Bison books 1981 (35 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book may have light/sometimes moderate wear and tear due to storage and age. May have writing or old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. None of the defects detrac…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Book may have light/sometimes moderate wear and tear due to storage and age. May have writing or old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. None of the defects detract from the readability! From a non-sm…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Book may have light/sometimes moderate wear and tear due to storage and age. May have writing or old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. None of the defects detract from the readability! From a non-sm…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st UK edition. 1st UK edition. 31cm deep by 24.5cm. VG h/c in like pictorial DJ. 192 pages, Colour, b/w pics t/out, artwork, maps, diagrams. North America's redwoods are the larest living objects on earth, can reach 3500 years, 300 feet and 6000 tons, provide timber for 22…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter.' So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe. In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold India…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Mee…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, t…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This is the compelling narrative of the wife of an Indian trader in the desert wilderness of the Navajos before World War I. No other book about life at such trading posts equals its revealing portrayal of the land and the people, and its implication of the racial differences still confro…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Deadwood, South Dakota, has been a source of American legend for over one hundred years. European exploration, Indian wars, gold booms and busts, presidential visits, frontier shootouts, and the natural beauty of the surrounding Black Hills have all captured the imagination of Americans an…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her sprightly account of frontier life begins. As a western army wife Frances Roe found herself…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Known by the Indians as 'Broken Hand,' Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he thenshepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was offi…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, 'Cogewea' (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowb…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue…