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Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : OCLC:7103357
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433069130239
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU01583328
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:310361944
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : LCCN:rc00001552
Author : L. P. BROCKETT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152831185X
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : OCLC:1052905458
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : OCLC:7103357
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055743313
Author : Francis Perego Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : America
ISBN : UCAL:$B79138
Author : Francis P. Harper (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128078339
Author : Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080250129
Author : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080253099
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195356640
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780874175806
The austere landscape of the Great Basin has inspired diverse responses from the people who have moved through or settled in it. Author Richard V. Francaviglia is interested in the connection between environment and spirituality in the Great Basin, for here, he says, "faith and landscape conspire to resurrect old myths and create new ones." As a geographer, Francaviglia knows that place means more than physical space. Human perceptions and interpretations are what give place its meaning. In Believing in Place, he examines the varying human perceptions of and relationships with the Great Basin landscape, from the region's Native American groups to contemporary tourists and politicians, to determine the spiritual issues that have shaped our connections with this place. In doing so, he considers the creation and flood myths of several cultures, the impact of the Judeo-Christian tradition and individualism, Native American animism and shamanist traditions, the Mormon landscape, the spiritual dimensions of gambling, the religious foundations of Cold War ideology, stories of UFOs and alien presence, and the convergence of science and spirituality. Believing in Place is a profound and totally engaging reflection on the ways that human needs and spiritual traditions can shape our perceptions of the land. That the Great Basin has inspired such a complex variety of responses is partly due to its enigmatic vastness and isolation, partly to the remarkable range of peoples who have found themselves in the region. Using not only the materials of traditional geography but folklore, anthropology, Native American and Euro-American religion, contemporary politics, and New Age philosophies, Francaviglia has produced a fascinating and timely investigation of the role of human conceptions of place in that space we call the Great Basin.