The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

Reducere. In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure ha...

Reducere. Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of ...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even grea...

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DescriptionMari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She exp...

Reducere. Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered...

Reducere. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being...

Reducere. Newbery MedalPraised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Wit...

Reducere. The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to ...

Reducere. DescriptionHere in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and ...

Ireland in the aftermath of Cromwell - during this period Catholicism and nationalism became linked and priests were outlawed. The Priest Hunters s...

Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating...

Reducere. "The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, " writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homest...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionMiss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the ...

Reducere. Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable his...

Three men wish to try out their luck in finding a hidden treasure in the unyielding Canadian Wilderness while a young Indian Princess is kidnapped ...

Description"Magnet Ass And The Stone-Cold Truck Hunters" is a Vietnam War memoir about Captain Alan "Magnet Ass" Milacek, the "man who flew his pla...

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Reducere. Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old ...

Reducere. The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early ...

Reducere. Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "Outstanding Western Novel" 2005 As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight face...

Reducere. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, mil...

Reducere. A look at the 1970 Buffalo Party Convention and Pig Roast, otherwise known as the Eatonville Rock Festival. Although the event was officially cance...

The story of intrepid palaeontologists, the discoverers of prehistoric life, and the revelations found through their research.Illustrations: 200 cl...

No other group in Northern America has been more romanticized and stereotyped than the Plains Indians-the Blackfoot, Plains Cree, Dakota, Kiowa and...

Reducere. "No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West, " said Joh...

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gr...

A re-telling of the Irish saga. When first published, Gregory's version affected not only Yeats, but every important writer of the period. George R...

Reducere. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapl...

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A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK. A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem St...

Following on from Derek Niven's genealogical histories of the Lisbon Lions and the great Scottish football managers, he turns his attention to the ...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their...

Reducere. The American Buffalo is strong, defensive, and smart. Buffaloes are not cared for like cattle, they are wild and free. This freedom comes with resp...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

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Reducere. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

Reducere. A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land--America's railroads--The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most...

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...

Reducere. In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family me...

Robert M. Edsel brings the story of his #1 New York Times bestseller for adults The Monuments Men to young readers for the first time in this dynam...

A timeless book about a river and its people, so well and lovingly written that its interwoven fact and legend has that special quality of good sto...

Reducere. This biography of native American chief Sore-Belly, war-lord of the Crows, is a thorough and unique account of the life and times of the greatest C...

A great drought has swept across western North America. The bison are dying, and with them The People. The Chosen One was murdered long ago and The...