The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories: Pioneering Women of the West, Hardcover - Sandra Dallas

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Reducere. Did you know that the Lone Ranger was likely inspired by a black cowboy? Or that some of the most famous sharpshooters in the West were women? Or h...

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Reducere. In Sandra Dallas' novel A Quilt for Christmas, it is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederat...

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Reducere. From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas's Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland...

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Flying 'Anything to Anywhere': the life of pilot Pauline Gower, MBE, who led the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2Publisher: The Hist...

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...

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The stories of Louis L'Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge in...

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

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Jyoti ThottamNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

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The incredible story of the opening of the American West, by the #1 bestselling author of BAND OF BROTHERS.

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Reducere. In the Hunter Kingdom of the Breodani, the golden-eyed son of Bredan is born to the Lord and Lady of Maubreche. In their lands, at the heart of the...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation an...

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Reducere. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 157...

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By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the...

DescriptionContemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession...