Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Olmsted Locks & Dams (replacement of Locks & Dams 52 & 53)
Author: Corps of Engineers Structural Engineering Conference
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Structural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Flatheads and Spooneys
Author: Jens LundPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Author: Charles BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Contaminants in the Mississippi River, 1987-92
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Author: GERARD FOWKEThe Boys' Ambition
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Mark Twain relates the boyhood experiences on the Mississippi that led to his ambition to be a river-boat pilot.
A History of Muhlenberg County
Author: Otto Arthur RothertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Doyle Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
United States Earthquakes, 1968
Author: Jerry L. CoffmanPublisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky
Author: Lewis CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description