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"The only comprehensive work on one of the most important battles of the Indian Wars of the West. The fight on Rosebud Creek took place just days before General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry was decimated by the same warriors that forced General George Crook to withdraw from the Rosebud. Here in the words of survivors of the Rosebud fight on both sides, is J.W. Vaughn's classic book on the battle. Abridged and annotated for a modern...
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"Custer had been usually effective as an Indian fighter for several years… He was adept in bringing off surprise attacks that crushed and paralyzed resistance. Both his reputation and his experience as an Indian campaigner were second to none; and the Seventh Cavalry…was held one of the best regiments in the service. It was but natural, then, that when the regiment marched proudly away from the mouth of the Rosebud on its mission, Terry could...
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Marching armies, cavalry raids, guerilla warfare, massacres, towns and farms in flames-the American Civil War, 1861-1865? No-Kansas, 1854-1861. Before there was Bull Run or Gettysburg, there was Black Jack and Osawatomie. Long before events at Fort Sumter ignited the War Between the States, men fought and died on the Prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to the hilt," cried the Atchison Squatter Sovereign....
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Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun's incredible story, from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats.
"Every page of Wernher von Braun's life is a monument to the drama of adventure. Few people have been fighting so hard and, indeed, very few have been subject to so much...
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No one survived in Custer's immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers with Custer. Some of the veterans who corresponded with E. A. Brininstool were still alive when his book first appeared in a shortened version in 1925. It has long been recognized as classic Custeriana....
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What Thoreau proved a century ago about returning to nature will still work today. There is an inexpressible thrill in the intimate study of primitive country, the workshop of nature, the appreciation of wilderness technique. Unspoiled regions possess a quiet beauty and peace-no artificiality, no crowds, all woods uncut.
There is unbounded satisfaction and pleasure in successfully meeting the challenge of the wilderness. The two requirements for...
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Living off the Country changes the risk of moving around in the outdoors into trouble-free times...offering take-along tips for finding free appetite fillers, thirst quenchers, weapons, and warmth in all kinds of situations.
In a clear and understandable way, brad Angier provides a harvest of handy, helpful hints about the necessities of life...where to look for the natural-growing supply of edible, unusual, taste-tickling plants, bushes, and fruit;...
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• Details the overseas diplomatic and intelligence contest between Union and Confederate governments
• Documents the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agents
• Explores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the UnionThe American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest between...
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She walked the streets of Richmond dressed in farmwoman's clothing, singing and mumbling to herself. Soon her suspicious and condescending neighbors began referring to her as "Crazy Bet." But, she wasn't mad; she had purpose in her doings. She wanted people to think she was, insane so that they would be, less likely to ask her questions and possibly discover her goal, to defeat the South and to end slavery. Elizabeth Van Lew, of Crazy Bet, was General...
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Being your own wilderness doctor for the security of knowing what to do for the best, in case of the worst-a more than first-aid companion that's always there, when a doctor may be too far away.
Angier who knows the outdoors, and Dr. Kodet, who knows people, inside and out, team up to present life-saving, panic-preventing information for times, when making the right decision is most vital.
Here are trip-saving ways to handle the sometimes painful...
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Born in Shawneetown, Illinois in time to be newly graduated from West Point when the Civil War started, James H. Wilson became a brigadier general by the age of twenty-six. Fueled by boundless ambition and the desire to serve his country, he reorganized the Union cavalry in time to gain the upper hand over the Confederate army. But the story of this brash, young man did not end with the capture of Jefferson Davis, for which Wilson was ultimately responsible....
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Same Colt! The mere mention of his name brings to the minds of practically all who read, one thing only-guns. Their interest in guns may be active or passive, all according to their inclinations and temperament, but they all recognize what the name stands for. If a collector, for Colt pistols and long guns have for many years commanded premium prices in the arms marts, his eyes will sparkle if the mention of the magic word puts him on the trail of...
14) Hartman on Skeet
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Here at last is the definitive book on skeet shooting. The name of its author, Barney Hartman, is already a byword within North America's skeet shooting community. For novices, it's enough to say that during the last twenty-years Hartman has, carried off just about every major skeet shooting trophy on the continent. And now, he tells in simple, easy-to-understand language just how he did it. Step by step in words and pictures he takes the reader through...
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The last name spoken on their deathbeds by R. R. Lee and Stonewall Jackson was that of their great subordinate, A. P. Hill. Lee's final words, "Tell A. P. Hill to come up" keynote the story of the Culpeper redhead and his hard-hitting light division. For the Light Division always did come up at the critical moment to save the day for the Army of Northern Virginia.
The gallantry and dash of Powell Hill's Cavalier ancestors characterized his own career...
17) Heart Shots
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Hunting and writing about it have not commonly been, thought of as women's work, but today women are hunting and writing about it in unprecedented numbers. This collection of stories by 46 hunters who happen to be female shows us that in fact some women have always hunted, and some have written dazzling accounts of their experiences. What you'll find in k to nature and basics and to express in narrative, image, and metaphor the complex meaning of...
18) Bear!
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Bear! Is a fascinating volume, which will grip the interest, and fire, the imagination of both the seasoned outdoorsman and the one who must enjoy the thrills of big-game hunting from his armchair reading.
The true, breath-taking field encounters between man and bear, which liberally appear throughout the books' pages, will capture and excite the reader, young or old. Certainly to the big-game hunter-whether he takes to the wooded hills after his...
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It is not generally known that the three-day battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important and significant engagements of the Civil War, is included in the course of training of student officers in practically all the European war colleges, as an outstanding example of tactics and strategy.
Once a year the students of the West Point Military Academy spend several days at Gettysburg in studying the battle problems, during the first three days of...
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This edition of the standard textbook on its subject has been, revised by Robert Churchill's biographer. Macdonald Hastings, himself well-known in the shooting field (and other fields as well), has incorporated comments on matters which, since Churchill's Game Shooting as first published in 1955, required further enlargement or modification. He has also brought the entire work completely up-to-date.
Macdonald Hastings, who collaborated with the author...