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  • Pintsized Pioneers at Play
    Harriet Kocher Lewis / Preston Lewis
    Discover the Wild Side of Frontier Childhood!      Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger explores the forgotten world of how kids lived, laughed-and sometimes limped-through their childhood years in the Old West.      While their parents settled the land, these pintsized pioneers explored it, creating their own adventures with homemade toys, daring games,...
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    25,15 €

  • Too Much the Lion
    Preston Lewis
    The Soldiers Did the Fighting; the Generals, the InfightingIn the waning months of the American Civil War, a delusional Confederate commander makes a desperate attempt to change the course of the South’s dwindling hopes by invading middle Tennessee. The tragic result of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood’s misplaced hubris devastates his Army of Tennessee and alters the lives of the citiz...
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    41,61 €

  • Cotton-Picking Folks
    Preston Lewis
    Children of the Cotton PatchCotton-like the families that produced it-is today undervalued for its contribution to Texas’s wealth and heritage, but for the region’s first century as a colony, a nation and then a state, the fluffy commodity carried the Lone Star economy bale by bale toward prosperity. In Cotton-Picking Folks, award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Presto...
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    21,33 €

  • Pintsized Pioneers
    Harriet Kocher Lewis / Preston Lewis
    Children tread lightly through the pages of Old West history. Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time gives frontier children their due for all the work they did to assist their families. Even at early ages, the youngsters helped families make ends meet and handled chores that today seem unbelievable. Written for today’s young adults, Pintsized Pioneers off...
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    22,69 €

  • Cat Tales of the Old West
    Preston Lewis
    The Cat-astrophic West: No animal in the Old West was more revered nor more reviled than the domestic cat. Sought for their rodent control, but despised for their nocturnal noisemaking, cats lived a schizophrenic existence on the American frontier.In Cat Tales of the Old West, Spur Award-winning author Preston Lewis brings pioneer pussycats into the light of modern America wi...
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    26,84 €

  • Rio Hondo
    Preston Lewis
    From Spur Award-winning Author Lewis Preston, the final riveting novel in the Three Rivers series!Wes Bracken is a rancher caught in the crossfire of the Lincoln County War, a bloody feud that pitted rival factions of merchants and cattle barons against each other in 1870s New Mexico. His life is threatened by his brother-in-law, who blames him for his sister’s death, by a powe...
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    19,10 €

  • Rio Bonito
    Preston Lewis
    Wes Bracken is a man caught in the crossfire of a bloody war. In Rio Bonito, the second book in Preston Lewis’s award-winning Three Rivers Trilogy, he faces enemies on both sides of the law in the wild New Mexico Territory. He refuses to join either of the feuding factions that are tearing Lincoln County apart, but that only makes him a target for both.Bracken tries to do what’...
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    16,99 €

  • Rio Ruidoso
    Preston Lewis
    In Rio Ruidoso, award-winning author Preston Lewis masterfully blends fact and fiction to transport readers to the tumultuous years preceding the infamous Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory. Through the eyes of Wes Bracken, a newcomer to the region with dreams of starting a horse ranch with his troubled brother, we witness the corruption, racism, and violence that plagu...
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    17,15 €

  • Call of the Wilde
    Preston Lewis
    Wild west hijinks continue in the eighth installment of the hysterical and historical adventures of an unlikely hero.H.H. Lomax once again finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when, wrongfully accused of robbing a bank, he’s arrested and jailed in a town vying for a stop on the approaching Texas & Pacific Railroad.When local officials can’t afford to pay for a tri...
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    21,65 €

  • Outlaw West of the Pecos
    Preston Lewis
    FAME AND FORTUNE IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS... BUT POOR DECISIONS AND A TOUCH OF BAD LUCK ALWAYS STAND IN THE WAY.Accused of cheating at cards on a Southern Pacific passenger train in far West Texas, H.H. Lomax is kicked off the train and finds himself at the mercy of the unpredictable justice of Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself 'Law West of the Pecos.' After being...
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    18,61 €

  • Blanca Is My Name
    Preston Lewis
    Blanca’s white fur marks her as different. In a sea of dark brown hides, she always stands out, and other young buffalo treat her cruelly because of it. Even her one trusted friend, Battus, disappears from her life. Blanca just wants to be normal-to love and be loved. But as settlers take over Texas and slaughter whole herds of buffalo, her destiny begins to unfold. The Comanch...
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    14,81 €

  • North To Alaska
    Preston Lewis
    WEALTH AND FAME IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS…HIS OWN BAD LUCK IS WHAT STANDS IN HIS WAY.Swindled out of a mining fortune in Colorado and blamed for an ensuing murder, H.H. Lomax must finally face up to his past two decades in Skagway, Alaska. Along the way, he encounters legendary madam Mattie Silks, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, novelist Jack London, and a talking dog....
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    23,71 €

  • The Gulag P-Pa Diaries
    Preston Lewis
    As new empty-nesters Harriet and Preston next looked forward to becoming grandparents. Their journey to assuming the names of Mema and P-Pa, however, took a tragic and unexpected turn.The Gulag P-Pa Diaries tells a bittersweet story of anticipation, loss and sorrow counterbalanced with hope, faith and a butterfly on the path to grandparenthood.Told with poignancy and humor, the...
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    16,27 €

  • First Herd To Abilene
    Preston Lewis
    HISTORICALLY SOUND AND HILARIOUSLY FUNNY!H.H. Lomax meets Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield, Missouri, and is responsible for Hickok’s legendary gunfight with Davis Tutt. Fearing Hickok will hold a grudge, Lomax escapes Springfield and agrees to promote Joseph G. McCoy’s dream of building Abilene into a cattle town, ultimately leading the first herd to Abilene from Texas.Along th...
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    25,84 €

  • History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
    Lewis Preston Summers
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    25,36 €

  • Just Call Me Uncle Sam
    Preston Lewis
    Unique among animals that ever trod across Texas, Uncle Sam was a camel born at sea. Arriving in Texas in 1856 as part of the U.S. Army’s experimental Camel Corps, Uncle Sam must adapt to the challenges of a new land and the moods of his temperamental mule friend, Stormy. Together they explore Texas until their ambitions send them on different paths that ultimately converge in ...
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    18,80 €

  • Bluster’s Last Stand
    Preston Lewis
    Events on the Little Bighorn might have turned out better for George Armstrong Custer had he listened to H.H. Lomax rather than trying to kill him. To save his own skin—and scalp, Lomax must outwit Custer and his troopers as well as face the horde of Sioux warriors swarming Last Stand Hill.At least that is how Lomax tells the story in his inimitable and humorous romp across Old...
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    21,46 €

  • Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral
    Preston Lewis
    If H.H. Lomax is to be believed, his toothache started the chain of events leading to the most infamous gunfight in all of the Old West. On top of that, he claims to have fired the first shot in the Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral. Whether rustling cats or tending bar, Lomax had a talent for making more enemies than friends. By the time of the shootout everyone—from the Earps to the ...
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    21,53 €

  • The Fleecing of Fort Griffin
    Preston Lewis
    When the young Englishman Baron Jerome Manchester Paget arrives in 1878 Fort Griffin with a satchel full of money to start a buffalo ranch and find a bride, a horde of colorful swindlers from throughout Texas arrive to help him. With a passel of oddball characters and more twists and turns than a stagecoach trail, 'The Fleecing of Fort Griffin' pits the baron against crooked g...
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    16,35 €

  • The Redemption of Jesse James
    Preston Lewis
    H. H. Lomax never intended to accompany Jesse James on his first bank robbery, but that was less dangerous than staying with Ma James and her frying pan. By then, though, young Lomax had survived everything Union soldiers and Confederate partisans could throw at him and his family during the Civil War in northwest Arkansas. With his sixth sense-humor-the resourceful Lomax recou...
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    16,22 €

  • The Demise of Billy the Kid
    Preston Lewis
    H.H. Lomax never claimed to have won the West, but he sure made it fun through his intriguing memoirs of offbeat encounters with many of the frontier’s most enduring heroes and scoundrels. Starting with Billy the Kid, Lomax knocks some of the Old West’s biggest legends out of the saddle with both his wit and his wits, providing a hilarious romp over new trails through familiar...
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    16,12 €

  • History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786; Washington County, 1777-1870
    Lewis Preston Summers
    This is the definitive history of Southwest Virginia, the area originally comprising Botetourt, Fincastle, and Washington counties and now embracing nineteen present-day counties of Virginia and seventeen of West Virginia, as well. parts of other counties in these states. It contains an impressive amount of historical and genealogical data, which traces the Southwest Virginia c...
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    77,55 €

  • Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. One Volume in Two Parts. Part 2
    Lewis Preston Summers
    Although Mr. Summers’ genealogical masterpiece covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, the work focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier,, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, M...
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    89,48 €

  • Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. One Volume in Two Parts. Part 1
    Lewis Preston Summers
    Although Mr. Summers’ genealogical masterpiece covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, the work focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier,, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, M...
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    88,61 €

  • They Call Me Old Blue
    Preston Lewis
    Old Blue, Texas’ most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a mysterious old manuscript was discovered by Preston Lewis. Now Mr. Lewis shares the manuscript, Blue’s 'autobiography,' with readers for the first time.In this story, we learn that a few great specimens like Old Blue built the cattle empire. As ...
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    18,71 €