescriptionMia and Tayja pretend to be princesses on a perilous journey, but there's one thing they don't have to pretend. They know in their heart...

Reducere. DescriptionMore Classics Revisited is the second volume of the late poet and polymath Kenneth Rexroth's brilliant, succinct analyses of some of the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin JacobsIn 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner ...

Dido Twite is waylaid by her father, the shady Abednego Twite, acting on instructions from his evil patron. How does hard-drinking Mrs Lily Bloodve...

Reducere. Do you associate religion and spirituality with guilt, shame, or abuse? Uncover the dark power of toxic spirituality and its lingering influence on...

Viszlat, hiszti! Pa, pa, istericale! - Katalin Izmindi, Adrienn Mezo

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Grace JordanDuring the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a Unite...

Reducere. One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many year...

Reducere. For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. Th...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Natalie GrahamIllustration(s): 12Number of pages: 132Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x ...

Reducere. A great Belgian historian recounts the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-fifteenth centur...

Reducere. Whatever his name or alias at the moment--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney--people always called him the Kid. Not until his fi...

Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.

Reducere. Readers who have followed Dido Twite's escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild a...

Reducere. A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia Maria Child's fourth novel and the capstone of her remarkable literary career. Written shor...

Reducere. Side A 1. I Am a Rock 2. Leaves That Are Green 3. A Church Is Burning 4. April Come She Will 5. The Sound of Silence 6. A Most Peculiar ManSide B 1...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mourning DoveA powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American India...