Western History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Holly M Karibo

Rehab on the Range

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

Ernesto Sagás

Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

Gabe Gutierrez

The Island

NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez offers a forceful, necessary exposé on the precarious realities and politics of modern Puerto Rico, detailing the decade of financial exploitation,…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Craig S Harwood

Bridget's Gambit

In 1828 Bridget Miranda Evoy escaped famine-stricken Ireland with her children for a better life in America. But the relief she desperately sought was elusive. Within two years, she was a widow and was le…

Yepoka Yeebo

Anansi's Gold

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds.

Sgt. Kirk

Sergeant Kirk von der 7. US-Kavallerie hat genug von den sinnlosen Blutfehden. Er desertiert und wird Blutsbruder des jungen Indianers Maha von den Tchatooga. Auch mit dem weißen Arzt Dr. Forbes entwickel…

Madhushree Ghosh

Safar

Blends memoir and history to explore the role of Punjabi food in fostering community and identity among South Asian refugees and immigrants.Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food i…

Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…

Amanda Bellows

The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

Voltaire,

Letters Concerning the English Nation

Inspired by Voltaire's stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncem…

Elizabeth Flock

The Furies

"A rresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of i…

Angela Aleiss

Broken Arrow

An insightful history and analysis of the importance Delmer Daves' film Broken Arrow has in the western film genre. It was, for its time, a breakthrough in how Native Americans were depicted in the movies…

Ada Ferrer

Keeper of My Kin

From the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissure…

Hal Phillips

Sibling Rivalry

A captivating examination of the competitive history, drama, and politics behind the storied rivalry between the United States and Mexico--in international soccer and beyond.Soccer is the most global of p…

Sue Consolo-Murphy

The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy's autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears' interaction with livestock.

Nancy K Williams

Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

Charles D Chamberlain

New Orleans

"Intended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain's New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city's history. Although many excellent books ar…

Sara Kehaulani Goo

Kuleana

Set in one of the world's most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist's effort to hold on to her family's ancestral Hawaiian lands-and find herself along the way. "…