Download or read book The Last Water hole written by Jack Sheriff and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hard-bitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they? Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.
Download or read book The Last Water Hole in the West written by Daniel Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the largest transmountain diversion project ever built - the Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) - designed to bring Colorado River water through a thirteen-mile tunnel under the Continental Divide to farmers in the South Platte River basin. The book also offers a detailed exploration of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (NCWCD), the agency created to oversee the design, construction, water delivery, and payment of the monumental C-BT. Using a wealth of sources - minutes, reports, speeches, memoranda, newspaper accounts, and interviews with NCWCD officials - Daniel Tyler presents a practical, hands-on story of construction, operation, and maintenance of a supplemental water delivery system. Tyler writes history that reflects the pros and cons of litigation and negotiation in water-conflict resolutions. His book is also a chronology of the struggle between disciples of water development and proponents of environmental causes, including many issues of relevance to other state and federal entities with a stake in western water"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Water Hole Board Book written by Graeme Base and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. On board pages.
Download or read book The Waterhole written by Lily Malone and published by Lily Malone. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a backyard dare to discover the source of a fabled waterhole uncovers human bones, small town detective, Marley West, leaps at the chance to kickstart his stalled career. But it's more than two decades since developers filled the Cowaramup creek. The woman who owned the land-the Ross family matriarch-has passed away. Relations between her sons, Jack and Bill, are colder than the case. Then the Ross family learn Marley is the grandson of notorious police sergeant, Alan West, the corrupt cop who once ruled the town with an iron fist. To solve the case, Marley must gain the trust of three people with no reason to trust each other and less reason to trust him: Bill, who left the love of his life to fight in Vietnam; charismatic Jack, who could always catch the eye of a pretty girl; and city school teacher, Annette, whose move to Cowaramup in 1966 would change the Ross brothers' lives forever. As he navigates a tangled web of lies and betrayals, jealousies and murder, Marley has to ask himself: are these bones better left buried? Praise for The Waterhole "Quintessentially Australian, Lily Malone takes us into the heart of a family ravaged by secrets." Fiona Lowe, author of Home Fires.
Download or read book Water Politics written by Thomas T. Holyoke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west. It describes its origins, how it became about building big projects, and how it was fragmented by pressures from environmental activism. The book also explores the western water crisis in the United States. The case studies used in here will help readers understand water development and the political battles around it in most of the western states to show here how and why the policy changed and even broke down. The book is divided into two parts and describes the different eras of water policy. While most books on water policy focus on its deficiencies for meeting future challenges, Water Politics: The Fragmentation of Western Water Policy attempts to explore why those deficiencies occurred in the first place. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in political science and policy studies who are interested in how public policies are enacted, how they change, and how they fall apart over time and why. The book will also be of particular interest to students in other disciplines that deal with water such as environmental studies, geology, sociology, hydrology, and civil engineering.
Download or read book The Legend of Waterhole Branch written by Lucas R. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harrowing Race Against Time! For centuries, treasure hunters have sought to uncover the infamous legend regarding a wealth of gold buried somewhere in Waterhole Branch by a notorious Spanish explorer... But it turns out that one man may have already found it Hunter Pierce, raised in a rural area of southern Alabama, has mysteriously built a lucrative career on Wall Street. He's young. He's smart. He's ambitious. And he has his whole future ahead of him. Then one night everything changes. Locked in a treacherous game with ruthless killers and embroiled in a treasure hunt of epic proportions, Hunter is reunited with his two childhood friends - Brian and Camilla - who unexpectedly find themselves coaxed into this pulse-pounding adventure. Unsure who is friend or foe, Hunter returns to Waterhole Branchwhere his survival hinges on outsmarting the bad guys, masterminding an escape, and putting his trust in an unlikely source...
Download or read book Reclamation Managing Water in the West The Bureau of Reclamation Origins and Growth to 1945 Vol 1 2006 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hole in the Water written by Robert Kearney and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of his father's death, Chuck has come home. With his new wife, Gretchen, and his stepdaughter, Kara--and a dark past he cannot escape. For on a desolate island in Lake Superior, the people who have known Chuck longest revile him most. Now, layer by terrifying layer, Gretchen begins to uncover the chilling sins long hidden in her husband's heart. Is Chuck the innocent man he claims to be, or is he a killer? Blinded by fear, trapped by water, Gretchen and Kara take desperate flight for their lives in this "People" page-turner of the week.
Download or read book A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Download or read book The Bureau of Reclamation Origins and growth to 1945 written by William D. Rowley and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.
Download or read book Wide Rivers Crossed written by Ellen E. Wohl and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories, including their geologic history, physical characteristics, ecological communities, and earliest human impacts, and follows a downstream and historical progression from the use of the rivers’ resources by European immigrants through increasing population density of the twentieth century to the present day. During the past two centuries, these rivers changed dramatically, mostly due to human interaction. Crops replaced native vegetation; excess snowmelt and rainfall carried fertilizers and pesticides into streams; and levees, dams, and drainage altered distribution. These changes cascaded through networks, starting in small headwater tributaries, and reduced the ability of rivers to supply the clean water, fertile soil, and natural habitats they had provided for centuries. Understanding how these rivers, and rivers in general, function and how these functions have been altered over time will allow us to find innovative approaches to restoring river ecosystems. The environmental changes in the South Platte and the Illinois reflect the relentless efforts by humans to control the distribution of water: to enhance surface water in the arid western prairie and to limit the spread of floods and drain the wetlands along the rivers in the water-abundant east. Wide Rivers Crossed looks at these historical changes and discusses opportunities for much-needed protection and restoration for the future.
Download or read book New Reclamation Era written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trouble at the Watering Hole written by Gregg F. Relyea and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forest animals have a problem-the watering hole isn't big enough. Emo, a bear cub, and his friend, a bird named "Chickie," know there must be a way to stop the fighting. Together with the forest animals, Emo and Chickie explore ways to work things out in a positive, constructive way. Skills that everyone can learn.
Download or read book Diary of Explorations from Adelaide South Australia Across the Continent of Australia December 1861 to December 1862 written by John Mac Douall Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Camel Charge written by Forrest Bryant Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about.”—True West Magazine In the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better than both mules and horses in the American Southwest... Against the Mojave in the Arizona Territory, against the Mormons in Utah Territory, during the early stages of the Civil War, the camel would become part of military history and a nearly forgotten chapter of Americana. This is the true story of that experiment and the extraordinary group of people who it brought together. The Last Camel Charge gives them their due as a vital piece of American history. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Download or read book The Grant El Grante written by Marshall Beaty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of my short story novel pertains to a small country town and a piece of land that perhaps prepared me for the better part of my life. This land was part of the Old Spanish Land Grant known as the San Jose de Sonoita Spanish Land Grant. Growing up in a small country town next to the Grant/El Grante impacted my childhood and later years as a young man. I thought about all those childhood adventures I experienced in a small country town and on this piece of hallowed ground called The Grant/El Grante. However, like every child or young person growing up in this world, we all have that lasting memory encrypted in our minds about a particular unforgettable place and time that is haunting.
Download or read book Waterhole written by Fiona Bell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and engaging debut from a talented Australian author. Sixteen-year-old Sunny Maguire is dreading the school holidays. She used to love visiting her grandmother’s farm but ever since her mother died in a tragic car accident, Sunny doesn’t feel at home anywhere anymore and the farm is a constant reminder of what she has lost. She knows it’s going to be a long summer. Worse, she has to spend it with her distant stepfather, Kevin, the only ‘family’ she has left. On her return to the small town of Kelly’s Crossing, Sunny is distracted by a new resident – Matthew Bright – and the disappearance of local teenager Dylan Koslovski. She gets involved in the search for Dylan along the mysterious Constant Creek Gorge, a beautiful location tainted by tragic drownings. Complications arise when Kevin becomes a suspect in the case and rumours begin to circulate. Sunny doesn’t trust him and she’s beginning to lose faith in herself, too, especially when she starts to see her mother’s ghost.
