Download or read book Wires in the Wilderness written by Bill Miller and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. The Yukon Telegraph started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Bill Miller takes readers from the line's conception in 1899 to its abandonment in 1952 through to its status today and its potential for future generations, focusing on the colourful people who lived and worked in the area. His account, enhanced by extensive research and engaging storytelling, reveals a fascinating fragment of Canada's rich history.
Download or read book Wires in the Wilderness written by John Irwin White and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wires Wireless and Wilderness written by Morgan R. Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In operation between 1900 and 1936, the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) was the first electronic communication system to join Alaska to the continental United States. This dissertation examines the history and archaeology of the WAMCATS from a sociotechnical perspective. It examines the ways the WAMCATS adapted to operate in Alaska; how the System was affected by technological development; the experience of soldiers who built and operated the System; the System's impact on the development of Alaska; and the effect Alaskan development had on the System.
Download or read book Evasive Wilderness Survival Techniques written by Sam Fury and published by SF Nonfiction Books. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach Yourself Evasive Wilderness Survival! Learn everything you need to survive in the wild while escaping your enemy. From stealth movement to covert shelters to finding food and water while on the run, and everything in between. Evasive survival is the hardest type of wilderness survival there is, and the best type to learn. Discover all the evasive survival skills you need, because if you can survive under these circumstances, you can survive anything. Get it now. Your Ultimate Wilderness Survival Book Inside this wilderness survival handbook you will learn how to: * Make improvised knives and other tools. * Evade trackers. * Build evasive wilderness survival shelters. * Navigate with or without a map and compass. * Move safely through various terrains. * Predict the weather and use it to your advantage. * Find water and wilderness survival foods while leaving as little trace as possible. * Build covert fires with or without matches. * Attract rescue without giving away your position to your enemy. ... and many more wilderness survival tips. Limited Time Only… Get your copy of Evasive Wilderness Survival Techniques today and you will also receive: * Free SF Nonfiction Books new releases * Exclusive discount offers * Downloadable sample chapters * Bonus content … and more! Teach yourself evasive survival, because surviving in the wild is harder when your enemy is chasing you. Get it now.
Download or read book The Sky the Stars the Wilderness written by Rick Bass and published by HMH. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Two appealing short stories and an exquisite novella” about the relationship between humans and the natural world around them (Kirkus Reviews). This is a “wondrous” (GQ) collection of short fiction exploring the subtle interplay between predator and prey, from “a literary titan” (The New York Times Book Review). In the title story, a woman has returned to live on the west Texas ranch that has been in her family since Texas was a republic. Her mother, who died when she was a child, is buried there; the three men who raised her—her father, grandfather, and Old Chubb, a Mexican ranch hand—are gone; and her brother, like herself, is childless. Soon, all that will be left of the family is the land: “I suppose the land is all we will leave behind,” she reflects. “In that way it is both our parents and our children.” Land is central to the other tales here as well. In The Myths of Bears, a man tracks his wife through a winter wilderness as she both lures and eludes him. And in Where the Sea Used to Be, an ancient ocean buried in the foothills of the Appalachians becomes a battleground for a young wildcat oilman and his aging mentor. “Rick Bass is a force of nature. [This book] is a force of language. As a reader, a third thing comes to mind: gratitude for a good story that allows us to ponder what is above and what is below.” —Terry Tempest Williams “What’s exhilarating about Rick Bass’s stories is that they show every hallmark of ‘the natural’—that lucid, free-flowing, particularly American talent whose voice we can hear in Twain, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.” —Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Safety Related Recall Campaigns for Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Equipment Including Tires written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness written by Corry McDonald and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing awareness of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s, along with the enactment of the Wilderness Act, precipitated local, regional, and national joint actions of the many outdoor recreation organizations. Wilderness enactments resulted from some of the more successful citizen attempts. The onrush of man's capability to "tame the wilderness" continues to accelerate with the population growth and the need for some restraints has become increasingly evident. This book shows what happened in a magical part of the American Southwest. "Wisconsin Bookwatch" reported: "...an informative history of the conflicting forces striving to determine the fate of New Mexico's wild lands-on one hand, the press of population growth and the desire to 'tame the wilderness'; and on the other, the efforts of environmental movements and outdoor recreation groups to preserve the wilderness and its heritage. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this thoughtful and moving account which is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to Environmental Studies reference collections and reading lists." * * * * * Corry McDonald was employed for over thirty years by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was during this time that he developed an interest in the wilderness areas of that state. McDonald took copious notes on every back country trip he made. Those notes have become the basis for this book. In it he reluctantly tells about some of his secret places in the hope that it will reduce some of the overuse of the wildernesses that are so well known. He is also the author of "The Dilemma of Wilderness" from Sunstone Press.
Download or read book THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST Ultimate Western Collection 175 Novels Short Stories in One Volume written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 15296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection of world's most admired westerns will take you on a roller coaster ride through the plains of Wild West, the old trails, gold rush adventures, frontier sagas and more! Introduction The Last American Frontier – History of the 'Far West', of the Pioneers & Trailblazers Story of the Cowboy Story of the Outlaw Novels & Stories Riders of the Purple Sage Saga (Zane Grey) Ohio River Trilogy Dan Barry Series (Max Brand) The Virginian (Owen Wister) Lin McLean Leatherstocking Series (James F. Cooper) Flying U Series (B. M. Bower) Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) Bucky O'Connor (William M. Raine) Breckinridge Elkins Series (Robert E. Howard) In a Hollow of the Hills (Bret Harte) Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) Gold Hunters Last of the Plainsmen Border Legion Smoke Bellew Country Beyond Lone Star Ranger Ronicky Doone Trilogy Riders of the Silences Three Partners Man of the Forest Lure of the Dim Trails Tennessee's Partner Covered Wagon (Emerson Hough) Luck of Roaring Camp Rustlers of Pecos County Pike Bearfield Series Hopalong Cassidy (Clarence E. Mulford) O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) My Ántonia Roughing It (Mark Twain) Outcasts of Poker Flat Call of the Wild (Jack London) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams) Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Astoria (Washington Irving) Ungava (R.M. Ballantyne) Valley of Silent Men Black Jack Bull Hunter "Drag" Harlan (Charles Alden Seltzer) Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West Sheriff's Son Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) Boss of the Lazy Y Trail Horde Rider of Golden Bar (William P. White) Buck Peters, Ranchman Tangled Trail Golden Dream (Ballantyne) Gun-Brand (James B. Hendryx) Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane) Long Shadow Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers) Where the Trail Divides Iron Trail (Rex Beach) Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge) Bride Comes to Yellow Sky ...
Download or read book BLM Intensive Wilderness Inventory written by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Utah State Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilderness Razor Wire written by Ken Lamberton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary written by J.K. Petersen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few short years, fiber optics has skyrocketed from an interesting laboratory experiment to a billion-dollar industry. But with such meteoric growth and recent, exciting advances, even references published less than five years ago are already out of date. The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context. Fiber optics is a vibrant field, not just in terms of its growth and increasing sophistication, but also in terms of the people, places, and details that make up this challenging and rewarding industry. In addition to furnishing an authoritative, up-to-date resource for relevant industry definitions, this dictionary introduces many exciting recent applications as well as hinting at emerging future technologies.
Download or read book The Westerners Brand Book written by Westerners. Chicago Corral and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MaryJane s Outpost written by MaryJane Butters and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third book, Butters presents a practical yet whimsical primer to outdoor pursuits, from digging up a tree swing to foraging for wild edibles and backpacking with kids. Full-color photographs throughout.
Download or read book Wilderness Science in a Time of Change Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Montana Wilderness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Power Lined written by Daniel L. Wuebben and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of electric communication and power networks have drawn wires through American landscapes like vines through untended gardens since 1844. But these wire networks are more than merely the tools and infrastructure required to send electric messages and power between distinct places; the iconic lines themselves send powerful messages. The wiry webs above our heads and the towers rhythmically striding along the horizon symbolize the ambiguous effects of widespread industrialization and the shifting values of electricity and landscape in the American mind. In Power-Lined Daniel L. Wuebben weaves together personal narrative, historical research, cultural analysis, and social science to provide a sweeping investigation of the varied influence of overhead wires on the American landscape and the American mind. Wuebben shows that overhead wires—from Morse’s telegraph to our high-voltage grid—not only carry electricity between American places but also create electrified spaces that signify and complicate notions of technology, nature, progress, and, most recently, renewable energy infrastructure. Power-Lined exposes the subtle influences wrought by the wiring of the nation and shows that, even in this age of wireless devices, perceptions of overhead lines may be key in progressing toward a more sustainable energy future.
