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Book Synopsis The Prospector’s Wife by : John Drabble
Download or read book The Prospector’s Wife written by John Drabble and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aileen Mary Eleanor Drabble was a young woman just out of school when in 1911 she immigrated to Canada along with her family. They left the comfort of upper class British society to start again in Vancouver then a booming city on the edge of the Canadian frontier. Impetuous and headstrong Aileen soon fell in love with a gold prospector. Together they embarked on a 40-year adventure marked by both great elation and deep adversity. Whether in Vancouver or in the wilderness of BC’s interior, Aileen known as Mimi to her family, left an indelible impression on nearly everyone she met. More than 30 years after her death those who knew her still tell stories about her. Though never famous she was very much a pioneer whose life in many ways paralleled the journey of her adopted country from a British colony to an independent nation.
Book Synopsis A Mine of Her Own by : Sally Zanjani
Download or read book A Mine of Her Own written by Sally Zanjani and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: prospectors for the first time. Sally Zanjani depicts more than one hundred women prospectors in often grueling, financially unrewarding, and utterly lonely efforts to strike it rich from the desert Southwest to the frozen rocks of Alaska and the Yukon. She tells their stories with warmth and skill and, in bringing them to life, forever changes our mental picture of the women who helped shape the modern West.
Book Synopsis Idaho's Remarkable Women by : Lynn Bragg
Download or read book Idaho's Remarkable Women written by Lynn Bragg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man for nearly forty years; Margaret Cobb Ailshie, who ran Idaho's biggest newspaper; and Nell Shipman, an actress, writer, and early filmmaker. Each woman in her own way displayed remarkable courage, hope, and love during a time when Idaho was still an untamed frontier. Read about their exceptional lives in this collection of absorbing biographies.
Download or read book Selling Women written by Amy Stanley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At last, a study that goes far beyond the urban-centered discourse with which we are already familiar to place the trafficking of women in a solid historical and comparative context. Through a carefully reasoned and balanced analysis of diverse sources, Stanley shows how prostitution practices varied. This book will set the standard for studies of prostitution in early modern Japan for decades to come.” -Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine “Selling Women is a remarkable achievement. With her gaze fixed firmly on the young women whose labor sustained prostitution as an industry, Amy Stanley traces shifts in the moral economy of the sex trade over the course of the Tokugawa era, and unveils the ironic consequences of economic growth and social change. This meticulously researched, wonderfully written book is a major contribution to the literature on gender and society in Japan.” -David L. Howell, Harvard University
Book Synopsis The Sheriff's Wife by : Pat Pfeiffer
Download or read book The Sheriff's Wife written by Pat Pfeiffer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, historical figure Electa Bryan comes to a remote Indian Agency in what is now Western Montana to teach native children. Instead she finds deprivation and loneliness—until she meets suave, handsome Henry Plummer and falls hopelessly in love. Rejecting her sister’s warning, she marries this stranger and moves to Bannack City. There, they pursue their vision of turning a primitive territory filled with greed, murder and mayhem into a civilized state, with Henry as governor. As sheriff, he is away from home most of the time enforcing the law, searching for a mysterious silver lode, or in the saloons. Electa is neglected and regimented, but blindly ignores the signs he is not all he seems, devotedly believing all he says. Until she meets Pearl. At Electa’s death in 1912, her son, Vernon Maxwell, inherits an eagle feather and a fortune. He sets out to learn why she left her husband so precipitously and why Henry was hanged for supposedly heading a gang of road agents who were killing innocent people and robbing gold shipment. What is the password he must know to secure his inheritance—Henry’s stolen gold? More importantly, can he discover his mother’s hidden past?
Book Synopsis Daily Life during the California Gold Rush by : Thomas Maxwell-Long
Download or read book Daily Life during the California Gold Rush written by Thomas Maxwell-Long and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive narrative history of the California Gold Rush describes daily life during this historic period, documenting its wide-reaching effects and examining the significant individuals and organizations of the time. It is easy to see the vestiges of the California Gold Rush in the state's modern culture. The San Francisco 49ers football team are named after the term given to those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold; California is nicknamed "The Golden State;" and the official state motto is "Eureka" meaning "I have found it" in Greek-a reference to mining success. But the Gold Rush was not only a pivotal event with lasting impact in California; it also greatly affected America as a whole and global society. This book examines the historical significances of the California Gold Rush, beginning with life in California prior to the Gold Rush and European colonization and concluding with information regarding contemporary California. Readers will gain historical insights from the highly detailed explorations of how life in California evolved and understand the enormous impact of an event over 160 years ago on present-day America.
Book Synopsis Adventurous Women by : Dorcas S. Miller
Download or read book Adventurous Women written by Dorcas S. Miller and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Dorcas S. Miller profiles the adventurous lives of nine courageous women, combining the written account of each woman along with her own life story. By experiencing the thrill of the outdoors, these women redefined the term ladylike in an age where women's roles were mostly limited to home and family. They hiked, paddled, and ventured far from civilization, and in doing so returned to their other lives stronger from the experiences. The stories of these bold lives will captivate readers; the moving words of these courageous women will inspire hopeful adventurers and armchair travelers alike.
Book Synopsis Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack by : Jane Bardal
Download or read book Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack written by Jane Bardal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You get off this property." - Capt. Ellen Jack, 1887 Ellen E. Jack backed up her orders with a shotgun as she stood at the entrance to her Black Queen Mine. To profit from the mine, located near Aspen, Colorado, she engaged in many other battles with lawyers and capitalists who tried to wrest her ore away. Mrs. Captain Jack contributed to the myth of the West by crowning herself as the "Mining Queen of the Rockies" as she entertained tourists at her roadhouse near Colorado Springs. Author Jane Bardal offers a captivating biography of a pioneering woman who fashioned a legacy through true tenacity and maybe even a few tall tales.
Book Synopsis Union Renegades by : Dana M. Caldemeyer
Download or read book Union Renegades written by Dana M. Caldemeyer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age.
Book Synopsis Weaving Women's Lives by : Louise Lamphere
Download or read book Weaving Women's Lives written by Louise Lamphere and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
Book Synopsis The Aleut Internments of World War II by : Russell W. Estlack
Download or read book The Aleut Internments of World War II written by Russell W. Estlack and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the reparations hearings of the late 1970s, it sheds light on the little-known story of the Aleut people and the events in war and peace that shaped their lives. The actions that led to the internments of the Aleuts are documented through official records, letters, and personal accounts that reveal the experiences of a native people who suffered and died in the camps while posing no threat to national security in time of war. In some cases native Alaskans were held in camps that were almost as bad as the Japanese POW camps.
Book Synopsis America in the Gilded Age by : Sean Dennis Cashman
Download or read book America in the Gilded Age written by Sean Dennis Cashman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** New edition (an earlier version is cited in BCL3). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Women in the Western by : Matheson Sue Matheson
Download or read book Women in the Western written by Matheson Sue Matheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.
Book Synopsis Women I've Undressed by : Orry-Kelly
Download or read book Women I've Undressed written by Orry-Kelly and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Monroe. Yet few know who Orry-Kelly really was - until now. Discovered in a pillowcase, Orry-Kelly's long-lost memoirs reveal a wildly talented and cheeky rascal who lived a big life, on and off the set. From his childhood in Kiama to revelling in Sydney's underworld nightlife as a naïve young artist and chasing his dreams of acting in New York, his early life is a wild and exciting ride. Sharing digs in New York with another aspiring actor, Cary Grant, and partying hard in between auditions, he ekes out a living painting murals for speakeasies before graduating to designing stage sets and costumes. When he finally arrives in Hollywood, it's clear his adventures have only just begun. Fearless, funny and outspoken, Orry-Kelly lived life to the full. In Women I've Undressed, he shares a wickedly delicious slice of it.
Download or read book Phantom Lake written by Birk Sproxton and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantom Lake explores the stories, legends, and tall tales that make up “Flin Flon,” a real imaginary place perched on rocky outcrops and lakes of the Canadian Shield. Birk Sproxton traverses the high latitudes of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in a quest for the mystery of Flin Flon and in search of himself. The northern stories, like Shield Lakes seen from the air, become ink-blots to test the writer’s mettle. Sproxton tells of the first gold rush, the draining of Flin Flon Lake, the emergence of the open pit, smelter smoke and slag pour, headframes, and tailings ponds. At the center of this fictional and historical mosaic lies the elusive Phantom Lake.
Download or read book Echoes of the Past written by Deb Lish and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl from a coal mining town in Ohio, May Arkwright, made the decision to migrate west to the gold rich in northern Idahos mining country. Her life changed when she met train engineer Levi (Al) Hutton and found they had common childhood goals and dreams. They married on January 17, 1887. The Huttons became involved in the mining wars and Idaho Labor Strike in 1892. May became interested in womens suffrage movement, fighting for equal rights for women. From a small investment, they became millionaires twice over. The Huttons moved to Spokane, Washington, in 1907, where Al built May a mansion. During this time, she became ill and died shortly after. For the first time in many years, Al was alone. His dream became true as the formation of the Hutton Settlement started taking shape for many orphans. Levi (Al) Hutton died on November 3, 1928. May and Al played prominent roles in the Coeur dAlene mining wars. They realized that the great joy in life was giving. Exploring the Huttons as partners makes their story significant to Western history as well as womens history. Their legacy should live on forever.
Download or read book Nevada Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
