Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits

Author: Erin H. Turner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-03

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1493023292

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This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.

The Young Colonials
The Young Colonials

Author: Carl C. Campbell

Publisher: University of the West Indies Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9789766400118

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Argues that in content and orientation islands' educational system during colonial period was geared more to the metropole than to the local situation. Uses career and initiatives of J.O. Cutteridge, British educational official in Trinidad, to portray the occasional absurdity of the system. Highlights religious bodies' meaningful role in building schools and in other educational activities. Concludes that despite problems, education did provide a mechanism for upward social mobility and for overcoming barriers imposed by race, class, or ethnicity. Includes list of island scholars from late-19th century through 1939.

Making a New Deal
Making a New Deal

Author: Lizabeth Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521428385

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The lives of Chicago workers are traced in the mid thirties to reveal how their experiences as citizens, members of ethnic or racial groups, wage earners and consumers, converged to transform them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists.

Imperial Fault Lines
Imperial Fault Lines

Author: Jeffrey Cox

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780804743181

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This book tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians, as British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjaba part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early 19th century."

Dictionary of Cape Breton English
Dictionary of Cape Breton English

Author: William John Davey

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1442669500

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Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork. The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island’s rich vocabulary. Dictionary entries include supporting quotations culled from the editors’ extensive interviews with Cape Bretoners and considerable study of regional variation, as well as definitions, selected pronunciations, parts of speech, variant forms, related words, sources, and notes, giving the reader in-depth information on every aspect of Cape Breton culture. A substantial and long-awaited work of linguistic research that captures Cape Breton’s social, economic, and cultural life through the island’s language, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English can be read with interest by Backlanders, Bay byes, and those from away alike.

British Sport: Local histories
British Sport: Local histories

Author: Richard William Cox

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780714652511

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Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Outlaw Tales of Montana
Outlaw Tales of Montana

Author: Gary A. Wilson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0762775866

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A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West and Midwest.

Reference Guide to North Dakota History
Reference Guide to North Dakota History

Author: Dan Rylance

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Over 6000 citations (printed before 1976) about North Dakota history. Includes citations on geology, geography, natural history, conservation, climate, forts, Indians, military, exploration, fur trade, Dakota Territory, government, politics, wars, the counties and cities, education, religion, sports, women, health, agriculture, business, transportation, etc.

Conservation Conundrum
Conservation Conundrum

Author: T. SEKAR

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1948321874

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Like to walk through one of the hathivanas (elephant forests) maintained by Mauryan king Chandragupta? Wish to be part of the royal dinner of a Mughal Emperor, with the palate containing a variety of forty meat dishes? Desirous of having a glimpse of the head on the shield and full-mount trophies of tigers and lions, decorating the halls and walls of the military lounges, lavish palaces and royal houses of the British Raj? Conservation Conundrum - Journey of India’s wildlife through ages is a pen-picture of the glory and good times, the trials and tribulations, persecution and perturbation of the country’s wild animals in its recorded history. The author has captured the theme through a historian’s kaleidoscope, where from a period of plenty in the ancient India, animal numbers plummeted to its lowest, when the country was into its first two decades of independence. From a situation of no-hope, how most of the iconic wildlife species registered a turn around and smart recovery in a span of half a century, despite the odds working against them forms the central thread. The author takes the reader through the pages in finding an answer to the usual dilemma, as to whether it is human need and interest or the future of the wild denizens that is important to a developing nation like India.