Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West, Hardcover - Mike Cox

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texas's days as part of the Spanish e...

Reducere. DescriptionOn January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hu...

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. Over a century ago, an unwritten code of ethics began to emerge among the cowboys of the West. With time, cowboys of all colors and creeds operated...

Reducere. DescriptionWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land a...

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

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 ...

Situated at the mouth of the Golden Gate is the Presidio of San Francisco, one of the nation's most famous former U.S. Army bases, currently a Nati...

Reducere. From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed...

Reducere. Appalachia: The place and its people have long inspired a special fascination among travelers and commentators. The rugged, ecologically rich mount...

Reducere. DescriptionThe images in this book, Historic Photos of University of Michigan Football, depict 100 years of gridiron action and the players and coa...

Founded in 1906 in Gainesville as a consolidation of several smaller institutions focusing on agriculture, teacher training, and the military, the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Golden Gate Bridge is a marvel of engineering and architecture considered by many to be one of the world's most beautiful bridges, i...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Brooklyn Bridge resounds throughout popular culture as an iconic image. Yet its creation was fraught with turmoil. Working with the ...

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. DescriptionCalled The Mother Church of Country Music, the Ryman Auditorium saw a historic chapter come to a close in 1974 when it closed its doors ...

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. DescriptionHistoric Photos of Cincinnati captures the history of The Queen City in still photography from various collections held at the Cincinnat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe City in the Forest, Atlanta was a spot found in the wilderness of north Georgia for the end of a railroad line. It was thought few p...

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. DescriptionWhen Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him "one of this epoch's great molders of style, " prai...

Reducere. Description"I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords, " wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agree...

Reducere. From Father Louis Hennepin and Saint Anthony Falls, to becoming the ?milling capital of the world?, Historic Photos of Minneapolis is a photographi...

Reducere. The atomic age began at 5: 30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of "the Gadget" at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bomb...

Reducere. From the old capitol to the new capitol, the Battle of Natural Bridge to the battles at Doak Campbell Stadium, Historic Photos of Tallahassee is a ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFounded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arb...

Reducere. From South Beach to the Everglades, Historic Photos of Greater Miami is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 2...

Reducere. From the earliest rudimentary conveyances to the floating palaces of the present day, a period of 200 years, steamboats have carved out a very spec...

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

Reducere. Minnesota's past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers. From the fur trade and the es...

Reducere. Historic Photos of Chicago captures the remarkable journey of the city of broad shoulders and its people through the historic photographs of the Ch...

Reducere. Montana is a land known for soaring vistas, towering peaks, and a rich heritage. The nearly 200 photographs in this collection celebrate the unique...

Reducere. Arizona, the 48th state of the United States of America, is a land of diverse environments and unbelievable natural beauty. It is also a land where...

Reducere. Admitted to the Union in 1821 as the 24th state, Missouri is rich with the lore of American history. Within and along its borders flow two great ri...

Reducere. Known for its natural beauty, Oregon has a unique and remarkable history. During the sixteenth century, European explorers sighted the Oregon coast...

Reducere. It has been home to the Lakota and Pawnee, to Buffalo Bill and the "Great Commoner." From its earliest days, Nebraska has held a strategic place in...

Reducere. The people of the Old West End will tell you that their neighborhood is the best and most beautiful around. With its tree lined blocks, wide sidewa...

Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. 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. DescriptionOn January 30, 1892, on a field adjacent a small university's quadrangle, just behind its New College, a mascot--the university goat--wa...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1992, the centennial year of the University of Alabama football program, the Crimson Tide won its 12th national championship. Few maj...

Reducere. A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missour...

Reducere. Oklahoma has a famously violent past and equally famous lawmen who brought peace and order to this once lawless land. Thanks to Oklahoma's relative...