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Book Hidden History of Elko County

Download or read book Hidden History of Elko County written by Claudia Wines and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elko County in Nevada's remote northeastern corner has long attracted independent, spirited individuals determined to carve out lives of their own. Born to former slaves, Henry Harris worked his way from John Sparks's house hand to one of the most respected buckaroos in the region. Pete Itcaina, the unlikely millionaire, once bought a local bar on the spot just to fire the bartender, who mistook Itcaina for a bum and refused to serve him. The beautiful cattle rustler Susie Raper charmed her way out of numerous arrests and trials, despite her trail of dead husbands. Local author Claudia Wines excavates sagas buried in the dust and probes conventional wisdom surrounding local legend.

Book Hidden History of Elko County

Download or read book Hidden History of Elko County written by Claudia Wines and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elko County in Nevada's remote northeastern corner has long attracted independent, spirited individuals determined to carve out lives of their own. Born to former slaves, Henry Harris worked his way from John Sparks's house hand to one of the most respected buckaroos in the region. Pete Itcaina, the unlikely millionaire, once bought a local bar on the spot just to fire the bartender, who mistook Itcaina for a bum and refused to serve him. The beautiful cattle rustler Susie Raper charmed her way out of numerous arrests and trials, despite her trail of dead husbands. Local author Claudia Wines excavates sagas buried in the dust and probes conventional wisdom surrounding local legend.

Book Hot Iron History of Elko County

Download or read book Hot Iron History of Elko County written by Velma Stevens Truett and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Elko

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elko Daily Free Press
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-04-06
  • ISBN : 9781540343499
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book City of Elko written by Elko Daily Free Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who helped make Elko what it is today. A look back at the first 100 years of Elko, Nevada.

Book Echoes from the Past  A History of Elko  Georgia

Download or read book Echoes from the Past A History of Elko Georgia written by Wayne Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Woolly West

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  • Author : Andrew Gulliford
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-13
  • ISBN : 1623496535
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book The Woolly West written by Andrew Gulliford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History Category, sponsored by Colorado Center for the Book In The Woolly West, historian Andrew Gulliford describes the sheep industry’s place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history—and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive. With vivid, elegant, and reflective prose, Gulliford explores the origins of sheep grazing in the region, the often-violent conflicts between the sheep and cattle industries, the creation of national forests, and ultimately the segmenting of grazing allotments with the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Deeper into the twentieth century, Gulliford grapples with the challenges of ecological change and the politics of immigrant labor. And in the present day, as the public lands of the West are increasingly used for recreation, conflicts between hikers and dogs guarding flocks are again putting the sheep industry on the defensive. Between each chapter, Gulliford weaves an account of his personal interaction with what he calls the “sheepscape”—that is, the sheepherders’ landscape itself. Here he visits with Peruvian immigrant herders and Mormon families who have grazed sheep for generations, explores delicately balanced stone cairns assembled by shepherds now long gone, and ponders the meaning of arborglyphs carved into unending aspen forests. The Woolly West is the first book in decades devoted to the sheep industry and breaks new ground in the history of the Colorado Basque, Greek, and Hispano shepherding families whose ranching legacies continue to the present day.

Book Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

Download or read book Nevada Historical Society Quarterly written by Nevada Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese American Death Rituals

Download or read book Chinese American Death Rituals written by Sue Fawn Chung and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have looked to individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment for this resolution. This volume expertly describes and analyzes cultural retention and transformation in the after-death rituals of Chinese American communities."--Jacket.

Book Hidden History of Lake County  Ohio

Download or read book Hidden History of Lake County Ohio written by Jennifer Boresz Engelking and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking natural beauty draws many visitors to Lake County, but the area also has a rich and captivating history. Willoughbeach Amusement Park arose where one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history occurred years before. Secret passageways and tunnels helped slaves escape to freedom. Native son and Tuskegee Airman Earl R. Lane earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. Marge Hurlburt, a service pilot during World War II, set an international women's flight speed record, and Amy Kaukonen, one of the nation's first female mayors, personally raided suspected bootleggers during Prohibition. Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking uncovers the history behind some of Lake County's most well-known people and landmarks and reveals stories lost to time.

Book Connecting The West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shawn Hall
  • Publisher : University of Nevada Press
  • Release : 2002-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780874174991
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Connecting The West written by Shawn Hall and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn Hall's immensely popular guidebooks to Nevada ghost towns have become essential resources for backcountry explorers and scholars alike. Now Hall returns to Elko County to survey the county's railroad and stage stations, as well as other sites not included in his earlier survey of this colorful section of the state. As in his earlier volumes, Hall includes a history of each site he lists, along with period and contemporary photographs, directions for locating the sites, and an assessment of their present condition. His historical accounts, based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, are both scholarly and engaging, rich in anecdotes and personalities, and in the fascinating minutia of history often ignored by more academic writers. Shawn Hall's dedication to documenting Nevada's thousands of historic sites has enriched our knowledge of the state's relatively brief but very eventful past. Connecting the West is a worthy addition to Hall's remarkable efforts to preserve the state's history.

Book Elko County and Its Vast Mineral Wealth

Download or read book Elko County and Its Vast Mineral Wealth written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social economic Profile Covering Elko County

Download or read book Social economic Profile Covering Elko County written by Ron Fellows and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People in History  A M

Download or read book People in History A M written by Susan K. Kinnell and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio. This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hackamore Reinsman

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  • Author : Edgar N. Connell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780964838505
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book Hackamore Reinsman written by Edgar N. Connell and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HACKAMORE REINSMAN by ED CONNELL, first published in 1952, is a hands-on manual of instruction that describes in detail the use of the hackamore and snaffle bit. He takes green horse and trainer from the first bosal and ground-pulling to the point that the horse will slide and whirl on the hackamore. Ed's method is pure "Californio" having descended from the Moors and then the Spaniards who brought this training to the New World, developing the hair-trigger reined horses found in California. It is the Spanish method of breaking and training a horse before it is ever bitted. The focus is on making a finished hackamore horse with an untouched mouth. It emphasizes the art of reinsmanship as practiced, developed and perfected by the Old Californios and remains the bible of all books on hackamore training. Connell's 2nd book, REINSMAN OF THE WEST -- BRIDLES & BITS, gives the WHY and HOW of making a spade bit horse out of the hackamore horse, using the methods of the Old California Vaqueros. It explains how to choose the right bit and how to use that bit to get the most from your horse. Website: www.hackamore-reinsman.com.

Book It s about Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Edward Nash
  • Publisher : Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780874806212
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book It s about Time written by Stephen Edward Nash and published by Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists with expertise in stratigraphy, ceramic dating, obsidian hydration, and luminescence dating present historical and nontechnical reviews of the growth, development, and application of their techniques.

Book Index to History of Nevada  Thompson   West

Download or read book Index to History of Nevada Thompson West written by Helen J. Poulton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Download or read book Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: