Download or read book Eugene Allen Smith s Alabama written by Aileen Kilgore Henderson and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871 when the University of Alabama reopened after its destruction by Federal troops, Eugene Allen Smith returned to his alma mater as professor of geology and mineralogy. Until his death in 1927, this gifted man devoted his abundant energy and his stout heart to the welfare of the school and the state. After persuading the legislature to appoint him state geologist in 1873, he spent his summers enduring chills, fevers, and verbal abuse as he searched for industrial raw materials that could bring about better lives for destitute Alabamians. Traveling in a mule-drawn wagon, he recorded detailed observations, botanical and geological discoveries, and mineral analyses in his journal. He loaded the wagon with specimens for the university museum he dreamed of creating some day. He inventoried industries that had failed or been destroyed, judging whether they were worth salvaging. Interspersed with this information were pithy comments on people he met, frustrations he dealt with, historical notes, and poetic descriptions of rocks and creeks and mountains, giving a vivid picture of Alabama in transition. What he accomplished, against monumental odds, became the catalyst that transformed Alabama from an aimless and poverty-stricken agricultural state to an industrial giant to be reckoned with. How he accomplished what he did, with very little support and hardly any money, gave this diminutive and very human man a stature of mythic proportions in the history of the university and the state. The story of Little Doc, as told in Eugene Allen Smiths Alabama, is drawn from many sources: Smiths transcribed field notes, countless numbers of letters he received and the carbon copies of his replies, his published reports over a period of fifty years, wills, genealogical records, histories of the st
Download or read book On the Warrior Coal Field written by Henry McCalley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monograph Geological Survey of Alabama written by Geological Survey of Alabama and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Cahaba Coal Field written by Joseph Squire and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to the Mineral Resources of Alabama written by Eugene Allen Smith and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eugene Allen Smith Alabama s Great Geologist written by Stewart Joseph Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of Alabama written by Thomas McAdory Owen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Geological Survey of Alabama written by Eugene Allen Smith and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Geological Structure of Murphree s Valley written by Geological Survey of Alabama and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular Geological Survey of Alabama written by Geological Survey of Alabama and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Old Blount County Alabama written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the people and events in Blount County history are well documented. Others, not so much. This book of essays is an attempt to revisit some of the well known events of our county's past, add a little more background, and present our history from a Blount County point of view. In addition to illuminating some familiar topics, this book attempts to bring to light people and events who played significant roles in the development of Blount, but were somehow overlooked or skimmed over by the primary reference books-people and events which were the topic of conversation among our ancestors but over time, have been forgotten. These fun to read tales will promote a greater understanding of the history of Blount County.
Download or read book Geographical Report written by Roland McMillan Harper and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Botany of Alabama Geographical report including descriptions of the natural divisions of the state their forest and forest industries with quantitative analyses and statistical tables written by Roland McMillan Harper and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Geological Survey of Alabama written by Geological Survey of Alabama and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Botany of Alabama Part 1 Geographical Report Including Descriptions of the Natural Divisions of the State written by Roland McMillan Harper and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
