Frontier of Violence, Paperback

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

Reducere. The Ohio FrontierCrucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830R. Douglas HurtFinally, after nearly twenty-five years, a high-quality general history of ...

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Reducere. "Pletts's ambitious debut weaves our history into an intense narrative for today's readers." --Alan Geoffrion, author of Broken Trail Eldon Quint t...

An epic frontier adventure novel from William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, known as the Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century, To the Ri...

Reducere. DescriptionTucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken br...

Reducere. What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wro...

Reducere. On a frontier torn by war and renegades, they carried a cargo more valuable than gold...Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And ...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

Reducere. A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people's movement, l...

Reducere. The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown,...

Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

Reducere. **Free teaching guide resource available for teachers and parents on the author's web site. www.geoffbaggett.comThe British have invaded Charlestow...

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

Reducere. DescriptionFROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series continues...Ben Stillman though...

Reducere. Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed ...

Reducere. While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became...

Reducere. "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think o...

Reducere. This is a marvellous contribution by Chris Owen to the understanding of the role the Western Australian police force played in the colonial expansi...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials Louis L'Amour has been best known for his abi...

As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "anci...

Reducere. This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Ref...

Reducere. The Spiritual Journey of George Washington by bestselling author Janice T. Connell illumines the rare but supremely brilliant leadership of the fir...

A fresh look at American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the mean...

Reducere. The dominance of popular romance in the US fiction market suggests that its trends and themes may reflect the politics of a significant proportion ...

DescriptionJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE LAW OF THE LAST MAN STANDING. His country burning with war, his family shattered, a young man strikes off on his ...

Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener's monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of ...

DescriptionTo read Iman (1930) by Ramon J. Sender is to sail into a vertiginous trip within the darkest aspects of the human being. A man, a soldie...

The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was firs...

Reducere. From 1817 until 1821, a hostile, supernatural entity plagued the Bell family of Tennessee. Beginning with the appearance of a strange, unnatural cr...

Reducere. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holli...

Reducere. Interviews of Oklahoma history's diverse women They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the ...

Reducere. Gunfights and general lawlessness were common in the frontier cities of the American West. Tombstone and Dodge City are legendary. But neither saw ...

Reducere. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the...

Reducere. DescriptionWith over 1000 entries and 400 illustrations, this volume is the most fact-packed history of the West ever assembled. Crime historian ex...

DescriptionApril 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River, only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincoln--but a murderer is e...

DescriptionJohnstone Country. Where others fear to tread. With his bestselling Smoke Jensen series, William W. Johnston has created a hero whose mo...