Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West, First Edition, Paperback - Enss

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. Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides, New York Times bestselling book Hearts West includes...

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

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. 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. ...

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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...

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

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. The true story of Kate Warne and the other women who served as Pinkertons, fulfilling the adage, ``Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History.`` Most s...

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

Reducere. Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notoriou...

Reducere. Illustrated with archival photographs, and encompassing twenty states-from Florida to Washington, Alaska to Maine-and many different tribes, this b...

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...

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. Did you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal ...

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. DescriptionNot Every War Story is Heroic During the peak of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is dropped by helicopter into the remote mount...

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

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Reducere. Sister, are you ready to effect change in your life--and your world--as a follower of Jesus?A look at the stories of women from the Bible reveals t...

Reducere. This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Case...

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

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

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. Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the...

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...

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...

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

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...

The 2003 edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors has become one of the more visible books in this field of research. It was based on NSF-supported fi...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

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. Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily...

The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes r...

Reducere. Tularosa--sun-scorched, sandblasted, merciless--the parched desert where everything, from cactus to cowman, carries a weapon of some sort, and the ...

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

Reducere. The perfect gift for any dog lover. The charming illustrations will delight adults and children alike.About author(s): Penelope Rich is a highly ex...

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

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Penelope RichIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 180 x 248 ...