Thunder In The Mountains

Author : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393634181

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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein Pdf

“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.

Author : Lon Savage
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971429

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Thunder In the Mountains by Lon Savage Pdf

The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners. The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death. Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners’ rebellion into open warfare. Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Sandpiper
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547406282

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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O'Dell Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Percâe girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.

Author : Brenda Wineapple
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0061234583

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Ecstatic Nation by Brenda Wineapple Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013 A Kirkus Best Book of 2013 A Bookpage Best Book of 2013 Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L. C. Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation brilliantly balances cultural and political history: It's a riveting account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and it astutely chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new definition of American citizenship. It takes us from photographic surveys of the Sierra Nevadas to the discovery of gold in the South Dakota hills, and it signals the painful, thrilling birth of modern America. An epic tale by award-winning author Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation lyrically and with true originality captures the optimism, the failures, and the tragic exuberance of a renewed Republic.

Author : Agnieszka Biskup
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9781429662703

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Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain by Agnieszka Biskup Pdf

"In graphic novel format, explores the battles and hardships faced by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when they were forced to leave their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sharon E. Mckay
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789380069470

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Thunder Over Kandahar by Sharon E. Mckay Pdf

“I wish with all my heart that you were in school. I love my country, Daughter, but here we have been robbed of our most precious gifts: thought and imagination. Only in an atmosphere of peace and security can artists, poets, and writers flourish. Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history our future is unmoored—we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.”

Author : Peter A. Galuszka
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250018083

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Thunder on the Mountain by Peter A. Galuszka Pdf

"Scathing exposé of the coal industry." --The New York Times Book Review On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years—a disaster that never should have happened. These deaths were rooted in the cynical corporate culture of Massey and its notorious former CEO Don Blankenship, and were part of an endless cycle of poverty, exploitation, and environmental abuse that has dominated the Appalachian coalfields since coal was first discovered there. And the cycle continues unabated as coal companies bury the most insidious dangers deep underground, all in search of higher profits, and hide the true costs from regulators, unions, and investors alike. But the disaster at Upper Big Branch goes beyond the coalfields of West Virginia. It casts a global shadow, calling into bitter question why coal miners in the United States are sacrificed to erect cities on the other side of the world, why the coal wars have been allowed to rage, polarizing the country, and how the world's voracious appetite for energy is satisfied at such horrendous cost. With Thunder on the Mountain, Peter A. Galuszka pieces together the true story of greed and negligence behind the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch Mine, and in doing so he has created a devastating portrait of an entire industry that exposes the coal-black motivations that led to the death of twenty-nine miners and fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.

Author : Lee Duigon
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781891375521

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Bell Mountain (Bell Mountain, 1) by Lee Duigon Pdf

Finally… Faithful Fiction that Reveals the Kingdom of God!

Introducing Bell Mountain, by Lee Duigon, the first novel from Chalcedon’s new label, Storehouse Press!

The world is going to end as soon as Jack and Ellayne ring the bell on top of Bell Mountain. No one has ever climbed the mountain, and no one has ever seen the bell. But the children have a divine calling to carry out the mission, and it sweeps them into high adventure.

For the world is already changing, and fast: legends come to life, strange beasts emerge from the forest, bandits and slave traders hunt the helpless, and war rumbles on the borderlands.

The children must make their way through all these perilsnot knowing that a professional killer has been sent to stop them.

For there are others who know the secret of the bell a terrible secret, only hinted at in the sacred writings. But do they understand Gods plan any better than the children?

The world has been shaken to its foundations before. Will this be the final shaking?

Great for young adults.

Author : Hilda Mary Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015015199618

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Thunder in the Mountains by Hilda Mary Hooke Pdf

This is a collection of Canadian folk tales of the Indians and the White Man.

Author : Mountain Wolf Woman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472061097

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Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder by Mountain Wolf Woman Pdf

A classic ethnography of continuing importance

Author : Jason Surrell
Publisher : Disney Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1423101553

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The Disney Mountains by Jason Surrell Pdf

How high? How fast? How’d they do that? The top favorites at any Disney Theme park always include the roller coasters. The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at Its Peak will tell you that and more–not only about the current Disney mountain range and its show enhancements, but about mountains unclimbed and mountains yet to be. Attractions include: Disneyland: Matterhorn Bobsleds, Space Mountain – old and new, Splash Mountain; Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Never built: Big Rock Candy Mountain and the Western River Expedition Disney’s California Adventure: Grizzly Peak and Grizzly River Run Tokyo Disneyland: Mysterious Island (Journey to the Center of the Earth) Disneyland Paris: Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain Walt Disney World: Space, Splash, and Big Thunder at Magic Kingdom Park; Mount Mayday and Mt. Gushmore, and the latest mountain–Expedition Everest at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park

Author : K. Scott Agnew,Jim Andrews
Publisher : Mongoose Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1904854680

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Jeremiah Thunder Mountain by K. Scott Agnew,Jim Andrews Pdf

From the award winning pen of J. Michael Straczynski comes Jeremiah, a gritty tale of life and survival in a terrifying post-apocalyptic nightmare. Taking a plot line as familiar as it is popular, Straczynski has created a background rich in detail which formed the basis of this critically acclaimed television series. Thunder Mountain is a fully detailed and lavishly illustrated sourcebook for the government base featured in the hit TV series and roleplaying game.

Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459256644

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Just Over the Mountain by Robyn Carr Pdf

Welcome back to Grace Valley, California, where the best things in life never change… Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secret—but Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep one heck of a humdinger.… Though visits from her secret lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post, are as clandestine as they are passionate, somehow it fits with her demanding schedule as the town's doctor—a calling that requires an innate ability to exist on caffeine, sticky buns and nerves of steel. But how can a secret lover compete with a flesh-and-blood heartthrob from her past? June's old flame has just returned to town after twenty years—and he's divorced. June is seriously rattled. So when the town's most devoted wife takes buckshot to her husband and some human bones turn up in her aunt Myrna's backyard, she's almost happy for the distraction. Sooner or later, love will have its way in Grace Valley. It always does.

Author : ZANE GREY.
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667627618

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THUNDER MOUNTAIN by ZANE GREY. Pdf

Author : John Peel
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0738706140

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Book of Thunder by John Peel Pdf

Score, Pixel, and Helaine return to Dondar to help their unicorn friends find the former leader of their herd and to fend off a dangerous wizard.