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54 produkter
Rattlesnakes
Häftad, 1982
197 kr
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Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures-rattlesnakes-their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. Here are descriptions of actual fights to the death between rattlesnakes …
Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
Häftad, 1985
189 kr
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Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate …
Ben Lilly Legend
Häftad, 1981
253 kr
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The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter-the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him.Lilly was …
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Häftad, 1978
189 kr
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Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that …
Cow People
Häftad, 1981
189 kr
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Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their …
I'll Tell You a Tale
An Anthology
Häftad, 1981
282 kr
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I'll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie's best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead …
Longhorns
Häftad, 1980
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
253 kr
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The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is the bedrock on which the history of the cow …
Tales of Old-Time Texas
Häftad, 1984
245 kr
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It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and song, and his heart open to the simple truth of folk wisdom and ways, he movingly and unpretentiously spins the tales of our collective …
Vaquero of the Brush Country
The Life and Times of John D. Young
Av John D. Young, J. Frank Dobie
Häftad, 1999
353 kr
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This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the …
Mustangs
Häftad, 2005
321 kr
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J. Frank Dobie’s history of the “mustang”—from the Spanish mesteña, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers—tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West.
Voice of the Coyote
Häftad, 2006
293 kr
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In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life experiences in Texas and twenty-five years of research, Dobie forges a sympathetic and nuanced …
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Inbunden, 2026
455 kr
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Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Häftad, 2026
323 kr
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Follow De Drinkin' Gou'd
Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society
Inbunden, 2026
388 kr
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Follow De Drinkin' Gou'd
Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society
Häftad, 2026
244 kr
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