Author: Society of American Foresters. Convention
Publisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Portland '99, Pioneering New Trails
Author: Society of American Foresters. Convention
Publisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
Author: Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trailrectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, making distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role they played in settling America's Western frontier. “Fast and engrossing. As a piece of scholarly writing it should be required reading in any course on the American West that seeks to broaden the definition of what it means to be a Westerner.” —*Colorado Book Review Center
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trailrectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, making distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role they played in settling America's Western frontier. “Fast and engrossing. As a piece of scholarly writing it should be required reading in any course on the American West that seeks to broaden the definition of what it means to be a Westerner.” —*Colorado Book Review Center
Western Forester
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Southern Lumberman
Author:
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
A Year in Review for the Pacific Northwest Research Station
Author: Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Western Farmer
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Youth's Companion
Author: Nathaniel Willis
Publisher:
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Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Includes music.
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Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Includes music.
The Railroad Telegrapher
Author:
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
American Burial Ground
Author: Sarah Keyes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground that imbued migrant deaths with symbolic power. In subsequent decades, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples pointed to their own sacred burial grounds to dispute these same claims and maintain their land. These efforts built on anti-removal campaigns of the 1820s and 30s, which had established the link between death and territorial claims on which the significance of the Overland Trail came to rest. In placing death at the center of the history of the Overland Trail, American Burial Ground offers a sweeping and long overdue reinterpretation of this historic touchstone. In this telling, westward migration was a harrowing journey weighed down by the demands of caring for the sick and dying. From a tale of triumph comes one of struggle, defined as much by Indigenous peoples' actions as it was by white expansion. And, finally, from a migration to the Pacific emerges instead one of a trail of graves. Graves that ultimately undergirded Native dispossession.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground that imbued migrant deaths with symbolic power. In subsequent decades, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples pointed to their own sacred burial grounds to dispute these same claims and maintain their land. These efforts built on anti-removal campaigns of the 1820s and 30s, which had established the link between death and territorial claims on which the significance of the Overland Trail came to rest. In placing death at the center of the history of the Overland Trail, American Burial Ground offers a sweeping and long overdue reinterpretation of this historic touchstone. In this telling, westward migration was a harrowing journey weighed down by the demands of caring for the sick and dying. From a tale of triumph comes one of struggle, defined as much by Indigenous peoples' actions as it was by white expansion. And, finally, from a migration to the Pacific emerges instead one of a trail of graves. Graves that ultimately undergirded Native dispossession.
Railroad Telegrapher
Author:
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Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraphers
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description