Alaska Animal Antics : Animals, wild and tame, from moose to mosquitoes, and their involvement with Alaskans |
Autore | Lincoln Elverda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Anchorage : , : Publication Consultants, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (80 pages) |
Disciplina | 979.83 |
Soggetto topico |
Animals
Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 1-59433-189-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- The bon marche bag: Margaret Swensen -- The bear: Margaret Heaven -- Teeth marks in the butter: Elizabeth White -- Survivor: Cara Lou Lilly -- Star: Carol Stewart -- Squirrels in the cabin: Maureen Kelly -- Shrews: Elverda Lincoln -- She tried: Elvera Corkery -- Scared: Marilyn Cook -- Round and round: Marilyn Cook -- Retirement project: Elverda Lincoln -- Porcupines: Elverda Lincoln -- Pigs on the loose: Mary Knutson -- Our alaska outhouse: Darlene Robinson -- Oinker: Elverda Lincoln -- Not yet: Myrtle Gislason -- Northern chickens: Elverda Lincoln -- Never again: Margaret Heaven -- Moving branch: Carol Stewart -- The mighty hunters: Elverda Lincoln -- Memories of a shopper: Elverda Lincoln 50 -- The maggot sandwich: Elverda Lincoln -- Life on the farm: Elverda Lincoln -- Judy's stories: Judy Fielding -- I Wanted a salmon: Mary Harvey -- Hooks and lures: Joyce Cook -- Frightened moose: Jeanene Buccaria -- Friendly people and mosquitoes: Mary Harvey -- Frieda and the goose: Carol Stewart -- Dominic: Carol Stewart -- Cyrus and blessed: Carol Stewart -- Campground porcupine: Phyllis Hassinger -- Bugs, snails, and puppy dog tails: Maureen Kelly -- Bear watch: Joyce Cook -- Barn shower: Mildred Ulrich -- Backyard bear: Mary Harvey -- Baby evelyn: McNair -- Arnold: Darlene Robinson -- Alaska beginnings: Koreen Robinson -- A Fowl romance: June Robinette -- Alaska bear encounters: Judy Shelton -- Frozen: Mary Knutson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910159501803321 |
Lincoln Elverda | ||
Anchorage : , : Publication Consultants, , 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alias Simon Suggs [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper |
Autore | Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina | 928.1 |
Collana | Library Alabama Classics |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - Homes and haunts - 19th century - Alabama
Authors, American - Alabama Frontier and pioneer life |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8197-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CONTENTS; Prologue; I "... people is more like hogs and dogs ..."; II "... Yonder goes the chicken man!"; III "... good to be shifty in a new country ..."; IV "... a rough road to travel ..."; V "... dead-as dead as a mackerel ..."; VI "... If Mr. Suggs is present ..."; VII "... then, where shall we be?"; VIII "... at liberty, is this our birth month ..."; IX "... If it be agreeable to the Convention ..."; X "... through spits of rain and snow ..."; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455541203321 |
Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.> | ||
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alias Simon Suggs [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper |
Autore | Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina | 928.1 |
Collana | Library Alabama Classics |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - Homes and haunts - 19th century - Alabama
Authors, American - Alabama Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 0-8173-8197-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CONTENTS; Prologue; I "... people is more like hogs and dogs ..."; II "... Yonder goes the chicken man!"; III "... good to be shifty in a new country ..."; IV "... a rough road to travel ..."; V "... dead-as dead as a mackerel ..."; VI "... If Mr. Suggs is present ..."; VII "... then, where shall we be?"; VIII "... at liberty, is this our birth month ..."; IX "... If it be agreeable to the Convention ..."; X "... through spits of rain and snow ..."; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777978403321 |
Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.> | ||
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides |
Autore | Sides Josh <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 979.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Ranchers
Pioneers Land tenure Land settlement Homestead law Frontier and pioneer life Farmers California - Rural conditions Frontier and pioneer life - California Homestead law - California - History Land tenure - California - History Farmers - California Ranchers - California Pioneers - California Land settlement - California - History |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Local history
History Biographies. |
ISBN | 1-4962-2550-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the California desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794441703321 |
Sides Josh <1972-> | ||
Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides |
Autore | Sides Josh <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 979.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Ranchers
Pioneers Land tenure Land settlement Homestead law Frontier and pioneer life Farmers California - Rural conditions Frontier and pioneer life - California Homestead law - California - History Land tenure - California - History Farmers - California Ranchers - California Pioneers - California Land settlement - California - History |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Local history
History Biographies. |
ISBN | 1-4962-2550-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the California desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817043803321 |
Sides Josh <1972-> | ||
Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Black Range tales : chronicling sixty years of life and adventure in the Southwest / / James A. McKenna |
Autore | McKenna James A. <1851-1941, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages, 6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.2 |
Soggetto topico | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 1-78720-238-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157564103321 |
McKenna James A. <1851-1941, > | ||
[Place of publication not identified] : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Charlie Siringo's West : An Interpretive Biography |
Autore | Lamar Howard R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) |
Disciplina | 976.406092 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EtulainRichard W |
Soggetto topico |
Private investigators
Frontier and pioneer life Cowboys Authors, American Private investigators - United States Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) Cowboys - Texas |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Biographies |
ISBN | 0-8263-6166-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Chaoter 11. Two Victories and a Defeat: Alaskan Gold Thieves, Kentucky Moonshiners, and the Haywood Trial in Idaho -- Figures 44-60 -- Chapter 12. The Trials of an Author, 1912-1922: Siringo's "A Cowboy Detective" and "Two Evil Isms" Versus the Pinkertons, and A Retreat Down Memory Lane-"Billy the Kid" and "Lone Star Cowboy" -- Chapter 13. Recognition at Last! Charlie Siringo in Hollywood, 1923-1928 -- Figures 61-68 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Chapter 5. The Great Adventure: Charlie Siringo and Billy the Kid on the Texas Panhandle Frontier, 1877-1882 -- Figures 2-19 -- Chapter 6. "Queen City of the Border": Caldwell, Kansas, 1871-1885 -- Chapter 7. Rendezvous with Destiny: Charlie Siringo, the Haymarket Riot, and the Pinkertons, 1886-1890 -- Chapter 8. Charlie Siringo Discovers New Mexico Politics: The Ancheta Case and After, 1891-1898 -- Chapter 9. The Bloody Coeur d'Alene Strike, 1891-1893 -- Chapter 10. Chasing Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a Great Many Others, 1899-1903 -- Figures 20-43 Cover -- Half title -- Frontispiece -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Richard W. Etulain -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Charlie Siringo and the Several Worlds of Matagorda Bay -- Chapter 2. Civil War Comes to Matagorda Bay, 1850-1867 -- Chapter 3. Rites of Passage: St. Louis and the Mississippi River Experience, 1867-1870 -- Chapter 4. Shanghai Pierce and El Rancho Grande: The Texas Cattle Industry from the Open Range to Corporate Enterprise, 1854-1900 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794286803321 |
Lamar Howard R | ||
Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Charlie Siringo's West : An Interpretive Biography |
Autore | Lamar Howard R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 370 pages) |
Disciplina | 976.406092 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EtulainRichard W |
Soggetto topico |
Private investigators
Frontier and pioneer life Cowboys Authors, American Private investigators - United States Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) Cowboys - Texas |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Biographies |
ISBN | 0-8263-6166-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Chaoter 11. Two Victories and a Defeat: Alaskan Gold Thieves, Kentucky Moonshiners, and the Haywood Trial in Idaho -- Figures 44-60 -- Chapter 12. The Trials of an Author, 1912-1922: Siringo's "A Cowboy Detective" and "Two Evil Isms" Versus the Pinkertons, and A Retreat Down Memory Lane-"Billy the Kid" and "Lone Star Cowboy" -- Chapter 13. Recognition at Last! Charlie Siringo in Hollywood, 1923-1928 -- Figures 61-68 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Chapter 5. The Great Adventure: Charlie Siringo and Billy the Kid on the Texas Panhandle Frontier, 1877-1882 -- Figures 2-19 -- Chapter 6. "Queen City of the Border": Caldwell, Kansas, 1871-1885 -- Chapter 7. Rendezvous with Destiny: Charlie Siringo, the Haymarket Riot, and the Pinkertons, 1886-1890 -- Chapter 8. Charlie Siringo Discovers New Mexico Politics: The Ancheta Case and After, 1891-1898 -- Chapter 9. The Bloody Coeur d'Alene Strike, 1891-1893 -- Chapter 10. Chasing Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a Great Many Others, 1899-1903 -- Figures 20-43 Cover -- Half title -- Frontispiece -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Richard W. Etulain -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Charlie Siringo and the Several Worlds of Matagorda Bay -- Chapter 2. Civil War Comes to Matagorda Bay, 1850-1867 -- Chapter 3. Rites of Passage: St. Louis and the Mississippi River Experience, 1867-1870 -- Chapter 4. Shanghai Pierce and El Rancho Grande: The Texas Cattle Industry from the Open Range to Corporate Enterprise, 1854-1900 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810997003321 |
Lamar Howard R | ||
Albuquerque : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The drover's wife / / Leah Purcell |
Autore | Purcell Leah |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Redfern, N.S.W. : , : Currency Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (59 pages) |
Disciplina | 822.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Aboriginal Australians
Frontier and pioneer life - Australia Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
1-76062-503-5
1-925005-97-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136598403321 |
Purcell Leah | ||
Redfern, N.S.W. : , : Currency Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From hell to breakfast / edited by Mody C. Boatright [and] Donald Day |
Autore | Dobie J. Frank |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of North Texas Press, 1944 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) :) : illustrations |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DayDonald <1899-1991.>
BoatrightMody C <1896-1970.> (Mody Coggin) |
Collana | Publications of the Folklore Society, no. 19 |
Soggetto topico |
Indian dance
Frontier and pioneer life Folklore Cattle brands African Americans - Religion SOCIAL SCIENCE - Folklore & Mythology Indian dance - North America Frontier and pioneer life - Texas Folklore - Texas Cattle brands - Texas |
ISBN | 0-585-33823-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Negro baptizings, by R.T. Lomax.--Adventures of a ballad hunter, by J.A. Lomax.--Carrie Dykes, midwife, by R.P. Tartt.--Big Sam and de golden chariot, by E. Parks.--Tale of the two companions, by J.F. Dobie.--Mexican Münchausen, by W.A. Whatley.--Some odd Mexican customs, by O.W. Nolen.--Legend of the Tengo Frío Bird, by H. Yelvington.--Leaves of mesquite grass, by D. Day.--Dancing makes fun, by A.L. Marriott.--Dancing makes rain, by A.L. Marriott.--Indian sign on the Spaniard's cattle, by H.W. Ward.--Ear. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163544603321 |
Dobie J. Frank | ||
University of North Texas Press, 1944 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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