River Of The West

Author : Professor of History William L Lang,Robert Carriker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0295802766

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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 : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Americana
ISBN : MSU:31293006580629

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The River of the West by Frances Fuller Victor Pdf

Author : North West Company
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773507140

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The English River Book by North West Company Pdf

Describes duties, wages, stations, and many other details concerning the approximately one hundred voyageurs in the English River district during 1785 and 1786.

Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382136468

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The river of the west by Frances Fuller Victor Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195156358

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A River Running West by Donald Worster Pdf

This text is a magisterial account of John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer. It tells the true story of undaunted courage in the American West.

Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520205642

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A River No More by Philip L. Fradkin Pdf

Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.

Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816508852

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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 : Naida West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0965348725

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River of Red Gold by Naida West Pdf

The fates of Miwok?Indian Mary,? Elitha Donner of the Donner Party, and proud Californio Pedro Valdez entwine in a drama of passion and power on the ranch now owned by the author. 1844-1853.

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870715747

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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 : Keith Petersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dams
ISBN : MINN:31951D017963886

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River of Life, Channel of Death by Keith Petersen Pdf

"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.

Author : Jack Nisbet,David Thompson
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570610061

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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 : Heather Hansman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226432670

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Downriver by Heather Hansman Pdf

The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.

Author : William D. Layman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124057212

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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 : Melissa L. Sevigny
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609383930

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Mythical River by Melissa L. Sevigny Pdf

"As population growth and climate upheaval strain the Southwest's water resources, Mythical River uncovers the folly of modern water policies and illuminates a way forward: recognizing the rights of ecosystems"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen Most
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066732887

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River of Renewal by Stephen Most Pdf

"Most tells these stories in the voices of the protagonists, who give the basin's complex history an illuminating immediacy that infuses the entire book. It is a mark of his achievement that he has been able to make these historical, cultural, and environmental pieces into a comprehensive whole.River of Renewalis the best source available for those wishing to think clearly about this cumulative tragedy, as well as a first-rate model for regional land use anywhere in the American West." -Orion Magazine A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes, and rivers, the Klamath Basin spans the Oregon-California state line. Farms and ranches, logging towns, and back-to-the-land communities are scattered over this 10-million-acre bioregion. There are Indian reservations at the headwaters, at the estuary, and across the major tributary of the Klamath River. In this place that has witnessed, ever since the Gold Rush, a succession of wars and resource conflicts, myths of the West loom large, amplifying differences among its inhabitants. At the core of the contemporary controversy is overallocation of the waters of the Klamath Basin. This dispute has pitted farmers and ranchers against those whose cultures and livelihoods depend upon fishing and others who would forestall the extinction of wild salmon. Yet it has also revealed the unity of the Klamath Basin, the interdependence of economic recovery with ecological restoration, and the urgency for all the communities within the Basin to find common ground. Stephen Mostis a playwright and documentary storyteller. He has contributed to numerous documentary films, including Emmy Award winnersWonders of Nature and Promisesand the Academy Award-nominatedBerkeley in the Sixties. His playsMedicine Show, Watershed, andA Free Countrydramatize events in Pacific Northwest history. To listen to an interview with Stephen Most entitled "Fished Out: Draining the Seas of Their Bounty," please visit: http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/