university of oklahoma press mär 2010 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lively biography of Sam Houston's illustrious son.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear's Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren't glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day. The product of iron-clad research, this newest 'Deadly Dozen' delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something different. Together the' Deadly Dozen' volumes constitute a Who's Who of western outlaws and prove that there's more to the Wild West than Jesse James.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of House Made of Dawn (1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.