This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West

Two questions were asked of Dick: "Did the Mission Girls ever get to Twin Lakes?" That question was asked of a number of people, and helped prompt ...

Reducere. American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she...

Reducere. Fisherman Mark Spitzer takes readers on an action-packed investigation of the most fierce and fearsome freshwater grotesques of the American West e...

Reducere. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.

Reducere. Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant, this atlas presents a sweeping history of the American West through more than 600 original, full-color...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Reducere. In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environme...

This Element compares the adaptations of the 1996 and 2018 versions of West Side Story in detail, illuminating issues encountered when translating ...

Reducere. Why are dinosaurs extinct?Because their eggs stink How can you tell there's a dino in the fridge?The door won't close What do you call a T-Rex with...

Reducere. What do cows like to boogey to?Any kind of moosic they hear Why couldn't the leopard play hide and seek?He was always spotted What sort of can will...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. The FIRST BOOK written of actual ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian Each page is filled with personal experiences b...

Reducere. Did you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal ...

A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

Reducere. Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse ac...

Reducere. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is un...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reducere. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man'...

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indi...

Reducere. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is univ...

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

Reducere. The enduring image evoked by the American West is one of grand physical and historical romance, spectacle, and drama. Many generations of historian...

Reducere. 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 ...

DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

Reducere. A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the u...

A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history. In June 1846, General Stephen ...

Reducere. Frontier photographer L. A. Huffman (1854 - 1931) captured the spirit of the American West like no other artist. As comfortable photographing the h...

Reducere. The lives of the saints who helped build the Catholic Church in the United States--Frances Cabrini, Isaac Jogues, John Neumann, Elizabeth Ann Seton...

Reducere. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle...

Reducere. The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World is a deep searching into the ways we become dammed and how we recover fluidity. ...

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

Reducere. Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western r...

Reducere. Tom West, the author of "The Most Interesting Man You Have Never Met" now takes you along on his adventures, and yes often times challenges, of dri...

Reducere. Native Americans use storytelling to get to know one another, as well as, passing history and messages on to newer generations. These stories are a...