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Western Lore and Language

Author : Thomas L. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Lore and Language written by Thomas L. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Western Lore and Language is the first dictionary to document the extraordinary range of words that are an integral part of the West, old and new. Focusing on words that either originated in the West (forty-niner, skookum, quaking aspen), are used mainly in the West (butte, skink, Spanish sword), or are associated with the West (mesa, rodeo, surfer), Thomas Clark has compiled an entertaining and essential reference of the Western word. This generously illustrated resource gives readers everything they need to talk western: a pinch of Border Spanish, (Tex-Mex, Tejana, Spanglish), some California Mellow, a generous portion of Old West, and a broad scoop of New West (from vineyard cultivation to Valley Girl vapidity). For more serious readers, the dictionary also offers complete lexicological entries for each word - part of speech, pronunciation, definition, source, etymology, dates, cross-references, and editorial comments."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

St. Thomas, Nevada

Author : Aaron McArthur
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874179194
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book St. Thomas, Nevada written by Aaron McArthur and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of St. Thomas, Nevada, the remains of which today lay under the high water mark of Lake Mead, begins in 1865 with Mormon missionaries sent by Brigham Young to the Moapa Valley to grow cotton. In 1871 the boundary of Utah territory was shifted east by one degree longitude, and the town became part of Nevada. New settlers moved in, miners and farmers, interacting with the Mormons and native Paiutes. The building of Hoover Dam doomed the small settlement, yet a striking number of people still have connections to a town that ceased to exist three-quarters of a century ago. Today, the ruins of this ghost town, just sixty miles east of Las Vegas, are visible when the waters of Lake Mead are low. Located in a national recreation area, the National Park Service today preserves and interprets the remains of St. Thomas as a significant historical site. Touching as it does upon on early explorers, Mormons, criminals, railroad and auto transportation, mining, water, state and federal relations, and more, St. Thomas, Nevada offers much to Mormon and regional historians, as well as general readers of western history.

Cowboy Culture

Author : Sandy Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510742271
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Culture written by Sandy Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Photographic Look at the Old West That Is Alive and Well in California It was a thrilling time, when wagon trains and stagecoaches raced to the California goldfields – on the trail where the dust and campfire smoke met. In the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada, the real Wild West was born. And it still lives today, in the extraordinary people who pack mule-strings into the mountains, race over mountain passes on horseback while recreating the Pony Express, and drive cattle out of the high country each fall. It lives on beneath the massive wheels of the twenty-mule-team wagons and teams of draft horses pulling historic wagons over a mountain pass. Sit back and enjoy this fascinating journey as the Old West comes alive in a book filled with unique western images, inspiring stories from the trail, memorable cowboy poetry, and some western history.

Historical Collections of the Great West

Author : Henry Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Historical Collections of the Great West written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870040436
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's West

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108508472
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book America's West written by David M. Wrobel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation. Using regionalism as a lens for illuminating these national trends, America's West: A History, 1890–1950 examines this region's history and explores its influence on the rest of America. Moving chronologically from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, David M. Wrobel examines turn-of-the-century expansion, the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, and the early Cold War years. He emphasizes cultural and political history, showing how developments in the West frequently indicated the future direction of the country.

Proceedings RMRS.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings RMRS. written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Recursive Frontier

Author : Michael Docherty
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143849713X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Recursive Frontier written by Michael Docherty and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contrary to the received wisdom that Depression-era narratives mourn the frontier's demise, Docherty argues that the frontier lives on as a cruel set of rules for survival in urban modernity, governing how texts figure race, space, mobility, and masculinity. Moving from dancehalls to offices to oil fields and beyond, the book provides a richer, more diverse picture of LA's literary production during this period, as well as a vivid account of LA's cultural and social development as it transformed into the multiethnic megalopolis we know today.

Preserving Western History

Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826333100
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Preserving Western History written by Andrew Gulliford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays on public history in the American West.

Stephen E. Ambrose Opening of the West E-Book Boxed Set

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476756937
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Stephen E. Ambrose Opening of the West E-Book Boxed Set written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook box set includes Undaunted Courage and Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose, focusing on the ingenuity and the hardships that shaped the American West. Undaunted Courage: This #1 New York Times bestseller gives a sweeping account of the most momentous expedition in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it—wild, awesome, and pristinely beautiful. Nothing Like It in the World: A riveting account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage—this is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. The US government pitted two companies—the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads—against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution, and their race brilliantly comes to life in Ambrose’s telling of the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and all the laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.

Proceedings--shrublands under fire

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings--shrublands under fire written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great West

Author : Henry Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great West written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington

Author : Donald B. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870043666
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington by : Donald B. Robertson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington written by Donald B. Robertson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This 352-page, triple indexed reference book covers nearly 500 names in the two north Pacific coast states. All known common carrier steam powered operations of ten or more miles are included, plus numerous logging companies, electric traction and diesel operations. The account covers their histories from inception until sale or abandonment - or until 1993 if still active. Railroad titles are full and exact.

Reclaiming the American West

Author : Alan Berger
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983622
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming the American West written by Alan Berger and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berger (design, Harvard U.) provides an overview of what possibilities are offered by converting abandoned mines, as well as the physical, philosophical, technological, environmental, political, regulatory and ethical issues involved. In the opening chapters, he addresses the history, size, scope, and various forms of reclamation projects. Subsequent topics cover more speculative and theoretical discussions of aesthetics, space, nature, time and revaluing, together with photographic evidence. The book contains 199 color illustrations and is oversize: 11.25x9.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890962343
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History written by Jacques Barzun and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Prescott Webb's contributions to the study of history, detailing the direction historical studies have taken since Webb wrote. Webb's historiography and its relationship to classroom instruction is the subject of the second essay, by Elliott West. An appreciation of Webb and a sense of his teaching style are offered by Anne M. Butler and Richard A. Baker, while Dennis Reinhartz discusses the use of maps in the classroom, a practice to which Webb was committed. In a postscript, Llerena Friend writes a personal tribute to her mentor and colleague.

Something in the Soil

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321029
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Something in the Soil written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills