Author: Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Ozarks
Author: Milton D. Rafferty
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557287147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"The Ozark Mountains reach into Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, forming a region with great natural beauty and a distinctive cultural and historical landscape. This comprehensive volume, a fully updated edition of a beloved classic, reaches into history, anthropology, economics, and geography to explore the complex relationships between the Ozarks' people and land through times of profound change. Drawing on more than thirty years of research, field observations, and interviews, Rafferty examines this subject matter through a range of topics: the settlement patterns and material cultures of Native Americans, French, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the region; population growth; the guerrilla warfare and battles of the Civil War; the cultural transformations wrought by railroads, roads, mass media, and modern communication systems; the discovery, development, and decline of the great mining districts; the various forms of agriculture and the felling of the region's vast forests; and the built landscape, from log cabins to Victorian mansions to strip malls. This new edition also explores the new and potent forces which have reshaped the region over the last twenty years: tourism and the growing service industry, suburbanization, rapid population growth and retirement living, and agribusiness. Lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, maps, and charts."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557287147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"The Ozark Mountains reach into Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, forming a region with great natural beauty and a distinctive cultural and historical landscape. This comprehensive volume, a fully updated edition of a beloved classic, reaches into history, anthropology, economics, and geography to explore the complex relationships between the Ozarks' people and land through times of profound change. Drawing on more than thirty years of research, field observations, and interviews, Rafferty examines this subject matter through a range of topics: the settlement patterns and material cultures of Native Americans, French, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Italians, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians in the region; population growth; the guerrilla warfare and battles of the Civil War; the cultural transformations wrought by railroads, roads, mass media, and modern communication systems; the discovery, development, and decline of the great mining districts; the various forms of agriculture and the felling of the region's vast forests; and the built landscape, from log cabins to Victorian mansions to strip malls. This new edition also explores the new and potent forces which have reshaped the region over the last twenty years: tourism and the growing service industry, suburbanization, rapid population growth and retirement living, and agribusiness. Lavishly illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, maps, and charts."--Publisher's description.
Missouri
Author: Milton Rafferty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724195
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Missouri-from the gateway arch in St. Louis to the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, from the Ozarks of the south to the rolling, corn-studded hills of the north-is the subject of this comprehensive geography. Dr. Rafferty brings together a wealth of information about Missouri's resources and people, tracing the theme of persistence versus change
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724195
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Missouri-from the gateway arch in St. Louis to the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, from the Ozarks of the south to the rolling, corn-studded hills of the north-is the subject of this comprehensive geography. Dr. Rafferty brings together a wealth of information about Missouri's resources and people, tracing the theme of persistence versus change
Common Fields
Author: Andrew Hurley
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends.
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends.
Geography of the Northern Ozark Border Region in Missouri
Author: James E. Collier
Publisher: Columbia : Curators of the University of Missouri
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural geography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"This study of the northern border subdivision of the Ozark region in Missouri seeks to describe the major physical characteristics and patterns of the area and to analyze the economic activities of it its inhabitants in terms of the natural setting. The objectives of this study are to analyze the geographic character of the Northern Ozark Border Region, to determine elements of unity and disunity, and to define its relations to bordering regions. The basic elements of the physical environment are analyzed, and economic activities are examined in their physical setting and regional location"--Preface.
Publisher: Columbia : Curators of the University of Missouri
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural geography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"This study of the northern border subdivision of the Ozark region in Missouri seeks to describe the major physical characteristics and patterns of the area and to analyze the economic activities of it its inhabitants in terms of the natural setting. The objectives of this study are to analyze the geographic character of the Northern Ozark Border Region, to determine elements of unity and disunity, and to define its relations to bordering regions. The basic elements of the physical environment are analyzed, and economic activities are examined in their physical setting and regional location"--Preface.
To the Last Smoke
Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540128
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540128
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
U.S. Route 40/61 Bridge Location Study Over the Missouri River, St. Charles and St. Louis Counties
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Mark Twain National Forest (N.F.), Pineknot Woodland Restoration
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3
Author: Brooks Blevins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As he shows, the experiences of the Ozarkers have not diverged from the currents of mainstream life as sharply or consistently as the mythmakers would have it. If much of the region seemed to trail behind by a generation, the time lag was rooted more in poverty and geographic barriers than a conscious rejection of the modern world and its progressive spirit. In fact, the minority who clung to the old days seemed exotic largely because their anachronistic ways clashed against the backdrop of the evolving region around them. Blevins explores how these people’s disproportionate influence affected the creation of the idea of the Ozarks, and reveals the truer idea that exists at the intersection of myth and reality. The conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy, The History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers offers an authoritative appraisal of the modern Ozarks and its people.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality. Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As he shows, the experiences of the Ozarkers have not diverged from the currents of mainstream life as sharply or consistently as the mythmakers would have it. If much of the region seemed to trail behind by a generation, the time lag was rooted more in poverty and geographic barriers than a conscious rejection of the modern world and its progressive spirit. In fact, the minority who clung to the old days seemed exotic largely because their anachronistic ways clashed against the backdrop of the evolving region around them. Blevins explores how these people’s disproportionate influence affected the creation of the idea of the Ozarks, and reveals the truer idea that exists at the intersection of myth and reality. The conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy, The History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers offers an authoritative appraisal of the modern Ozarks and its people.
A History of Missouri: 1820 to 1860, by P. McCandless
Author: William Earl Parrish
Publisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Toward Sustainability for Missouri Forests
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Reviews the nature and history of Missouri forests, private and public, and considers the status and prospects for ecological, watershed, and socioeconomic sustainability, and sustainable balance among timber growth, non-timber resources, harvest, and consumption. Discusses sustainable silviculture, including Pioneer Forest, and trends in demands, citizen attitudes, and policy development, with a case study on chip mills.
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Reviews the nature and history of Missouri forests, private and public, and considers the status and prospects for ecological, watershed, and socioeconomic sustainability, and sustainable balance among timber growth, non-timber resources, harvest, and consumption. Discusses sustainable silviculture, including Pioneer Forest, and trends in demands, citizen attitudes, and policy development, with a case study on chip mills.