Author: Jacobus Adriaan Du Pisani
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9036100909
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: James C. Bonner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Published in 1971, Georgia's Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state's least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was a large part of Georgia's most rugged frontier. James C. Bonner examines how life in this isolated region was complicated by the presence of Native Americans, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves. He details how the discovery of gold in the Villa Rica area resulted in drunkenness and violence, but also laid the foundations of mining technology that were later used in Colorado and California. The region remained isolated until after the Civil War, when a rail line was constructed to stimulate cotton cultivation. With the development of the railway, Carroll County's frontier traditions waned in the early twentieth century.

Author: Ian C. Hartman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996583787
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Alistair MacLean
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007289456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317455967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched this book in the late 1930s, visiting and speaking with Cheyenne experts in Norman, Oklahoma. This was the first of Fast's many books to gain a wide popular audience; it was eventually made by John Ford into the classic film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).

Author: Joel R. Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498555268
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of science fiction in literature and film/television. It then presents the development of the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, and discusses how their progression through time has illustrated key IR theories and concepts. As a bonus, it compares the two franchises to another recent science fiction franchise used to teach IR (Battlestar Galactica).

Author: Clayton W. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585440719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas. It is an arid land, a land that in the last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it. Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges. They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas' last frontier. The newcomers--cattlemen and sheepmen, individuals and corporations--included sturdy, law-abiding, industrious citizens, such as O.W. Williams, a renowned surveyor, jurist, and historian with a law degree from Harvard; Mexicans, both poor laborers and well-to-do entrepreneurs; kindly German merchants; fighting Irishmen; and fearless Anglo cowboys. There were also the gunslingers, including Sheriff A.J. Royal, who terrorized the citizenry, even after Texas Rangers had arrived, until he was mysteriously shot to death one afternoon, possibly by one of the town's leading men. The most detailed and thorough account available of the history of far West Texas, this tale is colored with human interest and drama. It will prove invaluable to scholars and richly rewarding to all those interested in the history of Texas and of the West.

Author: Arthur Thurlon Cunynghame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: V. V. Masterson
Publisher: University of Missouri
ISBN: 9780826206688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Governor (1877-1880 : Frere)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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