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  • Oklahoma
    Gibson M. Arrell
    For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner StateThe drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history covering prehistory, Spanish and French exploration, the removal of Indian tribes to what the federal government called Indian Territory, and the modern period of state politics and economic development. Gibson informs his readers with refr...
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    35,09 €

  • The Chickasaws
    Arrell M. Gibson
    For 350 years the Chickasaws-one of the Five Civilized Tribes-made a sustained effort to preserve their tribal institutions and independence in the face of increasing encroachments by white men. This is the first book-length account of their valiant-but doomed-struggle.Against an ethnohistorical background, the author relates the story of the Chickasaws from their first recorde...
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    30,65 €

  • The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies
    Arre Gibson / Arrell M. Gibson / Arrell MGibson
    'An especially worthwhile contribution to western cultural history. . . . The best introduction available to the early years of the artistic-literary colonies in Santa Fe and Taos.'Pacific HistorianDuring the first half of this century, Santa Fe and Taos became havens for artistic émigrés fleeing America’s machine-age culture. The elements of the Southwest scorned by an urban-i...
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    30,77 €

  • Wilderness Bonanza
    Arrell M. Gibson / Arrell MGibson
    Within the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma experienced boom and bust. Comprising approximately 1,200 square miles, this area was once the world’s leading producer of zinc and lead ores. With Joplin, Missouri, as its financial, distribution, supply, and wholesale ...
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    30,56 €

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain
    Arrell M. Gibson
    The last Thursday in January, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, one of New Mexico’s mos...
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    30,77 €