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Wyoming Range War

Author : John W. Davis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806183802
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Wyoming Range War written by John W. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.

Cow Talk

Author : Michelle K. Berry
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080619233X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Cow Talk written by Michelle K. Berry and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range ranching, Michelle K. Berry takes readers into the Cold War world of cattle ranchers in the American West to show how that power, with its implications for the lands and resources of the mountain states, was built, shaped, and shored up between 1945 and 1965. After long days working the ranch, battling human and nonhuman threats, and wrestling with nature, ranchers got down to business of another sort, which Berry calls “cow talk.” Discussing the best new machinery; sharing stories of drought, blizzards, and bugs; talking money and management and strategy: these ranchers were building a community specific to their time, place, and work and creating a language that embodied their culture. Cow Talk explores how this language and its iconography evolved and how it came to provide both a context and a vehicle for political power. Using ranchers’ personal papers, publications, and cattle growers association records, the book provides an inside view of how range cattle ranchers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana created a culture and a shared identity that would frame and inform their relationship with their environment and with society at large in an increasingly challenging, modernizing world. A multifaceted analysis of postwar ranch life, labor, and culture, this innovative work offers unprecedented insight into the cohesive political and cultural power of western ranchers in our day.

The Worst Hard Time

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547347774
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.

The Forgiveness of Nature

Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgiveness of Nature written by Graham Harvey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the world of grass from every possible perspective. It elaborates in minute detail the botany of a grass field or lawn, talks to the groundsmen of Wimbledon and West Ham, explores the ornate history of the lawn-mower and the minutiae of cattle-breeding, and surveys the development of the municipal park.

Grasslands and Climate Change

Author : David J. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107195268
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Grasslands and Climate Change written by David J. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of the effects of climate change on global grasslands and the mitigating role that ecologists can play.

Guardian of the Grasslands

Author : John Rolfe Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Guardian of the Grasslands written by John Rolfe Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All the Pretty Horses

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679744398
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book All the Pretty Horses written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Journey To The Future

Author : Guy Dauncey
Publisher : Agio Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1927755352
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Journey To The Future written by Guy Dauncey and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this blockbuster novel, young protagonist Patrick Wu visits a future world - Vancouver in 2032 - brimming with innovation and hope, where the climate crisis is being tackled, the solar revolution is underway and a new cooperative economy is taking shape. Dauncey's "brilliant book shows solutions to the climate crisis that offer a future rich in opportunity and joy" - scientist and award-winning broadcaster David Suzuki. Scientists, activists and politicians are enthusiastic in advance praise for Guy Dauncey's ecotopian novel, Journey To The Future. From Elizabeth May, NDP MP Murray Rankin and UK Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, to activists Tzeporah Berman, Angela Bischoff and Bill McKibben, and scientists David Suzuki, Andrew Weaver and Elisabet Sahtouris, the endorsements for Guy Dauncey's new book are united: Journey To The Future is a gamechanger that must be widely read. In this blockbuster novel, young protagonist Patrick Wu visits a future world - Vancouver in 2032 - brimming with innovation and hope, where the climate crisis is being tackled, the solar revolution is underway and a new cooperative economy is taking shape. But enormous danger still lurks. David R. Boyd, co-chair of Vancouver's Greenest City initiative, says Journey To The Future is "an imaginative tour de force, blending science, philosophy and fiction into a delightful story about how we can and must change the world." About the author, Guy Dauncey Guy Dauncey is a futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future and to translate that vision into action. He is founder of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the author or co-author of ten books, including the award-winning Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic and The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming. He is an Honorary Member of the Planning Institute of BC, a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, and a powerful motivational speaker.

Weeds - Guardian of the Soil

Author : Joseph A. Cocannouer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329209168
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Weeds - Guardian of the Soil written by Joseph A. Cocannouer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to be written in praise of weeds. According to Joseph Cocannouer, weeds perform the following valuable services among others: 1. They bring minerals and make them available to crops. 2. When used in crop rotation they crop roots to feed deeply. 3. They fiberize and condition the soil make any soil productive. 4. They are good indicators of soil condition. 5. Weeds are deep divers and feeders they enable crops to withstand drought better. 6. As companion crops they enable our domesticated plants to get unavailable food. 7. Weeds store up minerals and nutrients and keep them readily available. 8. Weeds make good eating. No, Professor Cocannouer does not believe that weeds should be allowed to go rampant and take over our farms and gardens. The function of this book is to demonstrate how the controlled use of weeds can be sound ecology, good conservation and a boon to the average farmer or gardener. (From the Introduction) Get Your Copy Today!

Four Fields

Author : Tim Dee
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 161902621X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Four Fields written by Tim Dee and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields—walkable, mappable, man–made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing—play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a setting for great battles or natural disasters, though it is often this as well. A field is the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life, especially when looked at, contemplated, worked in, lived with, and written about. Dee's four fields, which he has known and studied for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his private garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie in Little Bighorn, Montana, and a grass meadow in the Exclusion Zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild.

Prairie Directory of North America

Author : Charlotte Adelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199710449
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Directory of North America written by Charlotte Adelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first single, comprehensive source for locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas, Prairie Directory of North America is a guide unlike any other. First published in 2001, the book uniquely catalogs the continent's most well-known prairie sites by country and state for easy reference. With the addition of over three hundred newly located, preserved, or restored sites, the second edition is the prairie enthusiast's ideal guide to locating countless North American sites-from the well-documented to the remote. Readers can use the guide to plan both convenient visits to close-to-home prairies and journeys to sites well across the continent. Also included is an expanded state-by-state index, ideal for locating specific prairies in any given state. The victim of destructive plowing and construction at the hands of European settlers, North American grassland ecosystems that once spanned the entire continent have suffered degradation and fragmentation. With the Prairie Directory as a guide, however, ecologists, environmental scientists, and tourists can experience the essence of this ancient ecosystem and, in some locations, even its vastness. The book lists tiny, hidden half-acre prairies spared by the plow as well as popular sites covering millions of acres. It documents prairies hidden deep in forests or in plain sight in American Indian reservations. The only one of its kind, this book will allow readers to experience the prairie as a colorful, fragrant, wildlife-rich North American landscape.

Cows Save the Planet

Author : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584331
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Cows Save the Planet written by Judith D. Schwartz and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil—"green water"—in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility. Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.

The Wolves of Currumpaw

Author : William Grill
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1909263834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Wolves of Currumpaw written by William Grill and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wolves of Currumpaw is a beautifully illustrated modern re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton's epic wilderness drama Lobo, the King of Currumpaw, originally published in 1898. Set in the dying days of the old west, Seton's drama unfolds in the vast planes of New Mexico, at a time when man's relationship with nature was often marked by exploitations and misunderstanding. This is the first graphic adaptation of a massively influential piece of writing by one of the men who went on to form the Boy Scouts of America.

The Guardian’S Way

Author : Hal Portner
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480814288
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Guardian’S Way written by Hal Portner and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his father and all his fathers before him, Garth, the Lord High Wizard of Massina, Protector of the Realm and Defender of the Citadel, has sworn to defend the people and lands in his care. Like his father and all his fathers before him, Garths wizardry works well and true. Other than the occasional harassment by barbarian raiders, his citizens live a peaceful and safe existence under his care, but that peace is about to be tested. When word quickly spreads of a horrific monster that threatens every village in the realm, Garth takes action. He enlists and trains a troop of elite warriors, Guardians aided by spirit allies, to hunt down and destroy the monster. Evolyn, devoted daughter to the wizards blacksmith, is one of the warriors chosen for this new battle. What begins as a straightforward mission thrusts the noble Evolyn and her Guardian cohorts into encounters with a magical sword, fratricide, covert alliances, prejudice, jealousy, betrayal, love, and confrontation with their own internal monsters. Is this monster more that it seems? Is the magic of Garths fathers worthy enough to protect his people from this new menace?

Great Valley Grassland Adventure

Author : Robert Leiterman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595203027
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Great Valley Grassland Adventure written by Robert Leiterman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick knew that nature held many hidden secrets and mysteries for an imaginative boy. He also knew that there were adventures just waiting for the right moment and the right person to stumble upon them. Like many thirteen-year-old boys, he was no exception. As the school year ended and his long awaited summer break began, he embarked on an adventure that would forever change how he felt about nature. During his long awaited visit to his cousins, who lived along the river at Hatfield Park, he discovers kayaking and much…much more. Come join Patrick as he paddles his way into the heart of the grasslands and discovers its natural and cultural history and some of its hidden secrets.

Konza Prairie

Author : O. J. Reichman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Konza Prairie written by O. J. Reichman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a century ago, tall-grass prairie stretched over the most of what is now Iowa, Illinois, southern Minnesota, northern Missouri, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. Today only a few scattered patches remain. The author traces the history of the prairie and examines grassland ecology.

The Guardians of Celesk - Part One

Author : R.I.Lockett
Publisher : Rob Lockett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Guardians of Celesk - Part One written by R.I.Lockett and published by Rob Lockett. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It came during the most desperate of times, after a reign of bloodshed. It thundered on in spite of terror, hopelessness and the great chain of inequity. It shattered shackles and in its momentum gathered all in its wake. It was hope. In the new era, it rewrote the narrative and finally set the world free. Yet in the new age, the tides of war and revolution bring an old enemy of the Guardians, the Exile, who will destroy their sanctum and wreak destruction upon their lands. Their only hope lies in the form of a powerful child, and she will need to be trained...