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A Thousand Miles of Prairie

Jim Blanchard
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Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553080

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A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.

Thousand Miles of Prairie

Jim Blanchard
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Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743411160

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Of Prairie, Woods, and Water

Joel Greenberg
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Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226306605

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Of Prairie, Woods, and Water by Joel Greenberg Pdf

In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago’s landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Joel Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing. These writings tell the tale of a land in transition—one with abundant, unique, and incredibly lush flora and fauna, a natural history quite elusive today. Drawing on archives he uncovered while writing his acclaimed A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg hand-selected these first-person narratives, all written between 1721 and 1959. Not every author is familiar, but every contribution is distinctive. From a pioneer’s hilarious notes on life in the Kankakee marsh to Theodore Drieser’s poignant plea for conservation of the Tippecanoe River to infamous murderer Nathan Leopold’s charming description of a pet robin he kept in prison, the sources included are as diverse as the nature they describe. The excerpts conclude with insightful biographical essays and traverse a wide area of greater Chicagoland, from the Illinois River to southwest Michigan, from southern Wisconsin to the Limberlost swamp of northeastern Indiana. A fascinating record of Chicago’s changing environmental history, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water captures the natural world in a way that will inspire its continued conservation. Errata: We have learned the title of a book by the Chicago ecologist and writer May Theilgaard Watts has been incorrectly rendered in the selections attributed to Mrs. Watts. The correct title of her book is Reading the Landscape of America (Nature Study Guild Publishers, see http://naturestudy.com). This will be corrected in the next printing. We very much regret the error.

The Tallgrass Prairie Reader

John Price
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Author : John Price
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609382469

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This is a collection of literature from and about the tallgrass bioregion. It focuses on autobiographical nonfiction including adventure narrative, spiritual reflection, childhood memoir, Native American perspectives, literary natural history, humor, travel writing and reportage. Writings by early explorers are followed by works of nineteenth-century authors that reflect the fear, awe, reverence, and thrill of adventure of the time. After 1900, following the destruction of the majority of tallgrass, much of the writing became nostalgic, elegiac, and mythic. A new environmental consciousness asserted itself midcentury, as personal responses to tallgrass were increasingly influenced by larger ecological perspectives. Preservation and restoration emerged as major themes. Early twenty-first-century writings demonstrate an awareness of tallgrass environmental history and the need for citizens, including writers, to remember and to help save our once magnificent prairies.

Prairie Town

Jacqueline Edmondson
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Author : Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : 9780742519428

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Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness that negatively impacted many farmers throughout the world.

The Commission

Bob Blackman
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Author : Bob Blackman
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1589396243

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If a group of Christians were the only settlers of an unoccupied planet, in a remote solar system, what would their society be like sixty, seventy, or eighty years later? Would their faith flourish through unity or falter through complacency? The Commission begins with all the nations of earth united into one nation, Terrapax, and the establishment of a state religion that unites all of earth's religions into a single faith. One group, the Messianists, refused to be absorbed, and spent five years in a reeducation camp before being exiled to a newly discovered planet. The Commission follows a single Messianist family from the founding of Terrapax, through the first eighty years on Eden, their new planet. Although it's classified as science fiction because it involves space travel to an unknown planet, it's a story of how the same faith that prospers in oppression, develops into heresy when seasoned with spiritual laxity. It's a story about how even in the worst unorthodoxy, God always preserves a remnant of true believers. It's a story of hope generated by one man who remains faithful to the true gospel.

Prairiedom

Frederic Benjamin Page
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Author : Frederic Benjamin Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Texas
ISBN : NYPL:33433081844361

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Dr. Page's tour of Texas in 1839.

The Prairie Farmer

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : IND:30000114351194

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"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Prairie Farmer

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CHI:33106759

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Travels in the Great Western Prairies

Thomas Jefferson Farnham
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Author : Thomas Jefferson Farnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081825154

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Farnham was the leader of a group of Oregon-bound settlers known as the "Peoria Party." The group left Independence on May 20, 1839.

Prairie Albion

Charles Boewe
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Author : Charles Boewe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809322838

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Prairie Albion by Charles Boewe Pdf

Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.

Prairie Time

John Ross,Beth Ross
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Author : John Ross,Beth Ross
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780299156633

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Prairie Time by John Ross,Beth Ross Pdf

In the rush of modern life, we measure our lives by the clock, the calendar, the timetable. But there are older rhythms in nature: the call of chickadees before the first hint of spring, the golden face of a compass plant in July, the first snowfall. These signs mark the passage of time in a world that Aldo Leopold knew well and eloquently described. With notebook and camera in hand, John and Beth Ross revisit the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve in south-central Wisconsin fifty years after Leopold’s death. Thanks to the efforts of Leopold, his family, and the Leopold Foundation, this once-ruined farmland is now largely restored to a natural state. The Rosses explore the terrain of this sandy land, encounter its natural citizens, and relate life here to its physical underpinnings. Following Leopold’s own practice of phenology, they note the seasonal changes: arrivals and departures of wild geese, the blossoming of the pasque flower at the edge of melting snow, the appearance of monarch butterflies on the milkweed. And further, they seek to find in this landscape an underlying morality, a communion of understanding, a sense of place in the cosmos. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book also includes notes on the behavior, habitat, and human interactions with ninety-four species of plants, birds, and other animals found in the reserve. An extensive glossary explains terms from geology, ecology, meteorology, and related life and earth sciences.