Author: George S. TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Colonization on the Little Colorado
Author: George S. TannerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Take Up Your Mission; Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
Author: Charles S. PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Dam that River!
Author: William S. AbruzziPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819191267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is an explicit ecological model through which Abruzzi explains successful Mormon colonization of the Colorado River Basin in northeastern Arizona. His model is an adaptation of the general model developed by plant and animal ecologists to account for the evolution of complex ecological communities. Using a detailed systematic materialist analysis, Abruzzi explains several specific historical developments associated with the settlement process. Contents: Introduction; Colonizing the Little Colorado River Basin; The Evolution of Ecological Communities; The Little Colorado River Basin; Dam Construction; Exploiting Environmental Diversity; External Impacts on the Settlement Process; Conclusion; Maps, Tables and Figures throughout.
Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest
Author: William WalkerPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607320916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Organized by the theme of place and place-making in the Southwest, Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest emphasizes the method and theory for the study of radical changes in religion, settlement patterns, and material culture associated with population migration, colonialism, and climate change during the last 1,000 years. Chapters address place-making in Chaco Canyon, recent trends in landscape archaeology, the formation of identities, landscape boundaries, and the movement associated with these aspects of place-making. They address how interaction of peoples with objects brings landscapes to life. Representing a diverse cross section of Southwestern archaeologists, the authors of this volume push the boundaries of archaeological method and theory, building a strong foundation for future Southwest studies. This book will be of interest to professional and academic archaeologists, as well as students working in the American Southwest.
Generations and Change
Author: Robert M. TaylorPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865541689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This book discusses the history of genealogy in the United States, and tries to not only bring genealogy into the main stream of historical sources, but also demonstrate the serviceability of genealogy to historians.
Case Studies in Human Ecology
Author: Daniel G. BatesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 147579584X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues. The case studies, all taken from the journal Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Jouma~ represent a broad cross-section of contemporary research. It is tempting but inaccurate to sug gest that these represent the "Best of Human Ecology." They were selected from among many outstanding possibilities because they worked well with the organization of the book which, in turn, reflects the way in which courses in human ecology are often organized. This book provides a useful sample of case studies in the application of the perspective of human ecology to a wide variety of problems in dif ferent regions of the world. University courses in human ecology typically begin with basic concepts pertaining to energy flow, feeding relations, ma terial cycles, population dynamics, and ecosystem properties, and then take up illustrative case studies of human-environmental interactions. These are usually discussed either along the lines of distinctive strategies of food pro curement (such as foraging or pastoralism) or as adaptations to specific habitat types or biomes (such as the circumpolar regions or arid lands).
The Feudist
Author: Daniel HermanPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875657559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Reader Views Bronze Award for Historical Fiction Reader Views Western Mountain Regional Award Winner Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Second Place, Western Fiction, 2021 The SPR Book Awards, Finalist 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards, Western Fiction, Finalist 2021 American Book Fest's Best Book Awards, Western Fiction, Finalist 2021 The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War is both a traditional Western—tense, authentic, fast-paced—and an anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest range war in US history, Arizona’s 1880s Pleasant Valley War. The narrator—a small-time rancher named Ben Holcomb who reflects back on his adolescent experiences—begins the story as a stockboy in Globe City, Arizona. Bored with his job, he agrees to become an apprentice cowboy. His journey to his employer’s ranch leads him into a smoldering range war. Over the next year, he rides with a charismatic trickster; a Texas “colonel” and his idealist daughter; a polygamous Mormon elder with a teenaged wife; and a winsome, mixed-race cowboy who is deeply embroiled in the feud. Though Ben tries to stay out of the quarreling, he finds himself embroiled as he stumbles through passionate love, devastating loss, and moral uncertainty. Herman’s attention to historical forces, his spare style, his self-deprecating narrator, and his authentic characters give the novel a verisimilitude that transcends the genre Western and far surpasses Zane Grey’s 1922 romance about the Pleasant Valley War, To the Last Man.
Amazing Arizona!
Author: Boye Lafayette De MentePublisher: Cultural-Insight Books
ISBN: 0914778714
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Arizona is unique among American states, not only in its geography and geology but also in the diversity of its climate, in its indigenous animal and plant life, and in the history of its first inhabitants-communities of Indians whose ancestors arrived on the scene more than 20,000 years ago. Arizona is also the youngest of the contiguous mainland states of America...precisely because of these very same factors. Its climate, geography and Indian tribes were major barriers that prevented the territory from becoming widely populated by the Spanish, Mexicans and early European-Americans, and from being used as a cross-roads by American fur/pelt trappers, gold prospectors and settlers who began pushing west in the mid-1800s. Now, it is exactly these same factors that make Arizona a great place to live as well as a world-famous travel destination. The stories of how Arizona finally became what it is today are as amazing as the lay and the beauty of the land. Great background reading for residents and visitors alike, and an ideal gift.
Shonto
Author: William Yewdale AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A study of 100 Navajo households served by the Shonto Trading Post in the northwest of the Navajo Indian Reservation.
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