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Author : David F. Myrick
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Arizona. Howell-North Books,. written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
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ISBN 13 : 9781930013278
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Arizona: Jerome and the northern roads written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
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Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Arizona written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
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Download or read book Railroads of Arizona: Jerome and the northern roads written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
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Download or read book Railroads of Arizona: Santa Fe to Phoenix written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
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ISBN 13 : 9780831071189
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Arizona: Phoenix and the central roads written by David F. Myrick and published by . This book was released on with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Myrick
Publisher : Oak Tree Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780831071189
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Arizona written by David F. Myrick and published by Oak Tree Publications. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. R. Griswold
Publisher : American Traveler Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558381315
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Arizona's Railroads written by P. R. Griswold and published by American Traveler Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of the Wild West, Arizona needed trains to efficiently transport people and products. But building those routes was much tougher than it might seem. Read about the tracks, trains, those who help shaped their course, and their roles today.
Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599548
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Arizona written by Thomas E. Sheridan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E. Sheridan's thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona has become a standard in the field. Now, just in time for Arizona's centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US-Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state's history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive. From stone spear points more than 10,000 years old to the boom and bust of the housing market in the first decade of this century, Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, Asians, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona. Sheridan, a life-long resident of the state, puts forth new ideas about what a history should be, embracing a holistic view of the region and shattering the artificial line between prehistory and history. Other works on Arizona's history focus on government, business, or natural resources, but this is the only book to meld the ethnic and cultural complexities of the state's history into the main flow of the story. A must read for anyone interested in Arizona's past or present, this extensive revision of the classic work will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers alike.
Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940865
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sunset Limited written by Richard J. Orsi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587290707
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Hard Places written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.
Author : Michael F. Logan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816526055
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Lessening Stream written by Michael F. Logan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomers to Tucson know the Santa Cruz River as a dry bed that can become a rampaging flood after heavy rains. Yet until the late nineteenth century, the Santa Cruz was an active watercourse that served the region’s agricultural needs—until a burgeoning industrial society began to tap the river’s underground flow. The Lessening Stream reviews the changing human use of the Santa Cruz River and its aquifer from the earliest human presence in the valley to today. Michael Logan examines the social, cultural, and political history of the Santa Cruz Valley while interpreting the implications of various cultures' impacts on the river and speculating about the future of water in the region. Logan traces river history through three eras—archaic, modern, and postmodern—to capture the human history of the river from early Native American farmers through Spanish missionaries to Anglo settlers. He shows how humans first diverted its surface flow, then learned to pump its aquifer, and today fail to fully understand the river's place in the urban environment. By telling the story of the meandering river—from its origin in southern Arizona through Mexico and the Tucson Basin to its terminus in farmland near Phoenix—Logan links developments throughout the river valley so that a more complete picture of the river's history emerges. He also contemplates the future of the Santa Cruz by confronting the serious problems posed by groundwater pumping in Tucson and addressing the effects of the Central Arizona Project on the river valley. Skillfully interweaving history with hydrology, geology, archaeology, and anthropology, The Lessening Stream makes an important contribution to the environmental history of southern Arizona. It reminds us that, because water will always be the focus for human activity in the desert, we desperately need a more complete understanding of its place in our lives.
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (N.M.), Wilderness Proposal written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Bronitsky
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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book The Archaeology of Southeast Arizona written by Gordon Bronitsky and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Truett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135327
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Fugitive Landscapes written by Samuel Truett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.
Author : Cindy Hayostek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738570655
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Douglas written by Cindy Hayostek and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of its 100-year history, Douglas was dominated by two smelters--the Copper Queen and the Calumet and Arizona. But Douglas thrived on the Mexican-American border because it was always more than just a smelter town. It was a section headquarters for the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, host to three distinct army camps, and a hub for area ranchers and farmers. Douglas residents were crazy about aviation and built an airport where many aerial firsts took place. Although it may seem that the often-deadly intrigue surrounding the Mexican Revolution and the two battles fought in Agua Prieta, the Sonoran town across the international boundary from Douglas, would limit trade and tourism possibilities, the opposite was true. After the last smelter closed in 1987, Douglas relied heavily upon border trade of all sorts for its growing economy. Today Douglas and Agua Prieta capitalize on the vibrancy from the meeting of two cultures.
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806126081
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Southern California's Best Ghost Towns written by Philip Varney and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visited nearly a hundred ghost towns in the area, provides a down-to-earth and helpful guide to more than sixty of the best in Southern California and nearby Inyo and Kern counties. He defines a ghost town as a town with a population markedly decreased from its peak, one whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people there. It can be completely deserted, have a resident or two, or retain genuine signs of vitality, but Varney has eliminated those towns he considers either too populated or too empty of significant remains. The sites are grouped in four chapters in Inyo County, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and Kern River, and the regions surrounding Los Angeles and San Diego. Each chapter provides a map of the region, a ranking of sites as "major," "secondary," and "minor," information on road conditions, trip suggestions, and tips on the use of particular topographic maps for readers interested in more detailed exploration. Each entry includes directions to a town, a brief history of that town, and notes on its special points of interest. Current photographs provide a valuable record of the sometimes fragile sites. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns will be welcomed both by those who enjoy traveling off the beaten path and by those who enjoy the history of the American West.
