Buffalo Soldiers on the Colorado Frontier, Hardcover - Nancy K. Williams

Reducere. The legendary Buffalo Soldiers, four army regiments of former slaves, were vital in taming the American frontier. The Tenth Cavalry of African Amer...

Reducere. Hal Borland migrated with his parents to the still unsettled, windswept high plains of eastern Colorado to take advantage of the Homestead Act. The...

Reducere. The footsteps of silver kings, grizzled miners and sleek saloon girls faded, but their dark shadows still whisper in the halls and glide silently d...

Reducere. Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions o...

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. DescriptionThroughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys o...

Reducere. Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie's The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African Americ...

Reducere. In the state of Ohio, before 1884, most first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 were housed in the Ohio Penitentiary, where they were li...

Reducere. Tells the story of the African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Front...

DescriptionMy Brilliant Friends is a group biography of three women's friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged,...

Reducere. The book's central theme is early learning to instill in younger kids the importance of doing these "three things" everyday so you can be smarter, ...

Reducere. Black, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingDuring the Civil War, over 180, 000 black ...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvan...

Reducere. In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo sol...

Reducere. Formed in 1866, the African-American army units known as Buffalo Soldiers acquired near-mythical status for their fortitude and courage. At the out...

To twelve-year-old Emma Neimi, life may be hard, but it is basically good. She has finished sixth grade and is nearly a young lady. Her father push...

Reducere. The first comprehensive resource for spiritual and pastoral caregivers--a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, chaplains, pastoral counselors an...

Reducere. Ideal for beginning readers, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody: Pony E...

Reducere. The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, "Yellowstone Vic" Smith. Born Vi...

DescriptionIn the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incr...

Reducere. The town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn Fielder, Colorado's preeminent nature photographer, will publish his 50th Colorado book in fall, 2018. In the mold of Colorado's be...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domesticat...

Reducere. The harsh and rugged Colorado frontier of 1875 is not the type of place most would consider suitable for a recent widow to establish a home of her ...

The 92nd Infantry (""Buffalo"") Division was the last segregated (all-black) US Army division and the only black division to fight in World War II ...

A little girl searches for that special something to make her home complete. When she visits the animal shelter she finds the answer. Can Pablo the...

BOING! BOING! We BOUNCE so high, We're JUMPING for the stars!If we don't stop soon, We'll land on planet Mars!In Vogue Williams' enchanting first c...

Reducere. This material is that of two tales! It is to introduce the general Christian into how to properly assess and deal with the aged-old taboo topic of ...

Reducere. In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanis...

Reducere. Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize-Center for Great Plains Studies (finalist) Spur Award-Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book-Western Writers...

Reducere. In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyo...

Reducere. Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West cast...

Reducere. We know our children are special, and now the incomparable Nancy Tillman expresses this universal feeling in the most touching of ways: Every child...

Reducere. On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonderthat the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered.-Life will never be th...

Reducere. America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...

Reducere. About the AuthorHolding a Ph. D. from Columbia University, Elizabeth K. Wallace has taught British literature and culture at Boston College for mor...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War has divided the country. Neighbor has turned against neighbor. Family members argue with family members. Angry rumblings of "...