Download or read book Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls written by Barbara F. Cochran and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influential Women of Spokane Building a Fair City written by Nancy Driscol Engle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became president of the Spokane Equal Suffrage League, persevering until 1910, when Washington voters gave women the vote. Historian Nancy Driscol Engle commemorates the unforgettable contributions of Spokane's women.
Download or read book The Dreamer and the Doctor written by Jack Nisbet and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change--from the author of Sources of the River and The Collector. Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.
Download or read book The Early History of Spokane Falls written by James N. Glover and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mercy and Madness written by Beverly Lionberger Hodgins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spokane, Washington’s first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sons—leaving her husband behind in Ohio—in 1888. She sought a better climate for her health and worked tirelessly for the health of all of Spokane’s citizens, but particularly women and children and especially the poor. She helped found the Spokane Humane Society and the Spokane Public Library, and she was beloved and respected in the community. Then, in 1903, one of her sons died and she seemingly became unhinged. She would be seen wandering the streets, wailing and inconsolable, and her behavior became extremely erratic. In 1905, she was accused, arrested, and convicted of arson, then sentenced to four years of hard labor in the state penitentiary. She escaped into the forests of Idaho, where she hid from a massive manhunt for a week before being captured and sent to prison in Walla Walla. She eventually returned to Spokane a broken yet determined woman and died in 1917. Despite the tragic and violent events that characterized her later years, today Dr. Mary A. Latham is honored in Spokane for the good she did in the first part of her life. Mercy and Madness captures the captivating, outrageous, and sometimes-sorrowful life of Dr. Mary Archard Latham in her own words.
Download or read book Show Town written by Holly George and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the more genteel among them worried about its “Wild West” atmosphere. In Show Town, historian Holly George correlates the clash of tastes and sensibilities among Spokane’s theater patrons with a larger shift in values occurring throughout the Inland West—and the nation—during a period of rapid social change. George begins this multifaceted story in 1890, when two Spokane developers built the lavish Auditorium Theater as a kind of advertisement for the young city. The new venue catered to a class of people made wealthy by speculation, railroads, and mining. Yet the refined entertainment the Auditorium offered conflicted with the rollicking shows that played in the town’s variety theaters, designed to draw in the migratory workers—primarily single men—who provided labor for the same industries that made the fortunes of Spokane’s elite. As well-to-do Spokanites attempted to clamp down on the variety theaters, performances at even the city’s more respectable, “legitimate” playhouses began to reflect a movement away from Victorian sensibilities to a more modern desire for self-fulfillment—particularly among women. Theaters joined the debate over modern femininity by presenting plays on issues ranging from woman’s suffrage to shifting marital expectations. At the same time, national theater monopolies transmitted to the people of Spokane new styles and tastes that mirrored larger cultural trends. Lucidly written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of cultural history. By examining one city’s theatrical scene in all its complex dimensions, this book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped the urban American West.
Download or read book The History of Spokane Falls W T 1871 1891 an Example of a Colonial Build Environment written by Jacob Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of Spokane Falls's built environment within Washington Territory exemplifies the Pacific Northwest's resettlement and reconstruction in the nineteenth century. The initial benefit of Spokane Falls' geography existed within the primary natural advantage of the waterpower of the falls on the Spokane River. The secondary natural advantage in human-induced transportation networks allowed the settlement center-place status. Spokane Falls W.T. developed as center-places for the periphery's agricultural and mining commodities under a theoretical and structuralized [urban] model. An interpretation of the physical and geographical history of Spokane Falls's built environment from 1871 to 1891 occurred where the city's layout existed within the gird system of the speculative real estate market where geography was the original commodity throughout resettlement. Understanding these spaces' development is possible through the physical documents created simultaneously with the city's physical development. This method of research exposes the forms and methods undertaken in the primary physical development of Spokane Falls. Spokane Falls physically developed from a small frontier community of 350 individuals in 1880 to a small metropolis of 22,500 by 1891. Influenced by the federal government and her legislative acts, the Pacific North West's lands opened to European American resettlement, where geography became accounted for and marketed. With the cadastral survey and space accountability, the legalization of the speculative real-estate market occurred. Capitalist investors and entrepreneurs quickly descended upon the newly established market, hoping for a financial return. Industry developed on the falls where mills harnessed the waterpower, encouraging immigration by the working class into the region. As the city physically expanded, administrators alongside citizens documented the story of improvement. These documents created alongside the physical development allow for an interpretation of the built environment's construction. Documents like newspapers, Sanborn maps, and land plats illustrate the geographic distribution, construction materials, informal and formal development, and the speculative market. When applied alongside the theoretical understanding of urban development as understood at the end of the nineteenth century, collectively, the documents and theory illuminate the history of the physically built environment of Spokane Falls.--Page iv.
Download or read book Spokane Falls Illustrated written by Harry H. Hook and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spokane written by William Stimson and published by Amer Historical Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portraits of Women in the American West written by Dee Garceau-Hagen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told. This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.
Download or read book Spokane Story written by Lucile Foster Fargo and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spokane Story is the colorful history of a colorful city and its people, from the years of its lust youth to the day when a clergyman sat in the mayor's chair and a new city charter heralded the end of this days as frontier town.
Download or read book A View of the Falls written by William Stimson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spokane Falls Illustrated written by Harry H. Hook and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spokane Falls Illustrated written by Harry H. Hook and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Marvel Among Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Majestic Cascade written by Innoware Pjp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Majestic Cascade: Unveiling Spokane Falls While the natural beauty of Spokane Falls had enchanted generations, it was the marriage of nature and human ingenuity that transformed the falls into a marvel of engineering. The construction of the Spokane Falls Hydroelectric Plant marked a pivotal moment in the history of the region, harnessing the power of the falls to fuel Spokane's progress and provide electricity to the growing city. Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Journey Begins: Discovering Spokane Falls Chapter 2: The Legend of the Falls: Myths and Folklore Chapter 3: A Glimpse into History: Native American Connections Chapter 4: The Birth of Spokane: Settling by the Falls Chapter 5: Spokane's Rise to Prominence: The Industrial Era Chapter 6: Natural Splendor: Exploring the Surrounding Landscape Chapter 7: An Engineering Marvel: The Spokane Falls Hydroelectric Plant Chapter 8: Power and Beauty: The Hydroelectricity Revolution Chapter 9: Into the Depths: The Underground Spokane Chapter 10: The Riverfront Park: A Haven of Recreation and Culture Chapter 11: Sensational Seasons: Witnessing Nature's Transformations Chapter 12: Art in Motion: Spokane Falls in Literature and Film Chapter 13: Beyond the Surface: Diving into the Falls' Ecology Chapter 14: Legends and Lore: Ghostly Encounters and Supernatural Tales Chapter 15: Embracing Adventure: Thrilling Activities around the Falls Chapter 16: Discovering Spokane: Exploring the City's Charms Chapter 17: The Spokane River: A Lifeline for Recreation and Wildlife Chapter 18: Festivals and Celebrations: Vibrant Events by the Falls Chapter 19: Bridging the Gap: Iconic Bridges over Spokane River Chapter 20: A Legacy Preserved: Conserving Spokane Falls for Future Generations
Download or read book Influential Women of Spokane written by Nany Engle and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became president of the Spokane Equal Suffrage League, persevering until 1910, when Washington voters gave women the vote. Historian Nancy Driscol Engle commemorates the unforgettable contributions of Spokane's women.
