Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Shepherdess Of Elk River Valley full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Shepherdess Of Elk River Valley ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Margaret Duncan Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Shepherdess of Elk River Valley written by Margaret Duncan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary B. Kurtz
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608449440
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book At Home in the Elk River Valley written by Mary B. Kurtz and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who love the West will find Mary Kurtz's first collection of essays an insightful journey into the history, natural world, and community of a special mountain valley near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Walk through the Elk River Valley with Mary as she shares her thoughtful perspectives on the people, history, rich landscape, and ranching traditions of the place she's called home for over thirty years. Join her as she introduces you to modern-day pioneers whose stories inspire and entertain. Meet a long-time rancher who hunts mountain lion where "no man ... ever walked"; a larger than life grandmother (usually seen wearing a bonnet and baseball hat) who never quite matched anyone's image of a rancher; and visionary land preservationists who protected the valley they love for generations to come. Sometimes poignant, always introspective, and informative, At Home in the Elk River Valley ultimately nudges each of us to contemplate deeper definitions of family, community and the physical place we call home. "In At Home in the Elk River Valley, Mary Kurtz invites readers to experience the ebb and flow of generations of ranchers in northwestern Colorado. Her lyrical prose ponders not only the seasonal change on the natural landscape, but the seasonal change of family life and those occurring within rural and western communities. Through her reflections, we gain an awareness of how closely tied we are to the past. This memoir is about change, loss, rejuvenation, and hope that is best enjoyed by the fireplace or under a shady elm to transport you into the slower pace of rural living." Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of You Can Write Your Family History
Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496535
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Woolly West written by Andrew Gulliford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History Category, sponsored by Colorado Center for the Book In The Woolly West, historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industry’s place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history—and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive. With vivid, elegant, and reflective prose, Gulliford explores the origins of sheep grazing in the region, the often-violent conflicts between the sheep and cattle industries, the creation of national forests, and ultimately the segmenting of grazing allotments with the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Deeper into the twentieth century, Gulliford grapples with the challenges of ecological change and the politics of immigrant labor. And in the present day, as the public lands of the West are increasingly used for recreation, conflicts between hikers and dogs guarding flocks are again putting the sheep industry on the defensive. Between each chapter, Gulliford weaves an account of his personal interaction with what he calls the “sheepscape”—that is, the sheepherders’ landscape itself. Here he visits with Peruvian immigrant herders and Mormon families who have grazed sheep for generations, explores delicately balanced stone cairns assembled by shepherds now long gone, and ponders the meaning of arborglyphs carved into unending aspen forests. The Woolly West is the first book in decades devoted to the sheep industry and breaks new ground in the history of the Colorado Basque, Greek, and Hispano shepherding families whose ranching legacies continue to the present day.
Author : Teresa Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803275751
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Cowgirls written by Teresa Jordan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and confronts the elements. The writer and photographer Teresa Jordan traveled sixty thousand miles in the American West, talking with more than a hundred authentic cowgirls running ranches and performing in rodeos. The result is a fascinating book that also situates the cowgirl in history and literature. A new preface and updated bibliography have been added to this Bison Book edition.
Author : Janet Robertson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496206312
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Magnificent Mountain Women written by Janet Robertson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.
Author : David H. Ellis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738570174
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboat Springs written by David H. Ellis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as Ski Town, U.S.A., for its deep powder and its growing crop of winter Olympians, Steamboat Springs was named nearly two centuries ago by French trappers. Hearing the "chug, chug" of one of many hot springs, they supposed they had reached navigable waters. For centuries, the area's abundant fish, game, and mineral springs drew the Yampatika, a Ute subtribe. In the 1870s, a rush of settlers came, first for precious metals, followed by more renewable riches--the lush summer pastures--and next the extraction of carbonized forests (coal) millions of years old. Ironically, real wealth ultimately fell free from leaden winter skies, and this Routt County community experienced a boom like few places on earth. Winter sports, including ski jumping, with some world records, made Steamboat Springs famous worldwide.
Author : Dorothy Wickenden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439176604
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Nothing Daunted written by Dorothy Wickenden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
Author : Frederic J. Athearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book An Isolated Empire written by Frederic J. Athearn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Ann Irwin
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826335999
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Women and Gender in the American West written by Mary Ann Irwin and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
Author : Dee Garceau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149620882X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Important Things of Life written by Dee Garceau and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweetwater County lies in southwestern Wyoming, and has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the "new Western Woman’s" history. As the county in which Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Nebraska 1990) said she proved up her homestead in 1913, it is a fitting locale for the study of western gender relations. The Important Things of Life examines women’s work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The 1880’s discovery of coal caused a population boom, attracting immigrants from numerous ethnic groups. At the same time, liberalized homestead law drew sheep and cattle ranchers. Dee Garceau demonstrates how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation in ways that bred conservative attitudes toward gender. Augmented by reminiscences and oral histories, Garceau traces the adaptations that broadened women’s work roles and increased their domestic authority. Hers is a compelling portrait of the American West as a laboratory of gender role change, in which migration, relocation, and new settlement underscored the development of new social identities.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Old Farmer's Almanack written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail M. Beaton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322072
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Colorado Women written by Gail M. Beaton and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A.E. & R.S. written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arabelle Pennypacker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Middle Atlantic written by Arabelle Pennypacker and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia F. Hubbard
Publisher : Mastermedia Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780942361360
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Outdoor Woman written by Patricia F. Hubbard and published by Mastermedia Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How you can incorporate exciting outdoor experiences into your busy life.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Clique written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
