Man-Hunters of the Old West, Hardcover - Robert K. Dearment

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...

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...

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

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. 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. DescriptionIn the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving--and largely lawless--boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robb...

Reducere. The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized f...

Reducere. More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos R...

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 ...

Reducere. "Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas w...

Reducere. During the 1800s, Manhattanville flourished as the West Side counterpart to its parent village of Harlem. The wide valley around present-day Broadw...

Reducere. The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writ...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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. Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Ame...

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

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. DescriptionHenry the Duck takes a trip out to the Wild West where he finds himself up to his feathers in merry mis-adventure in this fresh and live...

Reducere. This remarkable and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of Canada's western mountain glaciers through stunning photography, persona...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersper...

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

We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

Reducere. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie--also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and T...

Reducere. Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels...

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...

DescriptionThe views of the American West collected in Robert Adams: From the Missouri West evoke a wide range of memories, myths and regrets assoc...

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

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men ...

Reducere. 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbj rnsen and J rge...

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...

A complete history of one of the world's most iconic cocktails--now the poster child of the modern cocktail revival--with fifty recipes for classic...

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. ...

These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sump...

A family's secret, a pair of young, weatherbeaten brothers, and the long and desolate miles before them. When the death of their beloved mother sad...