Smoke Over Oklahoma: The Railroad Photographs of Preston George, Hardcover

Reducere. Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of stea...

Reducere. Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Wo...

Reducere. Recently identified as a killer, tobacco has been the focus of health warnings, lawsuits, and political controversy. Yet many Native Americans cont...

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

Reducere. Cumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand...

Reducere. In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada's Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This on...

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 ...

Jack London (1876-1916) remains one of the most widely read American writers, known for his naturalist fiction, socialist novels and essays, journa...

Description George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely u...

The award-winning Honeys are back with more delicious dishes from the Middle East, and this time their focus is firmly on the grill. Join them on a...

Reducere. Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as allies. As Paul Magi...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of Donald W. Furler showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Furler (1917-1994) grew up in New Jers...

Reducere. All cemeteries are history made tangible. Each neatly laid out plot, each lichen-dotted headstone, each lovingly crafted monument, is a representat...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Parker Lamb came of age in the South and...

Reducere. America’s forty-third president, George W. Bush, presided over eight of the most dramatic years in recent history, from the 9/11 attacks early in h...

Reducere. Covering just less than two-and-a-half square miles, Savannah's Historic District is a steadfast remnant of the Old South-even in times marked by f...

An artistic photographic book dedicated to the reconstruction of the Polcevera Viaduct, also known as Ponte Morandi, in Genoa, which tragically col...

This is the first full biography of George Washington Littlefield, the Texas and New Mexico rancher, Austin banker and businessman, University of T...

Reducere. U.S. Highway 66 was always different from other roads. During the decades it served American travelers, Route 66 became the subject of a world-famo...

Reducere. Col. George Wright's campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was int...

Reducere. The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it...

DescriptionIn the summer of 2011, in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, a falling power line sparked a wildfire that burned 158, 753 acres of fores...

Reducere. Savannah is as Southern a place as has ever existed, and the Savannah River Plantations were the pinnacle of Southern heritage. Place names such as...

Reducere. From his home on the Texas Panhandle, John R. Erickson, rancher and author of the bestselling Hank the Cowdog series, saw firsthand the raw power o...

Reducere. George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his bri...

Reducere. From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American ...

Reducere. 1. If You Think You Know How To Love Me2. Living Next Door To Alice3. Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll To Me4. I'll Meet You At Midnight5. Lay Back In...

Reducere. Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being e...

Reducere. George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne...

Reducere. Available in two cover options, Cumberland Island or Minnehaha Falls. Both options have identical interiors. See ISBN 9781560375418.

DescriptionVietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective m...

Reducere. In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite h...

Reducere. No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting...

Reducere. Disc: 1 1. If You Think You Know How To Love Me (03: 23) 2. Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll To Me (03: 19) 3. Something's Been Making Me Blue (03: 00...

Reducere. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenan...

General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the dis...

Reducere. The remarkable photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century--and at a ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region. I...

Tracklist : CD1 : If you think you know how to love meLiving next door to AliceDon't play your rock 'n' roll to meIt's your lifeNeedles and PinsOh ...

Wide-ranging and operatic in scale and in scope, Our Time on Earth--Tom Young's fourth book--is an intuitive gaze at the mystery, promise, and cond...

Reducere. At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are today--with one exception: Oklahoma. In 1947, Bud ...

Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828-90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his g...

Reducere. In this new and enlarged edition of his popular book, the author has added not only a number of new entries but also new information to existing en...

Reducere. George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized ...