Author: Bill Kaysing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Ex-urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy-does-it First-time Farmer's Guide
Author: Bill Kaysing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Backcountry Ghosts
Author: Josh Sides
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496225503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation’s homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn’t always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream—that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station—others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to the Great Recession.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496225503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation’s homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn’t always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream—that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station—others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to the Great Recession.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Quest for Walden
Author: Loren C. Owings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Ever since Henry David Thoreau penned his masterpiece Walden - a chronicle of his two-year sojourn in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts - Americans have yearned for a return to pastoral life, to a place where the simplicities and beauty of nature dictate a quality of life not found in modern urban America. The metaphor of "Walden" inspired many to seek out and write about country life and the back-to-the-land movement in America. This is the first book-length study of that interesting genre, the country book written primarily for urban dwellers. It gives detailed content analyses of both country-life essays and guides to country living, from 1863 through 1995.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Ever since Henry David Thoreau penned his masterpiece Walden - a chronicle of his two-year sojourn in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts - Americans have yearned for a return to pastoral life, to a place where the simplicities and beauty of nature dictate a quality of life not found in modern urban America. The metaphor of "Walden" inspired many to seek out and write about country life and the back-to-the-land movement in America. This is the first book-length study of that interesting genre, the country book written primarily for urban dwellers. It gives detailed content analyses of both country-life essays and guides to country living, from 1863 through 1995.
99 Ways to a Simple Lifestyle
Author: Center for Science in the Public Interest. Simple Lifestyle Team
Publisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Skeptic
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
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Management Information Guide
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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How to Live in the New America
Author: Bill Kaysing
Publisher:
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Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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