The Frontier Centennial: Fort Worth and the New West, Hardcover - Jacob W. Olmstead

Reducere. In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of t...

The images are ingrained into the American psyche: cowboys and Indians, gunslingers and stagecoach robbers, lassos and saddles, six guns and nooses...

In her latest collection of photographs, Santa Fe-based photographer Joan Myers (born 1944) turns her lens to the American West, capturing both the...

Reducere. The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to fou...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (1998) - Oregon Book Awards - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Quintard TaylorThe American West is mistakenly known as a region w...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Blaine HardenNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionThe truth is out there Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus edition are all four of Charles Fort's nonfiction books. They include The B...

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Reducere. DescriptionFort Worth is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Fort Worth has consistently built an...

DescriptionHigh in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousa...

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Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Blac...

Reducere. Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West cast...

Reducere. From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas's--and the nation's--largest cities, a thriving center of ...

This is a classic tale beautifully illustrated. It is the latest book from the popular Silver Penny Stories series. It is suitable for children age...

The West Highland Way waterproof map from Footprint is a map-guide to the 95 mile (153km) route between Milngavie and Fort William. The mapping is ...

Reducere. Despite a thriving culinary scene, Fort Worth lost some of its most iconic restaurants decades ago. Locals still buzz about the legendary chili dis...

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

In Something in the Soil, Patricia Nelson Limerick travels far outside the usual academic circles to bring Western past and Western present into a ...

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Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

Reducere. As early as 1867, Fort Worth held promise as an ideal stockyards. Making their way to northern markets, cattle passed through the city on what beca...

Reducere. November 22, 1963, is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of Pres. J...

Reducere. A missing letter is the key to the whereabouts of Fort Freedom, the stockade that disappeared after the Revolutionary War. The fort is located some...

Reducere. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens...

We need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views, how will ...

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This is the first book of its kind to cover the unique challenges of creating, maintaining, and operating a system that operates in both outer spac...

Reducere. Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native populati...

Reducere. A heartwarming tale buzzing with sincerity, humor, and kindness, Little Bee's Flower is about the courage in venturing out on your own--and also th...

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Reducere. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Graham DominyNumber of pages: 320Collection: History of Military OccupationPublication date: 2016...

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Giants of the Monsoon Forest journeys deep into the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India to explore the world of teak logging elephants and t...