Book Description
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803297029
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1917
Category : History
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Author : Kristine Rolofson
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 0373185502
Author : Molly Ivins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812973070
The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians–the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless–drawn from more than twenty years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground). Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a wild ride through two decades of political life, from Ronald Reagan, through Big George and Bill Clinton, to our current top dog, known to Ivins readers simply as Dubya. But those are just a few of the political animals who are honored and skewered for our amusement. Ivins also writes hilariously, perceptively, and at times witheringly of John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, H. Ross Perot, Tom DeLay, Ann Richards, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and the current governor of Texas, who is known as Rick “Goodhair” Perry. Following close on the heels of her phenomenally successful Bushwhacked and containing an up-to-the-minute Introduction for the campaign season, Who Let the Dogs In? is political writing at its best.
Author : Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
The story is set in the early stages of the Texas revolution. Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned begin the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the others of Santa Anna's plan to take his army north. Along the way they will have encounters with the Mexican army, the Native Americans and the Texan cowboys…
Author : James Conaway
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780394491691
The millionaires & mavericks, the politicos & lawyers, the corporation men, the invisible heirs, & the rising stars of the Texas establishment whose power & influence extend far beyond the borders of America's nation-within- a-Nation.
Author : William Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Conveyancing
ISBN :
Author : Henry Stuart Foote
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2022-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1496231333
Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of the Great Plains.
Author : Meredith Mason Brown
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0253008441
Objects that make the past feel real, from a stone axe head to a piece of John Brown’s scaffold—includes photos. History isn’t just about abstract “isms”—it’s the story of real events that happened to real people. In Touching America’s History, Meredith Mason Brown uses a collection of such objects, drawing from his own family’s heirlooms, to summon up major developments in America’s history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head, probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel Dwight Eisenhower was reading while waiting for the weather to clear so the Normandy Invasion could begin, to a piece of a toilet bowl found in the bombed-out wreckage of Hitler’s home in 1945. Among the other historically evocative items are a Kentucky rifle carried by Col. John Floyd, killed by Indians in 1783; a letter from George Washington explaining why he will not be able to attend the Constitutional Convention; shavings from the scaffold on which John Brown was hanged; a pistol belonging to Gen. William Preston, in whose arms Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston bled to death after being shot at the Battle of Shiloh; and the records of a court-martial for the killing by an American officer of a Filipino captive during the Philippine War. Together, these objects call to mind nothing less than the birth, growth, and shaping of what is now America. “Clearly written, buttressed by maps and portraits, Brown's book regales while showing the objectivity and nuance of a historian.”—Library Journal “A whole new way of doing history…a novel form of story-telling.”—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation