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Fecha de nacimiento: 1903-08-01
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1995-03-08
Lugar de sepultura: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, New York, USA
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Buffalo, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Lugares de residencia: Buffalo, New York, USA
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Educación: New Mexico Military Institute
Eastman School of Music
Ocupaciones: novelist
historian
short-story writer
professor
lieutenant colonel
librarian
Relaciones: Hurd, Peter (friend)
Organizaciones: American Academy of Arts and Letters
United States Army
Wesleyan University
American Catholic Historical Association (President)
New Mexico Military Institute
Premios y honores: Campion Award (1957)
Laetare Medal (1976)
Robert Kirsch Award (1987)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1973)

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Rare 1961 Citizen of New Salem por Paul Horgan

$6. A portrait of. young abraham lincoln.

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susangeib | Oct 31, 2023 |

Citizen of New Salem por Paul Horgan

Biography of the early, mature years of Abraham Lincoln in New Salem, IL.

FROM AMAZON: In honor of the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration, the Editors of "The Saturday Evening Post" asked the author to write this essay in biography devoted to Lincoln's formative years as a young citizen of New Salem, Illinois.

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Gmomaj | otra reseña | Apr 17, 2023 |

Great river : the Rio Grande in North American history por Paul Horgan

A book detailing the influence of the major River valley of the southwest, being generally more acessable than the Colorado. Horgan creates a firm narrative background for students of the narrower questions of the history of the region. There is even some discussion of the imbalance of power between the USA and Mexico in volume two, to be read with some profit by modern Americans. This book is well worth your time, though there is not much in it for the fans of firearms minutiae.

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DinadansFriend | otra reseña | Aug 12, 2022 |

A Distant Trumpet (Nonpareil Books) por Paul Horgan

A nice to surprise to find this book in a thrift store with zero prior knowledge of the author and end up with a great reading experience. Too many 'westerns' or at least books set in the west of the frontier are the Louis L'amour or Ralph Compton variety, they may be ok but are a little one-dimensional. I won't throw Elmer Kelton under that bus, too good! But A Distant Trumpet on the other hand is a long book with a fully developed set of interesting and complex characters and is a portrait of a slice of America at that time not likely to be bested. I'm surprised this is not on a list of the best books about the American West, at least the few I checked out. I've read a few that are on such lists and this surpasses most entirely. Will definitely be looking for something else by Paul Horgan, as I learned he was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (and it shows in this book!). Interestingly, he was also friends with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Those must have been some interesting conversations!… (más)