Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • The Hoggs of Texas

    Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906

    Edición de Virginia Bernhard ...
    In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinarily families and tells their story. In their own words, which are published here for the first time.Rich in details, the more than four hundred letters in this volume begin in 1887 in 1906, following the family through the hurly ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930

    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.E. Bradford Burns ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A Tale of Two Colonies

    What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?

    In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ, as do modern scholars’ theories.Meanwhile, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda, ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Ima Hogg

    The Governor's Daughter

    Series Libro 20 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daughters Ima and Ura, but that is only half-true: there never was a Ura. Ima had three brothers, Will, Mike, and Tom. Ima Hogg, who was born in 1882 and died in 1975 at age 93, became a legend in her own right, and this book is her story. It is also the story of the extraordinary bond between a father and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Smell of War

    Three Americans in the Trenches of World War I

    Series Libro 14 - C. A. Brannen Series
    Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Every Sun That Rises

    Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake

    Edición de Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad ...
    “What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting camp operator, guide, commercial hunter, trapper, raftsman, moonshiner, oil field worker, water well ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Dukes of Duval County

    The Parr Family and Texas Politics

    The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the Parr political machine peaked during the 1948 senatorial primary, when election officials found the infamous Ballot Box 13 six days after ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Woodward County

    de Ian D. Swart ...
    Series series Images of America
    The first settlement in what would become Woodward County was Camp Supply, a military post that had been established in 1868 during the Indian Wars on the American frontier. In 1887, a provisioning point for the post on the Southern Kansas Railway was created and named Woodward. It was not until six years later that the area known as the Cherokee Outlet would be opened to nonnative settlement. At ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

    On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older brother, who had learned of the younger man’s capture three weeks earlier at Confederate Fort ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Witches

    Salem, 1692

    de Stacy Schiff ...
    **The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet**It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

    Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one—Blanche Caldwell Barrow—lived beyond early adulthood and only Blanche left behind a written account of their escapades. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Fetch the Devil

    The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America

    In 1938, Hazel Frome, the wife of a powerful executive at Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturer, set out on a cross-country motor trip with her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Nancy. When their car broke down in El Paso, Texas, they made the most of being stranded by staying at a posh hotel and crossing the border to Juarez for shopping, dining, and drinking. A week later, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD