Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Prairie State full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Prairie State ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Paul McClelland Angle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prairie State written by Paul McClelland Angle and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Railroads Past and Present
ISBN 13 : 9780253019066
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Railroads Past and Present. This book was released on 2016 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Author : Michael Jeffords
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096266
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Exploring Nature in Illinois written by Michael Jeffords and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loaded with full color photographs and evocative descriptions, Exploring Nature in Illinois provides a panorama of the state's overlooked natural diversity. Naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post explore fifty preserves, forests, restoration areas, and parks, bringing an expert view to wildlife and landscapes and looking beyond the obvious to uncover the unexpected beauty of Illinois's wild places. From the colorful variety of birds at War Bluff Valley Audubon Sanctuary to the exposed bedrock and cliff faces of Apple River Canyon, Exploring Nature in Illinois will inspire readers to explore wonders hidden from urban sprawl and cultivated farmland. Maps and descriptions help travelers access even hard-to-find sites while a wealth of detail and photography offers nature-lovers insights into the flora, fauna, and other aspects of vibrant settings and ecosystems. The authors also include diary entries describing their own impressions of and engagement with the sites. A unique and much-needed reference, Exploring Nature in Illinois will entertain and enlighten hikers, cyclers, students and scouts, morning walkers, weekend drivers, and anyone else seeking to get back to nature in the Prairie State.
Author : Earnest Elmo Calkins
Publisher : Prairie State Books
ISBN 13 : 9780252060946
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book They Broke the Prairie written by Earnest Elmo Calkins and published by Prairie State Books. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and the postwar era.
Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811740668
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Haunted Illinois written by Troy Taylor and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illinois's mysterious and often violent history has made the state a haven for restless spirits.
Author : Wanda E. Brunstetter
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683227387
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Prairie State Friends Trilogy written by Wanda E. Brunstetter and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Prairie State Friends Series in One Volume Enjoy a collectible volume of beloved novels by New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter. Enter the community of Arthur, Illinois, and meet three Amish couples who must battle heartbreak, bitterness, and jealousy before love can triumph. The Decision Starting over in a new Amish community after suffering terrible heartbreak has been going good for Jonah Miller, until his heart takes another terrible hit. Elaine Schrock loves Jonah, but she feels she must dedicate herself to taking care of her grandmother. Jonah doesn’t know if he can risk loving a third time. The Gift Leah Mast has a gift for reflexology that some scoff at, including Adam Beachy. But when Adam needs Leah’s help in a life-altering way, he must put aside his misgivings about her and propose a marriage of convenience—if that’s what it takes to build the family that his orphaned nieces need. The Restoration Priscilla Herschberger finds herself pursued by Elam, a childhood friend from her community, and David, an outsider raised in the modern world. Elam would do almost anything to convince Priscilla that David would never fit into the Amish way. Will flames of jealousy rage out of control and ruin lives?
Author : Chris Helzer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States written by Chris Helzer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most prairies exist today as fragmented landscapes, making thoughtful and vigilant management ever more important. Intended for landowners and managers dedicated to understanding and nurturing their prairies as well as farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and all those with a strong interest in grasslands, ecologist Chris Helzer’s readable and practical manual educates prairie owners and managers about grassland ecology and gives them guidelines for keeping prairies diverse, vigorous, and viable. Chapters in the first section, "Prairie Ecology," describe prairie plants and the communities they live in, the ways in which disturbance modifies plant communities, the animal and plant inhabitants that are key to prairie survival, and the importance of diversity within plant and animal communities. Chapters in the second section, "Prairie Management," explore the adaptive management process as well as guiding principles for designing management strategies, examples of successful management systems such as fire and grazing, guidance for dealing with birds and other species that have particular habitat requirements and with the invasive species that have become the most serious threat that prairie managers have to deal with, and general techniques for prairie restoration. Following the conclusion and a forward-thinking note on climate change, eight appendixes provide more information on grazing, prescribed fire, and invasive species as well as bibliographic notes, references, and national and state organizations with expertise in prairie management. Grasslands can be found throughout much of North America, and the ideas and strategies in this book apply to most of them, particularly tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies in eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, northwestern Missouri, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and southwestern Minnesota. By presenting all the factors that promote biological diversity and thus enhance prairie communities, then incorporating these factors into a set of clear-sighted management practices, The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States presents the tools necessary to ensure that grasslands are managed in the purposeful ways essential to the continued health and survival of prairie communities.
Author : Madeline Babcock Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061639
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Lemon Jelly Cake written by Madeline Babcock Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in small-town Central Illinois at the turn of the century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns bountiful summer picnics, shaded front porches, and gentle humor. the tale is set in an era when the day's toughest decision might have been what to serve for dinner or which suit or dress to wear.
Author : Grace Humphrey
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378917206
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Illinois, the Story of the Prairie State written by Grace Humphrey and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122449
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Across Spoon River written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of one of Illinois’ great poets, author of Spoon River Anthology, with many vignettes of the Chicago Renaissance. This intimate and provocative autobiography, first published in 1936, reveals the innermost thoughts of a great American poet. Edgar Lee Masters was a transitional figure in American literature with one foot planted in the nineteenth century and the other firmly placed on the path of what we now think of as the modern period. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. “Across Spoon River: An Autobiography is blunt and cranky about a life [Masters] saw as largely “scrappy and unmanageable.” Emphasizing life on his grandfather’s farm, his school days, his political battles, the workday world, and the growth of a poet’s mind through wide reading, the book is a valuable record of Masters’s work habits and offers considerable insight on his position as a critic and his place in American literature.”—Ronald Primeau, American National Biography
Author : Rennay Craats
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1489648569
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Illinois: The Prairie State written by Rennay Craats and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Author : Wanda E. Brunstetter
Publisher : Barbour Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643522234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Restoration written by Wanda E. Brunstetter and published by Barbour Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to the Prairie State of Illinois in Wanda E. Brunstetter's riveting Amish romance where one jealousy-driven decision may destroy three young lives.
Author : Ronald E. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Illinois, Land and Life in the Prairie State written by Ronald E. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book attempts to further the reader's understanding of Illinois in three ways. First, it contributes to an awareness of the state's landscape variety by emphasizing geographical patterns of environmnetal and human phenomena. Second, it illustrates the intimate relationships between human populations and their habitat in the state. Third, it traces the development of these landscapes and relationships through time in order to determine how the state's present land and life came to be. To supplement the written descriptions and analyses, well over a hundred maps are included in the book."--Preface page vii.
Author : Gary Meszaros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606353202
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Prairie Peninsula written by Gary Meszaros and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, and Ohio. With text by coauthors Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny and striking photographs by Meszaros, The Prairie Peninsula examines the many prairie types, floristic composition, and animals that are part of this ecosystem. It took only 50 years for 150 million acres of tallgrass prairie to disappear under the steel plow, transforming the Prairie Peninsula into fields of corn and wheat. Today, only a few thousand acres of this endangered ecosystem remain in small parcels, some just a few acres each. The second half of the 19th century brought the mass slaughter of prairie wildlife. By 1900, like the prairie they roamed, the plains bison, gray wolf, and eastern elk became extirpated east of the Mississippi River. The Prairie Peninsula also tells the story of the early settlers and the hardships they endured. Thousands died of milk sickness and malaria, with prairie fires sending flames 30 feet into the air and stretched across the horizon, destroying everything in their path. Today, many of these pioneers lie buried in cemeteries comprising prairie remnants, fragments of the primeval land they tried to tame. The authors investigate these and other surviving prairie remnants and current efforts to save these traces of original North American grassland. Both Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny have traveled extensively throughout the Midwest, studying the animal and floristic composition of original prairie remnants.
Author : Philip Juras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578864587
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Picturing the Prairie written by Philip Juras and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty-four paintings in this volume celebrate the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the remarkable legacy of conservation that sustains them. Artist and author Philip Juras's evocative canvases are based on extensive research, travel, and time in the field with prairie conservation experts. As a result, his luminous paintings, and his descriptions of them, are rich in ecological and historical detail. An accompanying essay by acclaimed conservationist Stephen Packard tells the story of how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem was, and is, being saved from extinction in Illinois by a series of remarkable individuals and initiatives-efforts that have inspired conservation practices well beyond the state's borders.Picturing the Prairie invites us to get to know these restored landscapes, both within these pages and in the corresponding 2021 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In them we can experience the magnificence of this archetypal American grassland, both in its present nature, and as it was in the past.
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019125
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 162376033X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book North Dakota, a Guide to the Northern Prairie State, written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1938 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: written by workers of the Federal Writersþ Project of the Works progress administration for the state of North Dakota, sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
