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Starved Rock State Park

Author : Dennis Cremin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519906
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock State Park written by Dennis Cremin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to Starved Rock State Park are often struck by the grandeur of its rustic lodge. They marvel at its massive fireplace and hand-hewn logs. Yet few realize that this structure is a tangible reminder of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which in the 1930s provided work for young men left unemployed by the Great Depression. Starved Rock Lodge was one of the biggest projects of the "CCC boys" along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, but it was far from the only one. Working as a team and living in camps from Willow Springs to La Salle-Peru, they built facilities that transformed the old canal into what became the I&M Canal State Trail (1974) and the nation's first National Heritage Corridor (1984). President Franklin D. Roosevelt's nation-wide program preserved the landscape from the ravages of soil erosion, flooding, and deforestation. In the process, the young men built beautiful parks, buildings, and shelters that we use and admire today.

The Starved Rock Murders

Author : Steve Stout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960929603
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Starved Rock Murders written by Steve Stout and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Starved Rock

Author : Mark Walczynski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501748254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The History of Starved Rock written by Mark Walczynski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluff in 1673 through to 1911, when Starved Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois' second state park. Mark Walczynski pulls together stories and insights from the language, geology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and agriculture of the park to provide readers with an understanding of both the human and natural history of Starved Rock, and to put it into context with the larger history of the American Midwest.

The Abstract Wild

Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547394
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Abstract Wild written by Jack Turner and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.

Starved Rock Trail Guide

Author : Illinois. Department of Conservation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock Trail Guide written by Illinois. Department of Conservation and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Day It Rained Leaves

Author : Steve Stout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780960929634
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Day It Rained Leaves written by Steve Stout and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains in simple terms why leaves fall off trees every fall within a story about a family hike in the woods.

On My Honor

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547534116
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book On My Honor written by Marion Dane Bauer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1986-09-22 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book. “A gripping, compassionate portrayal of a boy’s struggle with conscience” by the bestselling author of My Mother Is Mine (Kirkus Reviews). While on a bike trip, Joel’s best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt, even though the daring act was Tony’s idea, and Joel didn’t know that Tony couldn’t swim. But Joel’s loving and protective father will help him deal with the tragic aftermath—and understand that we all must live with the choices we make. “A powerful, soul-stirring novel told simply and well.”—Booklist (starred review) “This is a devastating but beautifully written story of a boy’s all-consuming guilt over the role he plays in the death of his best friend . . . Bauer’s honest and gripping novel joins the ranks of such as Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia in its handling of these issues.”—Publishers Weekly “Descriptions are vivid, characterization and dialogue natural, and the style taut but unforced. A powerful, moving book.”—School Library Journal

Massacre 1769

Author : Mark Walczynski
Publisher : Center for French Colonial Studies, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780615834672
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Massacre 1769 written by Mark Walczynski and published by Center for French Colonial Studies, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Legend of Starved Rock, the last of the Illinois Indian tribe fled to the summit of the bluff where they were surrounded by the Potawatomi and Ottawa Indians. Unable to obtain food or water, Illinois men, women and children, were destroyed by starvation. Was this account a horrific historical event, or nothing more than fanciful fiction, based on fragments of many events, popularized by the creative pens of imaginative nineteenth-century writers? Massacre 1769: The Search for the Origin of the Legend of Starved Rock reviews the earliest and most influential accounts of the well-known legend, traces the history and culture of the Illinois Indian tribe from its earliest contact with Europeans, and closely examines the event of 1769, the murder of Ottawa war chief, Pontiac, at the hand of an Illinois warrior, the incident that, according to the legend, precipitated the destruction of the Illinois tribe at Starved Rock. With careful examination of archaeological excavations and surveys, at or around Starved Rock, and extensive study of the well-documented historical record, Massacre 1769, at last, brings clarity to this event, proving again, that history is even more enthralling than fiction. For both scholar and history enthusiast alike.

Paddling Illinois

Author : Mike Svob
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915024773
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Paddling Illinois written by Mike Svob and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab your paddle and enjoy Illinois' beautiful rivers. This comprehensive guidebook--the only one for Illinois--features 64 trips on 33 rivers. Rivers covered include Cashe, Des Plains, Embarras, Fox, Galena, Mackinaw, Middle Fork, and Spoon. This is the ultimate guide for canoe or kayak enthusiasts of all abilities.

Starved Rock Beautiful (Illinois State Park)

Author : Albert Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock Beautiful (Illinois State Park) written by Albert Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs

Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs written by Carl Ortwin Sauer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starved Rock

Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1919 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a soul from whom companionships subside The meaningless and onsweeping tide Of the river hastening, as it would disown Old ways and places, left this stone Of sand above the valley, to look down Miles of the valley, hamlet, village, town. ***** It is a head-gear of a chief whose head, Down from the implacable brow, Waiting is held below The waters, feather decked With blossoms blue and red, With ferns and vines; Hiding beneath the waters, head erect, His savage eyes and treacherous designs.

Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs

Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs written by Carl Ortwin Sauer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inquietus

Author : Mark Walczynski
Publisher : William L. Potter Publication
ISBN 13 : 9781734035407
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Inquietus written by Mark Walczynski and published by William L. Potter Publication. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquietus takes a fresh look at the achievements-and setbacks of René-Robert Cavelier, a seventeenth-century French adventurer, later known simply as La Salle, in the Illinois Country. This work reassesses assumptions about the explorer that have been repeated and used as source over the last 150 years. It brings to light and identifies significant places in the upper Illinois Valley that are associated with La Salle and his enterprise, and it takes a critical look at previous assumptions based on ambiguous or misleading information found in seventeenth-century maps, reports, and correspondences. Inquietus also incorporates subjects such as Ice Age geology, geography, and climatology to help the reader to better understand the environment and conditions of seventeenth-century Illinois, it explores linguistic problems associated with La Salle's ability to communicate with Native American groups, and it examines rivalries between the explorer and the Jesuits, and between La Salle and other French explorers. Lastly, Inquietus reviews La Salle's Illinois Country legacy; how his observations about the Illinois Valley waterways, landscape, and natural resources have been mined, harvested, or otherwise manipulated by the government, private companies, and individuals. This is an eye-opening and much-needed reexamination of La Salle in today's Illinois.

Starved Rock State Park

Author : Nancy Hill Barta
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439635013
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Starved Rock State Park written by Nancy Hill Barta and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starved Rock State Park is located midway between Ottawa and LaSalle. The park has more than 2,630 acres that include 18 beautiful canyons and waterfalls. One of the largest Native American encampments, the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia was located near Starved Rock. Fr. Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet are believed to be the first white men to have set eyes upon the rock. Ren-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, built Fort St. Louis on the rock. Legend has it that a band of Illinois Indians starved to death while seeking refuge from its enemies on the rock, hence the name Starved Rock. Starved Rock State Park has remained virtually unchanged through the years as its history is told through the authors vintage postcards.

Geology of Illinois

Author : Dennis R. Kolata
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Geology of Illinois written by Dennis R. Kolata and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology of Illinois has been compiled from more than a century of earth science investigations in Illinois. For the first time, this information has been summarized and made accessible in one volume to help both geologists and non-geologists better understand how the state's mostly unseen geology affects, and is affected by, life on the surface. More than 200 color photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate the text. Topics include : the history of geological investigations in Illinois; the impact of the state's tectonic and structural history; the properties and classification of its rocks and sediments; the rich heritage of its land, water, and mineral resources; the threats from its geological hazards; and the application of geological information to societal issues.