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19 produkter
Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake
Häftad, 2003
224 kr
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Reelfoot Lake has been a hunting and fishing paradise from the time of its creation in 1812. This work tells of how, in 1908, with the loss of their homes to capitalists, rural folk donned hoods and gowns and engaged in ""night riding"", spreading mayhem and death as they sought justice.
Pushmataha
A Choctaw Leader and His People
Häftad, 2004
201 kr
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This important book comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. In ""Life of Apushimataha,"" Gideon Lincecum tells the story of Choctaw chief Pushmataha, who was born in Mississippi in 1764. A fearless warrior, his name …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
A Memoir
Av Frank Sikora
Häftad, 2005
201 kr
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When Frank Sikora's six-year-old daughter contracted pneumonia in 1962, his wife Millie vowed that would be the last winter she would spend in Ohio. Despite misgivings about the racial tensions erupting there, they moved their family down south, where Frank hoped to fulfill his dream of becoming a …
Battle for Alabama's Wilderness
Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature
Häftad, 2005
340 kr
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The grassroots effort to preserve Alabama's Wilderness Areas spanned a period of thirty years, from 19 to 19. The first battle, to establish the Sipsey Wilderness in the Bankhead National Forest, was the catalyst for a profound reform of national policy regarding public land preserves in the …
Old Mobile Archaeology
Häftad, 2005
166 kr
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Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.
Hitler's Soldier in the U.S. Army
An Unlikely Memoir of WWII
Häftad, 2006
409 kr
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Born into landed Prussian nobility, Werner H. Von Rosenstiel lived the largely predictable life of his class until two great changes intersected to forever alter his worldview: he attended college in Ohio for a year, and the Nazis came to power in Germany. Von Rosenstiel was drafted into the …
Fishing for Gold
The Story of Alabama's Catfish Industry
Häftad, 2006
532 kr
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With a wonderful ear for dialogue and in flowing narrative style, Karni Perez weaves together oral histories collected from early hatchery owners, catfish farmers, processors, and researchers to recount the important contributions made by Alabamians to the channel catfish industry. Perez describes …
East of Time
Häftad, 2007
290 kr
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This book is a rendezvous of history and imagination and dreams and of hopes and disenchantments. It unfolds in a succession of reminiscences that weave together a shimmering tapestry depicting a lost world. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years between the author's childhood and early …
Ancient Maya Traders of Ambergris Caye
Häftad, 2007
209 kr
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Maya maritime trade networks sites on Ambergris Caye, Belize. Archaeologists are unsure exactly when the Maya inhabited the coastal areas of Belize, but ample evidence exists to support an extensive maritime trade network along the coast by A.D. 600. This volume focuses on the maritime trade …
Song of the Tides
A Novel
Av Tom Joseph
Häftad, 2008
348 kr
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This is the Calusa's historic rejection of 16th-century Spanish occupiers.Beginning with their battle against the forces of Ponce de Leon, the Calusa Indians of southwest Florida entered a dark period of European invasion and native resistance, which changed the nature and course of life on the …
Gone to the Swamp
Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
Häftad, 2008
350 kr
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In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and softwood resources, and the beauty and solitude of the wild - but also rich in varmints big and little, including some human ones, and the …
Packhorseman
Häftad, 2009
282 kr
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In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands, while dear to his heart, were in steep economic decline …
Very Worst Road
Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847
Häftad, 2009
209 kr
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The Very Worst Road was originally published by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission in 1998. ""The Very Worst Road"" contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the 'Old Federal Road'. More of a network of paths than a single road, it ran from …
Nancy Batson Crews
Häftad, 2009
290 kr
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This is the story of an uncommon woman - high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, businesswoman - who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first began to believe they could live full lives and demanded to do so. …
Spirit Wind
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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When the mighty wind blows through the swamps of southern Louisiana, it changes not only the land, but the inhabitants as well. Just such a wind brought a lone infant into the care of the Chitimacha Indians deep in the Atchafalaya swamp. Raised by the tribal holy man, Storm Rider grows to …
Constant Circle
H.L. Mencken and His Friends
Häftad, 2003
351 kr
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Recognized until his death in 1956 as the outstanding literary critic of his generation, H. L. Mencken also excelled as a journalist, editor, and author. Characterized as the enfant terrible of American letters, he was famous for his vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy and bigotry he saw in much of …
Double Vision
A Novel
Häftad, 2007
251 kr
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A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as the result of an illness, is asked to review a biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer and his longtime friend. Reflecting on their relationship, Garrett conceives of a character - not unlike himself - a writer in his …
