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Book Synopsis Gila Descending by : Maynard Hubbard Salmon
Download or read book Gila Descending written by Maynard Hubbard Salmon and published by High Lonesome Books. This book was released on 1988-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a 200-mile wilderness journey by canoe down the Gila River.
Download or read book Gila Descending written by M. H. Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gila written by Gregory McNamee and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West’s great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary tale narrates the Gila’s natural and human history. Now updated, McNamee’s study traces recent efforts to resuscitate portions of this important riparian corridor.
Book Synopsis ¡Gila Libre! by : Maynard Hubbard Salmon
Download or read book ¡Gila Libre! written by Maynard Hubbard Salmon and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salmon tells the varied story of this unique, undammed, Southwestern river--in the past, the present, and, possibly, the future.
Book Synopsis First and Wildest by : Elizabeth Hightower Allen
Download or read book First and Wildest written by Elizabeth Hightower Allen and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gila Wilderness is both a landmark in conservation history and a living, evolving place. First and Wildest is an elegant, impassioned, and timely tribute to its remarkable past and present.” —MICHELLE NIJHUIS In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwaters of New Mexico's Gila River and proposed to his bosses at the Forest Service that 500,000 acres of that rough country be set aside as roadless wilderness. Thus was born America's first—the world's first—designated wilderness. A century later, writer–activists, including Indigenous voices, come together to celebrate this vast, rugged landscape, the Yellowstone of the Southwest. Contributors include Michael P. Berman, Philip Connors, Martha Schumann Cooper, Beto O'Rourke, Martin Heinrich, Pam Houston, Priyanka Kumar, Laura Paskus, Sharman Apt Russell, Jakob Sedig, Leeanna T. Torres, and JJ Amaworo Wilson. ELIZABETH HIGHTOWER ALLEN is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, where she spent twenty–plus years editing award–winning features and writing columns and book reviews. A transplanted southerner turned westerner, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she edits books and articles about public lands, memoir, and adventure, and serves on the advisory board to Writers on the Range. She and her husband and daughter spend as much time as they can exploring the rivers and mountains of the West—while also making it back to Tennessee fairly frequently for ham biscuits. Her mind is blown by the rugged vastness of the Gila.
Download or read book Ross Calvin written by Ron Hamm and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people love the American Southwest without truly understanding it. Ross Randall Calvin did and we are the richer for it. Calvin began his search as a pilgrim health-seeker, believing he had left the “known world” behind when he fled the East for New Mexico. There he soon found to our benefit that he could use his observational skills and intellect to fashion a picture that helped him and us comprehend those unique factors that make New Mexico what it is—its history, people, culture, climate, and so much more. Those lessons learned he shared with us. His books and essays can open our eyes to New Mexico if we but heed them. Calvin’s story as discoverer and interpreter unfolds in rich detail in this essential work.
Book Synopsis Trappers of the Far West by : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Download or read book Trappers of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.
Download or read book Free Flow written by Jan Haley and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartfelt photographs--dramatic, tranquil, and vivid by turn--portray the wild beauty of southwest New Mexico's Gila River.
Download or read book New Mexico written by Van Beacham and published by Wilderness Adventures Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Wilderness Adventures Press flyfishing guidebook"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Brief Presented by the Government of the United States of Mexico to the Agent of the Government of the United States of America in Accordance with Art. V of the Arbitration Convention in Regard to the Chamizal Case, Dated June the 24th, 1910 by : Mexico
Download or read book Brief Presented by the Government of the United States of Mexico to the Agent of the Government of the United States of America in Accordance with Art. V of the Arbitration Convention in Regard to the Chamizal Case, Dated June the 24th, 1910 written by Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Breakfast New Mexico Style by : Valerie Nye
Download or read book Breakfast New Mexico Style written by Valerie Nye and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breakfast New Mexico Style" is a dining guide to more than 100 librarian-endorsed restaurants from Carlsbad to Aztec and Tucumcari to Silver City. Included are recommended reading and after-breakfast activity suggestions.
Download or read book Cherry Days written by David Leo and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age story set in 1950s Singapore, written with photorealistic clarity. Skinny and his friends grow up in a self-sufficient kampong along an unnamed road. Reading about their lives, a distinctive character of their long-gone childhood and of Singapore emerges—raw from a recently concluded war, alive with student riots and social movements. Among the themes explored by the narrator is one of change, such as the transition from rural to urban living and the role of women in a developing society, as if inevitably the road must lead to it. Stories of love, death and forgiveness line the unnamed road at the heart of life in the kampong. Reader Reviews “This is a local book that should be of interest to Westerners because it's such a well told story. This is really one of the first works I've read that didn't have an assumption that Singapore's history is of interest to the rest of the world. This book simply had an unassuming way of speaking about childhood while navigating through an interesting period in time. The writer had such wonderful discipline at keeping perspective and wrestling the story down to size, at delivering a really well-shaped tale that has a lot of universal resonance and local affection. David Leo had a really deft hand.” — Fran Lebowitz “Cherry Days is a very ambitious, and largely very effective, contained novel that is essentially set on one stretch of an unnamed road. The setting is one of the real strengths of the book... a coming-of-age fiction set in the Singapore of the 1950s that effectively creates a mood of nostalgia. There is an elegiac quality to Skinny's story about his long-gone childhood in the kampong, even as the book explores parallel developments in history, especially the changing role of women. The attention to detail in recreating the location and some strong characters are notable highlights. David Leo writes with a simplicity and clarity that works to bolster the essential tone of the narrative.” — Shoba Viswanathan “The unassuming, deceptively simple prose of Cherry Days belies its big-hearted, emotional core, from which the characters are vividly, lovingly and empathetically drawn. The book draws the readers in steadily, keeping them enthralled in the bucolic kampong life and shenanigans of its inhabitants. Yet, layer by layer, it peels away the patina of innocence, revealing the loss and poignancy that comes with growing up. Cherry Days is a treasure trove of precious memories and epitomes of neighbourly love.” —William Phuan, managing director of The Select Centre “Cherry Days appeals with nostalgia and a familiar sense of community. The straightforward prose imparts with affection defining moments and memories of youth and family.” —Tan Mei Ching, writer of novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, plays, children’s books
Book Synopsis The Norton Trilogy by : Jack L. August
Download or read book The Norton Trilogy written by Jack L. August and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Dividing Western Waters comes a book on the development of the arid West--in particular the development of Arizona--as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona. From the administration of Teddy Roosevelt and the earliest reclamation acts to the monumental case between California and Arizona that would determine how the life-giving waters of the Colorado River would be divided, the Nortons were at the center of Arizona's development into a vital population and agricultural center. Pioneers like the Nortons shaped the very landscape of the western United States--a region that would help to supply the United States with cotton, vegetables, and livestock throughout World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Norton Trilogy follows the lives of John R. Norton (1854-1923) and the beginnings of Arizona farming; John R. Norton, Jr. (1901-1987) and his expansions into diverse crops; and John R. Norton III (1929-present) and the shaping of modern agribusiness as it responded to new water irrigation policies. As the author points out, "Several themes run through The Norton Trilogy: the most important is the interplay between human values and the waterscape. Technology, of course, played a monumental role in this drama, for dynamite, bulldozers, and reinforced concrete impacted the region's water and shaped the agricultural economy more than any Indian's digging stick. Another theme is the central role played by government--local, state, regional, and national--in shaping water policies. The biographical profiles of each John Norton addressed in this work reveal much about the history of Arizona and the central role that the quest for water has played in the growth and development of the region." Although the book focuses largely on the state of Arizona, and specifically on one Arizonan family, the story is a template of the hardworking American ideal. Senator John Kyl, a colleague of John Norton III, writes in the foreword, “The Nortons, who never suffered from lack of a work ethic, have made Arizona and the nation a better place. This book is as much an American story as it is an Arizona one.” Readers everywhere will be captivated by the generation-to-generation struggles of a family business and how these failures and successes are affected by interstate politics and public policy.
Book Synopsis The War of the Rebellion by : United States. War Department
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Book Synopsis The War of the Rebellion by : United States. War Dept
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of New Mexico by : Horatio Oliver Ladd
Download or read book The Story of New Mexico written by Horatio Oliver Ladd and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
