Download or read book Maps Tell Stories Too written by Abraham Resnick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People tell stories. Books tell stories. Journals and newspapers tell stories. Pictures tell stories. MAPS TELL STORIES TOO. An underlying objective of this book is to promote an awareness about and familiarization with the language of maps. Forty-four geographical map terms have been selected, defined, identified and used as vehicles to reinforce interesting ways geography has played a role in determining various historical outcomes. In addition all of the terms treated include summary highlights featuring salient aspects of how MAPS TELL STORIES TOO. Many of the terms include illustrations designed to augment map understandings.
Download or read book Tracing the Veins written by Janet L. Finn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich veins of copper in the Rockies and the Andes flowed for the giant Anaconda Company, the miners and their families in both places struggled to make a life as well as a living for themselves. Miner's consumption, a popular name for silicosis, provides a powerful metaphor for the danger, wasting, and loss that penetrated mining life. Finn explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a new model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of co
Download or read book Fire and Brimstone written by Michael Punke and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.
Download or read book Mining Morality written by William P. George and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing “self-sharpening tools” found in the work of theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’, and international law, William P. George brings mining to personal and collective moral awareness by “prospecting for ethics” at selected sites: (1) Butte, Montana, “the Richest Hill on Earth,” once bound to Chuquicamata, Chile, by a company that spanned two continents and nearly owned a state; (2) the tiny island nation of Nauru, called Pleasant Island until it was devastated by phosphate mining and the breaking of a sacred trust by foreign powers; (3) the deep seabed, governed by the United Nations Law of the Sea, a “constitution for the oceans” that regards much of the resource-rich seabed as humankind’s “common heritage”; (4) Africa, with its uranium mines but also its conflicts over what “being nuclear” means in the wake of colonialism, apartheid, and Hiroshima; and (5) mineral-rich asteroids speeding through space where mining rights are contested, even as space entrepreneurs look to become the world’s first trillionaires. George introduces readers to remarkable moral miners––the women of Butte and Chuquicamata, a World Court judge from Sri Lanka, and the Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia, to name a few––and leads them to consider not only the morality of mining––what’s good and not so good about resource extraction––but also the mining of morality, a venture that Socrates called “the examined life.”
Download or read book All Else Is Folly A Tale of War and Passion written by Peregrine Palmer Acland and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion" by Peregrine Palmer Acland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A Tale of the Western Plains written by G. A. Henty and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFact meets fiction in Henty's "fiercely accurate" adventure! Young Hugh Tunstall travels from England to the American West and finds work on a cattle ranch, encounters hostile Indians, and chases kidnappers. 5 illustrations. /div
Download or read book The View from Lone Butte written by Robert Russin and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribal servant's diary of President Barack H. Obama and the United States.
Download or read book TALES OF DRY BOTTOM Complete Trilogy The Two Gun Man The Coming of the Law Firebrand Trevison written by Charles Alden Seltzer and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “TALES OF DRY BOTTOM – Complete Trilogy: The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law & Firebrand Trevison)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Two-Gun Man – Stafford is a cattleman from the Two Diamond ranch whose herds are being devastated, so he goes to the town of Dry Bottom in order to find help. He meets Ned Ferguson who starts working undercover as a stray-man at the ranch, with an assignment to dispose rustlers, but his attention is being sidetracked by Mary Radford, a lovely neighbor who lives near the ranch. The Coming of the Law – Kent Hollis is a young journalist who lives on the East, but when his father dies Hollis returns to Dry Bottom, where he inherits the ranch, and also his father's newspaper – Dry Bottom Kicker. Soon he finds out that the whole town, the county, and sheriff are being controlled and intimidated by a crooked cattleman named Bill Dunlavey, and he starts a decisive and dangerous campaign against him. “Firebrand” Trevison is a cowboy, an owner of the Diamond K ranch and a stand-up guy who isn't afraid to speak his mind and fight for what is right. Expanding of the railroad from the town of Dry Bottom gets him in conflict with Mr. Corrigan, who is trying to cheat landowners of the county. As always, there is a pretty woman involved. Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) was a prolific American author of western novels. He wrote his westerns from the experience of living on his uncle's ranch in New Mexico. Seltzer's best works include The Two-Gun Man, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Drag Harlan and West. Many of his novels were turned into Hollywood movies.
Download or read book G A HENTY Ultimate Collection 100 Historical Novels Adventure Tales Short Stories written by G. A. Henty and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 15650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents to you this meticulously edited G. A. Henty collection: Novels: A Search for a Secret All But Lost Out on the Pampas The Young Franc-Tireurs The Young Buglers The Cornet of Horse In Times of Peril Facing Death, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit Winning His Spurs (Boy Knight) Friends Though Divided Jack Archer Under Drake's Flag By Sheer Pluck With Clive in India In Freedom's Cause St. George For England True to the Old Flag The Young Colonists The Dragon and the Raven For Name and Fame The Lion of the North Through the Fray The Bravest of the Brave A Final Reckoning The Young Carthaginian With Wolfe in Canada Bonnie Prince Charlie For the Temple In the Reign of Terror Orange and Green Captain Bayley's Heir The Cat of Bubastes The Curse of Carne's Hold The Lion of St. Mark By Pike and Dyke One of the 28th With Lee in Virginia By England's Aid By Right of Conquest Chapter of Adventures Maori and Settler The Dash For Khartoum Held Fast for England Redskin and Cowboy Beric the Briton Condemned as a Nihilist In Greek Waters Rujub, the Juggler Dorothy's Double A Jacobite Exile Saint Bartholomew's Eve Through the Sikh War In the Heart of the Rockies When London Burned A Girl of the Commune Wulf The Saxon A Knight of the White Cross Through Russian Snows The Tiger of Mysore At Agincourt On the Irrawaddy The Queen's Cup With Cochrane the Dauntless Colonel Thorndyke's Secret A March on London With Frederick the Great With Moore at Corunna Among Malay Pirates At Aboukir and Acre Both Sides the Border The Golden Cañon The Stone Chest The Lost Heir Under Wellington's Command In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers No Surrender! A Roving Commission Won by the Sword In the Irish Brigade Out With Garibaldi With Buller in Natal At the Point of the Bayonet To Herat and Cabul With Roberts to Pretoria The Treasure of the Incas With Kitchener in the Soudan With the British Legion Through Three Campaigns With the Allies to Pekin By Conduct and Courage Short Stories Historical Works Other Writings
Download or read book Hunting Tales written by Lamar Underwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .Veteran editor Lamar Underwood invites you to join him in a hunting camp destined to give you hours of pleasure. Many of your favorite authors are here, trusted companions like Archibald Rutledge, Corey Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Nash Buckingham, Tom Hennessey and many others. Their stories capture the action and tranquility of hunting game birds in the uplands, waterfowl in the marshes, and deer and big game in farmland forests and mountain peaks.
Download or read book The Earth written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dudeville written by J.D. Kleinke and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Huck Finn "lighting out for the territories" 150 years later, this time as a late-30s corporate dropout turned backcountry snowboarder and mountain climber. Dudeville is a coming-of-middle-age adventure story, set in and all around small-town Colorado during the outdoor sports explosion of the 1990s. Inspired by a wide and wild range of influences -- from Thoreau, Whitman, Muir and Twain, to Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey and Warren Miller -- Dudeville is equal parts extreme sports tale, male bonding romp, and reluctant love story, a sensuous, lyrical, exuberant exploration of the American West. Dudeville's author, J.D. Kleinke, was a serious health care guy in Baltimore until he discovered snowboarding, hang gliding, jam bands, and the raw spiritual power of life above treeline . . . and moved to Colorado. He is the author of three books about medicine in America, including Catching Babies, a novel about the culture of maternity care and childbirth. He has also been involved in the formation, management, and governance of several health care companies and non-profit organizations. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of medical and business publications. He lives with his wife in Half Moon Bay, California, and Portland, Oregon. From Dudeville: "From this summit, the horizon seesaws open into an electric blue dream of Colorado sky. The adolescent swagger and brawn of the Rockies is nothing like the stooped and rounded hills back east. Spiked with mammoth formations of rock and ice, this vast, continental cacophony is the very roof of the world, pushed skyward by geologic time while collapsing under its own weight. I drop in, and surf off the wind-scoured edge, working the margin between transcendent bliss and utter catastrophe, a controlled fury exploding from my core into arcing snowboard turns as I crisscross the fall-line and dissolve into gravity..."
Download or read book The River written by Peter Heller and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.
Download or read book Then and Now written by Robert Vaughn and published by MINNEAPOLIS: Tribune Printing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may not be out of place to explain how this book came to find its way into print. It was written for my little daughter, in the form of letters at various times, and not intended for publication, but many friends after reading them insisted that they should be published. One said: “You must not wait until you are dead before these letters are given to the world.” As my desire is, by the grace of God, to live many years yet, I now present these letters to the reader, supplemented by others from old time friends who braved the perils and dangers of pioneer life; and as they are intended to be a part of the history of this great state, care has been taken to keep strictly to the truth. It is hoped that a line here and there will be appreciated by those who ride in palace cars as well as the old pioneers who came west in prairie schooners.
Download or read book Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache written by Grenville Goodwin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 57 tales (with seven variants) gathered between 1931 and 1936 include major cycles dealing with Creation and Coyote, minor tales, and additional stories derived from Spanish and Mexican tradition. The tales are of two classes: holy tales said by some to expalin the origin of ceremonies and holy powers, and tales which have to do with the creation of the earth, the emergence, the flood, the slaying of monsters, and the origin of customs. As Goodwin was the first anthropologist to work with the White Mountain Apache, his insights remain a primary souce on this people.
Download or read book Vintage Colorado Short Stories written by James B. Hemesath and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 13 stories that explore the Centennial State from the late nineteenth century into the early 1900s and through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War fifties.
Download or read book Publications of the Folk lore Foundation written by Vassar College. Folk-lore Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
