Magnetic West: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Hardcover - Andrew Kensett

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West e...

Reducere. Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant, this atlas presents a sweeping history of the American West through more than 600 original, full-color...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

"Terrific." -Timothy Egan, The New York Times "A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath." -Clau...

Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the occult came to the American West: individualism and magic in the art of California, from Agnes Pelton to Jess"It is in America ...

Reducere. Winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Spur Award fro...

States that the Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth. The author presents a sustained analysis of ho...

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 ...

DescriptionA powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational ...

Reducere. Best Books of 2018--The Guardian " a] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is w...

Reducere. Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

Reducere. A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introdu...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

Reducere. From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known t...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

Reducere. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the ...

The role of ranching in the West is central to the field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): John G BourkeNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environme...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Reducere. They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursu...

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popul...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

Reducere. American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she...

Reducere. DescriptionLongtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the "why" of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the "how...

In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water ad...

Reducere. The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to loo...

Reducere. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.

Reducere. Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse ac...

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...

Reducere. The FIRST BOOK written of actual ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian Each page is filled with personal experiences b...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. Headaches occur as a symptom of pain in the head or neck region. The three main types of headache disorders are migraines, cluster headaches and te...

Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a sty...

Reducere. DescriptionEnjoy and relive the romance of the Great American West with this collection of 75 oldtime western and cowboy songs arranged especially ...

Reducere. Who Made the West looks at the 30 most influential people in Western history. Some are familiar names-Washington, Einstein, Aristotle. Others may h...

Reducere. This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching Am...

Reducere. Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of A...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...