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23 produkter
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls
Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws
Häftad, 2019
284 kr
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Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, ""mixed-blood"" Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson's mother died, the award-winning historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a …
Courage Above All Things
General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863
Av Harwood P. Hinton, Jerry Thompson
Inbunden, 2020
527 kr
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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the …
Courage Above All Things
General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812–1863
Av Harwood P. Hinton, Jerry Thompson
Häftad, 2026
556 kr
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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the …
Wild and Vivid Land
An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border
Häftad, 2012
342 kr
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With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize–winning historian William H. Goetzmann has called a "wild and vivid land." From the Coahuiltecan Indians and the Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio …
Cascadia's Fault
The Deadly Earthquake That Will Devastate North America
E-bok, 2011
106 kr
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The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a crack in the earth’s crust, roughly fifty kilometres offshore, running 1,100 kilometres from northern Vancouver Island to northern California. About every 500 years this fault generates a monster earthquake. There is roughly a thirty percent chance that it could …
Oakland Noir
Av Jerry Thompson, various authors m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2017
298 kr
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Brand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. In the …
Murder on the Largo Volume 23
Av Eleanor Williams, Jerry Thompson
Inbunden, 2024
364 kr
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In western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas family) came to be either despised as a deceitful rustler and ruthless murderer or admired as a man …
Civil War in the Southwest
Recollections of the Sibley Brigade
E-bok, 2001
225 kr
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In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil War raged in a struggle that could have decided the fate of the nation. In the summer and fall of 1861, Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley raised a brigade of young and …
Cortina
Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
Häftad, 2013
342 kr
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At a time when the U.S.-Mexican border was still not clearly defined and when the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and land hunger impelled the Anglo presence ever deeper and more intrusively into South Texas, Juan Nepomucino Cortina cut a violent swath across the region in a conflict that came to be …
Curing the Incurable: Beyond the Limits of Medicine
What survivors of major illnesses can teach us
Häftad, 2020
222 kr
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There is a steady stream of articles and books about 'miraculous' cures from the chronic illnesses that face us in the 21st century: autoimmune conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis; neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, MS and Alzheimer's; and many cancers. But if all these …
Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
Häftad, 2000
328 kr
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As many as 9,5000 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos– Texans of Mexican heritage. An estimated 2,500 fought in the ranks of the Confederacy while 950, including some Mexican nationals, fought for the Stars and …
Wild and Vivid Land, Limited Edition
An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border
Inbunden, 1998
1104 kr
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With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize–winning historian William H. Goetzmann has called a ""wild and vivid land."" From the Coahuiltecan Indians and the Spanish colonisers who clustered along the banks of the Rio …
Confederate General of the West
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Häftad, 1996
195 kr
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Had Henry Hopkins Sibley and his Confederate army troops succeeded in capturing New Mexico from the Federals, author Jerry Thompson argues, ""the entire history of the Southern Confederacy might have been radically altered."" In Confederate General of the West , Thompson portrays the life and …
Civil War in the Southwest
Recollections of the Sibley Brigade
Inbunden, 2001
296 kr
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In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil War raged in a struggle that could have decided the fate of the nation. In the summer and fall of 1861, Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley raised a brigade of young and …
Civil War to the Bloody End
The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman
Inbunden, 2006
411 kr
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If President Lincoln could have unmade a general, perhaps he would have started with Samuel Peter ""Sourdough"" Heintzelman, whose early military successes were overshadowed by a prickly disposition and repeated Union defeats during the Civil War. By the time his friend Robert E. Lee left Arlington …
Tejanos in Gray
Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael De La Garza and Manuel Yturri
Inbunden, 2011
354 kr
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Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: whites from the North and South fighting over states’ rights, usually centered on the issue of black slavery. But, as Jerry Thompson shows in Tejanos …
