Download or read book Frontiertown written by Myron Joel Aronoff and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frontier Town Abandoned Theme Park Then and Now written by Jennifer Renee ST.Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Town Abandoned Theme Park Then and Now is a coffee table style book that documents the conception, life, and closing of the beloved Adirondack Mountain's historically based theme park called "Frontier Town." With America being romanced by Western movies on the big screen and television, the country was ready for a western themed amusement park. Arthur Bensen, Edward Ovensen and Magnus Anderson, three Long Island Norwegian-American friends came together to open America's first western themed amusement park located in North Hudson, NY yet it was set to the traditions of the 1800's old west while offering local trade crafts and wares. The first year it drew over 40,000 visitors with little advertising. Over the next 45 years the park continued to host millions of visitors, and averaged over 300 employees and volunteers per season. The park included a collection of genuine log buildings which formed a traditional frontier town, a professional rodeo arena, a historical industrial section that included a grist mill, saw mill, forge, and ice house. It also included a traditional Native American village, animals, stage coach rides, and a fort with a full cavalry. This book documents the history of Frontier Town through professional photography as well as visitor's snapshots that are combined with historical storytelling that give the reader a feel of what Frontier Town was all about! Tammy Whitty-Brown's gift of gab and historical connections combined with her storytelling abilities and Jennifer Renee ST.Pierre's equestrian background and photography are showcased with their love of Adirondack history

Download or read book Cut and Assemble a Western Frontier Town written by Edmund Vincent Gillon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978-08-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreate the stirring days of the Old West with this authentically detailed replica of a 19th-century western town. The architectural details (false fronts, overhanging balconies, wooden ornamentation, etc.) are all charactersistic of western wood-frame buildings circa 1860-1880. A few of the models are in fact accurate copies of specific documented structures.

Download or read book JUNIPER S DAUGHTER FRONTIER TOWN written by Nick Armbrister and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel following up Juniper's Daughter The Final War by Nick Armbrister. In a world full of violent gangsters, secret intelligence operatives, a shady witch called Juniper's Daughter, dark Goths and many other erotic characters, all are set for a showdown with the much vaunted English Army who is intent on invading and wiping them all out. The war rages on and the struggle continues in a world where poodle dogs have laser beam eyes and machine guns fire nuclear bullets. Science fiction meets the near future in this raunchy tough story of madness and dark humour. Set in a ficticious town called Renford in a war ravaged land, this story is an intimate look at one version of the future. Will people be nice to one another or will the Devil and death sweep the land?

Download or read book Evangelicals in a Frontier Town Tucson 1859 1918 written by William A. Foltz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book From Frontier Town to Metropolis written by Jane M. Rausch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogot , the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years--even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments in Bogot regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of Promise," underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century, it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the principal urban center of the Llanos despite the continual presence of militant guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. This book examines the developments that transformed Villavicencio, drawing on data collected about the Colombian Llanos over a period of forty years. Noted researcher Jane M. Rausch offers a detailed treatment of the development of Villavicencio and the Department of Meta as a microcosm of Colombia's eastern frontier. The book incorporates a wealth of research published in Spanish by Colombian scholars in the last twenty years and is the first history of Villavicencio available to English-speaking scholars. It considers the important topics of when a frontier is no longer a frontier and the role played by frontier images in contemporary nationalism.

Download or read book A Frontier Town and Other Essays written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Frontier town written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daggett written by Dix Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twenty-two-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with barrooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives, and shootouts at the Bucket of Blood saloon. Dix, who was a ranch boy with no formal education but whose father and uncle were successful writers, became the town's unofficial historian. Edited and introduced by award-winning poet and nature writer Peter Wild, this is Dix Van Dyke's account of how the twentieth century arrived in a California frontier town. Located a hundred miles outside Los Angeles and just east of Barstow, in the Mojave Desert, Daggett attracted a rich assortment of settlers lured by the wealth of nearby silver mines or the promise of cheap farmland conjured up by dubious irrigation schemes. With wit, humor, and a writer's eye for telling details, Dix describes the delicate beauty of the desert and the human hopes that often ended in folly there. Dix also reveals the Van Dyke ranch as an unlikely crossroads for intellectuals, some of them famous. Conservationist John Muir's visits included one memorable argument with Dix's Uncle John. Muir admirers may be surprised at the tangle of family relationships begun when Muir's daughter Helen married Daggett resident Buel Funk - a story never told in print before.

Download or read book Lancaster Ohio 1800 2000 written by David R. Contosta and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000, David R. Contosta tells the story of one American town as it has evolved over a two hundred-year period. Contosta has found that Lancaster was never the sort of idyllic community that writers once imagined for small towns; nor was it the social and cultural wasteland that social critics portrayed during most of the twentieth century. In explaining why Lancaster has remained a small but relatively successful community for some twenty decades, Contosta looks at various factors, including location, natural resources, technology, transportation systems, local leaders, historic preservation, awareness of local history, and national as well as international events. As the twenty-first century begins, the widespread use of the automobile, advances in technology, and Lancaster's proximity to the state capital, Columbus, are transforming the community into something new -- part town, part city, and part suburb - -a phenomenon that is emerging in hundreds of older communities throughout the United States. Contosta's history of the development of one small town, and the over one hundred illustrations enhancing the text, offer a microcosm of the profound changes in American life over two centuries.

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Download or read book Bill Is No Bully written by Cindy Hedeman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill is a bull born on a bucking bull ranch in Texas. He does not fit in and is the victim of bullying. See how Bill deals with the "Bullies".

Download or read book Wildest of the Wild West written by Howard Bryan and published by Clear Light Pub. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's western frontier. In Wildest of the Wild West, popular Western historian Howard Bryan provides a spirited account of the violent, melodramatic, and often bizarre events that centred in and around this small Hispanic farm and ranching community from 1835 to 1915.

Download or read book Frontier Seaport written by Catherine Cangany and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit’s industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today’s troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit’s history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit functioned much like a coastal town as a result of the prosperous fur trade, serving as a critical link in a commercial chain that stretched all the way to Russia and China—thus opening Detroit’s shores for eastern merchants and other transplants. This influx of newcomers brought its own transatlantic networks and fed residents’ desires for popular culture and manufactured merchandise. Detroit began to be both a frontier town and seaport city—a mixed identity, Cangany argues, that hindered it from becoming a thoroughly “American” metropolis.

Download or read book The Changing Middle Eastern City written by Helen Anne B. Rivlin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Frontier Town written by Estate of Deneys Reitz and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of Schoemansdal or Zoutpansbergdorp the forgotten Boer Town that flourished in Northern Transvaal before Pretoria (Tshwane) existed. In memory off all the animals that were killed for gain and all the gin bottles that was broken in vain. Preface. This publication deals with another of those forgotten stories of the Transvaal. Schoemansdal, or Zoutpansbergdorp, existed between 1848 and 1867 as a base for one of the largest game hunts of the 19th Century in Africa. This being before the modern Pretoria (Tshwane) existed. It touches on the entrance into the Transvaal by the Voortrekkers, the issues of land occupation, the internal struggle of the Pioneers, settlement on farms and in towns, the actual case of Schoemansdal/Zoutpansbergdorp. It then deals with its demise and again with its emergence from obscurity through the Schoemansdal Museum project between 1984 and 2007, and now from support from Die Erfenisstigting in 2016. The author became involved with the Schoemansdal project in December 1984. This was owing to support that was given by the South African Military Services to the project undertaken by the then Transvaal Library and Museum Services. A number of archaeologists, including the author, were drafted to assist the fledgling museum through the provision of their experience and expertise. In June 1986, the author joined the Schoemansdal Museum personnel officially, as a technical assistant, both for assistance with the archaeological excavations, as well as for the technical aspects in developing of the museum and its infrastructure. In 1993 he left the museum services to work on the Thulamela site in the Kruger Park. In the nine years that the author was part of the work and research on the site, a lot of information was accumulated. Unfortunately, owing mainly to a high turnover in museum personnel, very little was published apart from what regularly appeared in the press. This then led to only bits and pieces being published in academic format on the research done at Schoemansdal Museum before 1993. Therefore in that year the author compiled a report, written in Afrikaans, of most of the research done at Schoemansdal between 1984 and 1993. During the years 2012 and 2016 this report, Lost Dreams of Ivory, grew to five volumes covering 800 pages and over a thousand drawings maps, and photographic images. Now in 2016 it is possible to revisit the Schoemansdal Experiment in greater clarity. The scientific character of the Lost Dreams of Ivory report was adapted and pruned to the bone, so as to avail the exiting story of Schoemansdal to a broader audience. Finally the author wishes to thank all the many people that was part of the project, either officially or those on the periphery that assisted in numerous ways to bring alive the forgotten story of Schoemansdal.