Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West, Paperback

Reducere. Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels...

Reducere. DescriptionBrides of the Multitude is a fascinating, historically accurate account of why prostitution ran rampant in the Old West during the prudi...

Reducere. Long before airplanes were invented, the pioneers of the Old West told tales of strange "visitors from the sky." They saw gooey alien blobs fall to...

Old West gunfighters will always fascinate a large segment of our population. From the pages of this book (and its 43 stories) spring the grit and ...

Reducere. This New York Times' bestseller features the West's most prominent lawmen and criminals, who tell their stories of fight, death, and survival. In t...

Reducere. No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brothe...

Reducere. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other ...

Reducere. ``Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels,...

Reducere. This collection of essays features twelve heroes from the American West. Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West the doctors, explorers, and cowboys...

Reducere. DescriptionA unique volume of information and colorful anecdotes about historic ranches, located throughout the American West. In all, almost sixty...

Reducere. Long before the X-Files, nearly 70 years before Roswell, President James Garfield, mortally wounded by an assassin's bullet, summoned a young, educ...

Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ... Books like [Reynold's] prove that good travel writing remains not ...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller"No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisem...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter ...

The lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society.Publ...

Reducere. Many women of different backgrounds lived together in the American West. Former enslaved women left the racism of the Southern states to find a new...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom KellyAuthor: Forrest S. HarrisOriginally published in 1992, Desperado has become the most beloved Old West miniatures g...

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Winifred GallagherNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 25Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, dese...

Reducere. From Calamity Jane's relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson--and learned to regre...

Reducere. DescriptionIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunsli...

Reducere. During the last decades of the nineteenth century in the Old West, cowboys and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers shared the border ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Marcellas ReynoldsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 295 x 313 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. Nothing captures the American spirit quite like the exciting freedom of the cowboy of the Old West. From television serials to popular songs in eve...

Reducere. This new collection of 72 monologues and eight duo scenes features fresh, imaginative character portraits for young women that capture vivid attitu...

Publisher: After the BattleIllustration(s): 375 colour and black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 205 x...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom our earliest history, Americans have had an uneasy affection for our outlaws, especially those from the romantic period of the Old ...

Reducere. All of the monologues in this book are from recently produced plays by award-winning, well-known, and emerging new playwrights. These challenging c...

A big book of coloring fun, packed with cowboys, desperados, prospectors, and pioneers Saddle up and take a trip back to the days of the Wild West ...

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

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. Principles of Posse Management tells the stories of the lawmen and leaders of the Old West who organized citizens in the pursuit of law and order. ...

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. DescriptionNo story in United States history is more compelling than the exploration and settlement of the American West, and the tales of those wh...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory BlankenbehlerIllustrator: Dr Erica BlankenbehlerWritten for teachers or parents of young children, Singing Lessons ...

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

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...

A glorious and exuberant fin de siecle world reaches its end in Moorcock's most inventive novels.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Michael M...

1. Tum Balalaika 2. Chassidic Melody No. 24 [Instrumental] 3. Yo M'Enamori d'Un Aire 4. Puncha, Puncha 5. Tsen Kopikes 6. Adio Querida 7. Chassidic...

Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfill...

Reducere. I have written this history of Key West, believing that it would be interesting to the younger generation, and to those who are to come after us, t...

A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the six...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): William B SecrestNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 31Cover type: Pape...

Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway: their work, sexual behavior, marri...

How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Ch dr n, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others Persona...