Author: Roy V. Alleman
Publisher: Nebraska Wealth Publishing
ISBN: 9780974620602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blizzard 1949
Author: Roy V. Alleman
Publisher: Nebraska Wealth Publishing
ISBN: 9780974620602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Nebraska Wealth Publishing
ISBN: 9780974620602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Operation Snowbound
Author: David W. Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946163035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The blizzards that devastated the West eventually ended when every farmer and rancher in need of bulldozer crews had received the required assistance. Life began to return to normal for the people who experienced the extreme hardships evident throughout that infamous winter, but the effects remained in the consciousness of the leaders who had to react to those challenges. One reason the blizzards of 1949 devastated the West was because state and federal governments had no methodical approach to deal with natural disasters. They could not offer an organized response to national emergencies in which local, county, and state governments required assistance to save livestock and human residents. After these blizzards, authorities began to implement changes to disaster response and fundamental changes appeared in the following decades.Citizens, soldiers, and federal contractors worked to end the ordeal of the blizzards, quickly opening routes throughout the region. State and federal road crews liberated many farmers and ranchers, who quickly went to grocery stores for the first time in weeks or months to restock their food shelves. Newspapers across the country reported when portions of the affected states were finally free to leave their isolated homes. The folks who witnessed the blizzards of 1949 still remember them, and newspapers routinely commemorate the event on relevant anniversaries. In the end, however, the importance of the blizzard conditions as examined here are not the misery they inflicted on the populace, not the stories of heroism or heartbreak, but the snapshot in time the affair provides the reader today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946163035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The blizzards that devastated the West eventually ended when every farmer and rancher in need of bulldozer crews had received the required assistance. Life began to return to normal for the people who experienced the extreme hardships evident throughout that infamous winter, but the effects remained in the consciousness of the leaders who had to react to those challenges. One reason the blizzards of 1949 devastated the West was because state and federal governments had no methodical approach to deal with natural disasters. They could not offer an organized response to national emergencies in which local, county, and state governments required assistance to save livestock and human residents. After these blizzards, authorities began to implement changes to disaster response and fundamental changes appeared in the following decades.Citizens, soldiers, and federal contractors worked to end the ordeal of the blizzards, quickly opening routes throughout the region. State and federal road crews liberated many farmers and ranchers, who quickly went to grocery stores for the first time in weeks or months to restock their food shelves. Newspapers across the country reported when portions of the affected states were finally free to leave their isolated homes. The folks who witnessed the blizzards of 1949 still remember them, and newspapers routinely commemorate the event on relevant anniversaries. In the end, however, the importance of the blizzard conditions as examined here are not the misery they inflicted on the populace, not the stories of heroism or heartbreak, but the snapshot in time the affair provides the reader today.
A Christmas Blizzard
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0143119885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow's wonderful Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor's holiday farce is the perfect gift for the millions of fans who tune into A Prairie Home Companion every week.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0143119885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow's wonderful Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor's holiday farce is the perfect gift for the millions of fans who tune into A Prairie Home Companion every week.
Union Pacific
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.
Winter Thunder
Author: Mari Sandoz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803291614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
When a school bus overturns in a blinding blizzard, a young teacher and her pupils are stranded miles from anywhere for eight days.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803291614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
When a school bus overturns in a blinding blizzard, a young teacher and her pupils are stranded miles from anywhere for eight days.
The Nebraska Winter of 1948-49
Author: Barry Seegebarth
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Key to Meteorological Records Documentation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Middle Atlantic League, 1925-1952
Author: William E. Akin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786497661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with the most alumni to advance to the majors. This thorough history chronicles the MAL through three distinct phases from its 1925 inaugural season to its dissolution in 1952. During the first several seasons, most clubs hung one step from financial disaster despite support from local communities. Then the league flourished during the Great Depression as president Elmer Daily magically found investors and night baseball boosted working class attendance. Now enjoying a modicum of financial stability and an infusion of young talent, the clubs became talent farms for major league teams. Both the league and its cities went into decline as the country underwent seismic cultural and economic shifts following World War II.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786497661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with the most alumni to advance to the majors. This thorough history chronicles the MAL through three distinct phases from its 1925 inaugural season to its dissolution in 1952. During the first several seasons, most clubs hung one step from financial disaster despite support from local communities. Then the league flourished during the Great Depression as president Elmer Daily magically found investors and night baseball boosted working class attendance. Now enjoying a modicum of financial stability and an infusion of young talent, the clubs became talent farms for major league teams. Both the league and its cities went into decline as the country underwent seismic cultural and economic shifts following World War II.
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671872298
Category : Book burning
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671872298
Category : Book burning
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.