Download or read book Big River Days written by John Pilkington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big River s Daughter written by Bobbi Miller and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.
Download or read book Newly Undead in Dark River written by Grace McGinty and published by Dark River Days. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Dark River. No one lives here. When Mika ends up Undead in a ditch outside of Dark River, her life changed forever. The residents of Dark River were all vampires, and now so was Mika. Life as a Vamp was surprisingly easy. Except one of the residents of Dark River was her murderer. And they wanted to ensure Mika never rested in peace.
Download or read book Great River written by Paul Horgan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe. Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of a scholar, and the love of a long-time resident, Paul Horgan describes the Rio Grande, its role in human history, and the overlapping cultures that have grown up alongside it or entered into conflict over the land it traverses. Now in its fourth revised edition, Great River remains a monumental part of American historical writing. “Here is known and unknown history, emotion and color, sense and sensitivity, battles for land and the soul of man, cultures and moods, fused by a glowing pen and a scholarly mind into a cohesive and memorable whole.” —The Boston Sunday Herald “Transcends regional history and soars far above the river valley with which it deals . . . a survey, rich in color and fascinating in pictorial detail, of four civilizations: the aboriginal Indian, the Spanish, the Mexican, and the Anglo-American . . . It is, in the best sense of the word, literature. It has architectural plan, scholarly accuracy, stylistic distinction, and not infrequently real nobility of spirit.” —Allan Nevins, author of Ordeal of the Union “One of the major masterpieces of American historical writing.” —Carl Carmer, author of Stars Fell on Alabama
Download or read book The Mississippi River Festival written by Amanda Bahr-Evola and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville initiated a remarkable performing arts series called the Mississippi River Festival. Over 12 summer seasons, between 1969 and 1980, the festival presented 353 events showcasing performers in a variety of musical genres, including classical, chamber, vocal, ragtime, blues, folk, bluegrass, barbershop, country, and rock, as well as dance and theater. During those years, more than one million visitors flocked to the spacious Gyo Obata-designed campus in the countryside near St. Louis. The Mississippi River Festival began as a partnership promoting regional cooperation in the realm of the performing arts. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville invited the St. Louis Symphony to establish residence on campus and to offer a summer season. To host the symphony, the university created an outdoor concert venue within a natural amphitheater by installing a large circus tent, a stage and acoustic shell, and a sophisticated sound system. To appeal to the widest possible audience, the university included contemporary popular musicians in the series. The audacity of the undertaking, the charm of the venue, the popularity of the artists, the excellence of the performances, and the nostalgic memory of warm summer evenings have combined to endow the festival with legendary status among those who attended.
Download or read book Big River Rancing written by John O'Hara and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Clarence River Jockey Club and its contribution to Australian racing and the New South Wales Northern Rivers region.
Download or read book Life and Times of a Big River written by Peter J. Marchand and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life and Times of a Big River" weaves together the fascinating cultural and natural history of interior Alaska through the story of a field expedition conducted by 5 biologists in a 4000-square-mile, roadless area of interior Alaska. The expedition was ordered by the United States government following the signing into law of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and was to help decide the fate of a vast area that would ultimately become the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. And yet this is a human story, related through the personal experiencesthe uncertainties, discoveries, accidents, and encounters with othersrecorded by this disparate (and at one point desperate) group of biologists. Weaving in and out of this narrative is an account of the natural and cultural history of the area, told as it related to the expedition and to people living in the bush. The five scientists explore every aspect of the land itself: from fossil tree ferns to rare insects and little-known mammals, deciphering a record of change in a land often thought of as static and monotonous. Against this background the history of both aboriginal and Anglo exploitation and adaptation to a very demanding environment is also told. In the context of the expedition, the natural and cultural history takes on an uncommon relevance and insight. This expedition may well represent the last of its kind, conducted before the explosion of satellite communications and geographic positioning technology forever changed scientific field work in remote regions."
Download or read book Big River written by Roger Miller and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes the experiences of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River.
Download or read book Montana s Last Best River written by Pat Munday and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focusing on the Bernissant discoveries, this book presents the latest research on Iguanodon and other denizens of the Cretaceous ecosystems of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Pascal Godefroit and contributors consider the Bernissart locality itself and the new research programs that are underway there. The book also presents a systematic revision of Iguanodon; new material from Spain, Romania, China, and Kazakhstan; studies of other Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems; and examinations of Cretaceous vertebrate faunas.
Download or read book Big River Reservoir Water Resources Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The River of Kings written by Taylor Brown and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers travel a storied river’s past and present in search of the truth about their father’s death in the second novel by the acclaimed author of Fallen Land.
Download or read book Hydrogeology and Simulated Effects of Ground water Withdrawals in the Big River Area Rhode Island written by Gregory E. Granato and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foxes and the Hounds Volume One Big Medicine River Days written by Jack Justin Turner and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the "Kentucky Gone With the Wind" and "the great Kentucky novel" by reviewers, THE FOXES AND THE HOUNDS follows the lives of two young men and two beautiful women as they make their way through Kentucky's most tumultuous days - from the Mountains to the Bluegrass - and into the expatriate mining communities of Kentuckians in Colorado.
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War in 1853 56 written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississipi River to the Pacific Ocean written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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