Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil, Hardcover - Bartee Haile

Reducere. Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil, Hardcover

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. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Reducere. In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to creat...

Publisher: Hachette BooksAuthor(s): Justin ScheckNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. In Walls, David Frye uncovers a story that is m...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth led directly to the rush for "black gold" in the Indian Territory at the turn of the twent...

A coming-of-age tale set during WWII, about a girl who was part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, but fled Germany for Oxford. From the author of }Pr...

A coming-of-age tale set during WWII, about a girl who was part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, but fled Germany for Oxford. From the author of "Pr...

Reducere. Description"A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library Journal)--walls--and a haunting and...

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

The sequel to the extraordinary "Daughter Of Smoke & Bone", this fantasy novel will appeal to fans of "Northern Lights" and "The Passage". The prev...

Reducere. "In The Great Texas Oil Heist Robert Cargill tells the story of theslant-hole drilling scandal of the 1960s with both the thoroughnessand the verve...

Reducere. A vast number of studies have documented the economic and geological effects of oil production, but the impact of boom-and-bust cycles on individua...

Reducere. 2001 Summerfield G. Roberts Award, presented by the Sons of the Republic of Texas Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several f...

The first tale in a gripping trilogy as one girl attempts to bring magic back. Magic can burn, turn tides, light the darkness and bring back the de...

Reducere. The primal rule of winning: don't fall in love with the contender.Three months shy of my eighteenth birthday, I'm forced to return to Colorado. Eve...

This book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the State from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

It is an epic tale full of the romance and legend of feudal life, the glamour and licence of the international political elite and ultimately, the ...

Reducere. Born in fire. Tempered in blood.Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check b...

This is Lesley Saunders' fifth poetry collection with Two Rivers Press. It is an intense examination of human culpability, and the unfathomable mys...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Cents An Hour: The Builders and Boomtowns of the Fort Peck Dam One of the most fascinating chapters in Montana history is the buil...

Reducere. Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Texas is one of the most recognizable states in the United States of ...

Reducere. From Norfolk Naval Base, the world's largest naval base, to the Norfolk Southern Railway, one of North America's largest railroads, Historic Photos...

Reducere. In September 1996, fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto shielded her baby brother while shots rang out outside the family home in Karachi. This was the ...

Reducere. Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a bra...

Reducere. No one could have prepared Sage and Tehl for the ruin the Warlord would wreak on the world to get to Aermia. Sage thought she knew how to play his ...

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Texans are passionate about this signature sandwich, and photographer/writer Rick Vanderpool has become, in his own right, the Hambassador of Texas...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Karen Harden McCrackenIllustration(s): 13 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 2 indexes, appendixNumber of p...

The history of oilmen and the energy bankers who loan them capital is inextricably bound together. Energy bankers have reacted, adjusted and evolve...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

From co-author of Billion Dollar Whale Bradley Hope and award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Justin Scheck, a revelatory look at the inner wo...

Reducere. What is more important to you?Wealth? Peace? Freedom? With her powers finally under control, the Oncoming Storm returns to Pernula. But not everyth...

Reducere. DescriptionThe primal rule of winning: don't fall in love with the contender. Three months shy of her eighteenth birthday, Ness is forced to return...

The gripping sequel to New York Times number one bestseller Year One - an epic story of love, war, family and magic.