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Prints depict Indians, Indian life and culture, miners, cowboys, ranch life, and Western landscapes, and are accompanied by a brief profile of the artist
"Charles Banks Wilson creates portraits that honor great Oklahomans, murals that pay tribute to the history of his home state, and a long-running series of portraits of Native Americans that rivals the work of George Catlin and Joseph Henry Sharp in significance and execution. " -- Jacket
Prints depict Indians, Indian life and culture, miners, cowboys, ranch life, and Western landscapes, and are accompanied by a brief profile of the artist
Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson has assembled seventy-seven remarkable pencil portraits consisting primarily of pureblood American Indians drawn from life and accompanied by narratives of his visits with each subject. The first edition, Search for the Purebloods, served as a catalog for an exhibition of his art at the United States Capitol. This third edition, which is published with the generous assistance of Julian J. Rothbaum, contains thirteen additional drawings by Wilson and a new afterword.
The Story of Geronimo, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.
Premier Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson has devoted much of his life to creating a gallery of American Indian portraits. This handsome volume of fine pencil drawings was originally collected and published as a catalog for an exhibition in 1981. It represents decades of work seeking out purebloods in each tribe and includes narratives of Wilson's experiences with his subjects. An Oklahoma Museum of Natural History publication.
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals—the sack of Magdeburg; th...
An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year “Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.” —Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history...Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.” —Wall Street Journal Massive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization—th...
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.