Author: Rose Blue
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410906748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Presents a short history of the western mountain regions of the United States and Canada and the early explorers responsible for mapping and charting the wilderness including surveyors, fur trappers and Indian fighters, and settlers.
Exploring the Western Mountains
Author: Rose Blue
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410906748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Presents a short history of the western mountain regions of the United States and Canada and the early explorers responsible for mapping and charting the wilderness including surveyors, fur trappers and Indian fighters, and settlers.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410906748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Presents a short history of the western mountain regions of the United States and Canada and the early explorers responsible for mapping and charting the wilderness including surveyors, fur trappers and Indian fighters, and settlers.
Hiking and Exploring Utah's Henry Mountains and Robbers' Roost
Author: Michael R. Kelsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685507063
Category : Henry Mountains (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685507063
Category : Henry Mountains (Utah)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes
Author: Roger D. McGrath
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of life from the frontier? Was the frontier more violent than the United States is today? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about violence and lawlessness on the frontier and do so in a new way. Whereas most authors have drawn their conclusions about frontier violence from the exploits of a few notorious badmen and outlaws and from some of the more famous incidents and conflicts, I have chosen to focus on two towns that I think were typical of the frontier--the mining frontier specifically--and to investigate all forms of violence and lawlessness that occurred in and around those towns.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the Preface:On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of life from the frontier? Was the frontier more violent than the United States is today? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about violence and lawlessness on the frontier and do so in a new way. Whereas most authors have drawn their conclusions about frontier violence from the exploits of a few notorious badmen and outlaws and from some of the more famous incidents and conflicts, I have chosen to focus on two towns that I think were typical of the frontier--the mining frontier specifically--and to investigate all forms of violence and lawlessness that occurred in and around those towns.
The Mountains Next Door
Author: Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A charming natural history (inclined to botany) of the Rincon Mountains of SE Arizona. But the location is not carefully specified.
Exceptional Mountains
Author: O. Alan Weltzien
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803265476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Legacy of Exceptionalism -- 2. Standard Routes, Standard Highways -- 3. Cities and Their Volcanoes -- 4. Green Consumerism and the Volcanoes -- 5. Wilderness and Volcanoes -- 6. Volcanoes and Crowds -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803265476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Legacy of Exceptionalism -- 2. Standard Routes, Standard Highways -- 3. Cities and Their Volcanoes -- 4. Green Consumerism and the Volcanoes -- 5. Wilderness and Volcanoes -- 6. Volcanoes and Crowds -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Exploring Montana's Pioneer Mountains
Author: Leroy Friel
Publisher: Sweetgrass Books
ISBN: 9781591521334
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Pioneer Mountains of southwest Montana are truly a hidden gem, with more than 80 alpine lakes, great fishing, and excellent opportunities for hiking, mountaineering, and camping. Based on a lifetime spend exploring the East and West Pioneers, this guide describes the region's trails and cross-country routes, beautiful mountain scenery, and the wildlife, birds, and wildflowers that thrive here. Includes more than 33 maps, easy-to-follow directions, 114 full-color photographs, and fishing details for 89 lakes.
Publisher: Sweetgrass Books
ISBN: 9781591521334
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Pioneer Mountains of southwest Montana are truly a hidden gem, with more than 80 alpine lakes, great fishing, and excellent opportunities for hiking, mountaineering, and camping. Based on a lifetime spend exploring the East and West Pioneers, this guide describes the region's trails and cross-country routes, beautiful mountain scenery, and the wildlife, birds, and wildflowers that thrive here. Includes more than 33 maps, easy-to-follow directions, 114 full-color photographs, and fishing details for 89 lakes.
Mountains in the Greenhouse
Author: Donald McKenzie
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030424324
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is written for general readers with an interest in science, and offers the tools and ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major goal of the book is to provide material that will not become quickly outdated, and it does so by conveying its topics through constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a long-term contribution, and is designed to inform the public about climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly. The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from human-caused changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of ecological changes in other contexts around the world.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030424324
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is written for general readers with an interest in science, and offers the tools and ideas for understanding how climate change will affect mountains of the American West. A major goal of the book is to provide material that will not become quickly outdated, and it does so by conveying its topics through constants in ecological science that will remain unchanged and scientifically sound. The book is timely in its potential to be a long-term contribution, and is designed to inform the public about climate change in mountains accessibly and intelligibly. The major themes of the book include: 1) mountains of the American West as natural experiments that can distinguish the effects of climate change because they have been relatively free from human-caused changes, 2) mountains as regions with unique sensitivities that may change more rapidly than the Earth as a whole and foreshadow the nature and magnitude of change elsewhere, and 3) different interacting components of ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, including forest growth and mortality, ecological disturbance, and mountain hydrology. Readers will learn how these changes and interactions in mountains illuminate the complexity of ecological changes in other contexts around the world.
Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel Made by Order of the Secretary of War According to Acts of Congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869
Author: James D. Hague
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Being the reports of the journeys and the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition
Author: Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description