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3) El Llano Estacado: exploration and imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
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x, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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The distinctive high mesa straddling West Texas and Eastern New Mexico creates a vista that is equal parts sprawling lore and big blue sky. From Lubbock, the area's informal capital, to the farthest reaches of the staked plains known as the Llano Estacado, the land and its inhabitants trace a tradition of tenacity through numberless cycles of dust storms and drought. In 1887, a bison hunter observed antelope, sand crane and coyote alike crowding together...
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In this sequel to Karl May's The Son of Bear Hunter the heroes of the great adventures in the Yellowstone National Park are heading for a meeting on the hunting ground of the Apache tribe. Shortleg Frank and Bob are coming from the East, Old Shatterhand from the North, Winnetou, Bear Hunter and his son from the South. Their pathways meet at the Llano Estacado. At the same time experienced Westerners, such as the two Snuffles, Juggle Fred, and Bloody...
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Der junge Bloody Fox wuchs als Waisenkind am Rande des Llano Estacado auf. Seine ganze Familie fiel den Stakemen, den Räubern der texanischen Wüste, zum Opfer. Immer wieder treibt der Wunsch nach Rache ihn hinaus in den Llano, wo ein geisterhafter Reiter umgeht, der ein treffsicheres Gewehr in Händen hat. Und dann ist da auch noch die geheimnisumwitterte Oase im Kaktuswald...
"Der Geist des Llano Estacado" stammt aus dem Hörbuch "Unter Geiern"...
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xiii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"In 1540 Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, the governor of Nueva Galicia in western Mexico, led an expedition of reconnaissance and expansion to a place called Cibola, far to the north in what is now New Mexico. The papers collected in this book bring multidisciplinary expertise to the study of that expedition."
"Volume contributors are from a range of disciplines including history, archaeology, Latin American studies, anthropology, astronomy, and geology....
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xvii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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The historic 1540-1542 expedition of Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is popularly remembered as a luckless party of exploration which wandered the American Southwest and then blundered onto the central Great Plains of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The expedition, as historian John M. Hutchins relates in Coronado's Well-Equipped Army: The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest, was a military force of about 1,500 individuals, made...
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xxx, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"A collection of Louis L'Amour's never-before-seen fragments, film/TV scripts and treatments, notes, short stories, and advice to other writers, compiled and annotated by his son, that confirms his place at the very top of the pantheon of American writers. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how Louis wrote the short stories, novels, literary and motion picture treatments, notes, and outlines that he wasn't able to finish or release in his lifetime....
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Studies in natural sciences. Special publication volume no. 1
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79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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English
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