Author: Virginia McConnell Simmons
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Category : Arkansas River (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Ruby G. Williamson
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Category : Arkansas River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Max McCoy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river’s unique story. Part adventure and part reflection, steeped in the natural and cultural history of the Arkansas Valley, Elevations is McCoy’s account of that journey. Going by kayak when he can—by Jeep, on foot, or by other means when he has to—McCoy takes us with him, navigating the Arkansas River as it reveals its nature and tests his own. Along the way, and when he isn’t battling the current for his overturned kayak; braving a frigid Christmas Eve along the river; or joining the search for a drowning victim, he steps out to explore the world beyond the river’s banks. Here for instance is Camp Amache, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Here is Ludlow, where thirteen women and children died in a standoff between striking coal miners and the militia in 1914. Farther along we find Sand Creek, site of a massacre by US soldiers in 1864, and, uncomfortably close, Garden City, where white supremacists were charged with planning a terror attack on Somali refugees in 2016. Whether traveling back in time, pausing in the present, or looking forward, Elevations captures the Arkansas River in its thrilling moments and placid stretches, in its natural splendor and degradation at human hands. The book shows us the river as a flowing repository of human history and, in the telling of this gifted writer, as a life-changing experience.

Author: Frank J. Staub
Publisher: Fulcrum Group
ISBN: 9781555910211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Guide to geology, biology and human history of the most popular river for whitewater rafting in Colorado.

Author: Upper Arkansas Area Council of Governments
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Region 7
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Merle Baranczyk
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Category : Buena Vista, Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Over the past 25 years, few regions of Colorado witnessed the degree of change seen in the Upper Arkansas Valley communities of Salida, Buena Vista and Poncha Springs in Chaffee County. Telling the story of what happened the past 25 years, what makes this valley what it is and how we got to where we are today, is the purpose of this book.

Author: Tom Karnuta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991833436
Category : Arkansas River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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"The river runner should understand it is not the intent of this book to guide one through the rapids, but to point out interesting geologic features along the river. It is hoped that this guidebook will be helpful to teachers, tourists, river runners and anyone who is interested in the geologic features of the upper Arkansas River Basin."--Page 2.

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Category : Upper Arkansas River
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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