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Category : Idaho
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Idaho Yesterdays
Author: Idaho State Parks
Author: Rick JustPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660557
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Idaho's state parks have been called the "jewels" of the Gem State. The story of how those jewels came to be involves political intrigue, much resistance, some philanthropy, and a touch of irony. Sen. Weldon B. Heyburn famously said that state parks were "always a political embarrassment." Idaho's first state park was named after him. Today, Idaho's 30 state parks host five million people a year. Visitors come to boat, camp, bike, climb, hike, fish, and make memories in the great outdoors. This book tells the story of Idaho's diverse state parks--from Priest Lake in Idaho's panhandle to Bear Lake in the southeast corner of the state--through a wealth of historical photographs. A variety of parks are featured, including ones that were lost, found, or never came to fruition.
Yesterday Today
Author: Catherine S. BarkerPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineers—through the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and others—was a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century. Disillusioned with the modernity they felt had contributed to the Great Depression, middle-class Americans admired the Ozarkers’ apparently simple way of life, which they saw as an alternative to an increasingly urban and industrial America. Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks sought to illuminate another side of these “remnants of eighteenth-century life and culture”: poverty and despair. Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the Ozarks in the 1930s, Barker described the mountaineers as “lovable and pathetic and needy and self-satisfied and valiant,” declaring that the virtuous and independent people of the hills deserved a better way and a more abundant life. Barker was also convinced that there were just as many contemptible facets of life in the Ozarks that needed to be replaced as there were virtues that needed to be preserved. This reprinting of Yesterday Today—edited and introduced by historian J. Blake Perkins—situates this account among the Great Depression-era chronicles of the Ozarks.
Idaho History
Author: Gary DomitzHearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
The Gate of Ivory
Author: Lewis E. BirdseyePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499054572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
GATE OF IVORY is a novel part one of a two volume series, the second work called GATE OF HORN that could easily appear in tomorrows New York Times as a front-page news story. It deals with events we read about every day and watch talking heads spout plumes of verbiage nightly concerning the losing battle current governments all over the world are fighting against the pernicious appeal of dangerous and illicit drugs and the pervasive presence and growing power of demagogic right-wing idealogues who mask their plans for complete control of business and government and the citizenry with New Speak rhetoric about freedom and liberty. It presents the reader as well with a small group of people who are unwittingly and unwillingly brought face to face with these potentially catastrophic situations and made to realize that their actions alone may be all that can return the world to sanity and at least a measure of safety. For the characters in the novels theirs is an epic struggle, the means at their disposal no more than intelligence, courage, and the realization that they have no choice but to act, and act well. Their task is clearly beyond their ability. But they act nevertheless and in their actions tell the reader a little about life lived with value and excellence at its center.
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Daily Digest
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information. PRESS SERVICEPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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