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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870207440Author Sheila CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

The forts of Texas, once teeming with soldiers, settlers and Native Americans, today stand like silent sentinels, abandoned to the ravages of sun, wind, and time. Their legends and stories are ghostly reminders of a past steeped in violence and tragic...

Here are three tragedies from early Kentucky history: the defeat of a small army of Kentuckians by Indians at Blue Licks in 1782, the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews in western Kentucky in 1807, and the bizarre Beauchamp-Sharp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593308103Author Asa GillandFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804711364Author Ralph MannFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545352Author Dr. Robert M. KrimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Originally published in 1965 as the initial book pub- lished by North Country Books. Rev. Frank A. Reed lived and worked in lumber camps for many years.Book InformationISBN 9780925168818Author Frank A. ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432949600Author Liz SonnebornFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Heinemann Library, Div of Reed ElsevierPublisher Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier

The Allure of Deep Woods is an intimate, detailed account of a solitary trek along the Northville-Placid Trail, which meanders for 125 miles through some of the wildest, most remote backcountry of the Adirondacks. While skirting ponds, crossing bogs, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964731226Author Bill PickelhauptFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport Museum

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430831Author Kenneth HafertepeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268207168Author Mark C. PilkintonFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame PressWeight(grams)...

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national...

Chicano history, from the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present, cannot be explained without reference to the determined interventions of the Mexican government, asserts Gilbert G. Gonzalez. In this pathfinding study, he offers...

The editor and a distinguished group of twelve collaborators re-interpret New Mexico's history through biography. Profiles of fourteen notable, complex characters provide a unique view into New Mexico's development from prehistoric times to the present...

Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists' encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their...

Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics? To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law...

This work spans 30 years and reaches from Niagara Falls to Montauk Point. It consists of folklore, character sketches, ghost stories and pieces of regional history. Special attention is given to the fate of Native Americans and the erosion of the State's...

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet more than half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from...

For more than a hundred years after Europeans had begun populating the Atlantic shores of North America, the Pacific coast of that continent remained a blank on their maps and in their minds. When Russians from Siberia first sighted the mountains of...

The forces that turned Northeast Texas from a poverty-stricken region into a more economically prosperous area. Winner, Texas State Historical Association Coral H. Tullis Memorial Award for best book on Texas history, 2001Federal New Deal programs of the...

The remarkable photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century - and at a turning point in their own history.The Columbia River Plateau, in the interior Pacific Northwest, was...

In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, with not even a fallen chimney to mark their location. Others have left ghostly marks of their...

On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and sights of the East - New York, Washington, and Niagara Falls - and now the young nobleman was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385022729Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

Mike Royko wrote a daily column for nearly 35 years - at first for the "Chicago Daily News", then the "Sun-Times", and finally the "Tribune" - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and...

Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV...

American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767917445Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062242389Author Editors of Garden and GunFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015832Author Richard WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 13mm

Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278502Author Ian FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385152723Author Eliot WiggintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 524g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681790510Author West C GilbreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Wild Horse PressPublisher Wild Horse PressWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories...

Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat, and analyses the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997425147Author James a BultemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint P.D. PublishingPublisher P.D. PublishingWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400083114Author Timothy B. TysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...