Back Roads of the Great Plains: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, Hardcover - David Skernick

Experience the hidden byways of America's prairies, steppes, and grasslands through the unerring eye of landscape photographer and educator David S...

Reducere. A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missour...

Reducere. Encounter 325 of the most common or notable birds found in the Great Plains states, presented with beautiful full-color illustrations and comprehen...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin fine-art photographer David Skernick as he explores the rambling back roads of Northern California. This timeless tribute to the na...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): David SkernickIllustration(s): 110 colour & b/w illusNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a cooperative project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Pres...

Reducere. 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understud...

Reducere. For centuries indigenous communities of North America have used carriers to keep their babies safe. Among the Indians of the Great Plains, rigid cr...

Reducere. Wetland and Aquatic Plants of the Northern Great Plains is a comprehensive field guide to over 500 vascular plant species found in the wetland and ...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): David Haward BainIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 470Publication date:...

The Truth About The Barn offers answers to important questions about how barns came into being, why they look the way they do, why they're worth re...

Imagine taking a road trip across this great land, then hopping a flight to Hawaii and Alaska, spending time in every state in the union. That's wh...

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Reducere. Descending 1, 885 miles straight down the center of the United States from Westhope, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas, is U.S. 83, one of the ol...

DescriptionTired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Missouri, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After t...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

Reducere. The northern plains are often ignored by the rest of the nation or, if not, are mentioned in the context of the weather, Mount Rushmore, or the Bla...

Reducere. The Chisholm Trail, traveled by Texas longhorn cattle moving northward across present-day Oklahoma to Kansas, was named for mixed-blood Cherokee Je...

Reducere. For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indian...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the...

Reducere. Drawing on literary and archaeological evidence, David A. Dorsey examines the road system in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 B.C.). He off...

DescriptionCome celebrate the community, connection, and quirkiness of the American carnival. Stunning photographs by David Skernick capture the ma...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of Kansas City's attempt to integrate major-league hockey into its sports marketplace, only to see it fall through thi...

Reducere. This wonderfully detailed account of a solo journey taken along the back roads, shoreline trails and mountain paths of coastal California is a comp...

Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressAuthor(s): Stan HoigIllustration(s): 62 black & white illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 352Publication d...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

Reducere. Description The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of ...

With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, "I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view." The challenge for this...

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ralph K. AndristThis compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the eve...

In 1917 it was still possible for the University of Oklahoma's annual Catalogue to include a roster of every student's name and hometown. A compact...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Geordie TorrIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 ...

Reducere. 1. Come Cryin' to Me2. Everybody Knows3. Gonna Be a Darkness4. Bitter End5. Backwards Women6. Long Time Ago7. Need You Tonight8. El Dorado9. Bird N...

People often see the Plains as a vast, empty space where cowboys and Indians fought. This book highlights a rich history of change over time on the...

Reducere. Talking to the Moon is an unusual and charming story of a Thoreau-like adventure in remote northeastern Oklahoma. Following his university educatio...

Reducere. The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arisi...

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. The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in...

Reducere. In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessl...

Reducere. Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game's most recogni...

Reducere. One June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas. The mena politician, a professor, two students, and...

Reducere. Butterflies of Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Texas focuses on one hundred butterfly species common to the southern plains, a crucial crossroads regio...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

Reducere. The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a respon...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover"...

Charitable community living is a tall order, and this is but a short book about small moments in one life. Yet these 52 stories confirm a compellin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James W. Lish Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to spend the winter...

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born a...