Powder, People and Place

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ISBN 13 : 9780938627562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder, People and Place by : Michael J. Goc

Download or read book Powder, People and Place written by Michael J. Goc and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall grass prairie. Home of native people. Heart of a prosperous farm community. Host to a massive military munitioins plant. The Sauk Prairie has been a focal point of American history for as long as history has been recorded here. Focusing on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, known as the Badger Ordnance Works during World War II, Powder People and Place presents a series of stories that merge into a seamless history of the powder plant, the people whose lives it changed and the place where they came together.

Powder Days

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488069050
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder Days by : Heather Hansman

Download or read book Powder Days written by Heather Hansman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Boston Globe Bestseller!* *An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick!* *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Award!* "A sparkling account."—Wall Street Journal An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists The story of skiing is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Blossoming from the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, the sport took hold across the country, driven by adventurers seeking the rush of freedom that only cold mountain air could provide. As skiing gained in popularity, mom-and-pop backcountry hills gave way to groomed trails and eventually the megaresorts of today. Along the way, the pioneers and diehards—the ski bums—remained the beating heart of the scene. Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana to West Virginia, Hansman profiles the people who have built their lives around a cold-weather obsession. Along the way she reckons with skiing's problematic elements and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of the existential threat of climate change.

Powder Ghost Towns

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Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899975186
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder Ghost Towns by : Peter Bronski

Download or read book Powder Ghost Towns written by Peter Bronski and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its heyday, Colorado had more than 175 ski areas operating on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and while many of those resorts have shut down, their runs still shelter secret stashes of snow. Pristine slopes await backcountry powder hounds out to discover these chutes and steeps, bunny hills and bumps. Chronicling the history of more than 36 of these "lost resorts," Powder Ghost Towns provides the beta for how to ski and board these classic runs today, with comprehensive information on trailheads, where to skin up, and the best descents. Coverage ranges from southern Wyoming's Medicine Bow Mountains to the Colorado-New Mexico border, including famous old resorts like Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Marching Powder

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466817321
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Marching Powder by : Thomas McFadden

Download or read book Marching Powder written by Thomas McFadden and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas's experiences in the jail. Rusty bribed the guards to allow him to stay and for the next three months he lived inside the prison, sharing a cell with Thomas and recording one of the strangest and most compelling prison stories of all time. The result is Marching Powder. This book establishes that San Pedro is not your average prison. Inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Others run shops and restaurants. Women and children live with imprisoned family members. It is a place where corrupt politicians and drug lords live in luxury apartments, while the poorest prisoners are subjected to squalor and deprivation. Violence is a constant threat, and sections of San Pedro that echo with the sound of children by day house some of Bolivia's busiest cocaine laboratories by night. In San Pedro, cocaine--"Bolivian marching powder"--makes life bearable. Even the prison cat is addicted. Yet Marching Powder is also the tale of friendship, a place where horror is countered by humor and cruelty and compassion can inhabit the same cell. This is cutting-edge travel-writing and a fascinating account of infiltration into the South American drug culture.

Sins of Empire

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Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316375128
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Sins of Empire by : Brian McClellan

Download or read book Sins of Empire written by Brian McClellan and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new epic fantasy trilogy about a young nation at odds with the ancient forces that have begun to stir as fortune seekers and sorcerers flock to the frontier. Set in of Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy. A world on the cusp of a new age. . . The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers, and sorcerers seeking relics of the past. Only the iron will of the lady chancellor and her secret police holds the capital city of Landfall together against the unrest of an oppressed population and the machinations of powerful empires. Sedition is a dangerous word. . . The insurrection that threatens Landfall must be purged with guile and force, a task which falls on the shoulders of a spy named Michel Bravis, convicted war hero Mad Ben Styke, and Lady Vlora Flint, a mercenary general with a past as turbulent as Landfall's present. The past haunts us all. . . As loyalties are tested, revealed, and destroyed, a grim specter as old as time has been unearthed in this wild land, and the people of Landfall will soon discover that rebellion is the least of their worries.

From the Pecos to the Powder

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122120
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (221 download)

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Book Synopsis From the Pecos to the Powder by : Bob Kennon

Download or read book From the Pecos to the Powder written by Bob Kennon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the memoirs of a cowboy and cattleman who left his Texas home at the age of twelve and worked at various ranches before becoming an active participant in Montana's cattle industry

Powder Necklace

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439149119
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder Necklace by : Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Download or read book Powder Necklace written by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl’s own good, in her mother’s mind, but for the daughter, the reality of being the new girl, the foreigner-among-your-own-people, was even worse than the idea. During her time at school, she would learn that Ghana was much more complicated than her fellow ex-pats had ever told her, including how much a London-raised child takes something like water for granted. In Ghana, water “became a symbol of who had and who didn’t, who believed in God and who didn’t. If you didn’t have water to bathe, you were poor because no one had sent you some.” After six years in Ghana, her mother summons her home to London to meet the new man in her mother’s life—and his daughter. The reunion is bittersweet and short-lived as her parents decide it’s time that she get to know her father. So once again, she’s sent off, this time to live with her father, his new wife, and their young children in New York—but not before a family trip to Disney World.

Marching Powder

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330470345
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Marching Powder by : Rusty Young

Download or read book Marching Powder written by Rusty Young and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top. Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fee and buy their own cells (the alternative is to sleep outside and die of exposure), prisoners' wives and children often live inside too, high quality cocaine is manufactured and sold from the prison. Thomas ended up making a living by giving backpackers tours of the prison – he became a fixture on the backpacking circuit and was named in the Lonely Planet guide to Bolivia. When he was told that for a bribe of $5000 his sentence could be overturned, it was the many backpackers who'd passed through who sent him the money. Written by lawyer Rusty Young, Marching Powder – sometimes shocking, sometimes funny – is a riveting story of survival.

Gold Coast

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Book Synopsis Gold Coast by : Lord Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne

Download or read book Gold Coast written by Lord Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wrath of Empire

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Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316407240
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Wrath of Empire by : Brian McClellan

Download or read book Wrath of Empire written by Brian McClellan and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war rages, both sides are in a race to find the one thing that could turn the tides to their favor -- a stone with the power to turn humans into gods -- in the second book of Brian McClellan's epic fantasy tale of magic and gunpowder. The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint's soldiers. But escaping war is never easy, and soon the battle may find them, whether they are prepared or not. Back in the capital, Michel Bravis smuggles even more refugees out of the city. But internal forces are working against him. With enemies on all sides, Michel may be forced to find help with the very occupiers he's trying to undermine. Meanwhile, Ben Styke is building his own army. He and his mad lancers are gathering every able body they can find and searching for an ancient artifact that may have the power to turn the tides of war in their favor. But what they find may not be what they're looking for. Continue the pistol-packing fantasy series by the author whose debut novel Brandon Sanderson called "just plain awesome!" Gods of Blood and PowderSins of EmpireWrath of Empire For more from Brian McClellan, check out: Powder MagePromise of BloodThe Crimson CampaignThe Autumn Republic

In Search of Powder

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803228392
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of Powder by : Jeremy Evans

Download or read book In Search of Powder written by Jeremy Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture?a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: ?Ski as much as possible.? His snowboarding suffered when he left for a job in the Portland area; and when, at twenty-six, he suffered a stroke, he reexamined his priorities, quit his job, moved back to Tahoe, and threw himself into snowboarding. But while he had been away, the culture had changed. This book is Evans?s paean to the disappearing culture of the ski bum. A fascinating look at a world far removed from the larger culture, it is also a curious account of a passion for powder and what its disappearance means. ø Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters?rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own path?and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyle presents.

Kingdom

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Powderburns

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Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Sundial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Powderburns by : Celerino Castillo

Download or read book Powderburns written by Celerino Castillo and published by Oakville, Ont. : Sundial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth about the remaining dark secret of the Iran-Contra scandal- the United States government's collaboration with drug smugglers. Powderburns is the story of Celerino Castillo III who spent 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration. During that time, he built cases against organized drug rings in Manhattan, raided jungle cocaine labs in the Amazon, conducted aerial eradication operations in Guatemala, and assembled and trained anti-narcotics units in several countries. The eerie climax of Agent Castillo's career with the DEA took place in El Salvador. One day, he recieved a cable from a fellow agent. He was told to investigate possible drug smuggling by Nicaraguan Contras operating from the ilpango air force base. Castillo quickly discovered that Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling narcotics back into the United States - using the same pilots, planes, and hangars that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, under the Direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain their covert supply operation to the Contras.

Report

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Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis Report by : New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission

Download or read book Report written by New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Powder

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 178648675X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Powder by : Patrick Thorne

Download or read book Powder written by Patrick Thorne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most impressive, thrilling and scenic ski runs from one of the world's leading ski experts. Long descents, big verts, challenging pistes and stunning scenery, Powder is the definitive guide to the best and most feared ski runs on the planet. Whether you're a serious off-piste skier or a novice with alpine ambitions, this visually stunning guide will undoubtedly inspire the winter Olympian in all of us. Along with classic runs in Chamonix, Whistler and Jackson Hole, Powder will also take you to offbeat and exotic locations such as the Himalayas, the Atlas Mountains and the 2014 Olympic destination of Sochi in Russia - places notable not only for the fantastic skiing and snowboarding, but also for their extraordinary scenery. Powder is the ultimate bucket list for any snowsports enthusiast, challenging beginners and experts alike to take on the most breathtaking runs the world has to offer. Contents include: Mt St Elias, Alaska; Whitehorn 2, Lake Louise, Canada; Inferno, Mürren, Switzerland; Tortin, Verbier, Switzerland; Aiguille Rouge, Les Arcs, France; Klein Matterhorn Descent, Cervinia, Italy; Lyngen Peninsula, Norway; Sochi Olympic Downhill, Rosa Khutor, Russia; Mizuno no Sawa, Niseko, Japan; Everest, Mt Everest, Nepal; The Motatapu Chutes, Treble Cone, New Zealand; Fast One, Mt Buller, Australia; Mt Vinson, Antarctica.

Special Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Special Bulletin by : North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo). Food Department

Download or read book Special Bulletin written by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo). Food Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Powder River Country

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Publisher : Margaret Hanson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Book Synopsis Powder River Country by : Margaret Brock Hanson

Download or read book Powder River Country written by Margaret Brock Hanson and published by Margaret Hanson. This book was released on 1981 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: