Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West, Paperback - Lisa Hendrickson

Reducere. In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to ident...

Reducere. Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse ac...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Reducere. "Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance, " writes...

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

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

Reducere. American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she...

Reducere. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.

Reducere. Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the mis...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. In 1904 Field and Stream sent Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) to the Rockies and the Southwest. In The Frank Tenney Johnson Book (Doubleday, 1974)...

Reducere. The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of...

Reducere. In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on...

Reducere. In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environme...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

Reducere. Wyoming's colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state's rich his...

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 ...

The lives of three generations of workers on the Great Northern Railway, revealing the changes as felt on the tracks from an intimate and revealing...

Reducere. Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III - who ga...

Reducere. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man'...

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indi...

Reducere. Welcome to Western Writers of America's first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history ...

Reducere. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is univ...

Reducere. The enduring image evoked by the American West is one of grand physical and historical romance, spectacle, and drama. Many generations of historian...

DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

Reducere. A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the u...

Reducere. North Korea: Unmasking Three Generations of Mad Men explores the mysterious legacy of the Kim family. From the annexation of Korea by Japan to the ...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

Reducere. Frontier photographer L. A. Huffman (1854 - 1931) captured the spirit of the American West like no other artist. As comfortable photographing the h...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Lisa TaddeoNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 33Cover type: Paperback...