Author: Meredith Haley Whiteley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625852282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Following enactment of the Reclamation Act, the first federally constructed dam broke ground in Arizona's Salt River Valley in 1905. With the inauguration of Roosevelt Dam, the distant dream of an abundant life in the desert became a reality. The dam and farmer-operated water distribution system tamed the vicious drought, created arable land and became an irrigation model for the West. With the water came farmers and families, all eager for the chance to build new lives and communities. Many were just like the Haley family, farmers from Kentucky and Missouri who settled in the area and whose descendants still call the valley home. Follow their journey and discover a snapshot of the life and community that grew from the ditches of the valley. Author Meredith Haley Whiteley explores this story from the ordinary person's perspective, weaving valley history through drought, loss, plenty and joy.
Miracle on the Salt River
Author: Meredith Haley Whiteley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625852282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Following enactment of the Reclamation Act, the first federally constructed dam broke ground in Arizona's Salt River Valley in 1905. With the inauguration of Roosevelt Dam, the distant dream of an abundant life in the desert became a reality. The dam and farmer-operated water distribution system tamed the vicious drought, created arable land and became an irrigation model for the West. With the water came farmers and families, all eager for the chance to build new lives and communities. Many were just like the Haley family, farmers from Kentucky and Missouri who settled in the area and whose descendants still call the valley home. Follow their journey and discover a snapshot of the life and community that grew from the ditches of the valley. Author Meredith Haley Whiteley explores this story from the ordinary person's perspective, weaving valley history through drought, loss, plenty and joy.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625852282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Following enactment of the Reclamation Act, the first federally constructed dam broke ground in Arizona's Salt River Valley in 1905. With the inauguration of Roosevelt Dam, the distant dream of an abundant life in the desert became a reality. The dam and farmer-operated water distribution system tamed the vicious drought, created arable land and became an irrigation model for the West. With the water came farmers and families, all eager for the chance to build new lives and communities. Many were just like the Haley family, farmers from Kentucky and Missouri who settled in the area and whose descendants still call the valley home. Follow their journey and discover a snapshot of the life and community that grew from the ditches of the valley. Author Meredith Haley Whiteley explores this story from the ordinary person's perspective, weaving valley history through drought, loss, plenty and joy.
Miracle in the Desert
Author: Salt River Project
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Miracle Or Mirage
Author: Salt River Project
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Reclamation Era
Author:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Life, Its Mysteries and Miracles
Author: John Harvey Kellogg
Publisher:
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Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
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Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Salt River
Author: James Sallis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The poignant and surprising new thriller by one of America's most acclaimed writers. Few American writers create more memorable landscapes-both natural and interior-than James Sallis. His highly praised Lew Griffin novels evoked classic New Orleans and the convoluted inner space of his black private detective. More recently-in Cypress Grove and Cripple Creek-he has conjured a small town somewhere near Memphis, where John Turner-ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist-has come to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the center of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes plowing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two heads. "They think I killed someone," he says. Turner asks: "Did you?" And Eldon responds: "I don't know." Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The poignant and surprising new thriller by one of America's most acclaimed writers. Few American writers create more memorable landscapes-both natural and interior-than James Sallis. His highly praised Lew Griffin novels evoked classic New Orleans and the convoluted inner space of his black private detective. More recently-in Cypress Grove and Cripple Creek-he has conjured a small town somewhere near Memphis, where John Turner-ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist-has come to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the center of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes plowing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two heads. "They think I killed someone," he says. Turner asks: "Did you?" And Eldon responds: "I don't know." Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with.
Dreams, Ghosts and Miracles
Author: CB Floyd
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467091626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Who is CB Floyd? Ayn Rand, in the very first sentence on the very first page of her bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged, asked this now immortal question, “Who is John Galt?” Almost 50 years later, it is my prediction that the world will soon be asking with similar fervor, “Who is CB Floyd?” Well, who is CB Floyd? Poet, musician, composer, author, master repairman, cartoonist, part-time psychic and a master storyteller to boot...I met CB Floyd in high school when I was 15 and he quickly became my best friend. Dreams, Ghosts and Miracles is the first in a series which relates the autobiographical accounting of the amazing life of CB Floyd and I am sure you will find it both fascinatingly interesting and wonderfully inspiring. I’ve read it many, many times now and I love this book completely. His insight into his own problems (and subsequently, the problems of the world) - as told in an amiable and informal manner - is certain to bring you hours of enjoyment and real hope that someone might actually know something about what is going on here on planet Earth. Treat this like an adventure and you won’t be disappointed...and Bon Voyage!
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467091626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Who is CB Floyd? Ayn Rand, in the very first sentence on the very first page of her bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged, asked this now immortal question, “Who is John Galt?” Almost 50 years later, it is my prediction that the world will soon be asking with similar fervor, “Who is CB Floyd?” Well, who is CB Floyd? Poet, musician, composer, author, master repairman, cartoonist, part-time psychic and a master storyteller to boot...I met CB Floyd in high school when I was 15 and he quickly became my best friend. Dreams, Ghosts and Miracles is the first in a series which relates the autobiographical accounting of the amazing life of CB Floyd and I am sure you will find it both fascinatingly interesting and wonderfully inspiring. I’ve read it many, many times now and I love this book completely. His insight into his own problems (and subsequently, the problems of the world) - as told in an amiable and informal manner - is certain to bring you hours of enjoyment and real hope that someone might actually know something about what is going on here on planet Earth. Treat this like an adventure and you won’t be disappointed...and Bon Voyage!
The Testimony of the Rocks, Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Testimony of the Rocks
Author: Hugh Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Odd Jobs of Uncle Sam
Author: William Atherton DuPuy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description