Download or read book A Documentary History of the South Park Line Vol I written by Daniel W. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Documentary History of the South Park Line: Vol. I* A Chronology of Alpine Tunnel* The Abandonment of Service through Alpine Tunnel and over Boreas Pass in 1910* The Gunnison District, 1879 to 1910Based on newspaper accounts about, and railroad documents of, The Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad; The Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railroad and The Colorado & Southern Railway.
Download or read book A Documentary History of the South Park Line written by Daniel W. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Park Line's early history is known for a paucity of information and surviving records—there IS data out there, but it is scattered around far and wide. Dan Edwards has been relentlessly hunting down varied sources to painstakingly assemble this chronology of Colorado and Southern Railroad history. This, Dan's second book (in a planned series of seven), is another major step forward into unravelling the history of the South Park line. Focusing on the Leadville and Breckenridge areas, this book also touches on the upper portion of the Clear Creek line above Georgetown and the plan to connect that “high line” to the other “high line” at Montezuma, near Dillon. The present work fills in many gaps, highlights new information, and of course raises new questions. Like his first book, this effort presents events primarily in chronological order as recorded by newspaper reporters, company officials in internal correspondence, and court records and documents. Also, many facts are gleaned from additional sources as found in archives and library records and railroad commissioner reports.The text is sometimes dry, sometimes riveting, but SO MUCH IS HERE!—rate wars; court battles; market crashes; titanic egos; railroad (strategic) and crew (tactical) confrontations; starry-eyed grand plans never realized (like standard gauging, ambitious extensions, and loooong tunnels); brutal mountain winters shutting down the road and isolating towns; avalanches and all-too-often train wrecks; strikes; sabotage; desperados; fires; profound corporate maneuvering both public and private; bankruptcies and reorganizations; and much, much more.And even some comedy—the embarrassing results of George C. Wortman's (of Wortman's Spur) determined search for a mail-order bride, the railroad employees using the Rotary snow plow's blades as a roulette wheel, and other “episodes” that are hilarious and fall firmly into the realm of “you just can't make this stuff up.”Tying names and dates to places and events and clarifying some myths and rumors—while debunking others—brings the mosaic of nebulous South Park history more clearly into focus. Dan occasionally provides background information to many of the reported events that helps to connect the dots.There may be a few “red herrings” thrown in, but these curve balls are few and usually are reported but once. After reading all the history books written in the usual past tense, it is actually entertaining to read an account of the history of the line “as it is unfolding.” I look forward to, and am grateful for, Dan's continuing research into the history of this road. We have been hungry for this information for far too long. Students of South Park history, whether serious or merely curious, will find the results of Dan Edwards' research helpful and enlightening. Bob SchoppePresident, The Denver, South Park & Pacific Historical SocietyFairplay, Colorado
Download or read book Documentary History of Jamestown Island Narrative history written by Martha W. McCartney and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi a Documentary History written by Bradley G. Bond and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom Volume 2 Series 1 The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor The Upper South written by Ira Berlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.
Download or read book A Documentary History of Chelsea written by Mellen Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archives Documentation and Institutions of Social Memory written by Francis Xavier Blouin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the importance of archives as artifacts of culture
Download or read book Lynching and Vigilantism in the United States written by Norton Moses and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-02-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the 1760s, when lynching and vigilantism came into existence in what is now the United States, this bibliography fills a void in the history of American collective violence. It covers over 4,200 works dealing with vigilante movements and lynchings, including books, articles, government documents, and unpublished theses and dissertations. Following a chapter listing general works, the book is arranged into four chronological chapters, a chapter on the frontier West, a chapter on anti-lynching, and chapters on literature and art. The book opens with a chapter devoted to general works. It then includes chapters on the period from the Colonial era to the Civil War, the Civil War through 1881, and the periods from 1882 to 1916 and 1917 to 1996. The work then turns to the frontier West and to anti-lynching bills, laws, organizations, and leaders. Finally, the book includes chapters on vigilantism in literature and art.
Download or read book The History of Orange County New York written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Orange County New York is a work by Russel Headley. It presents the historical happenings of OC while focusing on the development of ideas and institutions and local social and economic conditions.
Download or read book An African Volk written by Jamie Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy. Drawing upon archival research across Southern Africa and beyond, as well as interviews with leaders of the apartheid order, Jamie Miller shows how the white power structure attempted to turn the new political climate to its advantage. Instead of simply resisting decolonization and African nationalism in the name of white supremacy, the regime looked to co-opt and invert the norms of the new global era to promote a fresh ideological basis for its rule. It adapted discourses of nativist identity, African anti-colonialism, economic development, anti-communism, and state sovereignty to rearticulate what it meant to be African. An African Volk details both the global and local repercussions. At the dawn of the 1970s, the apartheid state reached out eagerly to independent Africa in an effort to reject the mantle of colonialism and redefine the white polity as a full part of the post-colonial world. This outreach both reflected and fuelled heated debates within white society, exposing a deeply divided polity in the midst of profound economic, cultural, and social change. Situated at the nexus of African, decolonization, and Cold War history, An African Volk takes readers into the corridors of white power to detail the apartheid regime's campaign to break out of isolation and secure global acceptance.
Download or read book Charlestown Navy Yard written by Stephen P. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up from Slavery an Unfinished Journey written by Archie Morris III D.P.A. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a period of eighty-five years, the M Street / Dunbar High School was an academically elite, all-black public high school in Washington DC. As far back as 1899, its students came in first in citywide tests given in both black and white schools. Over this eighty-five-year span, approximately 80 percent of M Street / Dunbar’s graduates went on to college even though most Americans, white or black, did not attend college at all. Faculty and students were mutually respectful to one another, and disruptions in the classroom were not tolerated. Yet in this era of best practices, this public high school has received virtually no attention in the literature or in policy considerations for inner-city education. The Dunbar High School today, with its new building and athletic facilities, is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards and low test score results despite the District of Columbia’s record of having some of the country’s highest levels of money spent per pupil. The purpose of this study is to explore the history of a high school that was successful in teaching black children from low-income families and to determine if the learning model employed there could be successful in a modern inner-city public education environment.
Download or read book His Majesty s Indian Allies written by Robert S. Allen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Majesty's Indian Allies is a study of British-Indian policy in North America from the time of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, with particular focus on Canada.
Download or read book Anthracite Reds Vol 2 written by Walter Howard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthracite Reds, Vol. 2, is a documentary history of Communists in the Pennsylvania hard coal fields during the Great Depression decade, the "heyday of American Communism." During the 20th century about one million Americans passed through the Communist Party of the United States [CPUSA]. In the first half of the century in the Pennsylvania anthracite, hundreds of men and women, mostly Eastern and Southern European immigrants who lived and worked in the region, also joined the CPUSA. Many books have been written about American communism in diverse regional settings; yet, no author has penned a volume that deals with these American radicals in one of 20th century America's major industrial centers, the anthracite fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. Anthracite Reds serves several purposes. It can be read as a reference work that would be useful to libraries, museums, and researchers. It may also, however, be read as a compelling narrative that tells an interesting story for general readers.
Download or read book A Documentary History of the South Park Line Vol 7 written by Daniel Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book with its companion, Vol. 8, covers the history of the Colorado Central, Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf and Colorado & Southern narrow gauge line from Denver up Clear Creek Canyon to Georgetown and Silver Plume, and Black Hawk and Central City. Excerpts from old newspaper clippings and official railroad reports and memos are the primary sources used. The famous Georgetown Loop was on this line. Also included is a list of stations, side tracks and spurs on the Clear Creek District.
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Dave Dameron and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels, a hardy group of "over-the-mountain men" from Tennessee vowed to defend their families and farms. At Kings Mountain, in northwest South Carolina, this small volunteer contingent of frontiersmen met the British in early October. The American victory there forced the British to retreat and turned the tide in the American Revolution's southern campaign.
Download or read book The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary 1613 1680 written by H. Wolfe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613). Previous criticism focused concentrated on this and The History of Edward II , this volume incorporates critical and historical analyses of other genres too.
