Download or read book The Owens Valley California 1800 today written by Rebecca Jane Fish and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Owens Valley written by Jane Wehrey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Owens Valley is a bold and beautiful land where rugged alpine peaks tower over the deep trough of high desert that John Muir called "a country of wonderful contrasts." Inhabiting a rich and complex past are native people, miners, cattlemen, farmers, and city builders who laid claim, often violently, to its resources. By 1913, Owens River water was flowing south through the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and from the long and bitter conflicts that followed emerged an Owens Valley future far removed from the agrarian Eden envisioned by 19th-century pioneers. Today, unparalleled recreational opportunities draw millions of visitors annually to this "long brown land" even as reminders of a quintessential Western past linger in its open vistas, epic landscape, and enduring traditions.
Download or read book Owens Valley written by Helen Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Inyo written by Willie Arthur Chalfant and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inyo County was at the forefront of the Western expansion of the 19th century, a place of rugged natural beauty that served as a gateway to the prospering state of California. Published in 1922, this history begins with an examination of the geological facts of the area; located between Nevada and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Inyo County contains abundant clues of the land's history. The Native Americans who resided there are discussed, while the first white settlers discovered the lands sometime in the early 1800s. By the time of the Gold Rush, Inyo County was considered a popular shortcut to the Californian heartlands. Yet it was a dangerous and harsh land: the nearby Death Valley a place noted for claiming lives through its sheer heat. Host to several battles between the settlers and Native American tribes, Inyo gained notoriety as a place of skirmishes and conflict. War was intermittent, and the two sides would live in uneasy peace for years, before conflict over land erupted anew. Later in the 19thcentury the county endured the emergence of outlaws; a prison break at Carson, plus various robberies and other villainous crimes, are discussed at length. Earthquakes and the advancement of the mining industry, plus the gradual arrival of organized government and law enforcement, made Inyo an eventful place to reside into the 20th century.
Download or read book The History and Settlement of the Owens River Valley Region written by Eleanor Pyle Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Land Between written by Rebecca Fish Ewan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.
Download or read book The Earthquake of 1872 in the Owens Valley California written by William Herbert Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from This Long Brown Land written by Jane Wehrey and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place.
Download or read book Photographs of Owens Valley California written by Nancy Carol Williams and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inyo County California written by Inyo register and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Owens Valley Controversy and A A Brierly written by Robert Pearce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my grandfather's (A.A. Brierly) involvement in Owens Valley land sales to Los Angeles during the early 1900's. He was born in Bishop, CA in 1884 and lived his entire life there. He worked 65 years for Inyo County (1905-1970) and was significantly involved with issues regarding land managment in Inyo County. This book is much different that others written on the subject of Los Angeles and the Owens Valley as this is a first hand account from someone who was there, not revisionist history. I hope you enjoy my book.
Download or read book Water and Power written by William L. Kahrl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-11-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not the purpose of this work to propose a specific format for the settlement of the city's current difficulties with the valley, to resolve the environmental questions associated with Los Angeles's proposed groundwater pumping program, or to promote any cause associated with the developing situation in the Owens Valley. But by performing the essential historical task of separating what happened from what did not, and by distinguishing in this way the choices which have been made from those which have yet to be decided, it is my hope that this effort will help to establish that common basis for understanding which is essential for the debate over specific issues to proceed most effectively. This book, then, is scarcely the last word on the Owens Valley conflict: the final chapter, after all, has yet to be written. The story that has emerged here is at once very different and more troubling than the conventional treatments of the conflict as a simplistic political morality play. Any attempt to deal with so controversial a subject, however, is almost certain to spark controversy itself. For that reason, with the exception of a small collection of private letters, this work is constructed entirely from the published documents and other materials available to the general public, anchoring the narrative in sources the reader can consult to trace the line of my argument on any point with which he or she may disagree. In addition, the work as a whole has been reviewed for technical accuracy by officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, although the department is in no way responsible for the content of this study or the conclusions drawn from it.
Download or read book Fish Springs and Black Rock written by Janice Emily Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish Springs and Black Rock, two long-forgotten settlements in Owens Valley, California, were thriving communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1864 to 1922, more than nine hundred people lived there, earning precarious livings as farmers, ranchers, miners, millwrights, merchants, and lumbermen. This is their story, and it is also the story of how the City of Los Angeles, by purchasing water rights throughout Owens Valley, gradually turned Fish Springs and Black Rock into ghost towns.
Download or read book The Owens Valley Controversy A A Brierly written by Robert Alan Pearce and published by Dageforde Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Los Angeles help or hurt Owens County? The controversy is told through the experiences of the author's grandfather who was there from the very beginning.
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Inyo County California Anno Domini 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatic Summary of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
