Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas - Robert K. Dearment

Reducere. "Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas w...

Reducere. Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliati...

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Reducere. More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos R...

Reducere. For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earn...

Reducere. Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped f...

Reducere. Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday-such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the Americ...

Reducere. Sunshine. It's a nickname I haven't heard since I lived on Woodbury Lane, where the houses were pretty but the secrets? Deadly. It was a pet name k...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving--and largely lawless--boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robb...

Reducere. The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writ...

Reducere. On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gu...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Title Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forc...

Founded in 1854, Bosque County, Texas was the site of a slew of gruesome murders that spanned over a century. Harrison details each story of reveng...

Reducere. DescriptionThis 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): B K JacksonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 155 x 24Co...

Reducere. This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though a...

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Reducere. The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic study to analyze the entirety of his presidency--domestic, social, economic, and na...

Reducere. This fascinating book is based on the work of Ohio historian D. W. Garber, author of Waterwheels and Millstones (1970). Garber's lifelong passion w...

Reducere. DescriptionThis profusely illustrated comprehensive key for identifying amphibians and reptiles from the continental United States and Canada incor...

Reducere. In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture...

Reducere. From the author of The Merlin Prophecy, the historical trilogy that "appeals to those who thrill to Game of Thrones" (Kirkus Reviews)--the third in...

Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science...

Reducere. By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army go...

Reducere. Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class ...

On September 15, 1906 Arthur MacArthur Jr. became the twelfth man in the history of the United States Army to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant Gen...

Publisher: University Press of KansasAuthor(s): Christopher H. HamnerNumber of pages: 296Collection: Modern War StudiesPublication date: 2011Dimens...

Reducere. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the...

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the reali...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. CitinoFor Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")--wars...

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Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

Adeptly exploring the Gospel of Matthew as narrative, with attention given to underlying Old Testament influences, the authors of this New Beacon B...

Secure in their isolated valley until the arrival of the white man, the Native Americans of Lake County and their ancestors lived for more than 12,...