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Book Synopsis Graham County Clippings by : Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Download or read book Graham County Clippings written by Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prairie Fire written by Julie Courtwright and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.
Book Synopsis Available Information Materials on Solid Waste Management by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Download or read book Available Information Materials on Solid Waste Management written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Solid Waste Management: Available Information Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Available Information Materials on Solid Waste Management by :
Download or read book Available Information Materials on Solid Waste Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Soil survey of Graham County, North Carolina by :
Download or read book Soil survey of Graham County, North Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inventory of the County Archives of Kansas: Graham County (Hill City) by : Historical Records Survey (U.S.).
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Kansas: Graham County (Hill City) written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptors: archives, county archives, historical records, inventory.
Download or read book The Treesearcher written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Power of God Against the Guns of Government by : Paul J. Vanderwood
Download or read book The Power of God Against the Guns of Government written by Paul J. Vanderwood and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing in a narrative style reminiscent of Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, author explains a series of 1890s uprisings in Tomochic, in the border state of Chihuahua, against the Porfirians' determination to dictate who would control the lan
Book Synopsis Tom Horn in Life and Legend by : Larry D. Ball
Download or read book Tom Horn in Life and Legend written by Larry D. Ball and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career. Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated. To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Horn’s own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. Ball’s study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.
Book Synopsis When Law Was in the Holster by : John Boessenecker
Download or read book When Law Was in the Holster written by John Boessenecker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in Paul’s story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure. As told by veteran western historian John Boessenecker, this story is more than just a western shoot-’em-up, and it reveals Paul to be far more than a blood-and-thunder gunfighter. Beginning with Paul’s boyhood adventures as a whaler in the South Pacific, the author traces his journey to Gold Rush California, where he served respectively as constable, deputy sheriff, and sheriff in Calaveras County, and as Wells Fargo shotgun messenger and detective. Then, in the turbulent 1880s, Paul became sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, and a railroad detective for the Southern Pacific. In 1890 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U.S. marshal of Arizona Territory. Transcending local history, Paul’s story provides an inside look into the rough-and-tumble world of frontier politics, electoral corruption, Mexican-U.S. relations, border security, vigilantism, and western justice. Moreover, issues that were important in Paul’s career—illegal immigration, smuggling on the Mexican border, youth gangs, racial discrimination, ethnic violence, and police-minority relations—are as relevant today as they were during his lifetime.
Book Synopsis To the Stars Over Rough Roads by : Donald Frederick Nelson
Download or read book To the Stars Over Rough Roads written by Donald Frederick Nelson and published by TidePool Press, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghost Towns of Kansas by : Daniel Fitzgerald
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Kansas written by Daniel Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated guide to Kansas ghost towns will delight travelers and armchair tourists alike. Organized by region, it tells the story of 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were.'
Book Synopsis African Americans on the Great Plains by : Bruce A. Glasrud
Download or read book African Americans on the Great Plains written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence?let alone importance?of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history. ø Originally published over the span of twenty-five years in Great Plains Quarterly, the essays collected here describe the part African Americans played in the frontier army and as homesteaders, community builders, and activists. The authors address race relations, discrimination, and violence. They tell of the struggle for civil rights and against Jim Crow, and they examine African American cultural growth and contributions as well as economic and political aspects of black life on the Great Plains. From individuals such as ?Pap? Singleton, Era Bell Thompson, Aaron Douglas, and Alphonso Trent; to incidents at Fort Hays, Brownsville, and Topeka; to defining moments in government, education, and the arts?this collection offers the first comprehensive overview of the black experience on the Plains.
Author :Arizona. Office of Economic Planning and Development. Planning Division Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Graham County Environmental Services Needs Study, 1970-1990 by : Arizona. Office of Economic Planning and Development. Planning Division
Download or read book Graham County Environmental Services Needs Study, 1970-1990 written by Arizona. Office of Economic Planning and Development. Planning Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horn/Hornes of Georgia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogical information on William Horne and Jonas Horne and descendants.
Book Synopsis Rawhide Jake: Westward Ho! by : JD Arnold
Download or read book Rawhide Jake: Westward Ho! written by JD Arnold and published by Hat Creek. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an unforgettable journey through the uncharted terrain of the Wild West with Westward Ho!. the enthralling conclusion to the Rawhide Jake Trilogy. Meet Jake, a former Texas stock detective turned blacksmith, whose longing for a tranquil existence is shattered by the relentless pull of destiny. Whispers of his feared reputation spread like wildfire, attracting a wave of lawless desperados led by the notorious Ike Clanton. Forced to confront his past, Jake sets out on a mission to cleanse the land of these outlaws. But just as he seeks solace in California's Central Valley, a tragic riding accident hurls him into the chaos of San Francisco. With a shattered leg, he must adapt and find refuge, yet trouble persists. Unexpectedly appointed as a detective in the burgeoning city of Los Angeles, Jake becomes entangled in a battle against crime and civic corruption, desperately yearning for an escape.Acclaimed author JD Arnold weaves a tapestry of heart-stopping gunfights, pulse-pounding chases, and an unwavering pursuit of justice. This gripping tale immerses you in the relentless spirit of the American West, where Jake's resilience and determination leave an indelible mark on history. Experience the triumphs and tribulations of a life lived on the edge as Jake confronts his demons, fights for his future, and crafts his legacy. Westward Ho! captures the essence of a bygone era, where courage, adventure, and the pursuit of righteousness reign supreme.
