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Expedition to the Southwest: An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, & Oklahoma, Paperback - James William Abert

50,99 RON

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River re...

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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma, Paperback - Douglas Hale

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Reducere. In 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the ma...

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A Letter to America, Paperback - David L. Boren

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A powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? ...

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This American Autopsy: Poems, Paperback - Jos Antonio Rodr guez

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Reducere. In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist Jos Antonio Rodr guez encapsulates the experiences of an artist an...

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Some of Tim's Stories, Hardcover - S. E. Hinton

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Reducere. Short Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer,...

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Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains, Paperback - Susan Kates

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Reducere. For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indian...

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A Very Small Farm, Paperback - William Paul Winchester

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Reducere. In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subs...

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Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears, Paperback - Diane Glancy

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Reducere. It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. A quarter of the removed ...

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Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes, Paperback - John H. Monnett

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Reducere. Tell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indi...

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Tornado Nature's Ultimate Winstorm, Paperback - Thomas P. Grazulis

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Reducere. Tornadoes occur everywhere in the United States, and each region of the nation has its own tornado season. Tornadoes have crossed mountains. Some h...

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My Life on the Plains: or, Personal Experiences with Indians, Paperback - George Armstrong Custer

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DescriptionWhen General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indi...

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Lone Wolf Gonzaullas: Texas Ranger, Paperback - Brownson Malsch

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"I went into lots of fights by myself, and I came out by myself, too " said Captain Manuel T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas of the Texas Rangers. In this ...

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Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman, Paperback - Julie Roy Jeffrey

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Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York...

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Recollections of Charley Russell, Paperback - Frank Bird Linderman

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The intimate, human memories regarding Charles M. Russell, his genius and eccentricities, which Frank Linderman set down shortly after the death of...

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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle, Paperback - William T. Hagan

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Reducere. Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry--an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.Goodnight's sto...

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The Life of John Wesley Hardin, Paperback - John Wesley Hardin

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Reducere. In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his contemporari...

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The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota, Paperback - D. M. Dooling

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: D. M. DoolingIntroduction by: Vivian Arviso One FeatherAfterword by: Elaine A. JahnerThe Sons of the Wind presents the myth...

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Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer, Paperback - Robert J. Conley

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Reducere. A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee me...

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Come An' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook, Paperback - Ramon F. Adams

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Reducere. Come an' Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining vol...

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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, Paperback - William T. Hagan

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Reducere. The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and hi...

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Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, Paperback - Demetria Martinez

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Reducere. "We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish ...

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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877, Paperback - Jerome a. Greene

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Li...

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Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place, Paperback - Shelley Armitage

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Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

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Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories: Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies, Paperback - Adam Fortunate Eagle

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Reducere. Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, ...

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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity, Paperback - Sarah F. Wakefield

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Reducere. The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caug...

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East Texas Troubles: The Allred Rangers' Cleanup of San Augustine, Paperback - Jody Edward Ginn

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anoma...

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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School, Paperback - Adam Fortunate Eagle

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 19...

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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher, Paperback - E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott

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Reducere. E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which w...

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Bugles in the Afternoon: The Journey of Friar Ilarione Da Bergamo, 1761-1768, Paperback - Ernest Haycox

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Reducere. Rumors of a campaign against Sitting Bull cut through the ranks like a cold wind. Who would lead the charge? In Bugles in the Afternoon, legendary ...

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Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are, Second Edition, Paperback - Jacilee Wray

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. The nine Native tribes of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula--the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port ...

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Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma, Paperback - David Dary

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official...

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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide, Paperback - Blue Clark

109,99 RON

Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think...

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A Pipe for February, Paperback - Charles H. Red Corn

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles H. Red CornAt the turn of the twentieth century, the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and ...

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Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State, Paperback - Davis D. Joyce

109,99 RON

Oklahoma Book AwardHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Ha...

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The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865, Paperback - Robert R. Mackey

109,99 RON

The Upper South--Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia--was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending ar...

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Father Peter John de Smet: Jesuit in the West, Paperback - Robert C. Carriker

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Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramp...

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All About Birds Texas and Oklahoma, Paperback - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

109,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Cornell Lab of OrnithologyIllustration(s): 952 color photosNumber of pages: 320Collection: Cornell ...

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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, Paperback - Bobbie Malone

110,00 RON

For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author w...

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Sacajawea, Paperback - Harold P. Howard

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark E...

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By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, Paperback - John D. W. Guice

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis's death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first boo...

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Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, Paperback - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s an...

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Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, Paperback - S. L. a. Marshall

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: S. L. a. MarshallS.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startle...

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Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail: Or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire, Paperba

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account...

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Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre, Paperback - Paul R. Wylie

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killi...

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Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, Paperback - Robert J. Conley

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert J. ConleySet against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to I...

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The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico, Paperback - A. Gabriel Melendez

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico's Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians a...

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Okla Hannali, Paperback - R. A. Lafferty

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. "This curious and wonderful tall tale contributes to the apocalyptic revision of American history that began with Little Big Man and Bury My Heart ...

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Mercer: Banditti of the Plains or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892, Paperback - A. S. Mercer

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessl...

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How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy, Paperback - Thomas E. Patterson

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions ...

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Creating Characters: How to Build Story People, Paperback - Dwight V. Swain

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional charactersVibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along...

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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter, Paperback - Tom Horn

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Reducere. On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter f...

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Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees, Paperback - Jack F. Kilpatrick

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. The Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cher...

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The Xit Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado, Paperback - J. Evetts Haley

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT--The XIT Ranch of...

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The Mythology of Native North America, Paperback - David Leeming

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Wo...

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My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir, Paperback - Mary Budd Flitner

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. For many outsiders, the word "ranching" conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against...

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Bill Pickett: Bulldogger, Paperback - Bailey C. Hanes

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Reducere. While blacks have played an important role--as explorers, scouts, Indian consorts, soldiers, cowboys, farmers--in the exploration, conquest, and se...

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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas, Paperback - Robert K. Dearment

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. More than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn's name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos R...

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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York, Paperback - Robert S. Grumet

115,00 RON

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

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The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow, Paperback - Brian Steel Wills

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The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous ...

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Boom or Bust: Narrative, Life, and Culture from the West Texas Oil Patch, Paperback - Sheena B. Stief

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

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...

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Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man, Paperback - Alpheus H. Favour

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itinerant preacher and appointed...

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The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest, Paperback - Marc Simmons

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Reducere. This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexi...

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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival, Paperback - Brian McGinty

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGint...

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The Green Corn Rebellion, Paperback - William Cunningham

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Reducere. These days, rural Oklahoma is the last place anybody would look for leftist revolutionaries, but in 1917 the area exploded into full-blown insurrec...

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Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, Paperback - Ray C. Colton

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray C. ColtonBetween 1861 and 1865 the violent struggles of the Civil War extended into the Western Territories, where they...

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Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of the Lawless Era in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, Paperback - John W. Davis

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

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Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths, Paperback - John Adair

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Reducere. Probably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in i...

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Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland, Paperback - John Joseph Mathews

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Reducere. One of America's most colorful oilmen was Ernest Whitworth Marland, a man who had much in common with other industrial giants of his age-- the Mell...

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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View, Paperback - Jerome a. Greene

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. This volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men...

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Oklahoma Place Names, Paperback - George H. Shirk

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Reducere. In this new and enlarged edition of his popular book, the author has added not only a number of new entries but also new information to existing en...

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