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Wilderness Bonanza
The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma
Häftad, 1972
254 kr
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Within the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma experienced boom and bust. Comprising 1,200 square miles, this area was once the world's leading producer of zinc and lead ores. With …
Chickasaws
Häftad, 1972
254 kr
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For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle.Against an ethnohistorical …
Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain
Häftad, 1965
263 kr
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On the last Thursday in January 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although …
Fort Smith
Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas
Av Edwin C Bearss, Arrell M. Gibson
Häftad, 1979
254 kr
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No history of the West is complete without the story of Fort Smith, the fort that ""refused to die."" Established in 1817, Fort Smith was repeatedly abandoned and reoccupied during the following fifty years, eventually becoming the mother post of the Southwest.The original fort was installed on the …
Kickapoos
Lords of the Middle Border
Häftad, 1975
299 kr
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The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders' every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they continued to wage war and acted as traders for border captives and goods. In 1873 they reluctantly settled …
Santa Fe and Taos Colonies
Age of the Muses, 1900–1942
Häftad, 1983
254 kr
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During the first half of this century, Santa Fe and Taos became havens for artistic émigrés fleeing America's machine-age culture. The elements of the Southwest scorned by an urban-industrial nation - awesome vistas, intense light, and isolation - drew such notables as D. H. Lawrence and Georgia …
Oklahoma
A History of Five Centuries
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner StateThe drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history covering prehistory, Spanish and French exploration, the removal of Indian tribes to what the federal government called Indian Territory, and the modern period …
