A Thousand Miles Of Prairie

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553080

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A Thousand Miles of Prairie by Jim Blanchard Pdf

A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743411160

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Thousand Miles of Prairie by Jim Blanchard Pdf

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3578470-10

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The Novels of J. Fenimore Cooper : The Prairie, The Pathfinder, Miles Wallingford, Afloat and Ashore, The Two Admirals, The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper Pdf

Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226306605

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Of Prairie, Woods, and Water by Joel Greenberg Pdf

In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago’s landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Joel Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing. These writings tell the tale of a land in transition—one with abundant, unique, and incredibly lush flora and fauna, a natural history quite elusive today. Drawing on archives he uncovered while writing his acclaimed A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg hand-selected these first-person narratives, all written between 1721 and 1959. Not every author is familiar, but every contribution is distinctive. From a pioneer’s hilarious notes on life in the Kankakee marsh to Theodore Drieser’s poignant plea for conservation of the Tippecanoe River to infamous murderer Nathan Leopold’s charming description of a pet robin he kept in prison, the sources included are as diverse as the nature they describe. The excerpts conclude with insightful biographical essays and traverse a wide area of greater Chicagoland, from the Illinois River to southwest Michigan, from southern Wisconsin to the Limberlost swamp of northeastern Indiana. A fascinating record of Chicago’s changing environmental history, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water captures the natural world in a way that will inspire its continued conservation. Errata: We have learned the title of a book by the Chicago ecologist and writer May Theilgaard Watts has been incorrectly rendered in the selections attributed to Mrs. Watts. The correct title of her book is Reading the Landscape of America (Nature Study Guild Publishers, see http://naturestudy.com). This will be corrected in the next printing. We very much regret the error.

Author : John P. Pennefather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Canada
ISBN : CHI:082973491

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Thirteen Years on the Prairies by John P. Pennefather Pdf

Author : Bob Blackman
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1589396243

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The Commission by Bob Blackman Pdf

If a group of Christians were the only settlers of an unoccupied planet, in a remote solar system, what would their society be like sixty, seventy, or eighty years later? Would their faith flourish through unity or falter through complacency? The Commission begins with all the nations of earth united into one nation, Terrapax, and the establishment of a state religion that unites all of earth's religions into a single faith. One group, the Messianists, refused to be absorbed, and spent five years in a reeducation camp before being exiled to a newly discovered planet. The Commission follows a single Messianist family from the founding of Terrapax, through the first eighty years on Eden, their new planet. Although it's classified as science fiction because it involves space travel to an unknown planet, it's a story of how the same faith that prospers in oppression, develops into heresy when seasoned with spiritual laxity. It's a story about how even in the worst unorthodoxy, God always preserves a remnant of true believers. It's a story of hope generated by one man who remains faithful to the true gospel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071499978

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Prairie Farmer by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ross,Beth Ross
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780299156633

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Prairie Time by John Ross,Beth Ross Pdf

In the rush of modern life, we measure our lives by the clock, the calendar, the timetable. But there are older rhythms in nature: the call of chickadees before the first hint of spring, the golden face of a compass plant in July, the first snowfall. These signs mark the passage of time in a world that Aldo Leopold knew well and eloquently described. With notebook and camera in hand, John and Beth Ross revisit the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve in south-central Wisconsin fifty years after Leopold’s death. Thanks to the efforts of Leopold, his family, and the Leopold Foundation, this once-ruined farmland is now largely restored to a natural state. The Rosses explore the terrain of this sandy land, encounter its natural citizens, and relate life here to its physical underpinnings. Following Leopold’s own practice of phenology, they note the seasonal changes: arrivals and departures of wild geese, the blossoming of the pasque flower at the edge of melting snow, the appearance of monarch butterflies on the milkweed. And further, they seek to find in this landscape an underlying morality, a communion of understanding, a sense of place in the cosmos. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book also includes notes on the behavior, habitat, and human interactions with ninety-four species of plants, birds, and other animals found in the reserve. An extensive glossary explains terms from geology, ecology, meteorology, and related life and earth sciences.

Author : C. Thomas Shay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781496223388

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Under Prairie Skies by C. Thomas Shay Pdf

Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.

Author : John C. Van Tramp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : NYPL:33433081820981

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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures by John C. Van Tramp Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : IND:30000114351194

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The Prairie Farmer by Anonim Pdf

"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299164608

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Recovering the Prairie by Robert F. Sayre Pdf

Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book recovers the prairie of the American imagination--past, present, and future. Beautifully illustrated with the work of sixteen contemporary prairie artists, Recovering the Prairie celebrates and examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples, ecologists, and landscape architects--Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Jens Jensen, Alexander Gardner, and many others--who recognized the unique beauty of the prairie. And, this volume brings together people from many fields to consider the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization. Contributors and artists include: Robert Adams Lee Allen Roger Brown James D. Butler Pauline Drobney Fred Easker Terry Evans Ed Folsom Lance M. Foster Harold L. Gregor Robert E. Grese Walter Hatke Harold D. Holoun Stan Hurd Gary Irving Wes Jackson Keith Jacobshagen Joni L. Kinsey Stuart Klipper Aldo Leopold Tom Lutz Curt Meine Genie H. Patrick David Plowden Rebecca Roberts Robert F. Sayre Jane E. Simonson Shelton Stromquist James R. Winn

Author : Charles Boewe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809322838

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Prairie Albion by Charles Boewe Pdf

Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.

Author : Thomas Spence
Publisher : s.n.], 1879 (Montreal : Gazette Print. House)
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : NYPL:33433067359228

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The Prairie Lands of Canada by Thomas Spence Pdf

Author : George Wilkins Kendall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Mexico
ISBN : IND:30000115495750

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Narrative of an Expedition Across the Great Southwestern Prairies by George Wilkins Kendall Pdf

The Texan Santa Fe expedition was conceived by Mirabeau B. Lamar in an attempt to open a trade route which would lure away some of the traffic hitherto utilizing the Santa Fe trade, and also to extend his greetings to residents of New Mexico, whom he wished to participate in Texas government as residents of territory claimed by Texas in an act of 1836. Due to poor navigation, faulty planning and harassment by Indians, the expedition lost most of its momentum. Upon their arrival in New Mexico, the entire force was taken captive under orders of Gov. Manuel Armijo. The prisoners were forcibly marched to Mexico City, and the affair brought relations between Texas, the United States and Mexico to a boiling point. Those who survived the march and imprisonment were released in April 1842, six and a half months after their capture. Kendall, editor of the New Orleans Picayune, accompanied the expedition as an observer.