Описание: Staten Island saw its share of violence and murder as it transformed from a sleepy community to an urban outer borough. The 1920 discovery of a woman's body by two young boys walking their dog remains unsolved. An inmate at Sailors' Snug Harbor--a retirem
Описание: These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 County Boroughs of England and Wales between 1919 and 1938. They also provide an extensive and detailed analysis of municipal politics in the same period.
Автор: Ballard Название: The English Borough in the Twelfth Century ISBN: 0521237882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521237888 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1914 text was based on two lectures delivered in Oxford in 1913 by Adolphus Ballard. The first deals with the subject of the borough from the point of view of the burgess and the lord and the second examines the place of the borough in the national organisation.
Автор: Rich Harold Название: Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown ISBN: 0806144920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806144924 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4131.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas`s - and the America`s - largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years.
Автор: Munger Mark a. Название: Boomtown ISBN: 0979217598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780979217593 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Harold Rich Название: Fort Worth: Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown ISBN: 0806169117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806169118 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s-and the nation’s-largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the city through to the twenty-first century. Harold Rich takes up the story in 1880, when Fort Worth found itself in the crosshairs of history as the cattle drives that had been such an economic boon became a thing of the past. He explores the hard-fought struggle that followed-with its many stops, failures, missteps, and successes-beginning with a single-minded commitment to attracting railroads. Rail access spurred the growth of a modern municipal infrastructure, from paved streets and streetcars to waterworks, and made Fort Worth the transportation hub of the Southwest. Although the Panic of 1893 marked another setback, the arrival of Armour and Swift in 1903 turned the city’s fortunes once again by expanding its cattle-based economy to include meatpacking. With a rich array of data, Fort Worth documents the changes wrought upon Fort Worth’s economy in succeeding years by packinghouses and military bases, the discovery of oil and the growth of a notorious vice district, Hell’s Half Acre. Throughout, Rich notes the social trends woven inextricably into this economic history and details the machinations of municipal politics and personalities that give the story of Fort Worth its unique character. The first thoroughly researched economic history of the city’s early years in more than five decades, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth, urban history and municipal development, or the history of Texas and the West.
Автор: Lime, Harry Название: Boomtown rats ISBN: 0244864462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780244864460 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2777.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An intimate portrait of a frontier town and its settlers The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday. Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its frontier incarnation, located a scant twenty-eight miles from the notorious Lincoln, is remembered largely because of its association with famous westerners. Billy the Kid and his gang were familiar visitors to the town. When a popular deputy was gunned down in 1880, the citizens resolved to rid their community of outlaws. Pat Garrett, running for sheriff of Lincoln County, was soon campaigning in White Oaks. But there was more to the town than gold mining and frontier violence. In addition to outlaws, lawmen, and miners, Haldane introduces readers to ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and stagecoach owners. Josй Aguayo, a lawyer from an old Spanish family, defended Billy the Kid, survived the Lincoln County War, and moved to the White Oaks vicinity in 1890, where his family became famous for the goat cheese they sold to the town's elite. Readers also meet a New England sea captain and his wife (a Samoan princess, no less), a black entrepreneur, Chinese miners, the "Cattle Queen of New Mexico," and an undertaker with an international criminal past. The White Oaks that Haldane uncovers-and depicts with lively prose and more than 250 photographs-is a microcosm of the Old West in its diversity and evolution from mining camp to thriving burg to the near-ghost town it is today. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest will enjoy this richly detailed account. Roberta Key Haldane, a native of Lincoln County, is coauthor of Corralled in Old Lincoln County, New Mexico: The Lin Branum Family of Coyote Canyon and the I Bar X. Official Centennial Project-New Mexico Centennial Foundation 2012 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-History (finalist) 2012 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-Large Cover Design (finalist) 2012 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-History (winner)
Автор: Vale Lani Lynn Название: Boomtown ISBN: 1497478006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781497478008 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2412.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
