Author: Lyall Ford
Publisher: Lyall Ford
ISBN: 9780959077612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Biographical account of the Mills family beginning in the English Midlands, and tracing their immigration to the small mining township of Mount Britton in Queensland in 1865. Their son John Henry became an accomplished pioneer photographer. Author, who is grandson of Henry, describes life on a goldfield and explores themes of mateship, courage in adversity, faith in God and love of family. Includes photos, family trees, measurement conversion chart, bibliography and index. Author is an accomplished historical researcher having written other family histories.
Author: Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
Author: Lon Savage
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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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: Walter Bonatti
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 037575640X
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.
Author: Rex Johnson
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322739
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Readers who believe as Herman Melville's Ishmael, that "meditation and water are wedded for ever," will be entranced by Rex Johnson, Jr.'s, account of his travels to the upper Bavispe River in Mexico's northern Sierra Madre. Combining travel observations, natural history, ethnography, ecology, and ichthyology, Johnson's narrative plunges the reader into a world that is so far from the twenty-first-century United States that it is difficult to believe how physically close the two countries actually are. Johnson goes in search of an ancient species of trout, the Bavispe, at least 3 million years old. It has been easier for the Bavispe to remain unchanged for millennia than for the human inhabitants of the Sierra Madre to endure for mere centuries. Johnson notes the area's Indian descendants are in the process of becoming modern, and the needs of the ancient trout, dependent on pure, unpolluted water, collide at times with the choices of people scratching out an existence in a challenging environment. The parallel stories from natural and human history are a central theme in Johnson's account of environmental change and its consequences, layered with the personal, contemplative meaning he finds in the quest for the seldom-seen fish.
Author: United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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A collection of the monthly climatological reports of the states, originally issued separately for each state or section. Similar data was combined in the Monthly weather review for July 1909 to Dec. 1913, also pub. separately during that time for each of the 12 districts. Previous to July 1909 monthly reports were issued for each state or section.
Author: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Robert SIMPSON (of Sanquhar.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Rossiter W. Raymond
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382139022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. 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: Thomas Jefferson Jackson See
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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