Learn About the Guns that Brought America West Carving a single nation out of a massive continent is not easy. The British, German, and Scots-Irish settlers that disembarked on the Eastern Seaboard of America needed to find a way West...Loe edasi...
Make healthier life choices to heal yourself and the environment through self-sufficiency. Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern provides the tools for living slowly, intentionally, and better through permaculture, edible gardening, and organ...Loe edasi...
Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free—or cost them everything they have—in this intergenerational verse novel that explores the history of the Black homesteader movement.1879, Mississippi. Young...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593537855)
Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West is the first book dedicated the story of early Deadwood. It also probes timeless subjects such as race and sex, crime and punishment, religion and recreation, and everyday life in a manner that wi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Texas Christian University Press, ISBN-13: 9780875659343)
Inspired by true events, The Last Woman is the story of three young women whose lives become intertwined as they flee up the Mississippi River in 1877. Within a year, two of them take off for Dodge City, reluctantly leaving their friend behind in St...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496242228)
Frontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chro...Loe edasi...
In a biography of the most infamous female outlaw of the 19th century, a best-selling historian challenges a notorious legacy. Illustrations. In this definitive biography of the most infamous female outlaw of the nineteenth century, best-sell...Loe edasi...
Carolina Castillo Crimm, Maggie Farris Parker, Lucille Farris Benthall, Laura Johnston, Susan B. Locklear, Ross Lovell, Kristine McCoy, Thomas Vanderberg, Randy White
This is the entertaining story of a Texas History college class from Sam Houston State University that saved a 180-year-old log cabin from destruction during a long hot summer in 2001 as part of a Main Street Program. Members of the class, includ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nevada Press, ISBN-13: 9781647792466)
The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, from its beginning in 1863 to the government-mandated end to the mining of precious metals in the district during World...Loe edasi...
The ‘Wild West’, or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496227881)
Pamela Smith Hill delves into Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House novels, closely examining text, characters, and stories to reveal how the books forever changed the literary landscape of childrens and young adult literature in ways that remain vit...Loe edasi...
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. GET TOUGH OR GET GHOSTED. In this blazing new series from the bestselling Johnstones, the sole survivor of a bloody massacre turns his rage to bounty hunting—and a new Western legend is born....Loe edasi...
The Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century return to Fort Misery—where the lowliest dregs of the U.S. ARMY defend the driest patch of lawless desert against the gnarliest killers in the wild, wild West. Sometimes it takes a bad man with g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Texas Christian University Press, ISBN-13: 9780875658902)
Louisa Foster came to Texas as a child with the Old Three Hundred, the first settlers brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin. She married a young traveling preacher from Tennessee, the Rev. Finis Foster. Unlike many women at this time, Louisa was edu...Loe edasi...
1920s, Blue Moon, Montana. The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as new inventions and new roles for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, B...Loe edasi...
Harness the Magic of HomesteadingStart living a simpler, made-from-scratch life with this all-in-one homestead handbook from Mel Matthews, creator of The Homestead Fam. Filled with insider tips on making your own breads, jams and ev...Loe edasi...
Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9781984878908)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned Americas most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid to Butch and Sundance The Wild...Loe edasi...
