Author: David Wight
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546454168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Crossing Nevada begins as a family road trip across the Nevada desert. From there, the story continues over decades as a journey depicting the struggle of the family trying to come to grips with disability, death, love, and heartbreak. At various crossroads in his life, the boy, now a young man, returns to Nevada again and again in search of sanctuary, healing, and renewal. Parts of the story are based on true events. Other parts are fiction.
Crossing Nevada
Author: David Wight
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546454168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Crossing Nevada begins as a family road trip across the Nevada desert. From there, the story continues over decades as a journey depicting the struggle of the family trying to come to grips with disability, death, love, and heartbreak. At various crossroads in his life, the boy, now a young man, returns to Nevada again and again in search of sanctuary, healing, and renewal. Parts of the story are based on true events. Other parts are fiction.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546454168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Crossing Nevada begins as a family road trip across the Nevada desert. From there, the story continues over decades as a journey depicting the struggle of the family trying to come to grips with disability, death, love, and heartbreak. At various crossroads in his life, the boy, now a young man, returns to Nevada again and again in search of sanctuary, healing, and renewal. Parts of the story are based on true events. Other parts are fiction.
Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Designation (OR,ID,NV)
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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US 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project (NV,AZ)
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society
Author: Nevada Historical Society
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Sierra Crossing
Author: Thomas Frederick Howard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520926219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520926219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.
Travel Magazine
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Boise District Office
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Opinions and Decisions of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
Author: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. General Assembly
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
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