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Book Historical Atlas of California

Download or read book Historical Atlas of California written by Derek Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR DEREK HAYES'S PREVIOUS ATLASES: "A beautifully executed achievement."--Bloomsbury Review "The kind of volume that invites repeated viewings."--Seattle Times "A sure winner. . . . It's hard to imagine anyone who could resist getting happily lost on these glorious roads into our past."--Toronto Star "Derek Hayes works his way from the discovery and settlement of North America to the ever-evolving maps recording America's westward push and onward to the early maps of the automobile age."--William Grimes, New York Times "The maps show everything from how explorers conceived of the continent circa 1500 to the spread of the interstate highway system in the 1950s."--Business Week

Book Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Indians of the Pacific Northwest written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NORTHWEST.

Book The North West Is Our Mother

Download or read book The North West Is Our Mother written by Jean Teillet and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844)

Book The Savage Border

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr Jules Stewart
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2007-02-22
  • ISBN : 0752496077
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The Savage Border written by Dr Jules Stewart and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first significant book in forty years on this territory viewed for centuries as a lawless wilderness.

Book Statehood and Union

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter S. Onuf
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 0268105480
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Statehood and Union written by Peter S. Onuf and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and the admission of new states in the Old Northwest. In a new preface, Peter S. Onuf reviews important new work on the progress of colonization and territorial expansion in the rising American empire.

Book History of the Northwest Coast

Download or read book History of the Northwest Coast written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Northwest Engineering Company

Download or read book The Story of Northwest Engineering Company written by Matthew E. Folsom and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Manufactured at Green Bay, Wisconsin" is an account of Northwest Engineering Company from its early days as a builder of tugboats for the World War 1 effort to the role the company played as one of the premier manufacturers of excavators in the world.The team of Folsom and Torres trace Northwest's rise and eventual demise in vivid clarity giving an account of the company's key personnel and products. Contained within, on over 300 pages, is informative text and over 400 b/w and color images plus drawings from the authors', past employees', and other contributors' personal collections. Enthusiasts of heavy equipment and the heavy construction machinery industry, and devotees of local interest, will find new insight into this past enterprise of Titletown, USA.

Book Nature s Northwest

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  • Author : William G. Robbins
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2011-04-15
  • ISBN : 0816529590
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Nature s Northwest written by William G. Robbins and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the greater Northwest was ablaze with change and seemingly obsessed with progress. The promotional literature of the time praising railroads, population increases, and the growing sophistication of urban living, however, ignored the reality of poverty and ethnic and gender discrimination. During the course of the next century, even with dramatic changes in the region, one constant remainedÑ inequality. With an emphasis on the regionÕs political economy, its environmental history, and its cultural and social heritage, this lively and colorful history of the Pacific NorthwestÑdefined here as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and southern British ColumbiaÑplaces the narrative of this dynamic region within a national and international context. Embracing both Canadian and American stories in looking at the larger region, renowned historian William Robbins and Katrine Barber offer us a fascinating regional history through the lens of both the environment and society. Understanding the physical landscape of the greater Pacific NorthwestÑand the watersheds of the Columbia, Fraser, Snake, and Klamath riversÑsets the stage for understanding the development of the area. Examining how this landscape spawned sawmills, fish canneries, railroads, logging camps, agriculture, and shared immigrant and ethnic traditions reveals an intricate portrait of the twentieth-century Northwest. Impressive in its synthesis of myriad historical facts, this first-rate regional history will be of interest to historians studying the region from a variety of perspectives and an informative read for anyone fascinated by the story of a landscape rich in diversity, natural resources, and Native culture.

Book Contributions to the History of the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Contributions to the History of the Pacific Northwest written by Washington State University and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landscape History Discoveries in the North West

Download or read book Landscape History Discoveries in the North West written by Sharon M. Varey and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales.

Book The Great Northwest

Download or read book The Great Northwest written by Oscar Osburn Winther and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1947 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pacific Northwest

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  • Author : Carlos A. Schwantes
  • Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Pacific Northwest written by Carlos A. Schwantes and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region' s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is a professor in the Department of History, and director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Study, at the University of Idaho. He is the author of a number of books, including "Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest" (Nebraska 1995).

Book Rediscovering Northwest Denver

Download or read book Rediscovering Northwest Denver written by Ruth Eloise Wiberg and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering Northwest Denver is a chatty, enjoyable read that tells of the tycoons and entrepreneurs whose fine Victorian homes still dot the area, and of the immigrants from various European cultures who clung together for comfort in the face of prejudice.

Book Statistical  Descriptive  and Historical Account of the North West Provinces

Download or read book Statistical Descriptive and Historical Account of the North West Provinces written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Book Flora of the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Flora of the Pacific Northwest written by C. Leo Hitchcock and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys, and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive reference for the region�s flora. This completely revised and updated edition captures the advances in vascular plant systematics over the decades since publication of the first edition. These advances, together with significant changes in plant nomenclature, the description of taxa new to science from the region, and the recent documentation of new native and nonnative species in the Pacific Northwest required a thorough revision of this authoritative work. Flora of the Pacific Northwest covers all of Washington, the northern half of Oregon, Idaho north of the Snake River Plain, the mountainous portion of western Montana, and the southern portion of British Columbia. It accounts for the wild-growing native and introduced vascular plants falling within those boundaries and includes: Treatment of 5,545 taxa (more than 1,000 taxa added from the first edition) Illustrations for 4,716 taxa (1,382 more than the first edition) Nomenclature changes for more than 40 percent of the taxa included in the first edition These enhancements make this new edition the most comprehensive reference on Pacific Northwest vascular plants for professional and amateur botanists, ecologists, rare plant biologists, plant taxonomy instructors, land managers, nursery professionals, and gardeners.

Book Empires  Nations  and Families

Download or read book Empires Nations and Families written by Anne Farrar Hyde and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.

Book The North Western Provinces of India

Download or read book The North Western Provinces of India written by William Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: