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Book On Wandering Wheels  from Maine to Georgia

Download or read book On Wandering Wheels from Maine to Georgia written by Jan Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Wandering Wheels  Through Roadside Camps from Maine to Georgia     Illustrated by the Authors

Download or read book On Wandering Wheels Through Roadside Camps from Maine to Georgia Illustrated by the Authors written by Jan GORDON (and (Cora Josephine)) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Wandering Wheels

Download or read book On Wandering Wheels written by Jan Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heading Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence Young
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 1501712829
  • Pages : 659 pages

Download or read book Heading Out written by Terence Young and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes—tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping’s appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping’s history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.

Book Subduing Satan

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  • Author : Ted Ownby
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014-02-01
  • ISBN : 1469615878
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Subduing Satan written by Ted Ownby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes. "Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily by men seeking to escape the sweet virtue of the Southern Christian home.--Nation "A bold new thesis. . . . [Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the meaning of southern history.--Journal of Southern History "I suspect that for many years ahead Ted Ownby's Subduing Satan will serve as the standard guide on how to write religious social history.--Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida "This is one of the freshest and most interesting books written about the American South in years. By focusing on the cultural conflicts of everyday life, Ownby gets us right to the heart of white culture in the South between Reconstruction and the 1920s.--Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia

Book The National Road

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  • Author : Karl B. Raitz
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780801851551
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The National Road written by Karl B. Raitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).

Book Automobility

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  • Author : Corey T. Lesseig
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780815333432
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Automobility written by Corey T. Lesseig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the opportunities the automobile presented for early twentieth Mississippians to change their patterns of work and leisure.

Book Books and Notes

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  • Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1364 pages

Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books for All

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  • Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book Books for All written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by Peabody Institute (Danvers, Mass.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Geographical Literature  Maps and Photographs

Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature Maps and Photographs written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selling Tradition

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  • Author : Jane S. Becker
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 080786031X
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Selling Tradition written by Jane S. Becker and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in America's folk heritage, as Americans began to enthusiastically collect, present, market, and consume the nation's folk traditions. Examining one of this century's most prominent "folk revivals--the reemergence of Southern Appalachian handicraft traditions in the 1930s--Jane Becker unravels the cultural politics that bound together a complex network of producers, reformers, government officials, industries, museums, urban markets, and consumers, all of whom helped to redefine Appalachian craft production in the context of a national cultural identity. Becker uses this craft revival as a way of exploring the construction of the cultural categories "folk" and "tradition." She also addresses the consequences such labels have had on the people to whom they have been assigned. Though the revival of domestic arts in the Southern Appalachians reflected an attempt to aid the people of an impoverished region, she says, as well as a desire to recapture an important part of the nation's folk heritage, in reality the new craft production owed less to tradition than to middle-class tastes and consumer culture--forces that obscured the techniques used by mountain laborers and the conditions in which they worked.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Salem Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Salem Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Automobile in American History and Culture

Download or read book The Automobile in American History and Culture written by Michael L. Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.

Book The Booklist

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book The Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: