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18 produkter
Frontier Medicine
Av David Dary
E-bok, 2008
142 kr
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In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic …
Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Av David Dary
E-bok, 2007
173 kr
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A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the …
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Av David Dary
Häftad, 2009
325 kr
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Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
Av David Dary
Häftad, 1997
429 kr
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This text focuses on the culture of the Old West, about how the mountain men, Indians, and Cowboys had fun - no matter what the circumstances.
Red Blood and Black Ink
Journalism in the Old West
Av David Dary
Häftad, 1999
429 kr
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This text chronicles the story of journalism in the Old West - from the freewheeling days of the early 1800s to the small-town weeklies and busy city newsrooms of the 1920s. It covers topics such as the printers who founded the first paper and the article that launched the legend of the Alamo.
Santa Fe Trail
Its History, Legends, and Lore
Av David Dary
E-bok, 2012
214 kr
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A prize-winning historian of the Old West brings to life the people who laid down the Santa Fe Trail and opened commerce with Spanish America. He uses first-hand accounts and contemporary records to give us a vivid recreation of a time and place crucial to America''s westward expansion.
True Tales of the Prairies and Plains
Av David Dary
Häftad, 2026
322 kr
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Ever wonder why cowboys sing? Or where Henry Starr’s treasure is buried? Or what legend lies behind the origin of the word “rawhide”? The prairies and plains are bursting with stories, a region whose flat openness belies a colorful history that’s now captured in this cornucopia of colorful …
Overland Mail
1849–1869
Häftad, 2004
254 kr
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In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the secession movement rose and fell. From slow …
Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma
Av David Dary
Häftad, 2013
200 kr
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Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official state rock, or list the courses in the official state meal? The answers to these questions, and others you may not have thought to ask, can be found in …
Texas Cowboy's Journal
Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868
Häftad, 2014
170 kr
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In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his …
Entrepreneurs of the Old West
Av David Dary
Häftad, 1997
425 kr
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"A fascinating array of information on everything from how to prepare a buffalo robe to what one could expect to find in a small trading post on the south Platte River in the 1830s. Portrays the coming together of a great nation". -- Philadelphia Inquirer. "The scope of this book is as wide as the …
True Tales of the Prairies and Plains
Av David Dary
Inbunden, 2007
393 kr
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Ever wonder why cowboys sing? Or where Henry Starr's treasure is buried? Or what legend lies behind the origin of the word ""rawhide""? The prairies and plains are bursting with stories, a region whose flat openness belies a colorful history that's now captured in this cornucopia of colorful tales. …
Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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Driving across the country in the early twentieth century was high adventure. In 1925 Willie Chester Clark and his family piled into a modified Chevrolet touring car, affectionately named Leaping Lena, and took off for the West. Clark's account of the journey will acquaint readers with …
