Great River Of The West

Author : Professor of History William L Lang,Robert Carriker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0295802766

Get Book

Great River of the West by Professor of History William L Lang,Robert Carriker Pdf

In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place. Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.

Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816508852

Get Book

Run, River, Run by Ann Zwinger Pdf

"The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pages in 1975 that Anne Zwinger's account "of the Green River and its subtle forms of life and nonlife may be taken as authoritative. 'Run, River, Run,' should serve as a standard reference work on this part of the American West for many years to come." ÑNew York Times Book Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959886610

Get Book

Great River of the West: the Columbia River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael E. Denny,Catherine E. Dickson,Lawrence Dodd,G. Thomas Edwards
Publisher : Keokee Company Pub Incorporated
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1879628325

Get Book

Where the Great River Bends by Michael E. Denny,Catherine E. Dickson,Lawrence Dodd,G. Thomas Edwards Pdf

A remarkable place where geography has defined history, Wallula Gap is that narrowing of the mighty Columbia River halfway between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Bob Carson and his colleagues tell a fascinating story ¿ of a striking land where the forces of geology worked on a spectacular scale, of a desert oasis where Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, promoters and entrepreneurs, and modern-day agriculturalists and wind farmers have all made their mark. Through the prism of Wallula, the historic gateway to the Columbia Plateau, readers learn much about the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030125447

Get Book

Great River Road Construction from Cairo Bridge, Ohio River to West of Reel Foot Lake on I-94 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Schwatka
Publisher : Philadelphia : J.Y. Huber
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UCAL:$B23375

Get Book

Along Alaska's Great River by Frederick Schwatka Pdf

"These pages narrate the travels ... of the Alaska exploring expedition of 1883. In April of that year the expedition was organized with seven members at Vancouver Barracks, Washington Territory, and left Portland, Oregon in May ... floated over the great stream for over thirteen hundred miles, the longest raft journey ever made, in the interest of geographical science. The entire river, over two thousand miles, was traversed, the party returning home by way of Bering's Sea, and touching at the Aleutian Islands."--Preface.

Author : Earl Roberge
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012263136

Get Book

Columbia, Great River of the West by Earl Roberge Pdf

NORTHWEST.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959872043

Get Book

Great River of the West (DVD). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Roop,Connie Roop
Publisher : Calkins Creek Books
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590784303

Get Book

River Roads West by Peter Roop,Connie Roop Pdf

Explores the role of rivers as roads in the exploration and westward expansion of America since precolonial times, discussing the histories of the Hudson, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and Colorado rivers, the Rio Grande, and the Erie Canal.

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870715747

Get Book

River Basins of the American West by Char Miller Pdf

"Examining water issues through the lens of major Western U.S. watersheds, River Basins of the American West explores why water has been, and remains, the West's most essential and controversial subject." "Char Miller has organized writings collected from the pages of High Country News, the voice of Western environmental issues, into sections defined by the great watersheds of the West. Arguably, these drainage systems form the real boundaries of the West, and current water conflicts have their roots in development that ignored this reality." "Contributors to this book - among them activists, scholars, scientists, and some of the nation's finest environmental journalists - probe the intense differences and disagreements over water rights across the West, and present the positive developments toward a lasting solution to the most fraught issue the West faces." --Book Jacket.

Author : Jack Nisbet,David Thompson
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570610061

Get Book

Sources of the River by Jack Nisbet,David Thompson Pdf

In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson-fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America and was the first to chart the entire length of the Columbia River. His field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the region, and Nisbet uses them to guide his own discovery of the Northwest Territory some two centuries later. Book jacket.

Author : David L. Nicandri
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0874224144

Get Book

River of Promise by David L. Nicandri Pdf

River of Promise focuses on often-overlooked yet essential aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition: locating the headwaters of the Columbia and a water route to the Pacific Ocean; William Clark's role as the partnership's primary geographic problem-solver; and the contributions of Indian leaders in Columbia River country. The volume also offers comparisons to other explorers and a provocative analysis of Lewis's 1809 suicide. Originally published by The Dakota Institute.

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperCollins West
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0062585169

Get Book

River of the West by Robert Clark Pdf

The Columbia River is the great river of both the American West and of the American imagination. From the glacial floods that began to shape it twelve thousand years ago to its discovery, conquest, and colonization by the English, Spanish, and Americans, the river's story encompasses not only the full range of American history but a geography of myth, hope, and tragedy: the impact of conquest on the native peoples; the idea of a United States reaching to the Pacific; the material and spiritual quests of European adventurers, New England missionaries, and emigrants from the drought-ridden plains of the Midwest; and hydropowered New Deal dreams of peace and prosperity. In River of the West, the Columbia unfolds itself in stories of the people who lived and died on its shores; "discovered" and claimed it for their country; or depended on its dam-generated power or bountiful salmon. Portraits of the shaman Smohalla, leader of the "renegade" Indians who refused to settle on the reservations, and Christian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who was mutilated and murdered by the tribe she had come to redeem (a tribe nearly destroyed by the diseases brought by white settlers), plumb the perspectives of the indigenous river peoples, the dreams of explorers and settlers, and the drama that resulted when the two met. Detailing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's stirring speeches urging the construction of the Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams, Clark evokes the "hydro-socialism" that brought dust-bowl refugees and Woody Guthrie to the lush Northwest and went on to create boomtowns as the dams powered a huge portion of the nation's World War II manufacturing effort. And, through the accounts of five imprisonedIndian fishermen, Clark reveals the tragic story of how the dams made salmon extinct on two-thirds of the Columbia and flooded ancient fishing grounds, stripping Indians of their livelihood and traditional way of life. Dramatic, often profound, and always riveting, River of the West is an unforgettable portrait of the West's greatest waterway. Providing material and spiritual sustenance for at least two dozen native river peoples; the impetus for countless expeditions by explorers - and exploiters - from around the world; central to the national visions of both Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Delano Rooseve

Author : William D. Layman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124057212

Get Book

River of Memory by William D. Layman Pdf

"River of Memory honors a place and time now gone from view. It restores an unfettered Columbia through more than ninety historical photographs that capture the river as it once appeared. This visual record is complemented with the words of early explorers, surveyors, and naturalists who wrote about specific places along the river and with new works by contemporary American and Canadian writers and poets."--Jacket.

Author : Julie M. Fenster
Publisher : Crown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307956545

Get Book

Jefferson's America by Julie M. Fenster Pdf

The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration—and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the American purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Spain still coveted that land and was prepared to employ any means to retain it. With war expected at any moment, Jefferson played a game of strategy, putting on the ground the only Americans he could: a cadre of explorers who finally annexed it through courageous investigation. Responsible for orchestrating the American push into the continent was President Thomas Jefferson. He most famously recruited Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific, but at the same time there were other teams who did the same work, in places where it was even more crucial. William Dunbar, George Hunter, Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis, and the dauntless Zebulon Pike—all were dispatched on urgent missions to map the frontier and keep up a steady correspondence with Washington about their findings. But they weren’t always well-matched—with each other and certainly not with a Spanish army of a thousand soldiers or more. These tensions threatened to undermine Jefferson’s goals for the nascent country, leaving the United States in danger of losing its foothold in the West. Deeply researched and inspiringly told, Jefferson’s America rediscovers the robust and often harrowing action from these seminal expeditions and illuminates the president’s vision for a continental America.