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  • Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold fever, and the lucky few who saw the ...
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    14,12 €

  • Rattlesnakes
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures-rattlesnakes-their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. Here are descriptions of actual fights to the death between rattlesnakes and other animals and accounts of the strange experiences human beings have had w...
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    14,83 €

  • I’ll Tell You a Tale
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    I’ll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie’s best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead has contributed 32 original line drawings to illustrate the stories. These tales...
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    14,13 €

  • Cow People
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don’t-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as hot plains under a pale Texan sk...
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    14,39 €

  • The Longhorns
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is the bedrock on which the history of the cow country of America is founded. J. Frank Dobie was a tale spinner who appreciated th...
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    13,87 €

  • Coronado’s Children
    J. Frank Dobie / JFrank Dobie
    Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. 'These people,' Dobie writes in his intro...
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    14,26 €