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Book Synopsis Texas Cattle Barons by : Elmer Kelton
Download or read book Texas Cattle Barons written by Elmer Kelton and published by CF Ranch Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Texas Cattle Barons, Their Families, Land and Legacy thirteen families discuss the reality of owning and working some of the largest land holdings in the state of Texas. Most have owned some or all of their land for generations, others bought into their properties over time, all have risen to the challenge of taking the cattle industry into the next millennium." "Learn firsthand from ranchers like Al and Mike Micailef, Jim and James McAllen, and Jon and Jackie Means about the hard work, discipline, and faith required to make a cattle ranch work in this age of big business. Join the owners of the Broseco, Moorhouse, and Williams ranches as they discuss breeding programs, grazing patterns, and the pursuit of the ultimate "beef animal." Listen as the Gibsons and the Ryans reveal their passion for the land and their hope for the future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis The Land Baron by : John Henry Reese
Download or read book The Land Baron written by John Henry Reese and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tapeworm St. Sure's body was host to the insect for whom he was named, but his mind and heart were prey to dreams and ambitions unimagined by the citizens of a small town in the old American West. For Tapeworm was a failure for every eye to see, and it wasn't until an unknown assailant tried to shoot him down that his luck, ironically, began to change. First, he lost his tapeworm and then, found himself on the way to becoming the town's biggest land baron. But Tapeworm's past has witnessed deeds that now demand payment against his future. As his fortune increased, Tapeworm St. Sure became the even more devoted target for a killer"--Jacket flap.
Book Synopsis The Barons of Texas by : Jory Sherman
Download or read book The Barons of Texas written by Jory Sherman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of two fishermen in Texas who want to become ranchers. Attacked by Indians and exploited by crooks, they nevertheless find enough kind people to succeed.
Download or read book Book Notes written by Sidney Smith Rider and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.
Download or read book Land Barons written by A. Dru Kristenev and published by Changingwind. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Barons By A. Dru Kristenev What would you make of landowners falling prey to mysterious crop failings, unexplained livestock die-offs, arson, and murder while hundreds of thousands of acres of ranches, farms and pristine wilderness seem to vanish off the tax rolls and wind up in the hands of a shadowy entity? Two people find themselves in the center of an environmental vortex, sorting through all the strange coincidences and wondering how the pieces fit to complete the puzzle. Former newspaper publisher, Anthea Keller, and a retired cop turned college instructor, Gary Mathers, meet in the Idaho backwoods only to land in the midst of the land scam. Personal upheaval driving them from the big cities of Los Angeles and Portland the previous year, the last thing on either one's wish list right now is a relationship... any relationship. --------- What does a former newspaper publisher do when journalists won't cover the facts? Write about it. That's what Kristenev is doing in the Baron Series. Read all four books: "Land Barons" - Environmental politics and land scams lead to murder; "Gold Baron" - A journalist uncovers the ugly, and deadly, underbelly of national politics; "Energy Barons" - Explosions trigger blackouts, disappearances and death in the West; and the new release that closes the cycle of stand-alone political suspense novels, "Blood Barons" - Vanishings connect sordid research and a primordial treasure hunt. You'll wonder if it's really fiction! Visit http: //ChangingWind.org where character Toddy Littman, legal researcher extraordinaire, blogs on today's news. His insights will shock you...
Book Synopsis Barons, Brokers, and Buyers by : Michael S. Billig
Download or read book Barons, Brokers, and Buyers written by Michael S. Billig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative ethnography takes a new approach to the study of Philippine sugar. For much of the late colonial history of the Philippines, sugar was its most lucrative export, the biggest employer, and the greatest source of political influence. The so-called "Sugar Barons"--wealthy hacendero planters located mainly in Central Luzon and on the Visayan island of Negros--gained the reputation as kingmakers and became noted for their lavish lifestyles and the quasi-feudal nature of their estates. But Philippine sugar gradually declined into obsolescence; today it is regarded as a "sunset industry" that can barely satisfy domestic demand. While planters continue to think of themselves as wielding considerable power and influence, they are more often seen as vestiges of a bygone era. Michael Billig examines sugar's decline within both the dynamic context of contemporary Philippine society and the global context of the international sugar market. His multi-sited ethnographic analysis focuses mainly on conflicts among the various elite sectors (planters, millers, traders, commercial buyers, politicians) and concludes that the most salient political, economic, and cultural trend in the Philippines today is the decline of rural, agrarian elite power and the rise of urban industrial, commercial, and financial power. His reflections on his relationships with informants in the midst of the politically charged atmosphere that surrounds the sugar industry provide a candid look at the role of the observer who, try as he might to remain impartial, finds himself swept into the vortex of policy debates and power plays.
Book Synopsis Inequality in the Promised Land by : R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy
Download or read book Inequality in the Promised Land written by R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in neighborhoods of varying degrees of affluence, suburban public schools are typically better resourced than their inner-city peers and known for their extracurricular offerings and college preparatory programs. Despite the glowing opportunities that many families associate with suburban schooling, accessing a district's resources is not always straightforward, particularly for black and poorer families. Moving beyond class- and race-based explanations, Inequality in the Promised Land focuses on the everyday interactions between parents, students, teachers, and school administrators in order to understand why resources seldom trickle down to a district's racial and economic minorities. Rolling Acres Public Schools (RAPS) is one of the many well-appointed suburban school districts across the United States that has become increasingly racially and economically diverse over the last forty years. Expanding on Charles Tilly's model of relational analysis and drawing on 100 in-depth interviews as well participant observation and archival research, R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy examines the pathways of resources in RAPS. He discovers that—due to structural factors, social and class positions, and past experiences—resources are not valued equally among families and, even when deemed valuable, financial factors and issues of opportunity hoarding often prevent certain RAPS families from accessing that resource. In addition to its fresh and incisive insights into educational inequality, this groundbreaking book also presents valuable policy-orientated solutions for administrators, teachers, activists, and politicians.
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Commonwealth Club of California
Download or read book Transactions written by Commonwealth Club of California and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Land and Land Policy, National and State by : Henry George
Download or read book Our Land and Land Policy, National and State written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Land written by Christopher Ketcham and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--
Download or read book Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Current Encyclopedia by : Samuel Fallows
Download or read book Current Encyclopedia written by Samuel Fallows and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saward's Journal by : Frederick William Saward
Download or read book Saward's Journal written by Frederick William Saward and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harper's Magazine by : Henry Mills Alden
Download or read book Harper's Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Historic Note-book, with an Appendix of Battles by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Download or read book The Historic Note-book, with an Appendix of Battles written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The King Of California by : Mark Arax
Download or read book The King Of California written by Mark Arax and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin -- is unrivaled anywhere. Much more than a business story, this is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.
