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Book Archaeological Documentation and Testing of Six Sites for Flaming Gorge Dam Flow Study  Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge  Moffat County  Colorado

Download or read book Archaeological Documentation and Testing of Six Sites for Flaming Gorge Dam Flow Study Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge Moffat County Colorado written by Susan M. Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Jarvie of Brown s Park

Download or read book John Jarvie of Brown s Park written by William L. Tennent and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Class I Overview of the Prehistoric Cultural Resources  Little Snake Resource Area  Moffat  Routt  and Rio Blanco Counties  Colorado

Download or read book A Class I Overview of the Prehistoric Cultural Resources Little Snake Resource Area Moffat Routt and Rio Blanco Counties Colorado written by Halcyon La Point and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southwestern Lore

Download or read book Southwestern Lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Behavior   Society

Download or read book Behavior Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government Reports Announcements   Index

Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Easy Field Guide to Southwestern Petroglyphs

Download or read book Easy Field Guide to Southwestern Petroglyphs written by Elizabeth C. Welsh and published by American Traveler Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to petroglyphs in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Concise information about how, when, where, and why petroglyphs were made.

Book Annotated Bibliography of Colorado Vertebrate Zoology  1776 1995

Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Colorado Vertebrate Zoology 1776 1995 written by Richard G. Beidleman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation catalogues the writings on the diverse vertebrate species within Colorado's boundaries beginning with the Escalante Expedition, which skirted the western slope a century before Colorado's statehood. Because of its geographical location-between East and West, North and Southwest, its altitudinal range of more than 11,000 feet, and its consequent variety of ecosystems from desert shrub to alpine tundra, Colorado ranks high among the fifty states for its variety of vertebrates. With such an abundance of these vertebrates, biologists and observant laypersons have had much to write about. This comprehensive bibliography is divided into major sections: General Natural History, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals. Each taxonomic group has a general section, followed by listings at taxon levels down to alphabetically-arranged species. The bibliography is especially complete with respect to periodical literature through 1995. Colorado Vertebrate Zoology cites resources for studying both well-researched vertebrates and those needing more study.

Book Fur  Fortune  and Empire  The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

Download or read book Fur Fortune and Empire The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America's China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America's first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.

Book The Fur Trade of the American West

Download or read book The Fur Trade of the American West written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur trade a valuable service."--Journal of the Early Republic. A standard reference work [that] should be required reading for all students of the American west."--Pacific Historical Review. "The whole [fur trade] system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. This is an impressive achievement for a book so brief. . . . [It] opens out onto new methodological vistas and paradigms in western history."--William H. Goetzmann, New Mexico Historical Review David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distin-guished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Book The Wagon Box Fight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry Keenan
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2007-10-09
  • ISBN : 0306817101
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book The Wagon Box Fight written by Jerry Keenan and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.

Book Practicing Ethnohistory

Download or read book Practicing Ethnohistory written by Patricia Kay Galloway and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reader on the practice and methodology of ethnohistory.