Spude (165 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New hardcover book, first edition, 2015.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Extracted from The Journal of Arizona History. pp. 233-250. illus., notes.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 48 pp. photos 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. XX 1211.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. All pages are tight, clean, intact. Cover is now in protective mylar. Edgewear and chipping but still complete cover. A treasure for all those who love ghost towns. 48 pages.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean and tight; cover has some edge/corner/spine wear.

Paperback. Condition: New. Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state's growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory's admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state's modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state's historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation's crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, one lightly bumped corner, else fine. DJ in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Near-fine condition hardcover copy of the first edition in a very good minus condition dustjacket that shows some shelfwear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. G/N, used, stapled illustrated stiff paper wraps, 49 pages. Interior clean no marks, the center pages are loose but laid in, otherwise binding tight. Slight shewlf wear to wrapsd, no chips or tears. the price on the upper is blacked out. Corners slightly rounded.

1978 Lg. Softcover, VG, 49 pages.

Stiff pr. wraps. Condition: Good. 1st Ed 16pp, photos, illus, maps, stiff pr. wraps nice.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Like New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Historical American Buildings Survey Recording Project Report. Front cover is chipped around the edges and at the spine. Three dark stains at the top cover edge. Book pages are clean with no marks. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS9802 082020.

Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. There are no stickers on book or rips in dust cover.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state's growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory's admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state's modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state's historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation's crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 51 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm. A fine copy of a rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New hardcover book, first edition, 2012. In stock.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. "That Fiend in Hell": Soapy Smith in Legend. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth & Bds, Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. D.j., 276 pp., illus., photos, map, index. SIGNED. The author deconstucts the legend of Soapy Smith as a hero or martyr and shows him as the con man and robber that he really was.

Paperback. Condition: New. Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women's political and economic power in the West. Where most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape, this one addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions and resources of individual prostitutes and madams, landlords and saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and reformers, Spude brings issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when vice equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes learned how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately deciding how to practice and regulate individual freedoms. As Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century, middle-class women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the expense of the values and vices of the working-class men who had dominated the population in the town's earliest days. Reform began when a citizens' committee purged Skagway of card sharks and con men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided with their wives-giving them the power to vote-and in the process banned gambling, prostitution, and saloons. Today, a century after the era Spude describes, Skagway's tourist industry perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos. This book instead takes readers inside Skagway's real dens of iniquity, before and after their demise, and depicts frontier Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open the eyes of historians and tourists alike.

Condition: New.