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Memories of Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1861-1865
Author: Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865, Also of a Visit to Paris in 1867
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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"What were the thoughts of a little girl who went out as an emigrant to Kansas in 1862? Who knows what it is to depend on the food to be found there? The terrors of a prairie fire? What it is to see Indians in full war paint filling one's doorway? Who can understand the feelings of fifty women and children left unprotected beyond reach of civilization while their men fought off Confederate raiders and died where they fell without medical care? A visit to paris, described at the book's close, provides contrast and we lose sight of la petite savage as she presses her eye to a knothole of the boarding around the Tuileries to catch a glimpse of hte Prince Imperial at play."--Jacket flap.
Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1863
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Pages : 350
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Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865, Also of a Visit to Paris in 1867. [With Portraits.].
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Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865
Author: Adela Elizabeth Richards OrpenPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865, Also of a Visit to Paris in 1867. [With Portraits.].
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Memoirs of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865
Author: Adela E. OrpenMemories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1865, Also of a Visit to Paris in 1867, by Mrs. Orpen ...
Author: Adela Elizabeth Richards OrpenPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Memories of the Old Emigrant Days in Kansas, 1862-1863
Author: Adela Elizabeth Richards OrpenPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Running Out
Author: Lucas BessirePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.