Author: Shari BeckerPublisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580890474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
After preparing to be an outdoorsman, Maxwell sets out to climb the mountain in the park.
Maxwell's Mountain
Author: Shari BeckerPublisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580890474
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
After preparing to be an outdoorsman, Maxwell sets out to climb the mountain in the park.
Maxwell Moose's Mountain Monster
Author: Barbara DeRubertisPublisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781575653341
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Maxwell Moose loves camping out and making s'mores and telling spooky stories. But what if Maxwell's imaginary Mountain Monster stories aren't as imaginary as he thought? Alphabet Letter Sounds/Letter M
Prologue
Author: Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist
Author: Maxine BensonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
?See, there she is!? cried one visitor to the Centennial Exposition. ?Just think! She killed all them animals,? echoed another. ?There, that?s her!? All during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1876, throngs of people pushed and shoved their way into the Kansas-Colorado Building, eager to catch a glimpse of the small, dark-haired woman responsible for creating the extraordinary display of bears, deer, and other mammals cavorting over a Rocky Mountain landscape. Curious, skeptical, friendly?on and on they came, until the policemen stationed at the doors were hard-pressed to maintain control. The fairgoers were intent on seeing for themselves the ?modern Diana? who had come all the way from the wilds of Colorado. Maxine Benson?s finely crafted biography of Martha Maxwell illuminates the little-known but important career of a remarkable woman. Naturalist, taxidermist, museologist, artist?Maxwell pioneered in a number of fields new for women. Born in Pennsylvania in 1831 and educated in the Midwest, she traveled to the gold fields of Colorado with her husband in 1860. A chance encounter with a German taxidermist determined her lifework, and Maxwell soon devoted her boundless energy to hunting and mounting all forms of Rocky Mountain wildlife, which she displayed in unusual habitat settings in her museum in Boulder and later in Denver. Her spreading fame led to an invitation to exhibit her collection at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where she achieved international renown. As Maxwell?s major scientific and artistic contributions to natural history taxidermy and display were recognized, her influence carried to the Smithsonian Institution. Separated from her husband and alienated from her daughter, however, she became increasingly unhappy as her professional accomplishments grew. Her tragic and lonely death in 1881 revealed something of the price she paid for daring to be different. Like that of other accomplished women of her era, Maxwell?s fame did not keep pace with the significant influence she had on her profession. Thanks to Maxine Benson, Martha Maxwell now takes her rightful place in the history of the West and of the nation.
Maxwell Moose's Mountain Monster
Author: Barbara deRubertisPublisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684440556
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Maxwell Moose loves camping out and making s’mores and telling spooky stories. But what if Maxwell’s imaginary Mountain Monster stories aren’t as imaginary as he thought?
The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize
Author: Never Seen the Moon
Author: Sharon HatfieldPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252030031
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Never Seen the Moon carefully yet lucidly recreates a young woman's wild ride through the American legal system. In 1935, free-spirited young teacher Edith Maxwell and her mother were indicted for murdering Edith's conservative and domineering father, Trigg, late one July night in their Wise County, Virginia, home. Edith claimed her father had tried to whip her for staying out late. She said that she had defended herself by striking back with a high-heeled shoe, thus earning herself the sobriquet "slipper slayer." Immediately granted celebrity status by the powerful Hearst press, Maxwell was also championed as a martyr by advocates of women's causes. National news magazines and even detective magazines picked up her story, Warner Brothers created a screen version, and Eleanor Roosevelt helped secure her early release from prison. Sharon Hatfield's brilliant telling of this true-crime story transforms a dusty piece of history into a vibrant thriller. Throughout the narrative, she discusses yellow journalism, the inequities of the jury system, class and gender tensions in a developing region, and a woman's right to defend herself from family violence.
Sporting Magazine
Author: Maxwell's General Geography. By the author of Maxwell's first Lessons in Geography, etc. [Mrs. J. W. Laurie].
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Author: A Man and His Mountain
Author: Rob LinsonPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469114062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
A Man and His Mountain is the story of a man who starts and builds one of the biggest ranches in the southwest. It tells of the struggles against weather, wilderness, and men, in a time when the country was untamed, and so were the men. It was a tough time and required a tough man, to handle it. At times he took matters into his own hands, for there was no law. During this time, good or bad, he finds a woman. Together they raise a family, strong and just. Together, the family builds the great Star Ranch. They also add to the stories, legends and history of the great American southwest.