Reducere. General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclu...
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Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-HistoricalA history of the famous cleft in the Rockies and an elegant plea for its preservation Liste...
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Reducere. Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachi...
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Reducere. Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard, " dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a r...
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Reducere. Nowhere in the annals of United States military history is there a more tragic, yet valorous, story than that of the Army of Tennessee. Unlike its ...
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Reducere. This detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of hi...
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Reducere. In this revised and expanded edition of Ancient Rome, author Paul A. Zoch presents the history and mythology of Rome, from its legendary progenitor...
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Reducere. In the hot, dry New Mexico wilderness, Will and Billy, two half-Cherokee ranchers, discover a corpse and a suitcase containing nearly a million dol...
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Reducere. Edward "Ed" Schieffelin (1847-1897) was the epitome of the American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered what would become known as t...
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Reducere. Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Trib...
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Reducere. Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas's life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led...
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Reducere. For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today,...
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Reducere. This Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indi...
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Reducere. Osage, a language of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan family, was spoken until recently by tribal members in northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in da...
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Reducere. One of America's most popular and influential American artists, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Thro...
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Reducere. This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active particip...
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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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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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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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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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Reducere. A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 1810-1874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American ...
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Reducere. Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This boo...
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Reducere. George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne...
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Reducere. Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smi...
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Reducere. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota'...
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Reducere. The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchl...
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Reducere. If we do in fact "remember the Alamo, " it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's s...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James W. Lish Every autumn, thousands of migrating Red-tailed Hawks arrive on the southern Great Plains to spend the winter...
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Reducere. Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rive...
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Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...
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Reducere. Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-kn...
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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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Reducere. In the past, Roman pottery has been judged as inferior to Greek pottery. Recent excavations, however, have led to an increase in knowledge and appr...
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Reducere. In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring buildi...
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Reducere. The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 ...
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Reducere. This book, the first of its kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20, 000 Americans, although most of those ...
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Reducere. IndieFab awardsThis powerful novel by Mo Yan--one of contemporary China's most famous and prolific writers--is both a stirring love story and an un...
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Reducere. Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa arch...
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Reducere. The Rapid City Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools built and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to prepare...
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Reducere. This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...
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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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Reducere. In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in devel...
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Reducere. Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physi...
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Reducere. George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized ...
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Reducere. On February 17, 1894, the Diesel engine was operated successfully for the first time. Since then it has been a prime mover for civilization, and to...
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Reducere. The Art of Political Warfare highlights the striking similarities between politics and war. Applying military thought to domestic politics, John J....
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Reducere. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an est...
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Reducere. In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled the summer he spent following George Crook's infamous campaign agains...
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Reducere. On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brig...
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Reducere. For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner State The drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history coveri...
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Reducere. In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creatio...
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Reducere. First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical...
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Reducere. Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste--black people--and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spok...
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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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Reducere. Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, P o de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who...
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Reducere. Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, Willi...
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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...
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Reducere. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp...
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Reducere. Volume 59 in American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N...
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