Author: William MacLeodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972778527
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Palo Duro Vistas
Author: William MacLeodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972778527
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Palo Duro Trail
Author: Ralph ComptonThe Palo Duro Story
Author: Our Indian Summer in the Far West
Author: Samuel Nugent TownshendPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In 1879 two Englishmen, writer Samuel Nugent Townshend and photographer John George Hyde, set out for a pleasant Indian summer on a tour of the American West. The duo documented their travels by steamship and train, through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, across the Missouri to the “new state of Kansas” and the beginning of the western lands and business opportunities that were to become the focus of their narrative. Reprinted here with critical notes and introduction, Our Indian Summer in the Far West offers an enlightening—and often entertaining—perspective on an early moment in the growth of capitalism and industry in the American West. Originally published as a photographic travelogue and guide to British investment in the American West, Townshend and Hyde’s account is both idiosyncratic and emblematic of its time. Interested in the West’s economic and environmental potential, the two men focused on farming in Kansas, railroads and mining in Colorado, a bear hunt in New Mexico, and ranching in Texas. The sojourners’ own foibles also enter the narrative: alerted to the difficulty of finding a hotel with a bath, the two Victorians took along a portable bathtub made of India rubber. Their words and pictures speak volumes about contemporary attitudes toward race, empire, and the future of civilization. An introduction by coeditor Alex Hunt provides background on the creators and the travelogue genre. The recovery and republication of this extremely rare volume, an artifact of the Victorian American West, make available an important primary document of a brief but pivotal historical moment connecting the American West and the British Empire.
Amarillo
Author: Paul Howard CarlsonPublisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896725874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle.
ICC Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The Story of Palo Duro Canyon
Author: Norman H. Brock, Sr. CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palo Duro State Park (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Jewels of the Plains
Author: Claude A. BarrPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native plant enthusiasts and horticulturists, it captures the unique beauty, resilience, and variety of wildflowers in the Great Plains. Claude A. Barr did not set out to be a writer. In 1910, he homesteaded 160 acres of prairie in the southwest corner of South Dakota, intending to become a farmer. Despite challenging conditions, Barr fell in love with the land and its native flora. He began contributing profiles of plains wildflowers to gardening magazines, which precipitated requests for seed and led him to start a mail-order nursery, Prairie Gem Ranch. What began as a Depression-era sideline eventually gained a worldwide clientele, and Barr became a respected ambassador for the wildflowers of this part of the American landscape. Decades of observing plants in the wild and growing them for his nursery, as well as careful study of scientific sources, gave Barr unequaled knowledge that culminated in this acclaimed book. Wonderfully written and deeply researched, Jewels of the Plains is more than a field guide or how-to manual. It’s a pioneering text on native plant horticulture that details plant life on the prairie in the voice of one with intimate familiarity with the subject. Each description reads like a mini nature essay, giving insight into both the plants and Barr’s engaging personality. Edited to incorporate new scientific information, this edition includes an Introduction and supplemental notes by botanist and horticulturalist James H. Locklear. He places Barr’s remarkable life and work in historic and scientific context, illuminating his accomplishments from a fresh perspective.
Close Calls
Author: Jan ReidPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890969656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Close Calls is first a book of people profiles of Texans rich and poor, famous and downtrodden. Reid provides details of his various assignments and the people and places he has encountered while working for Texas Monthly and other publications going on beats with Texas police officers, attending church with George Foreman in New York, and meeting Kickapoo Indians in the Sierra Madres.
Author: James Frank Dobie