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The Mountainous West

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297593
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Mountainous West written by William Wyckoff and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the experiences of settlers) from the east. As pioneers struggled with the climate west of the hundredth meridian, they were also confronted by mountains strewn across the region and offering their own set of limitations and opportunities. This volume focuses on these green islands of the Mountainous West that have witnessed patterns of settlement and development distinct from their lowland neighbors. In thirteen essays, the contributors address the mountains by means of five themes: the mountains as barriers to movement, islands of moisture, a zone of concentrated resources, an area of government control, and a restorative sanctuary. The focus ranges from California's Sierra Nevada to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Montana. William K. Wyckoff is an associate professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University. He is the author of The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape and of articles in many journals, including The California Geographer, Social Science Journal, Geographical Review, and Journal of Historical Geography. Lary M. Dilsaver is a professor in the Department of Geology and Geography, University of South Alabama. The author, with William Tweed, of Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, he has also written articles in journals such as Geographical Review, Annals of Tourism Research, and Yearbook of the Association of Pacific CoastGeographers.

Geology of the Great Plains and Mountain West

Author : Cynthia Light Brown
Publisher : Nomad Press
ISBN 13 : 1619301342
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Geology of the Great Plains and Mountain West written by Cynthia Light Brown and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answering intriguing questions such as Why does the largest river system in North America meander across the middle of the continent? and How does such a system relate to the rugged Rocky Mountains?, this fun-filled book delves into the majestic Great Plains region. The chapters concisely clarify the interrelated subjects of terrain, climate, and the great movements of the earth itself while illustrating the important changes that are still occurring in the area’s rivers, lakes, plains, and unpredictable weather. Brimming with fascinating facts, educational sidebars tell how earthquakes in New Madrid, Missouri caused waves to go upstream in the Mississippi River; why and how tornadoes form; and how invasive species are threatening the Great Lakes and what people are doing about it.

Bats of the Rocky Mountain West

Author : Rick Alan Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870817359
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Bats of the Rocky Mountain West written by Rick Alan Adams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Foraging the Mountain West

Author : Thomas J. Elpel
Publisher : HOPS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781892784360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Foraging the Mountain West written by Thomas J. Elpel and published by HOPS Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance.

Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West

Author : Michael Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890134542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West written by Michael Moore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, artists articulated a new vision for the country. Works by world famous and lesser known artists are highlighted.

Down from the Mountain

Author : Bryce Andrews
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 132897247X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Down from the Mountain written by Bryce Andrews and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys. There were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award-winning writer, farmer, and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story intersects with Millie’s. In this "welcome and impressive work" he shows how this drama is "the core of a major problem in the rural American West—the disagreement between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers”—an entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez). “Andrews’s wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work.”—Barry Lopez

Conservatism in the Mountain West

Author : Ralph L. McBride
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Conservatism in the Mountain West written by Ralph L. McBride and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fire Mountains of the West

Author : Stephen L. Harris
Publisher : Mountain Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fire Mountains of the West written by Stephen L. Harris and published by Mountain Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For general readers or seasoned geologists, Fire Mountains of the West begins with an introduction to volcanoes, the processes that create them, and the glaciers that sculpt them. The heart of the book is a fascinating biography of each of the major volcanoes of the Cascades and Mono Lake area. Dramatic photos and illuminating maps and diagrams illustrate the visible features and hidden activity of these volcanoes. From the subterranean lava tube caves of the Medicine Lake volcano to the fire-and-ice formation of Mount Garibaldi, from the cataclysmic collapse of Crater Lake to the incinerating blast of modern Mount St. Helens, and from deadly volcanic gas presently killing trees at Mammoth Mountain to massive mudflows waiting to burst from Mount Rainier, this book brings to life in dynamic, crystal-clear language the geologic story of our western mountainscape.

Finding the Wild West: The Mountain West

Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493064169
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Wild West: The Mountain West written by Mike Cox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Mountain West states of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.

Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West

Author : Mark Silk
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759115591
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West written by Mark Silk and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the Catholic church which was in place three centuries before these areas became U.S. states. Mormons came to Utah and Idaho in the 19th century to set up their own church-state and only later were admitted to the Union. Religious minorities from Native Americans to 'mainstream' Protestants must contend with these religious establishments. In the third subregion of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana no one religious body dominates and many inhabitants claim no religious affiliation at all. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West explores these three distinct religious regions but then goes on to see how they work together and what they have in common.

Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920

Author : David R. Berman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607320061
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 written by David R. Berman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that epitomized its rise and fall. As the frontier industrialized, self-reliant pioneers and prospectors transformed into wage- laborers for major corporations with government, military, and church ties. Economically and politically stymied, westerners rallied around homegrown radicals such as William "Big Bill" Haywood and Vincent "the Saint" St. John and touring agitators such as Eugene Debs and Mary "Mother" Jones. Radicalism in the Mountain West tells how volleys of strikes, property damage, executions, and deportations ensued in the absence of negotiation. Drawing on years of archival research and diverse materials such as radical newspapers, reports filed by labor spies and government agents, and records of votes, subscriptions, and memberships, Berman offers Western historians and political scientists an unprecedented view into the region's radical past.

Proceedings-- Future Forests of the Mountain West

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings-- Future Forests of the Mountain West written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mountains So Sublime

Author : Terry P. Abraham
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mountains So Sublime written by Terry P. Abraham and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are but a few of the words that early British travelers used to describe the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain landscape and surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of travelers' tales, these British tourists, explorers, adventurers, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants all looked for ways to describe and illustrate places they visited--in this instance, the vast and strange wilderness landscape of the North America's Rocky Mountains. Using both published and unpublished resources, Terry Abraham weaves these observations, their aesthetic, and their "Britishness" into a refreshing and unique view of an all-but-vanished "West." In their efforts to make the Rocky Mountain West real to a readership on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, these visitors from two centuries past encouraged a growing realization that this part of the North American landscape was unique, a special part of the world's natural heritage. Many also tried to describe the changes that were being visited on the Rockies by onrushing progress. They were among the first who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape; in fact, they demonstrated what might be called "environmental pre-awareness." Twenty-first century readers will discover surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travelers from the nineteenth.

The Rocky Mountain West in 1867

Author : Simonin, 1830-1886 Louis Laurent
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska P.
ISBN 13 : 9780783718422
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain West in 1867 written by Simonin, 1830-1886 Louis Laurent and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska P.. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's New Frontier

Author : Morris E. Garnsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America's New Frontier written by Morris E. Garnsey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mountain West

Author : Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain West written by Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the West - both in the United States and Canada - differ from the East? Scholars have put forward two fundamentally different and contradictory explanations: the West as the displaced, archaic, frontier East; and the West as a subculture developed indigenously in response to the demands of a dry, rugged physical environment. In this groundbreaking volume, Terry Jordan and his co-authors look to the log folk buildings of the Mountain West, from New Mexico to Alaska, to explain what makes the West "the West". Arguing that artifacts such as dwellings, barns, and fences can, if correctly interpreted, reveal much about the origins and character of the regional culture, they set forth not only the first comprehensive description and analysis of Western folk architecture but also a systematic explanation of the culture of the West.

Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West

Author : Jan Shipps
Publisher : Altamira Press
ISBN 13 : 9780759106277
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West written by Jan Shipps and published by Altamira Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the Catholic church which was in place three centuries before these areas became U.S. states. Mormons came to Utah and Idaho in the 19th century to set up their own church-state and only later were admitted to the Union. Religious minorities from Native Americans to "mainstream" Protestants must contend with these religious establishments. In the third subregion of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana no one religious body dominates and many inhabitants claim no religious affiliation at all. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West explores these three distinct religious regions but then goes on to see how they work together and what they have in common.