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Book Colorado Vanguards  Historic Trailblazers and Their Local Legacies

Download or read book Colorado Vanguards Historic Trailblazers and Their Local Legacies written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado history is filled with maverick men and women who shaped the state's identity and culture. Trailblazers Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long laid groundwork for the miners, farmers and statesmen who helped the area evolve into a territory and a state. Father of Rocky Mountain National Park Enos Mills and writer Isabella Bird praised the surrounding natural splendor and championed its preservation. Entrepreneurs Otto Mears and William Jackson Palmer linked mines with towns such as Colorado Springs and Telluride, while the innovations of F.O. Stanley and Nikola Tesla energized the state. Author Phyllis J. Perry chronicles the lives of thirty men and women who left their indelible marks on Colorado.

Book Colorado Vanguards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phyllis J. Perry
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-16
  • ISBN : 1625856938
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Colorado Vanguards written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado history is filled with maverick men and women who shaped the state's identity and culture. Trailblazers Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long laid groundwork for the miners, farmers and statesmen who helped the area evolve into a territory and a state. Father of Rocky Mountain National Park Enos Mills and writer Isabella Bird praised the surrounding natural splendor and championed its preservation. Entrepreneurs Otto Mears and William Jackson Palmer linked mines with towns such as Colorado Springs and Telluride, while the innovations of F.O. Stanley and Nikola Tesla energized the state. Author Phyllis J. Perry chronicles the lives of thirty men and women who left their indelible marks on Colorado.

Book Colorado Vanguards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phyllis J. Perry
  • Publisher : History Press Library Editions
  • Release : 2015-11-16
  • ISBN : 9781540203212
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Colorado Vanguards written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hampton Roads Murder   Mayhem

Download or read book Hampton Roads Murder Mayhem written by Nancy E. Sheppard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hampton Roads is an iconic destination, but the "birthplace of America" has a nefarious past. Dive into the story of cannibalism in the Jamestown colony and learn the gory details of the tale of the Witch of Pungo. Blackbeard and his men wreaked havoc in Hampton Roads before Virginians brought them to justice. Explore rarely told stories of lynchings, riots and a hoax involving none other than famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. Join author and historian Nancy E. Sheppard as she explores some of the darkest moments in Hampton Roads' vibrant history.

Book What Lies Beneath Colorado

Download or read book What Lies Beneath Colorado written by Eilene Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Lies Beneath Colorado Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards explores the hidden personal trials and triumphs discovered in Colorado’s oldest cemeteries, bringing the history of the state to life. Covering the entire state by region, the stories explore Spanish conquest, Native American history, the gold rush, community development, homesteading and ranching, love and loss, conflict and resolution, scandal and honor. Sidebars include material on Hispano culture in southern Colorado, headstones and cenotaphs, notable historic figures, cemetery lore, Ute treaties, crime and punishment. A must read for any fan of western history and an excellent resource for Colorado family historians.

Book The Lady and the Mountain Man

Download or read book The Lady and the Mountain Man written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs** The love they shared for an untamed land brought them together. Isabella Bird was a proper Victorian lady, a minster’s daughter, a writer who traveled the globe. She was expected to marry a man of means and position instead she was drawn to a gruff mountain man, a desperado named Jim Nugent. The unlikely pair met in Estes Park, Colorado in 1873. Jim was enchanted by Isabella and she was infatuated with him. In a published version of Isabella’s letter to her sister, she said of Jim that “he was a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry.” On a climb to the top of Longs Peak their friendship blossomed into more than expected. This book reveals the true story of Bird’s relationship with Nugent as they traveled through the dramatic wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Book The Vanguard

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  • Author : Edgar Beecher Bronson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Vanguard written by Edgar Beecher Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vanguard

Download or read book The Vanguard written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vanguard of the Atlantic World

Download or read book The Vanguard of the Atlantic World written by James E. Sanders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that Latin America in this period was a site of genuine political innovation and popular debate reflecting Latin Americans' visions of modernity. Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.

Book High Country Empire

Download or read book High Country Empire written by Robert G. Athearn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first adequate history of the High Country Empire I have ever found. . . . This is vivid, vigorous history, rich with incident, solid with research, firm with informed opinion. . . . On total score this is an outstanding book."--Hal Borland, Saturday Review. "It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."--Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book Review. "Mr. Athearn is not only a good historian, he is an exceptionally able writer. His sparkling narrative--filled with quotable anecdotes and general perceptive insights--is a delight to read."--Gene M. Gressley, Library Journal. "This is a complex, many-sided story, and the author . . . somehow manages to hold it down to reasonable length and at the same time retain much of the variety and color inherent in his theme."--Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Book Review. "A very great mass of scholarly knowledge expands, illuminates, and makes all alive within the major framework, and Dr. Athearn writes with power and charm and is never pedestrian or pedantic."--San Francisco Chronicle. "Professor Athearn's depth of historical knowledge and perspective ties the story of this high country empire together so that it is socially and economically meaningful and at the same time entertaining."--Harlan Trott, Christian Science Monitor.

Book Vanguard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Constance McLaughlin Green
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Vanguard written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Populist Vanguard

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  • Author : Robert C. McMath Jr.
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-10
  • ISBN : 1469639947
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Populist Vanguard written by Robert C. McMath Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant as a political, economic, and social organization, the southern Farmers' Alliance was the largest and most influential farmers' organization in the history of the United States until the rise of the American Farm Bureau Federation. McMath suggests that the ideas advanced by the People's party in the 1890s had been incubated within the alliance and that the shared experience of 1.5 million rural Americans helped give those ideas power in the Populist crusade. Originally published 1976. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Alive at the Village Vanguard

Download or read book Alive at the Village Vanguard written by Lorraine Gordon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz fans get the inside story of New York's legendary club. At age 83 Lorraine Gordon is a jazz icon who has lived more than a few lives: downtown bohemian uptown grande dame music business pioneer wife lover mother and finally at a point when m

Book Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right

Download or read book Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right written by Kimberly Jannarone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.

Book Kiplinger s Personal Finance

Download or read book Kiplinger s Personal Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

Book Vanguard of Visions and Dreams

Download or read book Vanguard of Visions and Dreams written by Bishop Dr. Jackie L. Green and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreamers hope Visionaries see Vanguards hope, see and lead ! This book is a dreamers tool box, packed with what they need to know about provision for the vision, the journey of a vision and the visionarys cup. This book will speak to those that are at a spiritual crossroad and intersection of the vision; or on the edge of a cliff called faith, living in two realms at the same time and pushing through the contractions of a vision in the birth canal. The author expounds on the seven types of vanguards needed in every generation: Presidents, Pastors, Parents, Pioneers, Prayer Warriors, Prisoners and Prophets. This book will reveal how and why God is deploying His end time vanguards throughout the earth. Bishop Green throws out a holy lifeline to dreamers and visionaries so that they will not throw away their inspiration, perspiration and determination for the future. The Word for the Church as well as for our nation this hour is GO FORWARD WITH GOD!

Book The Best Way to Save for College

Download or read book The Best Way to Save for College written by Joseph F. Hurley and published by Savingforcollege Publication. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of how to use 529 plans to help finance future costs of education, including what to look for in a plan and state-by-state comparisons.