Icing on the Plains: The Rough Ride of Kansas City's NHL Scouts, Paperback - Troy Treasure

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of Kansas City's attempt to integrate major-league hockey into its sports marketplace, only to see it fall through thi...

Reducere. Ken Robbins tells in words and historical photographs the amazing yet tragic story of a magnificent and truly American creature: the buffalo. It is...

Experience the hidden byways of America's prairies, steppes, and grasslands through the unerring eye of landscape photographer and educator David S...

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...

DescriptionExperiential travel has always been at the heart of Rough Guides. For over 30 years, our authors have been sharing travel experiences th...

Reducere. One June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas. The mena politician, a professor, two students, and...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

A radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system, influential 95-year-old James Lovelock, credited as 'the man who c...

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Publisher: APA PublicationsAuthor(s): Rough GuidesNumber of pages: 616Collection: Inspirational Rough GuidesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War to the final years of the 1950s, Kansas Citians lived in a manner worthy of a place called Paris of the Plains. The t...

Reducere. Encounter 325 of the most common or notable birds found in the Great Plains states, presented with beautiful full-color illustrations and comprehen...

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Reducere. The Kansas City Monarchs are arguably the best-known of all Negro League teams, thanks in part to the inimitable Satchel Paige's association with t...

Reducere. Levon Cade returns for book three in this relentless tale of action-packed retribution.They could steal any car, anywhere, at any time. Too bad fo...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jessa CrispinNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 19Cover type: P...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James W. Lish Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to spend the winter...

Reducere. For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indian...

Reducere. DescriptionIt takes someone who has really done it to make sense of the nuts and bolts of scouting in hostile territory. This analysis is based on ...

Reducere. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordabl...

Reducere. "On this range we called home, old-time cowboys worked cattle on snaky broncs, and the stories and signs left behind by Native Americans and outlaw...

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas. On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer's wife and the mother of a youn...

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" ...

With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, "I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view." The challenge for this...

A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were call...

Reducere. Talking to the Moon is an unusual and charming story of a Thoreau-like adventure in remote northeastern Oklahoma. Following his university educatio...

Reducere. Description"How happy we were in our new sod house on our homestead and to ourselves."Inspired by sod house homemakers' words and quilts, Kathy Moo...

Reducere. Roundups, Trail drives, a lynching, mail-order romances, black-smithing, Indians, the blizzard of 1885-86, bunkhouse humor, Calamity Jane, cattle b...

Reducere. The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in...

Reducere. A personal narrative of the most famous cavalry leader America ever produced. A vivid picture of the American West, the rigors of life for the sett...

An updated edition of one of the classics of cycling and sports literature with a new introduction and new chapters - published to coincide with th...

Reducere. DescriptionHyde Park, located on Westport's outskirts south of early Kansas City, was the first stop on the long trek down the Santa Fe Trail. Good...

Reducere. From the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.S. Army doctrine has evolved to regulate the chaos of armed conflict by providing an in...

Reducere. Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism i...

Reducere. Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and he...

Reducere. Stretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canad...

Movie star Trace McBride is in a bit of trouble. More than a bit. He's taken his bad-boy image too far, too many times, and when he gets arrested f...

Reducere. 1. Carry On Wayward Son - 5: 222. Point Of Know Return - 3: 113. Fight Fire With Fire - 3: 404. Dust In The Wind - 3: 275. Song For America - 9: 08...

Journeyman is a first-person biography of Ojibwe rightwinger Jamie Leach, son of the legendary NHL superstar Reggie Leach. Follow the fascinating h...

Reducere. The unique character of Midtown--from Thirty-first to Fifty-fifth Streets, State Line to the Paseo--grew out of its development as the streetcar su...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation an...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...