The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West.James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the... View More...
As new except for slight age tanning to pages. No dust jacket. Revised edition without subtitle. Green cloth with yellow-green lettering. A vintage handbook for World War II Army wives to deal with various government agencies to make sure they receive appropriate benefits, pensions, insurance, etc. Also includes information on how to draft a will, women's property rights, tax exemptions, dealing with an undertaker, relief organizations, etiquette (from calling cards to hats and gloves), etc. 5.25x7.75x.75". 239 pages. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
As new- gift quality! 24 pages of factual information on Blackbeard, Stede Connet, "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane, Mary Read ann Anne Bonny illustrated with fine art and photos of artifacts on high quality, glossy paper. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that-such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding-people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominati... View More...
Tight, faint tanning to exterior page edges only, clean, tiny curl to back cover corner. 216 indexed, annotated pages with maps. "a fresh perspective to re-examine white society in the American south before the Civil War?a broadly based and argued explanation of the emergence of a Southern identity from a loosely structured, often contrasting and lightly governed society..." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Tight, bright, clean, faint curl. A vintage copy of Colonial Williamsburg's guidebook. 79 illustrated pages, 7-5/8x5-1/4" (19.4x13.3cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Tight, bright, clean interior, faintest age soil to exterior. Slight crease to upper right front cover. 150 indexed pages. Color photos and sketches. American Indian Dolls. View More...
A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding--a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed ... View More...
"Deadly Fighting Skills of the World "is the most in-depth study yet of how trained soldiers kill and wound, and a complete insight into how human beings can be turned into deadly fighting machines. These skills can be primitive as well as ultramodern. Far Eastern elite troops train in the historic martial arts: the South Korean Tiger Division is expert in the lethal skills of punching and kicking. Western special forces can fight with their hands, using them to defeat heavily armed assailants, and can kill without a sound. They can improvise weapons from materials at hand. But they also have ... View More...
For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect. When Romeo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he believed that his assignment was to help two warring parties achieve the peace they both wanted. Instead, he was exposed to the most barbarous and chaotic display of civil war and genocide in the past decade, observing in just one hundred days the ... View More...
Presenting a memoir, an account by a common soldier, this book is meant as a tribute to the Americans who served in a conflict - the battle for Outpost Harry. His letters from the front, most of them to his sister, Ethel, provide observations of the privations, the boredom, and the devastation of infantry life. View More...
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India's policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the... View More...
Tight, yellowed, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, square. Edges of tan soft paper cover have folded causing a 1/4" rip at bottom of spine hinge. 289 pages. Doctoral Thesis with narratives, data lists and bibliography on New England arms manufacturers. "This study was made during World War II and as a result certain papers, most notably the Colt Collection at the CHS, were closed. Thus the work cannot be considered definitive. Nevertheless, it is a first-class scholarly study, with full apparatus. It includes numerous charts and graphs of the economics of arms manufacturing. The sma... View More...
As new - gift quality! 341 indexed, annotated pages. "a disturbing account of what many consider the "next Mafia"?Latino crime gangs...these gangs operate an international network, consider violence a routine matter, and defy U.S. law enforcement...Focusing on the Los Angeles?based Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street Gang, and the Chicago-based Latin Kings" NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Shabano -- the name for the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live -- recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologists Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tribe in the endangered rain forest. Shabano dramatically documents the daily life and mysterious rituals of a disappearing people. View More...
