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Author : Gary Rivlin
Publisher : Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143990491X
A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
Author : Julie Courtwright
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700635139
Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.
Author : Caroline Fraser
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627792776
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.
Author : Bob Beal,R. C. Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cree Indians
ISBN : 0771011091
Author : Marilynn Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1551431750
A young boy's heroic efforts help save his family's prairie home. Beautiful pencil drawings depict this story of the early prairie years.
Author : Bill Freeman
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1550286080
Prarie Fire is an exciting adventure story as well as a fascinating account of what homesteading was like in the 1870s.
Author : E.K. Johnston
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781467776813
Listen! For the song of Owen Thorskard has a second verse. Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone. His two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. And though Siobhan McQuaid was the first bard in a generation, she managed to forge a role for herself and herald Owen as a new kind of dragon slayer for a new kind of future. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire. Try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. Not all the way. Not all together. Listen! I am Siobhan McQuaid. I know the cost of even a small bend in the course of history. Listen!
Author : Patricia Young
Publisher : Quattro Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781927443019
Sharp and strong as steel blades, the poems in Night-Eater fuse eerie beauty with gleaming wit, and strangeness with tenderness. In showing the intersection of the mundane and the domestic with the uncouth and uncanny, the author again lives up to such praises as "an artist ... whose sensitivity to language is characteristic of the truly great in poetry" (R. W. Stedingh) and "Young moves in and out of time and worlds, never flagging or faltering and takes the reader with her" (Susan Musgrave). These are "poems to understand life by" (Rick Gibbs).
Author : Stephanie Grace Whitson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1548472948
Jesse King loses her husband on the Oregon Trail, and when Sioux rescue her, she adopts the tribe until she falls in love with a missionary.
Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786047338
The Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century present the 9th chapter in their USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling series featuring Luke Jensen, the long-lost brother of Mountain Man Smoke Jensen. A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder... Johnstone Country. Ready, Aim, Kill. CAUTION: CONTENTS MAY BE FLAMMABLE In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting homes and cities ablaze with sadistic glee. For Goldsmith, starting fires was a lifelong obsession. And when the war ended, he set his sights on the great American West—to burn it all to the ground... Years later, Luke Jensen learns about a series of fires wreaking havoc from the Dakota Territory to Kansas. Each fire appears to be man-made—a way to distract the locals while outlaws rob their banks and loot their towns. The gang’s leader is the demented firebug Goldsmith, along with an equally psychotic partner, Trask. As their fiery reign of terror rages out of control, Luke Jensen decides to do something crazy himself: Infiltrate the gang—and fight fire with gunfire.
Author : Gary Rivlin
Publisher : Owl Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 0805026983
Explains how Harold Washington and his associates overcame the Daley political machine and built an administration that crossed racial lines and transformed Chicago politics
Author : Whit Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Five Civilized Tribes
ISBN : WISC:89077924215
Author : William Anderson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060885526
From her pioneer days on the prairie to her golden years with her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, Laura Ingalls Wilder has become a friend to all who have read about her adventures. This behind-the-scenes account chronicles the real events in Laura's life that inspired her to write her stories and also describes her life after the last Little House book ends.
Author : Clay Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798697913628
Prairie Fire is a guide for Red Counties to survive and thrive during what looks to be another Civil War brewing. Drawing on his experience in Special Forces with counter insurgency, the author creates a step by step road map to making it out alive. Featuring the same gallows humor mixed with real world examples as Concrete Jungle: A Green Beret's Guide to Urban Survival, Prairie Fire is the spiritual successor made specifically for those in rural areas. Food and water, firearms, security, equipment, planning, and tactics are all covered in depth, along with many other topics.
Author : Robert Loren Morlan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780837176390
