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Author : Herbert Krause
Publisher : Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1954]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Oxcart Trail written by Herbert Krause and published by Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1954]. This book was released on 1954 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of frontiersmen bound for Red River settlements in the 1850's.
Author : René Marqués
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oxcart written by René Marqués and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the migration of a Puerto Rican family from the countryside to the San Juan ghetto and eventually to Spanish Harlem in New York City.
Author : Rhoda R. Gilman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873511339
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Red River Trails written by Rhoda R. Gilman and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Mtis who became the mainstay of the Red River trade.
Author : Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418540889
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1998-10-11 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tale of The Tardy Oxcart, Charles Swindoll shares from his lifelong collection of his and others' personal stories, sermons, and anecdotes. 1501 various illustrations are arranged by subjects alphabetically for quick-and-easy access. A perfect resource for all pastors and speakers. Publisher's Note: This book is now available as Swindoll's Ultimate Book of Illustrations & Quotes (ISBN 0785250255)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oxcart written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Td Barnes
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781980948735
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)
Download or read book CIA Project Oxcart: Area 51 written by Td Barnes and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selecting a remote place called Are 51 in Nevada and beneath a shroud of secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, first flew the U-2, the Angel, knowing at the time that the Russians would most likely shoot it down within 18 months. To Replace the U-2, the CIA engaged the Lockheed Aircraft Company at its Skunk Works in California to build America's first stealth-designed plane, using the slide rule to produce what today remains the highest flying and fastest manned, air breathing aircraft ever flown, the A-12 Archangel. The Agency named it the Oxcart, the first of a family of four Blackbird, Mach 3 planes. At Area 51, the CIA flew the Oxcart on 2,850 sorties across the United States, some faster than a rifle bullet and up to 90,000 feet that remained unknown to the world for decades to come. Now, after 50 years the story can be told about the CiA'S Project OXCART at Area 51.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567925548
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book String Too Short to be Saved written by Donald Hall and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved.
Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195138244
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Herencia written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.
Author : Ana María Díaz-Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue written by Ana María Díaz-Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Puerto Ricans are the largest single ethnic group in the city boroughs of the Archdiocese of New York. Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue presents a fascinating exploration and analysis of the Catholic church's efforts in New York City to meet the needs of migrant Puerto Ricans. Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens combines socio-historical methods and the insights of her personal participation in this process to create the first book-length assessment of this important event in twentieth-century American Catholic history. Diaz-Stevens begins by tracing the historical development of Catholicism in Puerto Rico, first under Spain and then after 1898 under the United States. She suggests the ways in which Puerto Ricans differed from the Irish, Italian, Polish, or other Catholic groups that came to New York. At the same time, she breaks new ground by describing significant differences between Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans in the practice of religion. After examining how institutional Catholicism in New York had grown from a loose mix of early nineteenth-century village parishes into a centralized cosmopolitan institution by the middle of the twentieth century, Diaz-Stevens presents a brief review of three historical periods of Puerto Rican migration to the city. She details the development of the "basement church" among Puerto Ricans as a specialized means of maintaining continuity with island traditions within a big city environment. She also discusses key church leaders, such as Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ivan Illich, Robert Fox and Robert Stem, describing how their attempts to deal with a people who presented "problems" evolved into an innovative ministry to Puerto Ricans. In the process, the Spanish-speaking Apostolate moved beyond existing models of ethnic assimilation into a post-Vatican activism, oriented towards social and community needs.
Author : Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442441925
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Prairie Days written by Patricia MacLachlan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicate, stunning account of life on the prairie from Newbery medalist Patricia MacLachlan. Cool summer mornings begin with the rose orange sun and the smell of earth, and fade into hot summer nights with a yellow moon, covered in a quilt of stars. There are wagon rides, farm dogs, trips into town, and games of kick the can. These are prairie days. Patricia MacLachlan applies her lyrical, sparse voice and vibrant, tender art from Micha Archer to transport readers to the prairie of her youth in this stunning celebration of the beauty in the world.
Author : Natasha Breed
Publisher : Bene Factum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781909657311
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)
Download or read book From Oxcart to Email written by Natasha Breed and published by Bene Factum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating biography spans the 100 year history of the Lewa Wildlife Conservatory, a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya Today a thriving wildlife sanctuary and safari destination, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, in the heart of Kenya, began life almost 100 years ago as a plot of black cotton soil and tangled savannah parceled out to a British immigrant from South Africa. This is the compelling true story of life at Lewa, from its early days as a family ranch to its current success as a globally recognized wildlife conservancy--notably, of the endangered black rhinoceros. Two remarkable women are at the heart of this book: Elizabeth Cross and her daughter, Delia Craig. Their story spans the past century, from early pioneering days, through two World Wars, the Mau Mau Rebellion during the last days of colonial administration, and through to Kenya's independence. It tells of the challenges and triumphs of the early days of conservation to the first rhino capture and translocation to the sanctuary of Lewa.
Author : Robert E. Leggett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Watching the Bear written by Robert E. Leggett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Pedlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634508513
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance written by Gregory Pedlow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CIA’s 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 1954–1974 is a fascinating and important historical document. It contains a significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 and Oxcart programs, including names of pilots; codenames and cryptonyms; locations, funding, and cover arrangements; electronic countermeasures equipment; cooperation with foreign governments; and overflights of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other countries. Originally published with a Secret/No Foreign Dissemination classification, this detailed study describes not only the program’s technological and bureaucratic aspects, but also its political and international context, including the difficult choices faced by President Eisenhower in authorizing overflights of the Soviet Union and the controversy surrounding the shoot down there of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1960. The authors discuss the origins of the U-2, its top-secret testing, its specially designed high-altitude cameras and complex life-support systems, and even the possible use of poison capsules by its pilots, if captured. They call attention to the crucial importance of the U-2 in the gathering of strategic and tactical intelligence, as well as the controversies that the program unleashed. Finally, they discuss the CIA’s development of a successor to the U-2, the Oxcart, which became the world’s most technologically advanced aircraft. For the first time, the more complete 2013 release of this historical text is available in a professionally typeset format, supplemented with higher quality photographs that will bring alive these incredible aircraft and the story of their development and use by the CIA. This edition also includes a new preface by author Gregory W. Pedlow and a foreword by Chris Pocock. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Jim Bernard Breckinridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190915676
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book With Stars in Their Eyes written by Jim Bernard Breckinridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aden B. Meinel and wife Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments of the 20th century: postwar aerial surveillance by spy planes and satellites, solar energy, the evolution of telescope design, interdisciplinary optics, and photonics. In 1945 he was a Navy Ensign ordered to find the secret tunnels in Nazi Germany where the V-2 rockets menacing Great Britain and Belgium were being manufactured. After receiving both his B.A. degree and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley within three years, Aden was invited to join the scientific staff at Yerkes Observatory/University of Chicago. While there he was selected by the National Science Foundation to manage the development of a new national observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and served as its first Director. In the early 1960s he founded the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, which later metamorphosed into the College of Optical Sciences with the doctoral program in interdisciplinary optics. It was here that he also designed the first Multiple Mirror Telescope and with wife Marjorie pioneered the feasibility of solar energy power on a commercial scale. Aden's knowledge and expertise in optics made him invaluable in research on cameras for spy satellites and spy planes overflying the Soviet Union and Southeast Asia. After retirement the Meinels worked for NASA/JPL on the precursor of the James Webb Space Telescope and on the exoplanet program. They also served on the team that corrected spherical aberration in the Hubble Space Telescope"--
Author : Gerald K. Haines
Publisher : Central Intelligence Agency
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Watching the Bear written by Gerald K. Haines and published by Central Intelligence Agency. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents papers from the conference: "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991" at Princeton University on 9-10 March 2001. Focuses on the organizational evolution of the CIA's analysis of the Soviet economic, political, military, and scientific and technological developments during the Cold War. Assesses the extent to which Western analyses of the Soviet Union may have influenced the USSR's policy making process.
Author : Meg Tyler Mitchell Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 185109993X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Meg Tyler Mitchell Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the 21st century. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world.
Author : Jamie L.H. Goodall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669090
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay written by Jamie L.H. Goodall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and “Black Sam” Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles. “Rather than an unchanging monolith, Goodall creates a narrative filled with dynamic movement and exchange between the characters, setting, conflict, and resolution of her story. Goodall positioned this narrative to be successful on different levels.” —International Social Science Review
