Plains Of The Past

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816540129

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To the Last Smoke by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”

Author : James William Daschuk
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889772960

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Clearing the Plains by James William Daschuk Pdf

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires

Author : Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496202291

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Homesteading the Plains by Richard Edwards,Jacob K. Friefeld,Rebecca S. Wingo Pdf

"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--

Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107044906

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Pemmican Empire by George Colpitts Pdf

Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374708504

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Rising from the Plains by John McPhee Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.

Author : Russell McKee
Publisher : New York : T.Y. Crowell Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027789810

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The Last West by Russell McKee Pdf

Narrates the historical evolution of the Great Plains, citing the Indians, explorers, settlers, cattlemen, and contemporary inhabitants who have fashioned the region's heritage.

Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195032128

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Dust Bowl by Donald Worster Pdf

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.

Author : William F. Drannan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368342258

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Thirty-One Years On the Plains and in the Mountains: Or, the Last Voice from the Plains. an Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by William F. Drannan Pdf

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Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700624669

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American Serengeti by Dan Flores Pdf

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : UCR:31210016301846

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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1986: Department of Agriculture by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Edwin L. Sabin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368901608

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On the Plains with Custer by Edwin L. Sabin Pdf

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Investigations and Review
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015082545586

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Implementation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Investigations and Review Pdf

Author : Elliott West
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700610297

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The Contested Plains by Elliott West Pdf

Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s. Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West weaves together a brilliant tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term-either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical sense-but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world. He shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions. Exciting and enormously engaging, The Contested Plains is the first book to examine the Colorado gold rush as the key event in the modern transformation of the central great plains. It also exemplifies a kind of history that respects more fully our rich and ambiguous past--a past in which there are many actors but no simple lessons.

Author : Megan O'Hara
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781476551432

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Plains Communities Past and Present by Megan O'Hara Pdf

"Compares and contrasts the way people lived on the Great Plains over the course of centuries"--

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595276035

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Plains of the Past by Ian Clark Pdf

The exciting conclusion to the Elder Earth Saga that began in Prophecy of Shadows! The outcast warrior known as K'het tracks the immortal necromancer responsible for the murder of his mother and best friend. The old wizard has journeyed to the Plains of the Past, seeking to put an end to all living things on Elder Earth itself by reuniting the Geminus, one being of pure light, the other of pure shadow. The union of these exiled creatures will cause a cataclysm that would scorch the very heavens and leave all of Elder Earth a barren wasteland. K'het's path will take him through tests of the mind and body in a land where magical energies are still at play and legendary beasts still roam. K'het seeks the aid of allies in the elf kingdom of Tanglewood Forest. He will need their wisdom to catch the necromancer in time and face his destiny.