age ~82
from Buffalo, SC
David Lavender's classic novel of the rich silver strikes between Ouray (Argent) and Silverton (Baker), Colorado is back in print. Based on actual historical events and places (but with a few liberties taken) his fast-moving book details how hero Johnny Ogden builds what is now the Million Dollar Hi...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
540
Publisher
Western Reflections Pub Co
ISBN #
1890437352
EAN Code
9781890437350
ISBN #
10
The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers such as David Lavender remembered “not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of ti...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
080326030X
EAN Code
9780803260306
ISBN #
8
Critics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his book "a balanced, learned, and lively history of an epochal human exploit" (Choice).Lavender sets the stage with a lucid account of the imperial rivalr...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
444
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803280033
EAN Code
9780803280038
ISBN #
2
David Lavender, Pulitzer nominee and one of America's leading authors on America's West, has written a memorable history of the Colorado town where he was raised: from early days of silver mining through near ghost town to ski resort and festival mecca. His son, David G. Lavender covers the many eve...
Author
David Lavender and David G. Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
83
Publisher
Wayfinder Press
ISBN #
0943727286
EAN Code
9780943727288
ISBN #
9
The exploration and conquest of the Pacific Northwest is the dominant theme of Land of Giants, a book which (in the words of William O. Douglas) "gives one a sense of participation in moulding the manifest destiny of America." English and Spanish seadogs seeking a northwest passage to the Orient wer...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
483
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN #
0803279051
EAN Code
9780803279056
ISBN #
7
First published in 1980 as part of Harper & Row's Regions of America series, this lively account is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. Focusing on New Mexico and Arizona, it also touches on neighboring states Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, as well as northern...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
364
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN #
0826307361
EAN Code
9780826307361
ISBN #
6
An American Heritage(R) BookThe Great West is a sweeping history of the commissioned expeditions, failed settlements, and land speculation that conquered the American West. A noted historian of the region and a dramatic storyteller, Lavender portrays the moments and movements that shaped the growing...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
0618001891
EAN Code
9780618001897
ISBN #
5
"The country in which I grew up - the rugged areas of southwestern Colorado - was changing rapidly in the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to capture a segment of the passing on paper - the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the ...
Author
David Lavender
Binding
Paperback
Pages
316
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803258550
EAN Code
9780803258556
ISBN #
4
David Sievert Lavender (February 4, 1910 April 26, 2003) was an American historian and writer of the Western United States. He published more than 40...
ISBN #
1