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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Tecumseh's Prophecy written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plan for an intensified study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525434887
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Tecumseh and the Prophet written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders." —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.
Author : Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075281
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prophecy written by Geoffrey Ashe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive, factual, A–Z reference guide offering a global perspective on the role of prophecy in world history, religion, folklore, and literature. From at least 1200 B.C. and probably long before, prophets have attempted to see into the future. Most—from ancient oracles to modern astrologers, from doomsday sects to telephone psychics—have been wrong the majority of the time, says British researcher Geoffrey Ashe. True foreknowledge is rare, but those rare occurrences are impressive. In this fascinating reference work, the first to encompass the entire 3,000 year span of recorded prophecy, Ashe examines the predictions of both good prophets and bad, including seers like Jacques Cazotte, who forecast the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, and Morgan Robertson, who described the Titanic disaster 14 years before it happened. He refutes many of the far-fetched claims of Nostradamus, and highlights those that foreshadow events after his lifetime. He also examines failed prophecies that have been influential, including the many end-of-the-world forecasts, along with the surprisingly accurate visions of some science-fiction authors.
Author : Jay Feldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416583106
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book When the Mississippi Ran Backwards written by Jay Feldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God—or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecumseh. That same day, the Mississippi River's first steamboat, piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt, powered itself toward New Orleans on its maiden voyage. The sky grew hazy and red, and jolts of electricity flashed in the air. A prophecy by Tecumseh was about to be fulfilled. He had warned reluctant warrior-tribes that he would stamp his feet and bring down their houses. Sure enough, between December 16, 1811, and late April 1812, a catastrophic series of earthquakes shook the Mississippi River Valley. Of the more than 2,000 tremors that rumbled across the land during this time, three would have measured nearly or greater than 8.0 on the not-yet-devised Richter Scale. Centered in what is now the bootheel region of Missouri, the New Madrid earthquakes were felt as far away as Canada; New York; New Orleans; Washington, DC; and the western part of the Missouri River. A million and a half square miles were affected as the earth's surface remained in a state of constant motion for nearly four months. Towns were destroyed, an eighteen-mile-long by five-mile-wide lake was created, and even the Mississippi River temporarily ran backwards. The quakes uncovered Jefferson's nephews' cruelty and changed the course of the War of 1812 as well as the future of the new republic. In When the Mississippi Ran Backwards, Jay Feldman expertly weaves together the story of the slave murder, the steamboat, Tecumseh, and the war, and brings a forgotten period back to vivid life. Tecumseh's widely believed prophecy, seemingly fulfilled, hastened an unprecedented alliance among southern and northern tribes, who joined the British in a disastrous fight against the U.S. government. By the end of the war, the continental United States was secure against Britain, France, and Spain; the Indians had lost many lives and much land; and Jefferson's nephews were exposed as murderers. The steamboat, which survived the earthquake, was sunk. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards sheds light on this now-obscure yet pivotal period between the Revolutionary and Civil wars, uncovering the era's dramatic geophysical, political, and military upheavals. Feldman paints a vivid picture of how these powerful earthquakes made an impact on every aspect of frontier life—and why similar catastrophic quakes are guaranteed to recur. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards is popular history at its best.
Author : Karen Christino
Publisher : Karen Christino
ISBN 13 : 9780972511766
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tecumseh's Curse: Indigenous Wisdom, Astrology and the Deaths of U.S. Presidents written by Karen Christino and published by Karen Christino. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tecumseh and his brother the Shawnee Prophet are linked with the 20-year cycle of U.S. presidents dying in office. Is the so-called "curse" part of an ancient prophecy? Is it an astrological cycle? Tecumseh's Curse explores Indigenous culture, the legends and presidential history, analyzes 10 presidents' horoscopes and 16 inaugural charts, and provides forecasts for the 2021 administration and the Jupiter-Saturn in Aquarius era to come.
Author : Jonathan Todd Hancock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662191
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Convulsed States written by Jonathan Todd Hancock and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew connections among signs of environmental, spiritual, and political disorder on the cusp of the War of 1812. Drawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States probes their interpretations to offer insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century. With a compelling narrative and rigorous comparative analysis, Jonathan Todd Hancock uses the earthquakes to bridge historical fields and shed new light on this pivotal era of nation remaking. Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned from the Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith A. Commeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Short Papers of the U.S. Geological Survey Uranium Workshop, 1990 written by Judith A. Commeau and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Reiss
Publisher : Care Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781932747058
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Earthquake America Forgot written by Norman Reiss and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientifically and historically describes the New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812 and provides valuable information in the event of an earthquake today.
Author : Conevery Bolton Valencius
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605392X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes written by Conevery Bolton Valencius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Author : Athel Glyde Unklesbay
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826208361
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Missouri Geology written by Athel Glyde Unklesbay and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intended for the general reader, Missouri Geology is a well-illustrated introduction to the fascinating geology of Missouri."--Publishers website.
Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077370X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective." --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around half of the world’s largest cities – as many as sixty – lie in areas of major seismic activity. Many, such as Lisbon, Naples, San Francisco, Teheran, and Tokyo, have been severely damaged or destroyed by earthquakes in the past. But throughout history, starting with ancient Jericho, Rome, and Sparta, cities have proved to be extraordinarily resilient: only one, Port Royal in the Caribbean, was abandoned after an earthquake. Earth-Shattering Events seeks to understand exactly how humans and earthquakes have interacted, not only in the short term but also in the long perspective of history. In some cases, physical devastation has been followed by decline. But in others, the political and economic reverberations of earthquake disasters have presented opportunities for renewal. After its wholesale destruction in 1906, San Francisco went on to flourish, eventually giving birth to the high-tech industrial area on the San Andreas fault known as Silicon Valley. An earthquake in Caracas in 1812 triggered the creation of new nations in the liberation of South America from Spanish rule. Another in Tangshan in 1976 catalysed the transformation of China into the world’s second largest economy. The growth of the scientific study of earthquakes is woven into this far-reaching history. It began with a series of earthquakes in England in 1750. Today, seismologists can monitor the vibration of the planet second by second and the movement of tectonic plates millimeter by millimeter. Yet, even in the 21st century, great earthquakes are still essentially "acts of God," striking with much less warning than volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and even tornadoes and tsunamis.
Author : Bruce Vandervort
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134590911
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900 written by Bruce Vandervort and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century.
Author : Mary Colquett
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1641146923
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Broadhorn written by Mary Colquett and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fall of 1811, a great comet approached the earth, terrifying the people who lived under its threat. Then in December of the same year and the spring of 1812, the San Madrid fault exploded with three large earthquakes, Living through these experiences, Hart MacAlpin must deal with the threat of a British takeover of the vast Mississippi Territory, the murder of his brother Bruce, and his growing feelings for a young spinster from Mobile""Lessie Renard Lord. Since betrayal by Bruce, and his ex-fiancée, Ada Albright MacAlpin, Hart has determined never to become enamored of any woman again. Fate determines otherwise. Bruce's death complicates Hart's search for the agent in charge of the takeover. Outlying farms are being pillaged, people murdered, property stolen. The only answer is to ferret out the British-paid leader working undercover in the small capital city of Washington, Mississippi. With the aid of his childhood friend, Tchula, a minor chief of the Choctaw nation, he begins his hunt. Moving from the already wealthy and growing town of Natchez along the notorious Natchez Trace toward Nashville and from there down the Cumberland and Ohio Rivers to the Mississippi via broadhorn, the compelling characters, vivid imagery, and dual plots unfold the life and times of Hart MacAlpin.
Author : Susan Elizabeth Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195179137
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book After the Earth Quakes written by Susan Elizabeth Hough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.
Author : John E. Farley
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321773
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America written by John E. Farley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When self-proclaimed climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would shatter the Heartland on 2 or 3 December 1990, many living within reach of the New Madrid fault zone reacted with varying combinations of preparation and panic.
