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George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age, Paperback - Matthew Bernstein

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Reducere. Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being e...

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

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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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Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2, Paperback - Robert K. Dearment

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A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard, Paperback - Connie Cronley

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Reducere. "How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?" Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known...

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Cherokee Tragedy, Volume 169: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People, Paperback - Thurman Wilkins

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The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps. The Republic of China Military, 1942-1955, Paperback - Eric Setzekorn

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For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Office...

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The Lion at Dawn. Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797, Hardback - Nathaniel Jarrett

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Opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful internat...

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

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Warrior Spirit. The Story of Native American Heroism and Patriotism, Paperback - Debra Kay Mooney

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For decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in ...

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Harnessing the Airplane. American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939, Paperback - Lori A. Henning

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At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do ...

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The Girl Who Dared to Defy. Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver, Paperback - Jane Little Botkin

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In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

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A Letter to My Father. Growing up Filipina and American, Paperback - Helen Madamba Mossman

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Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl, ...

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Mapping the Four Corners. Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875, Paperback - Susan Rhoades Neel

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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work comp...

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So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine, Paperback - Goldenshteyn Maksim

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Reducere. When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends be...

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Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics, Paperback - Anthony R. Carrozza

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

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The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, Paperback - David A. Chang

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Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

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Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock Postsuburban California, Paperback - Dewar MacLeod

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Reducere. Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notoriou...

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Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader, Paperback - Paul Beck

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Reducere. 566Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815-79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer...

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Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains, Paperback - Stan Hoig

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Publisher: University of Oklahoma PressAuthor(s): Stan HoigIllustration(s): 62 black & white illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 352Publication d...

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Women in the Peninsular War, Paperback - Charles J. Esdaile

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In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented - both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as vict...

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Paperback - Jeremy Black

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The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and...

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American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice. Volume 6, Paperback - ***

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As fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more pressure, and as the country's politics give way to divis...

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Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands, Paperback - Derek R. Everett

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Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children at...

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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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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, Volume 29, Paperback - Richard W. Etulain

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Reducere. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventure...

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Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee, Paperback - Roger L. Nichols

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Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

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Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution, Hardcover - Steven Elliott

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Reducere. George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge is an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revo...

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Framing First Contact, Volume 38: From Catlin to Russell, Hardcover - Kate Elliott

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Reducere. Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's hi...

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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, Volume 261: A Guide, Paperback - Blue Clark

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Reducere. 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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Nine Days in May: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967, Paperback - Warren K. Wilkins

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Reducere. Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, ...

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Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party, Paperback - Marc C. Johnson

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Reducere. While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year ...

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Making a Difference, Volume 19: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice, Paperback - Ada Deer

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Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

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Strike Fear in the Land, Volume 279: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541, Hardcover - W. George Lovell

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Reducere. The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it...

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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island, Volume 269: A History, Paperback - John A. Strong

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Reducere. Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the...

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Guibert, Volume 57: Father of Napoleon's Grande Arme, Hardcover - Jonathan Abel

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Reducere. If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Gui...

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Victorio, Volume 22: Apache Warrior and Chief, Paperback - Kathleen P. Chamberlain

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Reducere. A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his be...

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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, Paperback - Bobbie Malone

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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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Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture, Paperback - Luca Guido

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Reducere. Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or...

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Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, Paperback - Jeffrey D. Anderson

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Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party, Hardcover - Marc C. Johnson

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While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year ...

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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin, Hardcover - Thomas O. McDonald

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Reducere. A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812-1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, whe...

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Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union, Hardcover - Holly A. Mayer

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Colonel Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first "national" regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it...

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Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1900, Hardcover - David A. Smith

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For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 1: A Photographic History, Hardcover - Karlos K. Hill

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Reducere. On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the Af...

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Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825, Hardcover - Margarita R. Ochoa

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The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish Americ...

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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre, Paperback - Randy Krehbiel

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Reducere. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street, " was one of the most prosperous African American communities in...

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Homeland, Volume 2: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900, Paperback - Aaron E. Sanchez

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Ideas defer to no border--least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes ...

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Thunder in the West, Volume 32: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid, Hardcover - Richard W. Etulain

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Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1, Paperback - Dearment K. Robert

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The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver, Hardcover - Jane Little Botkin

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Reducere. In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

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Rosebud, June 17, 1876, Paperback - Paul L. Hedren

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Reducere. The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rose...

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The Apaches, Volume 149: Eagles of the Southwest, Paperback - Donald Worcester

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Until now Apache history has been fragmented, offered in books dealing with specific bands or groups-the Mescaleros, Mimbreños, Chiricahuas, and th...

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

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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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We Know Who We Are: Mtis Identity in a Montana Community, Paperback - Martha Harroun Foster

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Reducere. They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the M tis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group ...

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Converting the Rosebud, Volume 277: Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916, Hardcover - Harvey Markowitz

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Reducere. When Andrew Jackson's removal policy failed to solve the "Indian problem, " the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Nineteenth-ce...

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Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain, Hardcover - Ana Pulido Rull

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Reducere. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used...

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An Open Pit Visible from the Moon, Volume 2: The Wilderness ACT and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest, Hardcover - Adam M. Sow

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Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru, Hardcover - Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes

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In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patri...

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From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks, Paperback - Philip S. Hall

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Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Volume 3: Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty, Hardcover - William Davenport Mercer

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Tonkawa Texts: A New Linguistic Edition, Hardcover - Harry Hoijer

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Reducere. Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct for more than ...

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Rodeo, Volume 3: An Animal History, Hardcover - Susan Nance

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Reducere. "What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?" asks anima...

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Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River, Hardcover - Patrick Dearen

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Reducere. Rising at 11, 750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one o...

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The Royal American Regiment, Volume 22: An Atlantic Microcosm, 1755-1772, Paperback - Alexander V. Campbell

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Reducere. In the wake of Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, the British army raised the 60th, or Royal American, Regiment of Foot to fight the Frenc...

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An Honest Enemy: George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights, Hardcover - Paul Magid

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Reducere. Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as allies. As Paul Magi...

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Attack at Chosin: The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea, Hardcover - Xiaobing Li

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Reducere. For members of the U.S. Army's "Task Force Faith" and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, coura...

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The 101 Ranch, Paperback - Ellsworth Collings

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Reducere. In the first third of the twentieth century, the 101 Real Wild West Show was known halfway round the world. It featured such headliners as Bill Pic...

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Travels in North America, 1832-1834: A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Hardcover - Prince Alexander Phi Maximilian of Wi

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Reducere. The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. P...

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Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonn, Hardcover - B. Byron Price

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The definitive reference for scholars, collectors, curators, art dealers, libraries, and anyone who appreciates the art of Charles M. Russell Charl...

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