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  • Chief Shabbona - Bear Of Kankanee
    Larry W Jones
    Shabbona (Sha-bon-ney) (1775-1859) was an Ottawa tribe member, born on the Kankakee River, who became a chief within the Potawatomi tribe in Illinois. His name means 'indomitable', 'hardy', 'built like a bear.' Shabbona was a grandnephew of Pontiac, the famous Ottawa leader. He aided Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and participated in the Battle of the Thames where Tecumseh was killed ...
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    41,77 €

  • Chief Powhatan - Tidewater Titan
    Larry W Jones
    Chief Powhatan (c. 1547 - c. 1618), father of Pocahantas, was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607. He had assembled a total of about 30 tribes into the Powhatan Confederacy by the early 17th century. The confeder...
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    40,98 €

  • Cofachiqui - Paramount Princess
    Larry W Jones
    Cofachiqui (or Cofitachequi) was the name of a populous and wealthy Indian province visited by Hernando De Soto’s expedition in April 1540 through what is now South Carolina. He and his army of Catholic conquistadores and cavaliers were in their wanderings in search of gold. They also applied this name to the beautiful and intelligent young queen or princess who ruled the India...
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    40,37 €

  • Rosewood 1923 - Smoke and Sorrow
    Larry W Jones
    Rosewood Florida was originally settled in 1845 by both Black and white people. Black codes and Jim Crow laws in the years after the Civil War fostered segregation in Rosewood. A white woman, 22-year-old Fannie Taylor, claimed a black man had entered her house and assaulted her. This was never proved and her white lover was suspected to be the real culprit. However, word spread...
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    42,09 €

  • The Log Of Paul Bunyan - Master Woodsman
    Larry W Jones
    Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore. His exploits revolve around the tall tales of his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox. He originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, and was later popularized in a 1916 promotional pamphlet for the Red River Lumber Company. This book, 'The Log...
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    48,93 €

  • One Thousand And One Initial Letters
    Larry W Jones
    Owen Jones (15 February 1809 - 19 April 1874) was a world reknowned British architect and 'Lithographer To the Queen'. A versatile architect and designer, he was also one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth century. He helped pioneer the 'modern colour' theory, and his theories on flat patterning and ornament still resonate with contemporary designers tod...
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    41,67 €

  • Day Of the Double Sun - The Manhattan Project
    Larry W Jones
    The Manhattan Project was a research and development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan D...
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    41,06 €

  • Riding Along The Salt Grass Trail
    Larry W Jones
    The Salt Grass Trail Ride is the 'Daddy-Of-Em-All', started in 1952, as the kick-off event for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the biggest rodeo event inthe United States. It reenacts the trail ride of pioneer cattlemen and their herds to Houston from the rich salt grass pastures on the Texas Gulf Coast. More than 6,000 riders participate today, in many trail rides from a...
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    40,88 €

  • The Port Royal 1692 Disaster
    Larry W Jones
    The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, on 7 June. A stopped pocket watch indicated that it occurred around 11:43 AM local time. Known as the 'storehouse and treasury of the West Indies' and as 'one of the wickedest places on Earth', Port Royal was, at the time, the unofficial capital of Jamaica and one of the busiest and wealthiest ports in the Americas, as wel...
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    41,67 €

  • History Of Windsor Castle
    Larry W Jones
    Windsor Castle in Berkshire England was started by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. It has been used by the reigning monarch and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. Originally designed to project Norman dominance around the outskirts of London and oversee a strategically important part of the River Thames, Windsor Castle was built with three wards surrounding a...
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    42,01 €

  • Mask Of the Lone Ranger
    Larry W Jones
    The Lone Ranger is a masked former Texas Ranger, named John Reid, who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. Clayton Moore was the most popular Lone Ranger, along with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The Lone Ranger is the sole survivor of a group of six ambushed Texas Ranger pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew 'Butch' Cavendish. They...
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    54,02 €

  • Seven Voyages Of Sinbad
    Larry W Jones
    Seven Voyages Of Sindbad is one of the fables from the Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern stories frst told in the 14th century. The tale is about a merchant called Sinbad who lived during the third Islamic era. The stories of his seven voyages are filled with giant birds, sea monsters, whales as big as an island, and other fictional characters. The Seven Voyages Of...
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    42,40 €

  • Molly Finney - Captive Slavery Freedom
    Larry W Jones
    On May 10, 1756, sixteen year old Mary (Molly) Finney survived the 'Means Massacre' by Native Americans and was taken captive to Quebec. There she was sold as a slave to a local merchant. Molly was eventually rescued by merchant ship captain William McLellan who was acquainted with the survivors of the Means family of North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay. Read the thrilling events...
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    41,37 €

  • The Blue Lagoon Saga
    Larry W Jones
    The Blue Lagoon is the story of two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, stranded on a remote island with a beautiful lagoon. As children, they are cared for by Paddy Button, a portly sailor who drinks himself to death after two and a half years. The children flee to another part of Palm Tree Island. Over a period of five years, they grow up and fall in love. They manage to c...
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    53,31 €

  • Winnie-The-Pooh and Friends He Knew
    Larry W Jones
    The 1926 book 'Winnie-the-Pooh' by A. A. Milne is set in the Hundred Acre Wood, with short stories about the adventures of a teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and friends he knew, Christopher Robin, Piglet, the donkey Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. Milne and illustrator E. H. Shepard collaborated on the publication, with the teddy bear Shepard modelled after his son’s toy. The...
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    45,26 €

  • Baldwin - King Of Locomotives
    Larry W Jones
    The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1951. Matthias W. Baldwin, the founder, began as a jeweler, then moved to the manufacture of bookbinders’ tools and steam-powered cylinders for calico fabric printing. Baldwin’s workmanship was so excellent and his steam cylinder efficiency so great that he turned exclusively to steam...
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    41,37 €

  • Michelangelo - Renaissance Man
    Larry W Jones
    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni proved to be one of the greatest painters, sculptors, architects and poets of the Renaissance Period from the late 1400s until his death at age 88 in 1564. Commissioned by several Popes and influential Italians, Michelangelo produced a large volume of works which established his legacy for the ages. This publication, 'Michelangelo - Re...
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    42,01 €

  • Rip Van Winkle - The Sleepy Dutchman
    Larry W Jones
    While hunting, Rip Van Winkle - The Sleepy Dutchman, meets some strange little men in the Catskill Mountains. Their elixir makes him go to sleep before 1776 and he wakes up twenty years later, after the American War of Independence is over. With his rusted gun and a foot-long beard, no one recognizes him when he returns to the village. Finally, old Peter Vanderdonk realizes who...
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    39,12 €

  • Comanche Moon Of Blanco Canyon
    Larry W Jones
    The 500 ft deep Blanco Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle, in October 1871, was the site of the main skirmish of Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s campaign against the Plains Comanches, known as the Battle of Blanco Canyon. The Comanche Moon arose blood-red over Blanco Canyon. The Comanches were led by Chief Quanah Parker. This book, 'Comanche Moon Of Blanco Canyon', details the true eve...
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    42,29 €

  • Expedition Of Sieur de La Salle
    Larry W Jones
    This book 'Expedition Of Sieur de Le Salle' traces the La Salle’s complete adventures of the Caribbean, Canada, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. René-Robert Cavelier was sent by King Louis XIV to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. In 1682 he was the first European to travel the length of the Mississippi. His...
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    52,66 €

  • Chief Manuelito - NAVAJO
    Larry W Jones
    Chief Manuelito (Hastiin Chʼil Haajiní) was one of the principal headmen of the Diné Navajo people before, during and after the devastating 1864 'Long Walk' period when they were forced to walk over 300 miles across deserts from northern Arizona to the Bosque Redondo Reservation in New Mexico. Manuelito rallied his nation against the oppression of the United States military. Af...
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    39,41 €

  • Philippine History - From Magellan To Mindanao
    Larry W Jones
    'Philippine History - From Magellan To Mindanao' explores noteworthy facts regarding the past of the islands, from when Ferdinand Magellan arrived in 1521 up to August 2022. Chapters cover geography, commerce, government, conflicts and wars. Subjects covered include the discovery of the islands, Spain and Mexico’s tenure, Chinese involvement, British occupation, the uprising of...
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    45,20 €

  • Annie Oakley - Rimfire Cowgirl
    Larry W Jones
    Annie Oakley was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. She developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At 15, she won a shooting contest against experienced marksman Frank E. Butler, whom she later married in 1876. The pair joined Buffalo Bill in 1885, performing in Europe before royalty and other ...
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    37,91 €

  • Rocky Mountain Jim From Muggins Gulch
    Larry W Jones
    James Nugent, known as 'Rocky Mountain Jim' was prominent in the early history of Estes Park Colorado, in what became Rocky Mountain National Park. A handsome man, his face was disfigured on one side after being attacked and left for dead by a grizzly bear near Grand Lake Colorado. A chivalrous mountain man, desperado and guide for visitors, his character was described in the w...
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    39,41 €

  • How To Tie Knots
    Larry W Jones
    Learning how to tie knots is a very useful skill. Whether you’re boating, climbing, or scouting, these knots will often come in handy. Better to know a knot just in case you need it! Learn how to tie a square knot, sheet bend, bowline, fisherman’s knot, clove hitch and mant others. This book 'How To Tie Knots' is fully illustrated, with applications, of 116 different knots and ...
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    40,90 €

  • Calamity Jane - Woman Of the Western Plains
    Larry W Jones
    Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, Pony Express rider, stage coach driver, wild west show performer and so much more. As a contemporary of Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and other illustrious figures of the frontier plains, Calamity Jane found center stage with the noted men of the wes...
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    38,00 €

  • Buffalo Jones - Saving the Yellowstone Bison
    Larry W Jones
    Charles Jesse 'Buffalo' Jones (January 31, 1844 - October 1, 1919), was an American frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist. As a contemporary of Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill and Wild Bill Hickock, he helped shape the enduring image of the mountain man, plainsman and the cowboy west. After his years as a buffalo hunter, Buffalo Jones was instrumental in gatherin...
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    39,41 €

  • Buffalo Bill When the West Was Wild
    Larry W Jones
    William Frederick Cody, known as 'Buffalo Bill', was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War he served as a scout, and afterwards as a civilian scout, buffalo hunter and stagecoach driver. In 1872 he began his Wild West shows, traveling all over the country and Europe. This book, 'Buffalo Bi...
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    41,19 €

  • Texas Poisonous Snakes
    Larry W Jones
    More persons die from snake bite in Texas than in any other state of the nation. Every Texan should have a thorough working knowledge of the correct first aid treatment. In addition, he should learn how to prevent a snake bite. This means knowing where to expect poisonous snakes, how to avoid them, and how to identify on sight the venomous kinds. Sixteen species and subspecies ...
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    39,60 €

  • How Polynesia Became French
    Larry W Jones
    This historical narrative outlines the events connected with the 1843 French overthrow of ʻAimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraʻitua (Oueen Pōmare IV) of Tahiti, who became ruler when 14 years old, after the death of her brother Pōmare III. In 1843, France declared Tahiti a French protectorate and installed a governor at Papeete. Queen Pomare fought in vain against French interv...
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    39,49 €


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