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Precious Dust
The Saga of the Western Gold Rushes
Häftad, 1998
239 kr
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The boom era began with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and extended over fifty years to include the rushes in the Pikes Peak region in Colorado, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Alder Gulch in Montana, and the Yukon. Precious Dust humanizes the mad rush to these remote places.
Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas
Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick
Häftad, 2000
261 kr
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From Sam Maverick’s arrival in Texas to his death in 1870, he participated in many of the most momentous events of the state’s early history, including the Siege of Bexar and the defense of the Alamo. He accumulated a fabled land empire and inspired the term “maverick” to denote an unbranded calf …
Hands to the Spindle
Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880
Inbunden, 1996
244 kr
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It is said one piece of fabric can tell of the hardships, blessings, and realities of a woman’s life, as well as her community’s life. In nineteenth-century Texas women’s hands created most of the clothes their families wore, the blankets used to cover their tired bodies, and the textiles that …
