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Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past
William Cronon · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past |
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
James Oakes · W W Norton
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war. Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy... |
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Wesselhoeft: Traded to the Enemy
Shirley Anderson Wesselhoeft · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
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Wesselhoeft is the story of an innocent six-year-old American boy who was caught up in the events of World War II. No longer playing on the beach in Chicago, going to school and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, he and his parents were suddenly taken away to a desolate internment camp... |
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Myths and Mysteries of the Old West (Myths and Mysteries Series)
Michael Rutter · TwoDot; 1st edition
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles, telling what really happened. Truth... |
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Polio: An American Story
David M. Oshinsky
Format: Hardcover
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky... |
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Defying Hitler : a memoir
Sebastian Haffner · Farrar
Pages: 309
Format: Book
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The author's memoir, written in 1939, of the rise of Nazism in his native Germany from 1907 to 1933, which examines the influence of such groups as the Free Corps and the Hitler Youth on the German people, and includes predictions about his nation's fate. |
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San Antonio legacy : folklore and legends of a diverse people
Donald E Everett · Maverick Pub. Co.
Pages: 135
Format: Print book
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Stories of old San Antonio: some true, others not-so, from a dozen diverse cultures. All are told in the words of those who watched these things or participated or who talked with ones who did--or who just made them up for the entertainment of those who would come later. |
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The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861
Glen Sample Ely · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 428
Format: Print book
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This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory... |
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A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
Ellen Sue Turner · Gulf Co.
Pages: 396
Format: Book
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A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas. |
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