12 resultat (0,17176 sekunder)

Visa alla filter

Märke

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nollställ filter

Produkter
Från
Butiker

The Grant That Maxwell Bought - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

The Grant That Maxwell Bought - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

The Maxwell Land Grant was an immense parcel of land in New Mexico and Colorado with a history that began when the area was a colony of Spain and ended only in the twentieth century. In this volume, published originally in an edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, F. Stanley (Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola) takes on the task of telling the complex story. In his foreword, Stanley says: \Look in vain for another section of land in the nation that produced so much comment from the press..

SEK 881.00
1

Clay Allison - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

Clay Allison - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

Most writers are impressed by three things in the life of Clay Allison: That he had a tooth pulling bout with a dentist; that he rode the streets of Canadian, Texas, clothed only in a gun belt; and that he went back to Tennessee to marry his childhood sweetheart. Perhaps none of these incidents are hardly capable of exciting the imagination of the intelligent reader, but they do tend to set up a curiosity about this famous Western character. Eleven years of research and thirty thousand miles of travel..

SEK 611.00
1

Desperados of New Mexico - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

Desperados of New Mexico - Bok av F Stanley - Häftad

Desperados of frontier days in the United States command a certain amount of attraction. The frontier desperado was a rugged individualist stamped and marked not by environment but by circumstance. Some of the seventeen men in this book have been pushed off the pages of their day by Billy the Kid, Clay Allison and Dave Rudabaugh. But \badmen\ they all were-some with colorful lives that more often than not came to abrupt and inglorious ends. So here they are, in addition to the three mentioned above:..

SEK 420.00
1

The French Comanche - Bok av Stanley T. Noyes - Inbunden

The French Comanche - Bok av Stanley T. Noyes - Inbunden

Arsène, the young son of the governor of French Louisiana, disappears in a blizzard on a trading trip in Comanche territory in 1789. For seven years, Jean-Pierre, the boy's tutor and guardian at the time of his disappearance, searches for him on trading trips into comanchería. At last he finds him, only to discover that he has become a Comanche warrior now known as Amabate (The One Without A Head). Amabate returns to Fort St. Jean Baptiste de Natchitoches, Louisiana Territory, for a reunion with..

SEK 706.00
1

Los Comanches - The Horse People, 1751-1845 - Bok av Stanley T Noyes - Häftad

Los Comanches - The Horse People, 1751-1845 - Bok av Stanley T Noyes - Häftad

The Comanche Indians dominated the Southern Plains of America from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. No plains people was more feared or admired for its mastery of warfare and life in a harsh, arid environment. Euro- and Native Americans alike anxiously dreaded the ferocity of Comanche enmity yet avidly sought the uncertainty of Comanche friendship. In this richly textured history, the author recounts the relations of Comanches to Spanish, French, Mexican, American, and Native American..

SEK 421.00
1

Cowboy in the Roundhouse - Bok av Bruce King - Häftad

Cowboy in the Roundhouse - Bok av Bruce King - Häftad

Bruce King towered over the political landscape of New Mexico in the last half of the twentieth century. Born the son of a homesteader in the tiny Santa Fe County farm-and-ranch community of Stanley, King decided in seventh grade to be governor of New Mexico. The story of how he accomplished that goal-three times!-plays out against the tremendous transformations occurring in the society, culture, politics, and business of New Mexico since World War II. When King won his first Santa Fe County Commission..

SEK 351.00
1