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Book North of the River

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  • Author : J'Nell L. Pate
  • Publisher : TCU Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780875651330
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book North of the River written by J'Nell L. Pate and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848 the York and Gilmore families stopped their covered wagons north of the Trinity River near present-day Fort Worth. A century and a half later, the settlement they founded is North Fort Worth, with a colorful history centered around livestock, tourism, and family life. After the Civil War, life often revolved around massive cattle drives passing through North Fort Worth. Later, stockyards were built and the meat packing industry boomed, attracting thousands of people from around the world - Austria, Greece, Russia, Mexico, and Poland. North Fort Worth is now incorporated within the city of Fort Worth and continues to contribute a unique history and atmosphere essential to one of Texas' most diverse and fascinating cities.

Book People of the River

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  • Author : W. Michael Gear
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2009-12
  • ISBN : 0765364492
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book People of the River written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Gears' previous titles in the First North American series have been national bestsellers. Now, People of the River is finally available in mass-market. This gripping saga tells of the Mound Builders of the Mississippi Valley. In a time of many troubles, a warchief and his people have lost all hope. But hope is revived with a young girl learning to Dream of Power.

Book The People of the River

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  • Author : Oscar de la Torre
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-08-17
  • ISBN : 1469643251
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book The People of the River written by Oscar de la Torre and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship. Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and trade--but it was also a cultural storehouse within which they shaped their stories and records of confrontations with slaveowners and state authorities. After abolition, the black peasants' knowledge of local environments continued to be key to their aspirations, allowing them to maintain relationships with powerful patrons and to participate in the protest cycle that led Getulio Vargas to the presidency of Brazil in 1930. In commonly referring to themselves by such names as "sons of the river," black Amazonians melded their agro-ecological traditions with their emergent identity as political stakeholders.

Book Down the Wild Cape Fear

Download or read book Down the Wild Cape Fear written by Philip Gerard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

Book The River Flows North

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  • Author : Graciela Limón
  • Publisher : Arte Publico Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1558855858
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The River Flows North written by Graciela Limón and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of would-be immigrants follows smuggler Leonardo Cerda in an attempt to cross the desert border between Mexico and the United States. The grueling and desperate trip will mark their lives forever.

Book North River

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  • Author : Pete Hamill
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2007-06-11
  • ISBN : 0316006580
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book North River written by Pete Hamill and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of honor, family, and one man's simple courage that no reader will soon forget. It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can't pay, he treats them anyway. But in his own life, Delaney is emotionally numb, haunted by the slaughters of the Great War. His only daughter has left for Mexico, and his wife Molly vanished months before, leaving him to wonder if she is alive or dead. Then, on a snowy New Year's Day, the doctor returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney's care. Coping with this unexpected arrival, Delaney hires Rose, a tough, decent Sicilian woman with a secret in her past. Slowly, as Rose and the boy begin to care for the good doctor, the numbness in Delaney begins to melt.

Book Down the Wild River North

Download or read book Down the Wild River North written by Constance Helmericks and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In suburban Arizona, 1964, Connie Helmericks announced to her two daughters, 12-year-old Ann and 14-year-old Jean, "We're going to make a canoe expedition to the Arctic Ocean." And for two successive summers, that's exactly what they did. Down the Wild River North is the vividly told story of their adventures in the remote northern reaches of Canada and the Arctic, in a twenty-foot canoe, amidst a wondrous and vast landscape. A wilderness adventure, and a story of family bonds and spiritual renewal.

Book North River Depot

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  • Author : John Garbinski
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2007-02-16
  • ISBN : 1411650697
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book North River Depot written by John Garbinski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of the Nuclear Age. The birth of the Cold War. These events are hauntingly portrayed in North River Depot. An historical novel about the United States First ""Operational"" Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Storage Site. This novel tells the story of the ""Silent Peacekeepers."" Men sworn to secrecy, during the most dangerous period in the History of the United States. North River Depot is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War.This book was originally published in 2005. In 2007 a second edition was published with minor changes. This third and final edition (2011) has been completely revised with the addition of several new photographs.

Book North Fork of the Coeur D Alene River

Download or read book North Fork of the Coeur D Alene River written by Bert Russell and published by Museum of North Idaho Publications. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tape recorded and edited interviews with loggers, railroad men, and others that worked and lived in the area of the North Fork of Coeur d'Alene River and its tributaries in North Idaho from the early 1900s to the mid 1940s.

Book Down Along the Haw

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  • Author : Anne Melyn Cassebaum
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-01-10
  • ISBN : 0786484985
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Down Along the Haw written by Anne Melyn Cassebaum and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina's Haw River has a rich geographic, ecological and cultural history, tracked here from its source to its confluence with the Atlantic Ocean. From grinding mills to algae science, this popular history features interviews with mill owners and workers, archaeologists, environmentalists, farmers, water treatment managers and many others whose lives have been connected to this river. Additionally, it explores life on the river's banks and humans' place in its rich ecology.

Book Blessing in Disguise  Red River of the North Book  6

Download or read book Blessing in Disguise Red River of the North Book 6 written by Lauraine Snelling and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Had Told Him She Was Headed for Blessing. Why Would He Not Take Her There? The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes she will be on the train in the morning. But only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her. Augusta, after discovering her intended bridegroom had married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America helping her mother run her boardinghouse. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. When she arrives at the end of the line, she is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride....

Book A River in Darkness

Download or read book A River in Darkness written by Masaji Ishikawa and published by Amazon Crossing. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

Book The Missouri River

Download or read book The Missouri River written by Leon Gray and published by Gareth Stevens Learning Library. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missouri River takes the prize as the longest river in North America. Starting life in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, the river cuts through the Great Plains before emptying into the Mississippi River. It used to flood so often and wash away so much soil that it was nicknamed "Big Muddy." Once dams had tamed the river's power, the farms and cities along its banks began to benefit from irrigation water and inexpensive electricity. Book jacket.

Book The North River  Scenic Waterway of the South Shore

Download or read book The North River Scenic Waterway of the South Shore written by John Galluzzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one way to see the North River. Its characteristic meandering cuts a twenty-three-mile path through the South Shore to Massachusetts Bay. Flowing through six towns Pembroke, Hanover, Norwell, Scituate, Marshfield and Hanson the river has played a prominent, if not definitive, role in shaping the identity of the region. John Galluzzo, who leads cultural and natural history tours of the river for Mass Audubon's South Shore Sanctuaries, traces this natural landmark's multifaceted history from multiple vantage points as a shipbuilding center, a highway into the interior and facilitator of trade and a protected wildlife sanctuary today.

Book An Untamed Land  Red River of the North Book  1

Download or read book An Untamed Land Red River of the North Book 1 written by Lauraine Snelling and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880. Together with Roald's brother Carl and his family, they will build a good life in a new land that promises untold wealth and vast farmsteads for their children. As they join the throngs of countless immigrants passing through Castle Garden, they soon discover that nothing is as they had envisioned it. Appalled by the horrid stories of fellow immigrants bilked of all their money and forced to live in squalid living conditions, the Bjorklunds continue their long journey by train as far as Grand Forks. From there a covered wagon takes them into Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River. But there was no way for them to foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the indomitable land. The virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will they be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?

Book History of Shipbuilding on North River

Download or read book History of Shipbuilding on North River written by Lloyd Vernon Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North River Bridge Co  Bridge Across Hudson River

Download or read book North River Bridge Co Bridge Across Hudson River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Bridge Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: