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The Meek Cutoff

Author : Brooks Geer Ragen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806869
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.

Terrible Trail

Author : Keith Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrible Trail written by Keith Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real of Reality: The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466762
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Real of Reality: The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book’s contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophically underexplored potential of film to disclose what the editors propose to call “the real of reality.”

Wood, Water & Grass

Author : James H. Hambleton
Publisher : James H. Hambleton
ISBN 13 : 9780990386025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Wood, Water & Grass written by James H. Hambleton and published by James H. Hambleton. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers James H. and Theona J. Hambleton relate the history of the Meek Cutoff through the words of the diarists that lived through the ordeal. Included in the book are 53 USGS Quadrangle maps showing the actual trail location and many color photos of the remains of the trail itself.

Freebird

Author : Jon Raymond
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040845
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Freebird written by Jon Raymond and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freebird is such a timely book. considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America."--Kim Gordon, author of Girl in a Band The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city’s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne’s teenage son, Aaron, can’t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family’s moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family’s moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.

A Heart for Any Fate

Author : Linda Crew
Publisher : Ooligan Press
ISBN 13 : 1932010262
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Heart for Any Fate written by Linda Crew and published by Ooligan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.

Rain Dragon

Author : Jon Raymond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620400480
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Rain Dragon written by Jon Raymond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damon and his girlfriend Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go work on a community farm. But they've scarcely arrived when their vague hopes start to come unraveled: What are they really doing here? Who are their friends? Are they truly testing themselves, or are they just chasing a fantasy that will never be fulfilled? By degrees, they realize that their dreams are not the same. For Damon, a career in the field of branding unfolds almost effortlessly, while for Amy, the menial labor of the farm leads to a satisfying but difficult new path. As the rift deepens, they are forced to evaluate fundamental questions of identity and fate, ambition and betrayal, compromise and lust. This novel is a fresh, searching story about the love of work and the work of love, and the life destinies that we sadly only recognize in retrospect.

Slow Cinema

Author : Tiago de Luca
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748696059
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Slow Cinema written by Tiago de Luca and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.

Denial

Author : Jon Raymond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982181842
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Denial written by Jon Raymond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2052. Global warming has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet's fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent Nuremberg-like Toronto Trials convicted the most powerful oil executives and lobbyists for crimes against the environment. Not all of them. A few executives escaped arrest and went into hiding, including pipeline mastermind Robert Cave. Now, a Pacific Northwest journalist named Jack Henry who works for a struggling media company has received a tip that Cave is living in Mexico. Hoping the story will save his job, he travels south and, using a fake identity, makes contact with the fugitive. The two men strike up an unexpected friendship, leaving Jack torn about exposing Cave, an uncertainty further compounded by the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and a new romance with an old acquaintance. Who will really benefit from the unmasking? What is the nature of justice and punishment? How does one contend with mortality when the planet itself is dying?

The Lost Rescue

Author : Daniel Owen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519201119
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Rescue written by Daniel Owen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of supplies, they sent a scouting party over the mountains for help. This is the true story of Elijah Elliott's "Advance Party." Becoming lost in the Three Sisters Wilderness, they tell their own story of starvation and loyalty through two parallel diaries. The Lost Rescue includes a history of Oregon's lost wagon trains. In 1845, 1,050 men, women and children followed Stephen Meek into the wilderness because of threats made by the Walla Walla and Cayuse Indians. Seeking a short-cut across the Eastern Oregon desert, they faced a mysterious illness as they forged a new path through the desert. In 1853, Elijah Elliott attempted to lead a large group on the same cutoff. After a costly wrong turn, he found himself at the end of a rope while an angry mob weighed his fate. As they journeyed west, the starving train made own way across the desert, facing hunger and intense thirst. In an act of desperation, the emigrants set their animals free and followed them to the distant waters of the Deschutes River.

Once Upon a Time in the West

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Reel Art Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909526334
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time in the West written by Christopher Frayling and published by Reel Art Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once Upon a Time in the West was the movie that made me consider filmmaking."-Quentin Tarantino Sergio Leone's film Once Upon a Time in the Westset out to be the ultimate Western--a celebration of the power of classic Hollywood cinema, a meditation on the making of America and a lament for the decline of one of the most cherished film genres in the form of a "dance of death." With this film, Leone said a fond farewell to the noisy and flamboyant world of the Italian Western, which he had created with A Fistful of Dollars and sequels, and aimed for something much more ambitious--an exploration of the relationship between myth ("Once Upon a Time..."), history ("...in the West") and his own autobiography as an avid film-goer. This would be a horse opera in which the arias aren't sung, they are stared. Once Upon a Time has since inspired several generations of filmmakers worldwide. Its combination of "film about film" with an angry historical epic, told with great style, has resonated for half a century, and its reputation has steadily grown. This book, by the world-renowned authority on Sergio Leone, Christopher Frayling, includes revealing personal interviews with all the key players involved in the movie (in front of the camera and behind it) a wealth of never-before-published documents, designs and photographs, and the latest research into the making of a masterpiece, shot by shot. It is introduced with a foreword by Quentin Tarantino. This year is the 50th anniversary of Once Upon a Time in the West and this richly illustrated book is a suitably spectacular birthday tribute.

Blind Field

Author : Tumelo Mosaka
Publisher : Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois
ISBN 13 : 9781883015466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Blind Field written by Tumelo Mosaka and published by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil has long been called the "country of the future." This book documents an exhibition that examines Brazil from the perspective of blindness as a critical category, a metaphor for the way in which the obstruction of perception can illuminate alternate modes of knowledge and experience. It features twenty emerging and mid-career artists working in Brazil who offer a critical perspective on processes of transition within contemporary society, be it from the public space of the street to the virtual zone of the computer screen, or the scale of local communities to the structure of large-scale political action. These works speak to the complexity and heterogeneity of an art milieu that is both tied to the local and manifestly global in reach.

George Johanson

Author : Roger Hull
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book George Johanson written by Roger Hull and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Johanson - painter, printmaker, and teacher - was born in Seattle, studied art in Portland, Oregon, and lived in New York in the early 1950s before returning to Portland. Whether in New York jazz clubs and slaughterhouses, in Mexican villages, at the Rose Festival held each year in Portland, at rehearsals of the Oregon Symphony, or in life drawing sessions with artist friends, making images on paper has been a basic element for Johanson throughout his life. The haunting power of Johanson's art originates, almost always, in drawing. Johanson's art is concerned with memory and recollection, dream and fantasy, biography and autobiography, physical and imaginative detachment yet sensual engagement. He is also the painter of fires that break out in city buildings or spew from volcanoes, and he often sets fire's rampage alongside human lassitude and seeming indifference.

SLUT: the Play

Author : Katie Cappiello
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558618824
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book SLUT: the Play written by Katie Cappiello and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, true-to-life play that examines rape and bullying culture, offering critical insight for survivors and bystanders.

Warp with a Trapeze and Dance with Your Loom

Author : Kati Reeder Meek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970064813
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Warp with a Trapeze and Dance with Your Loom written by Kati Reeder Meek and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pioneering Oregon Architect W.D. Pugh

Author : Terence Emmons
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467148865
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Pioneering Oregon Architect W.D. Pugh written by Terence Emmons and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of Oregon pioneers, Walter D. Pugh spent his career as an architect building landmarks throughout his home state. From designing the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill and supervising the installation of the state capitol dome in Salem to drawing the plans for the Crook County Courthouse in Prineville, Pugh had a hand in a wide variety of buildings. In less than twenty-five years, he worked on more than one hundred projects before fading into obscurity. Many of these structures are still standing, a testament to his skill even after his contributions have been all but forgotten. Join author and historian Terence Emmons as he explores the life and legacy of one of Oregon's foremost architects.

H.R. 37, H.R. 640, and H.R. 1000

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.R. 37, H.R. 640, and H.R. 1000 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: