Author: David Plowden
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Douglas B. Bamforth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873460
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.

Author: David Plowden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874560633
Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Eleanor Arnason
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 160486382X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the West, he told them to look especially for mammoths. Jefferson had seen bones and tusks of the great beasts in Virginia, and he suspected—he hoped!—that they might still roam the Great Plains. In Eleanor Arnason’s imaginative alternate history, they do: shaggy herds thunder over the grasslands, living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. And in an unforgettable saga that soars from the badlands of the Dakotas to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the AIM protests of the 1960s, Arnason tells of a modern woman’s struggle to use the weapons of DNA science to fulfill the ancient promises of her Lakota heritage. PLUS: “Writing SF During World War III,” and an Outspoken Interview that takes you straight into the heart and mind of one of today’s edgiest and most uncompromising speculative authors.

Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595340882
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. Now in paperback, this visionary reference is available to an entire new segment of readers. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O’Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.

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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300034813
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662

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Author: Guy Murchie
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787201759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Originally published in 1954, this is a magnificent book about the greatest adventure of our age: humanity’s exploration of the skies and space. One of the classics of aviation and scientific literature, written by wartime flier Guy Murchie, this book will fascinate even non-pilots and non-science oriented readers.

Author: Pamela Carter Joern
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803276311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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The inner worlds of characters isolated by geography and habit are revealed in a novel, set in the Nebraska Sandhills, about an aging widow on the verge of losing her family's ranch and her sixteen-year old pregnant granddaughter who visits her for the summer. Original.