Xit: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana, Hardcover - Michael M. Miller

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Reducere. Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Bos...

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

Reducere. A story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted e...

Reducere. This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the Univer...

Reducere. In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A...

Reducere. DescriptionAt a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the g...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Among 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...

Reducere. Miss Ethel Browne is a typical adornment of her era. A single lady of a certain age in the period before the First World War usually assists a seni...

Reducere. Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. "A Land Not Forgotten" examines the disruptions in local...

Offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays b...

Reducere. Montana's stunning landscape shapes all who live here and all who visit. In twenty powerful pieces of writing--essays, memoirs, short stories--the ...

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

Reducere. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texa...

Reducere. DescriptionWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compuls...

Reducere. The ladies of the Jolly Jill's Women's Club learned the early day pioneer methods of living from their grandmothers, mothers, and yes, from experie...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985Texas Literary Festival Award...

This book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the State from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews wi...

Reducere. In ancient Saudi Arabia, the beloved daughter of a Bedouin Arab named Tiras is sacrificed to his tribe's imaginary bull-god. Devastated, Tiras grow...

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature, ...

Tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Through painstaking research - using uni...

DescriptionThe Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3, 000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants ...

I still remember the day my father pointed to a huge Mesquite tree about a block from my house where I grew up. As we were walking towards town, he...

Reducere. Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texa...

A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of E...

Reducere. Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Karen Harden McCrackenIllustration(s): 13 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 2 indexes, appendixNumber of p...

Reducere. Affectionately called Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a c...

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the b...

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Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was the economic heart of a small town. Linda English combed ledgers from the 1870s and 1880s ...

Reducere. Jarred by the 9/11 attacks, photographer Jack Spencer set out in 2003 -in hopes of making a few 'sketches' of America in order to gain some clarity...

Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People's Court takes readers on a tour of what it means to be a T...

Dusty Miller 13th is an English Shaman and Folk Magician. He is descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of Britain, the Elfin tribes who dwelt in...

Reducere. Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discu...

Reducere. The Texas Children's Hospital Handbook of Congenital Heart Disease is authored by physicians, nurses, and allied staff across a wide variety of dis...