Download or read book Taming the Arkansas River written by Sherry Laymon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems of flooding and bank cave-ins had long made the Arkansas River a nuisance to farmers, planters, businessmen, merchants, and others who lived, worked, or owned property in the river valley. For captains who transported passengers and goods on the river, underwater snags, fallen trees, and shallow water levels created minute-to-minute crises. The river's "fits of uncontrollable rage and prolonged spells of stubborn torpidity" generated cross currents and swirling eddies that continually created unseen hazards for boatmen. In 1872, the Arkansas Gazette listed 117 submerged river vessels, most of which sunk after being ripped apart by snags.The federal government had responded sporadically to numerous requests for assistance with river development. After John McClellan became a senator in 1942, he began making progress, however slowly, in getting measures passed to tame the river. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, joined McClellan in the Senate in 1948, and they worked together removing obstacles until the project became finally became a reality in 1971.
Download or read book Arkansas River Compact Entered Into by the States of Colorado and Kansas December 14 1948 written by Arkansas River Commission and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over the River written by Christo and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watering the Valley written by James Earl Sherow and published by Development of Western Resources. This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherow documents the attempts of the inhabitants of the High Plains section of the Arkansas River Valley to bring the river under control, the waves of new problems that followed each new "solution," and the conflict and cooperation the process engendered.
Download or read book To Tame a Rebel written by Georgina Gentry and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentry presents two intertwined tales of Native American warriors on opposite sides of the Civil War who find their loyalties tested and their lives forever altered by rapturous love for two courageous women. Original.
Download or read book Elevations written by Max McCoy and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river’s unique story. Part adventure and part reflection, steeped in the natural and cultural history of the Arkansas Valley, Elevations is McCoy’s account of that journey. Going by kayak when he can—by Jeep, on foot, or by other means when he has to—McCoy takes us with him, navigating the Arkansas River as it reveals its nature and tests his own. Along the way, and when he isn’t battling the current for his overturned kayak; braving a frigid Christmas Eve along the river; or joining the search for a drowning victim, he steps out to explore the world beyond the river’s banks. Here for instance is Camp Amache, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Here is Ludlow, where thirteen women and children died in a standoff between striking coal miners and the militia in 1914. Farther along we find Sand Creek, site of a massacre by US soldiers in 1864, and, uncomfortably close, Garden City, where white supremacists were charged with planning a terror attack on Somali refugees in 2016. Whether traveling back in time, pausing in the present, or looking forward, Elevations captures the Arkansas River in its thrilling moments and placid stretches, in its natural splendor and degradation at human hands. The book shows us the river as a flowing repository of human history and, in the telling of this gifted writer, as a life-changing experience.
Download or read book The Arkansas River Guide s Guide written by Eric Knight and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Tame a Land written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing himself as marshal of Alta, he returns, only to discover that Liza has been kidnapped. Tracking her to Robbers’ Roost, Rye is forced to face the man who taught him all he knows about books, guns, and friendship. Two old friends—one woman: Who will walk away?
Download or read book Arkansas River Ark and Okla written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over the River written by Christo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigation of the Arkansas River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arkansas River Ark and Oklahoma written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arkansas River Corridor written by Arkansas River Development Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Continuing Development Program for the Arkansas River Corridor written by Arkansas River Development Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arkansas River Navigation Project written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkansas River written by Tom Jackson and published by Gareth Stevens Learning Library. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arkansas River flows through the heart of the United States -- from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, through the vast rolling prairies of the Great Plains, and into the Mississippi River. The river flows mainly through fields and ranchland, making agriculture the main industry along its course. These farms are the most productive in the United States. In addition, the cities along the Arkansas River are home to high-technology industries. Book jacket.
Download or read book Arkansas River Ark and Okla Hearings on the Subject of the Improvement of the Arkansas River and Tributaries Arkansas and Oklahoma written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
