Search

Criteria:
  • Keyword = anaconda
Page:1Modify search
Showing 1 to 5 of 5
  • WRITING THE RANGE: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. by [Anthology, signed] Jameson, Elizabeth and Susan Armitage, editors. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Jameson, Elizabeth and Susan Armitage, editors. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, signed.
    WRITING THE RANGE: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West.

    Edition: First printing.

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A ground-breaking and very interesting anthology of twenty-nine essays that (as stated on the dustjacket): 'present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. SIGNED by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore at her essay "Not in Somebody's Kitchen: African American Women Workers in Richmond California and the Impact of World War II" In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men [but] women's voices were never heard. 'Writing the Range' allows us to…

    (more)

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A ground-breaking and very interesting anthology of twenty-nine essays that (as stated on the dustjacket): 'present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. SIGNED by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore at her essay "Not in Somebody's Kitchen: African American Women Workers in Richmond California and the Impact of World War II" In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men [but] women's voices were never heard. 'Writing the Range' allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to Western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community.' Among the essays are those on Widows & Land in Colonial New Mexico by Yolanda Leyva; Captivity and Identity in New Mexico 1700-1846 by by James F. Brooks; The Women of Lincoln County 1860-1900 by Darlis Miller; Beyond the Stereotype: Chinese Pioneer Women by Annette White-Parks; Basque Women as Hard Workers by Jeronima Echeverria; Women Cross-dressing in the 19th Century West by Evelyn Schlatter, Irish Women in Anaconda, Montana by Laurie Mercer and many more. Photographs. Index and selected bibliographies -including both a general bibliography and others by ethnicity - on African American women, Asian American, etc. 656 pp. ISBN: 0-806129298.

    (less)

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 67097
    View cart More details Price: $40.00
  • TREASURE STATE: A Cassie Dewell Novel. by Box, C. J.
    Box, C. J.
    TREASURE STATE: A Cassie Dewell Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel featuring Cassie Dewell, former deputy sheriff and now a private investigator - mostly set in the former copper mining town of Anaconda, Montana, as Cassie tries to find both a missing con man and a Florida PI hired to find him - and figure out who is behind the mysterious poem promising a treasure to the lucky finder. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-1250766960.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 89958
    View cart More details Price: $18.50
  • SWEET THUNDER. by Doig, Ivan.
    Doig, Ivan.
    SWEET THUNDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.

    Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (2 peeled spots on dj from sticker removal)

    Book ID: 89741
    View cart More details Price: $16.50
  • SWEET THUNDER. by Doig, Ivan.
    Doig, Ivan.
    SWEET THUNDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate), hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small peeled spot on back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 89742
    View cart More details Price: $29.50
  • WRITING THE RANGE: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. by Jameson, Elizabeth and Susan Armitage, editors.
    Jameson, Elizabeth and Susan Armitage, editors.
    WRITING THE RANGE: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West.

    Edition: First printing.

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A ground-breaking and very interesting anthology of twenty-nine essays that (as stated on the dustjacket): 'present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men [but] women's voices were never heard. 'Writing the Range' allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio…

    (more)

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A ground-breaking and very interesting anthology of twenty-nine essays that (as stated on the dustjacket): 'present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class. In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men [but] women's voices were never heard. 'Writing the Range' allows us to hear many long-silenced women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to Western cities during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles, who organized to resist environmental dangers to their community.' Among the essays are those on Widows & Land in Colonial New Mexico by Yolanda Leyva; Captivity and Identity in New Mexico 1700-1846 by by James F. Brooks; The Women of Lincoln County 1860-1900 by Darlis Miller; Beyond the Stereotype: Chinese Pioneer Women by Annette White-Parks; Basque Women as Hard Workers by Jeronima Echeverria; Women Cross-dressing in the 19th Century West by Evelyn Schlatter, African American Women Workers in Richmond California and the Impact of World War II by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore; Irish Women in Anaconda, Montana by Laurie Mercer and many more. Photographs. Index and selected bibliographies -including both a general bibliography and others by ethnicity - on African American women, Asian American, etc. 656 pp. ISBN: 0-806129298.

    (less)

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 32040
    View cart More details Price: $28.50