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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Placer Parkway Corridor Preservation from State Route 70/99 to State Route 65, Sutter and Placer Counties
Author: Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2224
Book Description
Population History of Western U.S. Cities and Towns, 1850-1990
Author: Riley Moore MoffatPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Geographically, this volume covers the United States from Texas to North Dakota, and west of there. The US Bureau of the Census began counting people in 1850 as the West came into US possession and settlers began moving in. This compilation includes the Census' decennial population figures (1860-1990) for all incorporated cities and towns, as well as state, territorial, and special censuses, where available. Population estimates for many communities that never incorporated, or waited many years to incorporate, are also included here when available. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Development of Water Resources in Appalachia
Author: United States. Office of Appalachian StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Oconee River, Curry Creek Reservoir Construction, Athens
Author: Development of Water Resources in Appalachia: Project analyses
Author: United States. Office of Appalachian StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Gold Beach and South Curry County
Author: Meryl BoicePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738596159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Curry County is made up of small communities, ranging from the county line between Langlois and Bandon to the state line. From the inception of Gold Beach, pioneers have survived in small communities scattered throughout Southern Curry County. Despite a lack of roads, these small towns and hamlets, from Humbug Mountain on down, have sprung up over the years, enduring with the help of neighbors and through the gift of self-sufficiency. Some of the former names of this area before Gold Beach included Elizabeth Town, Sebastopol, Hog Town or Logtown, and Whalesburg. Today, the small communities include Arizona Beach, Euchre Creek, Ophir, Cedar Valley, Nesika Beach, Wedderburn, Jerry's Flat, Hunter's Creek, Pistol River, Carpenterville, Whaleshead, Brookings, and Harbor. Though a small area, the people of the county are happy to say that they live where everyone knows his or her neighbors.
Murder Town, USA
Author: Yasser Arafat PaynePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197881738X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods. Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal responsibility or individual accountability. And even if acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens, and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality.
Little Towns of Texas
Author: Kathleen E. St. ClairPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Histories of little towns in Texas. Information about them in the area, the townspeople, how they got to be named " " and just lots of interesting information.
Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors
Author: Thomas O. McDonaldPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080616994X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812–1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcée, Sarah Medissa Day (1822–1856). The lives of these two Texas pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah’s family’s journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the pair’s respective paths to their meeting, then follows as, together, they contend with conflict, troublesome social mores, the emergence of new industries, and the taming of the land, along the way helping to shape the Texas culture we know today. With a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material at his command, author Thomas O. McDonald tells a story as crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a canvas on which the history of Texas—from revolution, frontier defense, and Indian wars to Anglo settlement and emerging legal and social systems—dramatically, inexorably unfolds.