High Country

Author : Nevada Barr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133880

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High Country by Nevada Barr Pdf

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna's life if threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : UCR:31210025039312

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Angeles High Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melanie Shellenbarger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780816599332

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High Country Summers by Melanie Shellenbarger Pdf

High Country Summers considers the emergence of the “summer home” in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. It offers a welcome new perspective on an often-overlooked dwelling and lifestyle. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that Colorado’s early summer homes were not only enjoyed by the privileged and wealthy but crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender. They offered their inhabitants recreational and leisure experiences as well as opportunities for individual re-invention—and they helped shape both the cultural landscapes of the American West and our ideas about it. Shellenbarger focuses on four areas along the Front Range: Rocky Mountain National Park and its easterly gateway town, Estes Park; “recreation residences” in lands managed by the US Forest Service; Lincoln Hills, one of only a few African-American summer home resorts in the United States; and the foothills west of Denver that drew Front Range urbanites, including Denver’s social elite. From cottages to manor houses, the summer dwellings she examines were home to governors and government clerks; extended families and single women; business magnates and Methodist ministers; African-American building contractors and innkeepers; shop owners and tradespeople. By returning annually, Shellenbarger shows, they created communities characterized by distinctive forms of kinship. High Country Summers goes beyond history and architecture to examine the importance of these early summer homes as meaningful sanctuaries in the lives of their owners and residents. These homes, which embody both the dwelling (the house itself) and dwelling (the act of summering there), resonate across time and place, harkening back to ancient villas and forward to the present day.

Author : Writers of the Soiree at the Summit
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595327737

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Colorado High Country Anthology by Writers of the Soiree at the Summit Pdf

The Soiree at the Summit had its beginning in early 2003 when author Stew Mosberg, craving feedback and inspiration, hosted a meeting with other published authors working in Summit County, Colorado. The charter members of Soiree at the Summit (Maryann Gaug, Andrew Gmerek, Sherry King, Stew Mosberg, Herb Tabak, Scott Toepfer) have been writing for many years with their work appearing regionally, nationally and internationally in books, newspapers, ezines and conventional magazines. Colorado High Country Anthology is a collection of short, enjoyable works spanning a wide range of literary genre such as satire, outdoor adventure, the occult, humor, life experiences, the environment, mystery, crime and travel.

Author : Christine Balaz
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579307

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Explorer's Guide Salt Lake City, Park City, Provo & Utah's High Country Resorts: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations) by Christine Balaz Pdf

An updated edition of the most comprehensive guide to the area, full of spectacular scenery and ripe for outdoor adventure. In this definitive guide to Utah’s Wasatch Region, entertainment abounds, from the ski slopes of Park City to the theaters of Salt Lake. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Rockies’ impressive peaks, this region offers the perfect pairing of outdoor escapes and urban options—with convenience, accessibility, and affordability.

Author : Anthony D. Parsons,Tony Parsons
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459621329

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The Call of the High Country by Anthony D. Parsons,Tony Parsons Pdf

In the heart of Australia's rugged high country, three generations of the MacLeod family battle to make a living on the land. As a young married couple, Andrew and Anne work together to make the very best of their property, High Peaks, but at what cost to their happiness? In time, the property will pass to their son, David. Handsome and hardwork...

Author : Linda Lael Miller
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982147822

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High Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller Pdf

In this first novel in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, three brothers are in a race against time to inherit their father’s ranch. One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit, and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides. Rafe McKettrick loves only one thing more than his freedom—the Triple M ranch. In his bid to win it, he marries a woman he’s never met. To his surprise, Emmeline is as beautiful as she is spirited…but she’s clearly hiding a secret. Emmeline Harding discovered she couldn’t hold her liquor the hard way. Uncertain why she woke up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel and fearing the worst, she fled town as a mail-order bride. Now, she must confess her past to her handsome new husband. But as the newlyweds are suspiciously circling each other, a visitor from the past enters the high country. Can Rafe and Emmeline give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul?

Author : Willard Wyman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806138998

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High Country by Willard Wyman Pdf

"During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, a legend in the Montana Rockies. 'High Country' follows Ty through his packing apprenticeship and into World War II, where he watches trucks and jeeps replace the army's mules ..." from back cover.

Author : Jillian Hart,Ruth Axtell Morren
Publisher : Love Inspired
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Bank employees
ISBN : 1335007563

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High Country Bride and a Man Most Worthy by Jillian Hart,Ruth Axtell Morren Pdf

High country bride. "Evicted from her home, widow Joanna Nelson and her two children had nowhere to turn. Still bearing the pain of his own loss, Aidan McKaslin offered her refuge on his ranch. It was an arrangement that benefited them both. He sheltered her family while she brought faith and a woman's touch back into his world. Could this be the second chance at happiness they both deserve?"--Back cover.

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393285499

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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston Pdf

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

Author : Steve Roper
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0898865069

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The Sierra High Route by Steve Roper Pdf

No ordinary guidebook, Sierra High Route leads you from point to point through a spectacular 195-mile timberline route in California's High Sierra. The route follows a general direction but no particular trail, thus causing little or no impact and allowing hikers to experience the beautiful sub-alpine region of the High Sierra in a unique way.

Author : Lee Roddy
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1556612877

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High Country Ambush by Lee Roddy Pdf

Roddy's character-building, entertaining stories, set against the crushing problems of the Great Depression, inspire and challenge today's young readers to "hang on" through present-day troubles. Here, Hildy learns that although change is an inevitable part of life for everyone, it is possible to have faith in God in the midst of anything life sends along.

Author : William Philpott
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804613

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Vacationland by William Philpott Pdf

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70. Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today. Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.

Author : Kaki Warner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101588611

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Bride of the High Country by Kaki Warner Pdf

ONE OF LIBRARY JOURNAL'S BEST ROMANCES OF THE YEAR Kaki Warner’s newest novel in the series about unlikely brides who make their way west—and find love where they least expect it. For fans of Linda Lael Miller and Jodi Thomas... Margaret Hamilton escaped the Irish slums of Five Points as the ward of a wealthy Manhattan widow, but only marriage can make her future secure. Railroad mogul Doyle Kerrigan needs a well-connected wife. It seems a perfect match...until a shocking revelation sends her fleeing from the wedding reception. Desperate to make a fresh start, Margaret takes on a new identity and heads West, finally stopping in Heartbreak Creek, Colorado, a dying mining town of little interest to anyone. Here, she finds new purpose, beloved friends to replace the family she’s lost, and a home at last. But two men from Margaret’s past are on her trail. One is seeking vengeance, the other truth. When they both arrive in Heartbreak Creek, she must choose between the town she has come to love, and the man who might finally capture her heart….

Author : Pamela Clare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 0990377164

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Barely Breathing by Pamela Clare Pdf

A hot contemporary romance from the author of the acclaimed I-Team series... Lexi Jewell left Scarlet Springs twelve years ago, vowing never to return to the small Colorado mountain town where she grew up. Now, here she is-over thirty, out of a job and with little choice but to move back in with her eccentric father. Lexi knows it's just a matter of time before she runs into Austin Taylor, her first boyfriend and her first heartbreak. She's determined to show him she's over him-until he steps out of a pickup truck and back into her life, looking sexy as hell in his mountain ranger uniform. As far as Austin is concerned, Lexi can turn her snazzy little convertible around and drive back to Chicago. After all, she ripped his teenage heart to pieces and turned her back on the town he loves. But from the moment he sees her again, he can't get her out of his mind. Even her smile messes with his head. When an evening of conversation turns into something else, Lexi and Austin agree to be friends-with benefits. But as Lexi starts making plans to return to the big city, Austin realizes he'll lose her a second time unless he can show her that what she's searching for has been right here all along. "Pamela Clare is a dazzling talent." -Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author