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Author : Alpheus M. Darley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful Rock River written by Alpheus M. Darley and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Wohl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520257030
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Of Rock and Rivers written by Ellen Wohl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. The author traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the region.
Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153353
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Rock and the River written by Kekla Magoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black Panthers in 1968 Chicago. The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam, it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?
Author : Nels Akerlund
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ISBN 13 : 9780962087752
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Our Rock River written by Nels Akerlund and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Rock" is the hidden jewel of America's hearland. Travel the rock from Horicon Marsh to the Mississippi. Revenue to the American Cancer Society.
Author : Bill Maynard
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ISBN 13 : 9780439098694
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Rock River written by Bill Maynard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Luke's summertime adventures along the river are haunted by the memory of his older brother Robert, who died being a daredevil in the same place a year and a half earlier.
Author : Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.)
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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Rock River written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Marvel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011310
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rock Island Line written by Bill Marvel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history of the legendary railroad that spanned the American Midwest in this beautifully illustrated volume. Beginning operations in the mid-nineteenth century, the Rock Island Line served farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing settlers into the West, and hauling their crops to market. Rock Island’s celebrated Rocket passenger trains also set a standard for speed and service, with suburban runs as familiar to Windy City commuters as the Loop. For most of its existence, the Rock battled competitors much larger and richer than itself. When it finally succumbed, the result was one of the largest business bankruptcies ever. Today, as its engines and stock travel the busy main lines operated by other carriers, the Rock Island Line lives on in the hearts of those whom it employed and served.
Author : Dave Richard Palmer
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The River and the Rock written by Dave Richard Palmer and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albertype Co
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Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Rock River and Black Hawk Trail written by Albertype Co and published by . This book was released on 1900* with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Falley Allen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The American Herd Book written by Lewis Falley Allen and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To which is prefixed a concise history of English and American Short horns, compiled from the best authorities.
Author : Roald D. Tweet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A History of Navigation Improvements on the Rock Island Rapids written by Roald D. Tweet and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Adler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738588650
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Janesville written by Judith Adler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, Henry Janes, one of the area's first settlers, proposed the name "Black Hawk" for the small southern Wisconsin settlement he lived in, but the US Post Office chose Janesville. The village along the Rock River was selected as the Rock County seat, and by 1860 it had grown to become Wisconsin's second largest city. Janesville developed into an important railroad town and, because of its waterpower, a milling and manufacturing center. General Motors built a large plant, and George Parker started the Parker Pen Company here. As the city grew, land was donated or set aside for recreation, and today Janesville calls itself Wisconsin's Park Place. Its population has grown to more than 62,000.
Author : Newton Bateman
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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois written by Newton Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Brunson Way
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Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Rock River Valley written by Royal Brunson Way and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Regena Trant Schantz
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1647041201
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Trader at Rock Island written by Regena Trant Schantz and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Upper Mississippi Valley, George Davenport's name was widely known as a trader with the Sauk and Mesquakie, the U.S. Army, and settlers who were attracted to the untapped waterpower surrounding Davenport's home on Rock Island. The Trader at Rock Island tells the story of George Davenport and his entry into the Indian trade and his eventual transition into services and businesses marketed toward the new settlers. After the Black Hawk War, Davenport promoted land development as the frontier turned from Indian land to commercial centers of industry. By the time of Davenport's murder in 1845, the cities now known today as the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois were in their infancy.
Author : Gregory L. Schneider
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629629
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Requiem written by Gregory L. Schneider and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company—the Rock Island Line—was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freights and Rocket passenger trains but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing economy. Gregory Schneider chronicles the Rock Island’s painful decline and along the way reveals some of the key problems within the American railroad industry during the post–World War II era. Schneider takes readers back to a time when railroads still clung to a storied past to offer new insight into the devastating impact of economic policymaking during the 1960s and 1970s. Schneider recounts the largest railroad liquidation in American history—as well as one of the most successful reorganizations in American business—to depict the demise and ultimate collapse of Rock Island as part of a broader account of hard times in the railroad industry beginning in the 1970s. Schneider weaves a complex story of how business, politics, government bureaucracy, and individual greed helped to limit the economic possibilities of the railroad industry and catapult the Rock Island Railroad into oblivion. Weakened by a troubled economy, the Rock fell victim to inept management and labor union intransigence; but Schneider also reveals how government regulations and price controls prevented innovation, hindered capital acquisition, and favored other forms of transportation that lie beyond the scope of regulation. Railroads were even hurt by taxation of property and real estate while competitors were able to use government-subsidized highways and airports without having to pay taxes to fund them. Now that America has gone on to witness the collapse of such mammoth firms as Enron and Lehman Brothers, not to mention the bankruptcy and bailout of General Motors, the story of the Rock provides an instructive lesson in how a major American enterprise was allowed to fall victim to forces often beyond its control—while the bailout of the Penn Central, at the expense of smaller lines like Rock Island, helped initiate the era of “too big to fail.” For economic historians and railroad buffs alike, Rock Island Requiem is a well-researche
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book A Winter from Home. [An Account of a Journey Through the United States.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
