Barbed Wire, Windmills, & Sixguns: A Book of Trivia, Fact, and Folklore about Westerns & the American West, Hardcover - Donald K. Kirk

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Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing global disgust at apart...

Felps decides to plant lettuce on his property. But rancher Cass Casey's herds ransack Felps' grounds. Furious, he hires Lucky Luke for protection ...

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

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

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In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water ad...

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Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

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