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Author : Mrs. Hugh Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : OCLC:4094566
Author : Mrs. Hugh Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : UOM:39015024769419
Author : Cheryll Glotfelty
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780874170122
Over 200 writings about Nevada with selections from Native American tales to contemporary writings on urban experience and environmental concerns. The state of Nevada embodies paradox and contradiction—home to one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation and to isolated ranches scattered across a sparsely populated backcountry. Nevada is a place where the lust for sudden wealth has prompted both wild mining booms and glittering casinos, and where forbidding atomic test sites coexist with alluring tourist meccas. The variety and distinctiveness of Nevada’s landscape and peoples have inspired writers from the beginning of immigrant contact with the region. This contact has produced abundant literary wealth that includes the rich oral traditions of Native American peoples and an amazing spectrum of contemporary voices. Literary Nevada is the first comprehensive literary anthology of Nevada. It contains over 200 selections ranging from traditional Native American tales, explorers’ and emigrants’ accounts, and writing from the Comstock Lode and other mining boomtowns, as well as compelling fiction, poetry, and essays from throughout the state’s history. There is work by well-known Nevada writers such as Sarah Winnemucca, Mark Twain, and Robert Laxalt, by established and emerging writers from all parts of the state, and by some nonresident authors whose work illuminates important facets of the Nevada experience. The book includes cowboy poetry, travel writing, accounts of nuclear Nevada, narratives about rural life and urban life in Las Vegas and Reno, poetry and fiction from the state’s best contemporary writers, and accounts of the special beauty of wild Nevada’s mountains and deserts. Editor Cheryll Glotfelty provides insightful introductions to each section and author. The book also includes a photo gallery of selected Nevada writers and a generous list of suggested further readings. Nevada has inspired an exceptionally rich panorama of fine writing and a dazzling array of literary voices. The selections in Literary Nevada will engage and delight readers while revealing the complex and exciting diversity of the state’s history, people, and life.
Author : James Deetz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307874382
History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the intricacies of daily life. In his completely revised and expanded edition of In Small Things Forgotten, Deetz has added new sections that more fully acknowledge the presence of women and African Americans in Colonial America. New interpretations of archaeological finds detail how minorities influenced and were affected by the development of the Anglo-American tradition in the years following the settlers' arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Among Deetz's observations: Subtle changes in building long before the Revolutionary War hinted at the growing independence of the American colonies and their desire to be less like the British. Records of estate auctions show that many households in Colonial America contained only one chair--underscoring the patriarchal nature of the early American family. All other members of the household sat on stools or the floor. The excavation of a tiny community of freed slaves in Massachusetts reveals evidence of the transplantation of African culture to North America. Simultaneously a study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied, In Small Things Forgotten, through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicts a world hundreds of years in the past.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:16568780
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112052725576
Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 5898 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781801700108
A Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Hamlin Garland is best remembered today for his short stories and his autobiographical “Middle Border” series of narratives, charting the difficult lives of hard-working Midwestern farmers. His landmark story collection ‘Main-Travelled Roads’ was a popular success, portraying the hardships of agrarian life, deconstructing the conventional myth of the American prairie while highlighting the economic and social conditions of the rural Midwest. This comprehensive eBook presents Garland’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Garland’s life and works * The complete Middle Border series for the first time in digital publishing * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 21 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories, including ‘Delmar of Pima’, first time in digital print * Includes Garland’s rare poetry collection – available in no other collection * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Middle Border Series A Son of the Middle Border (1917) A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921) Trail-Makers of the Middle Border (1926) Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (1928) The Novels Jason Edwards (1892) Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly (1895) A Member of the Third House (1892) A Little Norsk (1892) A Spoil of Office (1892) The Spirit of Sweetwater (1898) Boy Life on the Prairie (1899) The Eagle’s Heart (1900) Her Mountain Lover (1901) The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop (1902) Hesper (1903) The Light of the Star (1904) The Tyranny of the Dark (1905) Witch’s Gold (1906) The Long Trail (1907) Money Magic (1907) The Shadow World (1908) The Moccasin Ranch (1909) Cavanagh, Forest Ranger (1910) Victor Ollnee’s Discipline (1911) The Forester’s Daughter (1914) The Short Stories Main-Travelled Roads (1891) Prairie Folks (1893) Wayside Courtships (1897) Delmar of Pima (1902) Other Main-Travelled Roads (1910) They of the High Trails (1916) The Poetry Prairie Songs (1893) The Non-Fiction The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899) A Pioneer Mother (1922) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Author : Otis E. Young,Robert Lenon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155630
Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the steam engine. Those were the years of bonanza strikes: Henry Wickenburg’s Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the main hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin’s discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, which netted over one hundred million dollars. Black Powder and Hand Steel describes the miners and the machinery they used. Otis E. Young, Jr., gives an account of the miners, particularly the Cornish and Irish, their origins, character, social life, pleasures, and, most important, their labors. The miner’s lot depended on the tools he used, and the author traces the evolution of the miner’s most important tools: from hoisting bucket to mine elevator, cold mining to dynamite, ore car to skip, hemp to wire rope, and slow match to Bickford fuse. Young reveals the difficulties of prospecting and mining two of the West’s most valuable ores, gold and silver, and gives readers a firsthand look at the challenges of working even the most successful strikes. A companion volume to Young’s Western Mining, Black Powder and Hand Steel is written in the same lively style—informative and entertaining for general readers and scholars. It is also well illustrated, with drawings by Buck O’Donnell.
Author : Judith L. Butler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780557520725
This Collection of Poems honors more of the remarkable strong Women of the West. Those amazing souls who bravely worked to build new towns and churches and businesses while keeping their families safe and together. Many faced poverty and loss still they forged on in faith and fortitude. The stories of Lady In Boomtown, Sheriff Dorothy & Lone Pine Pat make up the true tales of the West all too often left out of the history books.
Author : J. Harvie Dew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4S5E
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168539
Addressing everything from the details of everyday life to recreation and warfare, this two-volume work examines the social, political, intellectual, and material culture of the American "Old West," from the California Gold Rush of 1849 to the end of the 19th century. What was life really like for ordinary people in the Old West? What did they eat, wear, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia provides readers with an engaging and detailed portrayal of the Old West through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set explores various aspects of social history—family, politics, religion, economics, and recreation—to illuminate aspects of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between the individual and the greater world. Readers will be exposed to both objective reality and subjective views of a particular culture; as a result, they can create a cohesive, accurate impression of life in the Old West during the second half of the 1800s.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357276
Author : Marjorie Rosen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781569763704
Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas--a microcosm of America's social, political, and cultural shift. Numerous personalities are interviewed, including a multimillionaire Palestinian refugee who arrived penniless and is now dedicated to building a synagogue, a Mexican mother of three who was fired after injuring herself on the job, a black executive hired to diversify Wal-Mart whose arrival coincided with a KKK rally, and a Hindu father concerned about interracial dating. In documenting these citizens' stories, this account reveals the challenges and issues facing those who compose this and other "boom towns"--where demographics, the economy, and immigration and migration patterns are continually in flux. In shedding light on these important and timely anecdotes of America's changing rural and suburban landscape, this exploration provides an entertaining and intimate chronicle of the different ethnicities, races, and religions as well as their ongoing struggles to adapt. Emerging as subtle sociology combined with drama and humanity, this overview illustrates the imperceptible and occasionally unpredictable movements that affect the nonmetropolitan environment of the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Nevada
ISBN : UVA:X004011320