Download or read book Florida s Peace River Frontier written by Canter Brown and published by Gainesville : University of Central Florida Press : University Presses of Florida. This book was released on 1991 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace River is a location near Lake Hancock, north of present-day Bartow. Seminole hunting towns on Peace River lay in a five or six mile wide belt of land centered on and running down the river from Lake Hancock to below present-day Fort Meade. Oponay, who also was named Ochacona Tustenatty, was sent into Florida as a representative to the Seminoles on behalf of the Creek chiefs remaining loyal to the United States during the Seminole War. Oponay occupied the land adjacent to Lake Hancock and Saddle Creek. Peter McQueen and his party occupied the area to the south of Bartow. Quite likely their settlement included the remains of Seminole lodges and other facilities located on the west bank near the great ford of the river at Fort Meade. This important strategic position would have allowed the Red Sticks (Indians) to control not only access to the hunting grounds to the south, but communication and the trade with the Cuban fishermen at Charlotte Harbor, as well as the passage of representatives of Spain and England through the harbor.
Download or read book Peace Like a River written by Leif Enger and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.
Download or read book The Peace River Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colorful Historic Pioneers of Peace River written by Muriel Oslie and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor of Peace River written by Eugenie Louise Myles and published by Saskatoon, Sask. : Western Producer Prairie Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Happiness Dwells written by Robin Ridington and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dane-zaa people have lived in BC’s Peace River area for thousands of years. Elders documented the people’s history and worldview in oral narratives and passed them on through storytelling. Language loss, however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the request of the Doig River First Nation, anthropologists Robin and Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. These powerful stories span the full length of history, from the story of creation to the fur trade, from the arrival of missionaries to modern land claim cases. Elders document key events as they explain the very nature of the universe. The Dane-zaa were one of the last nations to experience the effects of colonialism. Where Happiness Dwells not only preserves their traditional knowledge for future generations, it also tells the inspiring story of how they learned to succeed in the modern world.
Download or read book Peace River written by Jaclyn M. Hawkes and published by Spirit Dance Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police didn't understand the danger-but she did. Her father had always been abusive, but now, with a ten million dollar Thoroughbred farm on the line, and a powerful bookie leaning on him, her father had become out of control. But how do you get away and take a world famous stallion with you? Carrie was getting desperate when a handsome and honorable but thoroughly cynical rodeo cowboy from Wyoming happened to show up with a horse trailer. He didn't ride a white horse, but he was definitely a knight in shining armor. He'll protect her from the mob, but can she survive falling in love with a bull rider? Watch for more of the Rockland Ranch Series
Download or read book The Laughing River written by Elizabeth Haze Vega and published by Rayve Productions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two African tribes in conflict are brought together by a melodious, laughing river. Incorporates accurate musical notes which create a song by story's end.
Download or read book The Peace River Country written by Peace River Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaching the Peace written by Sarah Cox and published by On Point Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist Sarah Cox comes the inspiring and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who stood up against the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that propelled it forward. In 2010, the BC government announced its plan to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River. Although Site C would flood land of great significance to First Nations and some of Canada’s best farmland, BC Hydro, Premier Gordon Campbell, and his successor, Christy Clark, insisted it was necessary to generate jobs and clean energy. In this powerful work, Cox reveals the true costs and hidden dangers of the project, as told to her by the local farmers, ranchers, and First Nations leaders who tried to stop the dam and the wholesale destruction of their valley in courts of law and the court of public opinion. This modern-day David-and-Goliath story, told in frank and moving prose, stands as a much-needed cautionary tale during an era when concerns about global warming have helped justify a renaissance of environmentally irresponsible hydro megaprojects around the world.
Download or read book Front Porch Stories written by Ella Kathryn Hendry and published by Tabby House Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace Country Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentially it is the story of one man, William Donald Albright ... who recorded his thoughts and undertaking so meticulously and who filed a comprehensive story of the early settlement of the Peace River region.
Download or read book The Peace River Flows written by Teresa Gonzalez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago, Teresa was encouraged by the Holy Spirit to follow the steps of Jesus. With his guidance, she took a trip through the Gospels, observing the way Jesus taught his disciples. He used his creation to help them understand the things of God and to give them a point of reference that made sense to them. She studied him and hung onto his every word and fashioned herself after him, learning to tell stories by using her experiences to explain biblical truths. She grew up in the heart of the state of Florida, surrounded by cabbage palm trees and cow pastures where the beautiful Peace River flows. Her childhood home was near the edge of that swamp, and she has fond memories of roaming and playing near the river and still loves watching it flow. One of the things she loves about Jesus is the peace he brings when one trusts in him. She is often amazed at the springs of living water that well up from deep within, that spill out onto those who are near. He has given us a special gift, and her goal for this book is to provide you with a daily dose of the things he has taught her so you will, in turn, make use of his gifts and find comfort in the peace he brings. You are invited to experience Jesus through a daily excursion into his Word and begin to see your circumstances the way he sees them. By the time you come to the end of this book, Teresa hopes that you break bonds and leave all of your cares to Jesus by learning to trust in him.
Download or read book So Brave Young and Handsome written by Leif Enger and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An almost perfect novel” of yearning, adventure, and redemption in the dying days of the Old West from the bestselling author of Peace Like a River (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Minnesota, 1915. With success long behind him, writer, husband, and father Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose . . . until he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale. Plagued by guilt over abandoning his wife two decades ago, Hale is heading back West in search of absolution. And he could use some company on the journey. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Becket agrees to travel into Hale’s past, leaving behind his own family for an adventure that will test the depth of his loyalties and morals, and the strength of his resolve. As they flee the relentless former Pinkerton Detective who’s been hunting Hale for years, Becket falls ever further into the life of an outlaw—perhaps to the point of no return. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, So Brave, Young, and Handsome examines one ordinary man’s determination to risk everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, in “an old-fashioned, swashbuckling, heroic Western . . . [An] adventure of the heart and mind (The Washington Post Book World).
Download or read book At Home in the Woods written by Bradford Angier and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature. Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today. This is the account of two wilderness-loving tenderfeet, who headed for the tall timber on the banks of the Peace River, British Columbia. There near the trading post of Hudson Hope they found their Walden. How they made themselves ‘At Home in the Woods,’ stocked their cabin, met their interesting wilderness neighbors who helped them get settled and who saw them through their first winter makes honest and exciting reading. The city-bred Angiers found out that Thoreau was right when he wrote: “What people say you can not do, you try and find you can.”
Download or read book Lookout written by Trina Moyles and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
Download or read book Peace River Country Illustrated written by Ralph Allen and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peace River Country' is the story of a mother and her two young children, who leave town on a train one day to escape her alcoholic husband. They are intent on travelling as far as Peace River, but they don't have enough money for the train fare. Instead, they befriend the train conductor in Elevator, Saskatchewan, and end up renting a floor at his house. Bea, Harold, and Kally, try to make the best of their new life, immersing themselves in schoolwork and her laundry business, and playing with the local children. The story follows not just the Sonderns as they live out their new lives in Elevator, but also Chris Sondern, as he struggles with the loss of his family, alcoholism, and the poor job market in Dobie, Saskatchewan. The story also chronicles the lives of the Chatsworth family, who had rented out their flat to the Sonderns, and what became of them after the Sondern family moved on.
