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  • Dreamers of the American Dream
    Stewart H Holbrook
    Visionaries, crackpots, fanatics, dreamers, suffragettes, temperanceworkers, be-sloganned devotees of betterment in marriage,religion, sex, alcohol, labor relations, penal codes & the treatmentof mental illness rub shoulders in a book which encompasses theAmerican dream of Utopia, sobriety & the pursuit of happiness.The shouting & axe-swinging reformer, Carrie Nation, splintere...
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    20,27 €

  • The Rocky Mountain Revolution
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
    Harry Orchard, professional killer, rolled up a record in the days when the mine owners and the labor unions waged what was virtually civil war. That Orchard outlived the Western Federation of Miners and that he held one of the top records for length of terms a life prisoner-all this is unimportant compared to the story of his role as hatchet man for the top guys who managed to...
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    18,21 €

  • James J. Hill
    Stewart Holbrook
    James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder," (1838-1916) was a Canadian-American railroad executive with the Great Northern Railway, responsible for building railways across the northern US. Part visionary, part robber baron, part buccaneer, Stewart Holbrook brings his story to life, in brief, as well as the lives of the other movers and shakers in the railway scene of the times. ...
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    12,52 €

  • Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People
    Stewart Holbrook
    From the brick-paved streets of Boston and New England, to the deserts of Arizona, to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, beloved author and columnist Stewart Holbrook takes his readers down uncharted paths in a series of delightful pieces. Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People is pure Americana that delves into the myths of unhackneyed and motley people, and the p...
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    14,05 €

  • The Columbia
    Stewart H Holbrook
    THE COLUMBIA commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and source of irrigation. Here is the story of its explorers who came by boat and by foot: the bickering and battles between Hudson's Bay Company and Astor's fur trappers, the settlers that turned politicians to keep the Oregon Territory in the U.S. an...
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    15,25 €

  • Far Corner
    Stewart H Holbrook
    Far Corner is the saga of a latter-day pioneer who invaded the Pacific Northwest wearing the only derby hat those parts had ever seen. Athor Stewart H.Holbrook bought the hat in Boston just before he boarded the steam-cars to seek fame and fotune amidst the booms and busts of the roaring '20s. On his journey he discovered there were still people who liked fried elk for brea...
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    15,53 €

  • Holy Old Mackinaw
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
    The American lumberjack at work and at play, from Main to Oregon - here is his rough and lusty story. In these modern days, timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go  to school in busses, but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real pioneer, who ranged through the forests of many states, steel calks in his boots, an ax in his fist, a pl...
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    15,60 €

  • Down on the Farm - A Picture Treasury of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
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    32,71 €

  • Machines Of Plenty - Pioneering In American Agriculture
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
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    41,59 €

  • The Age of the Moguls
    Stewart Holbrook
    Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Drew, Fisk, Harriman, Du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, Insull, Gould, Frick, Schwab, Swift, Guggenheim, Hearst- these are only a few of the foundation giants that have changed the face of America ...
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    91,44 €

  • Lost Men Of American History
    Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    36,43 €