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  • Preserving the Public in Public Schools

    Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices

    by Phil Boyle, Del Burns ...
    What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Robin Hood of El Dorado

    The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California's Age of Gold

    by Walter Noble Burns ...
    First published in 1932 and never reprinted since, this historical drama re-creates the life and adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, a Hispanic social rebel in California during the tumultuous Gold Rush. Published during the Great Depression, at a time of mass deportations of Hispanos to Mexico, this sympathetic portrait of Murrieta and Mexican Americans was a unique voice of social protest. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The People's Victory

    Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality

    by Jamila Tharp, Brian Maschka, Will Scott, Michael Farino, Ellen Pontac, Colleen Mewing, Robert Sullivan, Baltimore Gonzalez, Mike Goettemoeller, Sean Chapin, Leslie Stewart, Amos Lim, Anne Tischer, Laurie York, Kate Burns, Del Shores, Joe Capley-Alfano, Simon van Kempen, Sam Thoron, Zack Lyons, Jolene Mewing, Geoff Callan, Cheryle Lambert-Rudd, Martha McDevitt-Pugh, Michael Sabatino, Shelly Bailes, Jan Thompson, Kirsten Berzon, Tracy Hollister, Cathy Marino-Thomas, Matthew Baume, J. Scott Coatsworth, Gender Offenders, Mir Reyad, Brian Silva, Mark "Major" Jiminez, Stuart Gaffney, Alex McCord, Michael Boyajian, Jokie X Wilson, Mike Shaw, Stephanie Stolte, Carmen Goodyear, Scott Smith, Tim Garcia, Roland Stringfellow, Billy Bradford, Kitty Lambert-Rudd, Beau Chandler, Molly McKay, Christine Allen, Peter Mesh, Edie Windsor, Frank Capley-Alfano, John Lewis, David Thompson, David Cameron Strachan, Davina Kotulski, PhD, Marriage Equality USA, Fred Anguera, Joy O'Donnell, Marvin Burrows, Michael Markiewicz, Joseph Vitale, Robert Voorheis, Charlie Scatamacchia ...
    "" The People's Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world." – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage ... Read more

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  • Texas

    A Novel

    by James A. Michener ...
    Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the ... Read more

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  • The Floating Outfit 1: The Ysabel Kid

    The Floating Outfit, #1

    by J.T. Edson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Floating Outfit
    His father was Sam Ysabel, a wild Irish Kentuckian who'd come to Texas in the early days and rode as scout to Jim Bowie. His mother was the daughter of Chief Longwalker and his French Creole squaw. That dangerous mixture of bloods produced a son who inherited the sighting eye of an eagle from the sure-shooting, rifle-toting Kentuckian stock. From the French Creole side he got a love of cold steel ... Read more

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  • The Saga of Billy the Kid

    The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw

    by Walter Noble Burns ...
    Originally published in 1926, this biography tells the rousing tale of Billy the Kid, once of the most well known outlaws in the Old West. The Saga of Billy the Kid focuses on a period of time where two dangerous gangs tore a bloody path across Lincoln, New Mexico. After being shot to death in 1881 by the intrepid Lincoln County sheriff Pat Garret, Billy the Kid became a romanticized symbol of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Andy Adams Western MEGAPACK ®

    19 Classic Cowboy Tales

    by Andy Adams ...
    Andy Adams (1859-1935) was an American writer of western fiction, the son of pioneers. In the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trail. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from ... Read more

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  • The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid

    by Pat Garrett, Ash Upson ...
    Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The Authentic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

    by Pat F. Garrett ...
    Born in November 1859 as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid-as he soon became known-started his criminal career at the age of twelve by stabbing a man in a bar fight. He then moved on to stealing horses, gambling, participating in the Lincoln County War, and even perpetrating mass murder. Billy the Kid’s extraordinary exploits were followed in newspapers around the country, and his legend reached ... Read more

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  • U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48 and on the South Western Frontier

    by Samuel E Chamberlain ...
    "From soldier to wagon master to scalp hunterChamberlain left Boston as a mere youth and joined the United States Army. He became a soldier in the 1st US Dragoons and determined to become the very ideal of the daring cavalryman both on and off the battlefields of the American-Mexican War. His is a tale—not a little tall—that includes accounts of passionate love affairs, duels to the death, pitched ... Read more

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  • The Collected Westerns of Andy Adams

    by Andy Adams ...
    Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 – September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction.The Collected Westerns of Andy Adams:Cattle BrandsThe Log of a CowboyThe OutletA Texas MatchmakerWells BrothersReed Anthony, Cowman ... Read more

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  • Cattle Brands

    by Andy Adams ...
    Series Book 1 - Classic Short Story Collections: Westerms
    Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the harrowing skirmishes with banditos, thrilling shoot-outs, attempt at and the recapture of stolen chattel from fierce desperados, and much, much more exciting accounts that make one think it all actually happened.Excerpt:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western ... Read more

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