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Book Mississippi Valley Magazine

Download or read book Mississippi Valley Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mississippi Valley Magazine

Download or read book Mississippi Valley Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association

Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association written by Mississippi Valley Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1922-1923 and 1923-1924 includes Directory of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.

Book Lansing to LeClaire Travel Guide

Download or read book Lansing to LeClaire Travel Guide written by Dean Klinkenberg and published by Dean Klinkenberg. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,

Book Western Magazine

Download or read book Western Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History Teacher s Magazine

Download or read book History Teacher s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mississippi Valley Lumberman

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pan American Magazine

Download or read book Pan American Magazine written by William W. Rasor and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some numbers include a "Sección española."

Book Twelve Millennia

    Book Details:
  • Author : James L Theler
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2005-04
  • ISBN : 1587294397
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Twelve Millennia written by James L Theler and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Theler and Robert Boszhardt provide an overview of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley - roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul. The book concludes with useful catalogs of the animal remains and rock art found in the valley as well as a list of archaeological sites and museums to visit."--BOOK JACKET.

Book N  W  Ayer   Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory

Download or read book N W Ayer Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mississippi Solo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eddy Harris
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1998-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780805059038
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Mississippi Solo written by Eddy Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Book Tennessee Historical Magazine

Download or read book Tennessee Historical Magazine written by John Hibbert De Witt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Control of Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : John McPhee
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2011-04-01
  • ISBN : 0374708495
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Book N W  Ayer   Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory

Download or read book N W Ayer Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: