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Discusses the many different factors that contributed to Britain's having become part of the contemporary industrial society.
Originally published: Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1981.
"This volume ' examines the role of gamabling on the American fronter: among the Indians, on the rivers, in the mining camps, and in the boom towns ... The book is packed with interesting anecdotes, and covers the race track and boxing ring, lotteries and steamboat racing, as well as all of the traditional card and table games. The text is arresting with well-placed illustrations.'" Libr J.
Who were the Indians of the Old West? Everyone knows them - the hawk-faced men with braided hair and war feathers, their copper skin stretched over high cheekbones. The tribal names are familiar too: Comanche, Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and others - all resonant of fierce valour, calling up images of painted horsemen with lances and bows. To most whites they represented the model of all Western Indians: the men trained from birth to hunt and fight; the women raised to sustain the warriors, sharing in celebrations of victory or slashing their bodies in moments of grief. For some tribes these images were true, but only partly true. For the Western Indians as a whole, they were only the most visible and spectacular manifestations of a broader, more complex story.
One of a series that examines the history and nature of seemingly paranormal phenomena.
Donated.
Tells the stories of a sultan's mysterious journey, a trip to Asgard, magical islands, mountains filled with sleeping warriors, a fairy world, a land of demons, enchanted woods, and a knight's quest.
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