The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May ...
 Excellent research and writing and a fascinating story: The doctrine of self-defense has always required an "imminent" danger. To a man, "retreat" involves a physical act. But a beaten woman who decides to get her man before he gets [... more]
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A Dynasty of Western Outlaws
A must Read--But Use With Caution: Paul Wellman's A Dynasty of Western Outlaws is a 20th Century standard of outlaw history. It is an extremely well written work and belongs in any library of crime history or the "Old West." Wellman, who was a [... more]
$21.95
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Our Landlady
"Our Landlady" is an excellent book, perfect for Oz lovers.: "Our Landlady" is a book filled with the newspaper columns Baum wrote for his newspaper. They are stories about daily life and problems during the 1880s-1890s. Baum wrote [... more]
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Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, ...
Concise, Clear and Effective Personal Memoir: "Medic!", by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin. Subtitled: "How I Fought World War II With Morphine, Sulfa And Iodine Swabs". University of Nebraska Press, 2006. When Robert Franklin was [... more]
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The Chase of the Golden Meteor (Bison Frontiers of ...
A book by Jules and Michel Verne, Father and Son: It's happened again. A reputable publisher, Bison Books, distributed through the University of Nebraska Press, has attractively reprinted a Jules Verne book whole from the first British edition, on that [... more]
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The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart's ...
Amazon.com Review: Robert Stuart, a partner in John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, helped found an ill-fated trading post in Astoria, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The post fell to disease and hostile attacks, but by then, Stuart had [... more]
$24.95
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Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort ...
Provides Balanced Military, Social, and Political Coverage: Stephen D. Engle's Struggle for the Heartland takes the latest scholarship on "the campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth" and ties the military, political, and social issues faced [... more]
$34.95
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The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (Bison Book)
Review of Reprint of Abel's American Indfian in Civil War: The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865 by Annie Heloise Abel; Introduction by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green University of Nebraska Press ISBN:0-8032-5919-0 The University of Nebraska [... more]
$29.95
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before ...
One Vast Winter Count: Don't get me wrong. I learned a lot from this book. But I would not have learned nearly as much if I did not come to the book with quite a bit of knowledge. I suggest that you read the excellent "Atlas of the North American [... more]
$39.95
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Outward Odyssey: A ...
A Solid History of a Little-known but Significant Space Project: "Homesteading Space" tells a significant part of the story of the Skylab orbital workshop, the first American space station launched in 1973 and occupied through the middle part [... more]
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)
"Over and over again.": I am not the sort of person who revisits books. I tend to move on to things that are new since there is so much out there calling to be read. But with Koozer's "Local Wonders" I have had to make an exception. I [... more]
$10.95
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Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
An Unrecognized Part of the Heroism: It was entirely because of the incongruity in the title that I picked up the book _Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition_ (University of Nebraska Press) by Thomas P. Lowry. Surely, I thought, this little [... more]
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