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  • Miles City
    Bill O’Neal
    During its heyday as a cattle town, Miles City called itself the 'Cow Capital of the World.' Later, after adjacent Fort Keogh was converted to an army remount depot, Miles City proudly shared its identity: 'This is Uncle Sam’s horse ranch. The employees are all civilians, and the wranglers are cowpunchers and expert riders.' Later still, a wild method of gathering and selling h...
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    27,83 €

  • John S. 'Rip' Ford
    Bill O’Neal
    Rip Ford was a bold, fearless combat leader, an expert pistoleer, and a master tactician who led hard-hitting cavalry charges against foes with far greater numbers. Ford was a ferocious warrior against the enemies of his beloved Texas, and from his first arrival in the Lone Star Republic, he volunteered eagerly for militia companies. During the Mexican War, he battled his way t...
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    29,89 €

  • The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
    Bill O’Neal / Tommie Ritter Smith
    When it comes to music, Texas has a rich history, but especially in the world of country music. The genre was born out of the trials and tribulations of the working man and includes a number of influences that include the blues, Southern gospel, folk music, western and more. Many of the biggest names in the genre have hailed from the Lone Star State including the likes of Willi...
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    23,04 €

  • Billy and Olive Dixon
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    Billy Dixon triggered the most celebrated shot in the history of the West at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. A few months later, while serving as an army scout, Billy earned a Medal of Honor during an even more desperate engagement, as one of six men battling for their lives against a band of 125 warriors at the Buffalo Wallow Fight. Both of these actions took place in the T...
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    21,78 €

  • The Pacific Coast League 1903-1988
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    The Pacific Coast League is one of the oldest baseball leagues and has a rich and colorful history. Bill O’Neal’s exhaustive research brings back forgotten players and moments in history. The list of players that came up through the ranks of the Pacific League and found fame in the majors reads like a who’s who in baseball. Joe DiMaggio. Ted Williams and Gaylord Perry are just ...
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    29,39 €

  • John Chisum
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    John Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in the fledgling range cattle industry, and within a few years his herds numbered in the tens of thousands. Chisum soon owned more cattle than any other individual in America, and his ...
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    22,24 €

  • Great Gunfighters of the Old West
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    In the West during the late 1800s, guns were tools-as good or as bad as the men who used them. Buffalo hunters used guns to earn their living. Many Westerners hunted wild game to feed themselves and their families. Outlaws used their guns for evil reasons-to rob banks and trains, and to murder people. But lawmen used their guns to stop outlaws. The struggle between lawmen and o...
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    14,45 €

  • Sam Houston
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    Sam Houston is a Texas icon. General Houston signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on his 43rd birthday, and six weeks later he led the Texas Army to a spectacular victory at San Jacinto. 'Old Sam Jacinto' twice was elected president of the Republic of Texas; he served thirteen years as U.S. Senator from the State of Texas; and he won election as governor of the Lone Sta...
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    16,26 €

  • Lampasas 1855-1895
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During summer 'watering seasons,' hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to 'take the waters' at Lampasas Springs. Most of the summer visitors camped for weeks in shad...
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    23,35 €

  • A School District’s Journey to Excellence
    Bill McNeal / Tom Oxholm
    This resource examines how one of the nation's largest districts improved performance outcomes and achieved significant gains by integrating strategies from educational and business arenas. ...
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    47,36 €

  • Border Queen Caldwell
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    The Wild West thrived for more than two decades in Caldwell, Kansas. Throughout the 1870s Caldwell was a lawless, unincorporated village astride the storied Chisholm Trail. Located just north of the Kansas state line, the Border Queen was the first semblance of a town seen by drovers after long weeks of shoving their herds through Indian Territory. The raucous trail town offere...
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    23,33 €

  • Reel Rangers
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    For more than a century the world's most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors, and filmmakers. From "The Lone Ranger" to "Walker, Texas Ranger," from Zane Grey's "The Lone Star Ranger" to Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove," Texas Rangers have been portrayed on the silver screen, network radio, and television. John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, Cli...
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    22,02 €

  • Doris Miller-Hero of Pearl Harbor
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    Although only a cook, Doris Miller fought bravely against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor. The young African-American from Texas was one of the first sailors to earn the Navy Cross during World War II, and the first African-American. He became a hero to the country and a proud icon for the African-American community and the war effort in general. Despite his notoriety and ac...
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    9,20 €

  • Cheyenne
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    The story of the formative period of Cheyenne is, to a remarkable degree, the story of America’s last West. Founded as a railroad boomtown, Cheyenne was a raucous and violent Hell on Wheels. Rising as if by magic from an empty prairie, Cheyenne was known the 'Magic City' of the Plains. The cast of this great Western saga was colorful and imposing. Cattle barons and merchant kin...
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    27,04 €

  • The Johnson County War
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    In the early 1890s Wyoming’s northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers. The range war, riddled with lynchings, ambushes, and an invasion by Texas hired gunmen, culminated in a valiant last stand and siege involving hundreds of combatants. These explosive...
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    32,70 €

  • Sam Houston Slept Here
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    More than 250 on-site photographs illustrate this tour of homes of many of the Lone Star State’s most powerful political leaders. From the Governor’s Mansion in Austin to the Texas White House near Johnson City, from Sam Houston’s 'Wigwam' in Huntsville to the Eisenhower birthplace in Denison, almost a score of homes of Texas governors and presidents are open to the public. Two...
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    18,46 €

  • Cattlemen Vs Sheepherders
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    From the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. During five decades of irregular but vicious warfare, scores of attacks were launched by cattlemen, at least twenty-eight sheepmen and sixteen cowboys were killed, and more than 53,000 sheep were shot, clubbed, kni...
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    20,10 €

  • Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie
    Bill Neal
    This delightful cookbook celebrates the glories of southern baking, with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations.From his first chapter on cornmeal — with recipes for dumplings, hushpuppies, and four styles of spoonbread — to his delicious array of desserts — including persimmon pudding, l...
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    42,84 €

  • Captain Harry Wheeler, Arizona Lawman
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    Captain Harry Wheeler was a Captain of the Arizona Rangers, Sheriff of Cochise County, Cavalry sergeant and World War I army captain. Intensely dedicated to duty and service, Harry Wheeler carved out a notable career as a Western lawman and soldier. His turbulent life was punctuated with fatal shootouts and personal tragedy. After Wheeler’s beloved Ranger company was discontin...
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    25,42 €

  • The Sons of the Pioneers
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal / Fred Goodwin
    'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' and 'Cool Water' are only a couple of the hundreds of songs created by the Sons of the Pioneers, the most famous singing group in the history of Western music. Charter members Roy Rogers (Len Slye), Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, and brothers Hugh and Karl Farr (two gifted instrumentalists from Texas) developed a unique style of vocal control and harmony that be...
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    29,08 €

  • Long Before the Pilgrims/Anos Antes de Los Peregrinos
    Bill O'Neal / Lynn O'Neal Martinez / Bill O’Neal / Lynn O’Neal Martinez
    Long before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621, a similar feast of thanks was shared in the New World. In the 1500s, Mexican conquistador Juan de Oñate led an expedition north of the Rio Grande into an area now known as Texas. To celebrate his successful journey, he and his colonists joined Native Americans in a feast on April 30, 1598-the First Thanksgivi...
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    11,49 €

  • The Bloody Legacy of Pink Higgins
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, rancher, and deadly shootist who killed more adversaries than did such noted gunfighters as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Bat Masterson. Pink battled Comanches and rustlers, and led a faction in the murderous Horrell-Higgins feud of Lamp...
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    17,69 €

  • Historic Ranches of the Old West
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    A unique volume of information and colorful anecdotes about historic ranches, located throughout the American West. In all, almost sixty ranches are profiled, covering twelve states. From the King Ranch in Texas, to the Hash Knife in Arizona, Bill O’Neal tells the history, color and lore of these legendary ranches. O’Neal is a noted Western historian who has written seventeen ...
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    21,88 €

  • Bill Neal’s Southern Cooking
    Bill Neal
    Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingred...
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    38,28 €

  • The Arizona Rangers
    Bill O'Neal / Bill O’Neal
    'The Arizona Rangers' is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O’Neal’s enthusiasm for his subject and his respect for those remarkable men who wore the five-pointed star are apparent in every word of his thoroughly researched, well written manuscript. He has accurately portrayed the story ...
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    21,94 €