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Author : Kristine Sullivan,Johnna L. Howell
Publisher : Integrity Publishing (WA)
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 188667101X
Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000098612983
Author : United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UIUC:30112111914625
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXNZWL
Author : United States. Dept. of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2979852
Author : Kathryn Taylor Morse
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295983301
NEW IN PAPER--In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how the miners got to the Klondike, the mining technologies they employed, and the complex networks by which they obtained food, clothing, and tools. She looks at the political and economic debates surrounding the valuation of gold and the emerging industrial economy that exploited its extraction in Alaska. The profound economic and cultural transformations that supported the Alaska-Yukon gold rush ultimately reverberate to modern times.--"Morse demonstrates the dramatic environmental damage created by the gold rush, but she also helps us understand the very real accommodations that miners had to make if they hoped to survive in these far northern landscapes. . . . She is a superb storyteller with a wry sense of humor, a flair for the quirky detail and the revealing anecdote, and a keen appreciation for the tragicomic underside of this famous event." --from the Foreword by William Cronon--"This environmental history of a gold rush is as surprising, revealing, and complicated as gold itself.-- I know of nothing quite like this wry and clever book." --Richard White--"If you're only allowed one book about the Klondike Gold Rush, I suppose it has to be Jack London.-- But this volume definitely comes next -- a wonderfully compelling acount of what it actually felt like to pack up and head to the Yukon.-- Scholars will find it provacative and deep, but all readers will find it absorbing, touching, funny -- a truly revealing window on our national history and our national character." --William McKibben--"The Nature of Gold follows environmental history's prescription to examine how people know nature through labor. But this is no myopic study of gold seekers trudging up Chilkoot Pass and then lighting the fires that thawed the frozen earth for mining. Kathryn Morse recognizes how profoundly the economic and political culture of the 1890s shaped the rush for gold in Alaska and the Yukon. And she details the varieties of interconnected human and animal labor that sustained the Klondike rush, from the Native peoples who hauled supplies over the pass, to the woodcutters who provided the fuel for steamboats, to the packhorses and sled dogs who moved gods from place to place, to the local fishers and hunters and distant farmhands and meatpackers who kept the miners and their beasts fed. The Nature of Gold effectively and seamlessly blends both older and newer environmental history methodologies, and does so in an eminently accessible and compelling prose style."--Susan Lee Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison--"The Nature of Gold is a tour de force of modern scholarship.-- It takes on special significance because few theoretical analyses of northern settlement, particularly in Alaska, have yet been written, and the Klondike gold rush is one of the first historical events newcomers to the field find themselves drawn to.-- This work will give them just the introduction they need to construct a meaningful understanding of northern history. " -- Pacific Northwest Quarterly--Kathryn Morse is associate professor of history at Middlebury College in Vermont.-
Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Merchant merchant
ISBN : MINN:31951D00137014K
Author : Kurt E. Armbruster
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780295801001
Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster fills that gap in this far-reaching and entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked." For this once-remote city, music forged links as real as those created by railroads and steamships. Classical music embodied the middle-class aspirations for gentility and cosmopolitan stature; jazz and blues gave Seattle's small African American community a vehicle for affirmation and economic advancement; ethnic music helped immigrants adjust to a new home; songs and drumming kept the memories of the Duwamish alive in a changing world. Before Seattle Rocked is enlivened by personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and is enriched by historic photos of the changing music scene. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo22tC6PkQ&feature=channel_video_title Before Seattle Rocked was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
Author : McKayla Matthews
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463433581
Everyone has a destiny. Every raindrop (*raindrop in italic font) has a destiny as well; a special place on Earth where they are chosen (*chosen in italic) to fall. This is a story about a little raindrop who is destined to fall in Seattle. It's a story that shows with a little determination, anything is possible. It's a story that shows how something as small as a raindrop can make a difference in the world.
Author : Rosemary Stevens
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421421308
Was the founding director of the US Veterans Bureau a criminal—or a scapegoat? In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as founding director. Forbes lasted in the position for only eighteen months before stepping down under a cloud of criticism and suspicion. In 1926—after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by rigging government contracts—he was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Although he was known in his day as a drunken womanizer, and as a corrupt, betraying toady of a weak, blind-sided president, the question persists: was Forbes a criminal or a scapegoat? Historian Rosemary Stevens tells Forbes’s story anew, drawing on previously untapped records to reveal his role in America’s initial and ongoing commitment to veterans. She explores how Forbes’s rise and fall in Washington illuminates President Harding’s efforts to bring business efficiency to government. She also examines the Veterans Bureau scandal in the context of class, professionalism, ethics, and etiquette in a rapidly changing world. Most significantly, Stevens proposes a fascinating revisionist view of both Forbes and Harding—and raises questions about not only the validity but the source of their respective reputations. They did not defraud the government of billions of dollars, Stevens convincingly documents, and do not deserve the reputation they have carried for a hundred years. Packed with vibrant characters—conniving friends, FBI agents, and rival politicians split by sectional and ideological interests as well as gamblers, revelers, and wronged wives—A Time of Scandal will appeal to anyone interested in political gossip, presidential politics, the “Ohio Gang,” and the 1920s.
Author : Edward Gardner Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : IND:30000048967701
History and biography of the Pacific Northwest; local history for towns in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia.
Author : Jesse C. Donahue,Erik K. Trump
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786461868
American zoos flourished during the Great Depression, thanks to federal programs that enabled local governments to build new zoological parks, complete finished ones, and remodel outdated facilities. This historical text examines community leaders’ successful advocacy for zoo construction in the context of poverty and widespread suffering, arguing that they provided employment, stimulated tourism, and democratized leisure. Of particular interest is the rise of the zoo professional, which paved the way for science and conservation agendas. The text explores the New Deal’s profound impact on zoos and animal welfare and the legacy of its programs in zoos today.
Author : Dale Rominger
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781663219046
Dale Rominger has lived a full life, rich with experiences garnered from his international travels. In a collection of essays, reflections, and meditations, Rominger captures memories from his childhood and a career that took him around the world and places them alongside musings on his favorite books, films, and television shows. In his writings, Rominger begins with three short essays that reveal his diverse thoughts about memories, and then shares chronological reflections that contemplate the meaning of poverty; rant about guns and fame; pay homage to the influence of scientists, philosophers, screenwriters, and storytellers; collect thoughts about human worth, life, and death; and document his travels as history and politics unfolded from adventures across the world stage. Throughout his ponderances, Rominger views the troubles of the world with clarity while reminding us that we are more alike than different, no matter where we live or what we believe. Midnight Memories Inside the Back Road Café shares musings on memory, language, love, and meaning that reflect on a lifetime of treasured relationships and experiences.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Seattle (Wash.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112032570191
Author : Cornelius Holgate Hanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Seattle (Wash.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013876839