232 pages. In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J. Frank Dobie on deer hunting and a piece by Bertha McKee Dobie on Frank’s interest in grasses. Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach, and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, and Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. There are essays on the bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the state’s ethnic heritages through the German Volks...
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Very minor edgewear to d j . 128 pages. There are over ten million freemasons in the world. The supposed power of their occult network is often feared, and yet freemasonry is not a closed doctrine. Richly illustrated, Symbols of Freemasonry provides a synthesis of one of mankind's oldest existing secular brotherhoods. It is designed both for the initiated and for newcomers interested in gaining a better understanding of this fascinating but often misrepresented society.
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Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark blue boards and dark blue spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 351 pages. A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock ...
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Dings on bottom of front and back covers. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Tan boards with author initials and black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Stated First American Edition. Deckle-edged pages. 1.23 x 9.58 x 6.63 Inches. 291 pages. This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffick...
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Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.Black boards and spine imprinted on spine in copper with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 333 pages. The economic boom?and the devastation left in its wake?has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outra...
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256 pages. A guide to becoming a cowboy or cowgirl discusses the honest truth about cowboy boots, chuck wagon etiquette, rules of the dirt road, buckaroo knots for scarves, the semiotics of brands, and other topics.
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No spine crease. Maps, b/w photos. Notes, index. . 126 pages. This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women - miners, madams, merchants, and mothers -- who went North during the gold rush era
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No spine crease. Bibliography, index. . 255 pages. This book tells the stories of the strong and independent women who worked as madams, prospectors, hunters, and horse tamers in the Wild West
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Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black cloth boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Gray endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 176 pages. Fetch your flashlight and grab a shovel; it's time to dig up history! Unearthing the Past takes readers to the major archaeological sites of different places, times, and civilizations in history, revealing the remarkable stories behind the fascinating expeditions, the discoveries, and the people who uncovered them. Through these amazing excavations, Unearthing the Past pieces together the incredible developm...
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0.94 x 8.53 x 5.9 Inches. 287 pages. Now available in paperback, this book has been updated to include more humorous, entertaining myths that keep the rumor mills churning. Richard Roeper, the current co-host of Ebert & Roeper and the Movies, knows a lot about urban legends-tales so deliciously tasty that you desperately want it to be true.

Find out:

Does the "bonsai kitten" Web site celebrate cruelty to animals -- or is it just a tasteless joke?

What's the real story behind the so-called Ivy League porn film supposedly in production at Yale?

Could it really be true that a ...
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Light scratches to front cover. Black textured cover and spine with spine imprinted with title and author in gold . 380 pages
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Closed 3/8" tear on back of d j . Photograph on end papers. 192 pages. This is her gift to the Methodist Home on its 90th anniversary, symbolic of the lasting gratitude of the 17,000 youth, whose lives have been enriched by expert, loving care. ... She was a resident of the Home for ten years (1950-1960)
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Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 255 pages. Signed by Author. Women are all too easily forgotten when it comes to war. In this unique volume, Cindy Weigand tells the individual stories of female WWII veterans now living in Texas. These courageious women reveal their war experiences detailing physical exams, troop train rides, and coping with the reactions of their families. They describe the trials of seeing fiances one day and losing them the next, healing the emotional and mental as well as the physical wounds, and enduring extreme conditions in service to their country.
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128 pages. Images of America. Signed by Author. In 1864, an Oregon Trail wagon train of pioneers from Pennsylvania and Iowa found their way to Emigrant Gulch and Park County in search of gold. The first settlers staked 200-foot claims at the mouth of the Gulch, in what had been called the Curry District. One of the oldest mining districts in Park County, the history of the area is reproduced here in almost 200 vintage photographs, and captures America's fascination with the development of the Wild West.

Park County, so named due to its proximity to Yellowstone Park, was established in 1887. ...
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