Product Description: This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century...read more

His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Bestselling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories. Born into a humble Tennessee family in 1786, Crockett never "killed him a b'ar" when he was only three. But he did cut a huge swath across early-nineteenth-century America-as a bear hunter, a frontier explorer, a soldier serving under Andrew Jackson, an unlikely congressman, and, finally, a martyr in his now-controversial death at the Alamo. Wallis's David Crockett is more than a riveting story. It is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction, providing us with an extraordinary evocation of a true American hero and the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.

Product Description: The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer celebrate America’s first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco...read more

Product Description: His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Bestselling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories...read more

Product Description: The Wild West: 365 Days is a day-by-day adventure that tells the stories of pioneers and cowboys, gold rushes and saloon shoot-outs in America's frontier. The lure of land rich in minerals, fertile for farming, and plentiful with buffalo bred an all-out obsession with heading westward...read more

A biography of one of America's most notorious criminals describes 'Pretty Boy' Floyd's coming of age in poverty, his descent into petty crime and bootlegging, his stormy marriage, his murders, his jail terms, and more

Historian Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, 'the Kid,' who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at the age of 21, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw. He arose amid the mystery and myth of the swiftly vanishing frontier and, sensationalized beyond recognition by the tabloids and dime-store romances of the day, emerged as one of the most enduring icons of the American West--not to mention one of Hollywood's most misrepresented characters. This new biography, filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, separates myth from reality in its portrait of this brief and violent life.--From publisher description.A re-creation of the life of Billy the Kid journeys behind the sensationalized legend to reveal the real world of the celebrity outlaw, a young man who became one of the most enduring icons of the American West.

Product Description: A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairiesIn Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation—a title inspired by the lyrics of Woody Guthrie—best-selling author Michael Wallis creates a brilliant tableau of America’s heartland...read more

The first female chief of a large tribe, the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, tells her life story, from her childhood on Mankiller Flats to her struggle to lead her people into a new century

A richly illustrated celebration of Cars, the latest film from Pixar Animation Studios, presents a collection of storyboards, full-color pastels, photographs, and character sketches that capture the memorable story of a race car that learns that there is more to life than the fast lane. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Unique postcards celebrate the Mother Road as Hog Heaven.

The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community, with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available.The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI and LNBI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields.In parallel to the printed book, each new volume is published electronically in LNCS Online.

A collection of essays reflects on the diversity of the state of Oklahoma, from its old-time images of Native Americans and cowboys to such new icons as 'new' oil money and Friday night football

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Product Description: Winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Updated and revised to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of this American icon, a fascinating social history of Route 66, which spurred a revival of the dying American road, evokes the magic of the people and landscapes that surround it. Reprint. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Here is the definitive story of the most famous road in American history. Wallis has woven a tapestry that chronicles the road from its founding to its demise eight decades later and its current revival. 2 cassettes.

Product Description: Fitzgerald and Wallis pay tribute to the ""Green Country"" in this stunning collection of photos, personal profiles, and stories from beautiful northeastern Oklahoma.

Product Description: After a lifetime of following Route 66 and the other trails that

The first female chief of the Cherokee tribe recounts her family's relocation to California, her bitterly fought election, her struggle to lead the Cherokee into a new century, and the history of her tribe. Reprint.

Product Description: Before the advent of frequent-flier miles, eight-lane interstate highways, and cellular telephones, dream vacations took place on America's highways, and no road was greater than Route 66...Then, postcards respresented not only a form of communication, but also a way of telling your friends and family that you had, believe it or not, been there...read more

Color plates of edible plant species supplement their origin, habitat, botanical identity, characteristics, and nutritional value