Author: Richard E. LingenfelterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916
Author: Richard E. LingenfelterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, the Green River & the Colorado Plateau
Author: Mike S. FordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781892327109
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A Bibliography covering one half century of Southwest literature; a sequel to Farquhar's "The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon."
Lower Colorado River Multi-species Conservation Program
Author: Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program: Final habitat conservation plan
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freshwater fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The states of Arizona, California and Nevada, along with various stakeholders including the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and water and power agencies along the lower Colorado formed this regional partnership multi-species conservation program aimed at protecting sensitive, threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife and their habitat.
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program: Responses to comments on LCR MSCP volumes I-IV
Author: Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program: Final biological assessment
Author: Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry
Author: Kenneth J. BlumePublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810856344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.
Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers
Author: Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867
Author: Andrew E. MasichPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles, Andrew E. Masich is the first to analyze these conflicts as interconnected civil wars. Based on previously overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples. Along the border, Masich argues, the Civil War played out as a collision between three warrior cultures. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos brought their own weapons and tactics to the struggle, but they also shared many traditions. Before the war, the three groups engaged one another in cycles of raid and reprisal involving the taking of livestock and human captives, reflecting a peculiar mixture of conflict and interdependence. When U.S. regular troops were withdrawn in 1861 to fight in the East, the resulting power vacuum led to unprecedented violence in the West. Indians fought Indians, Hispanos battled Hispanos, and Anglos vied for control of the Southwest, while each group sought allies in conflicts related only indirectly to the secession crisis. When Union and Confederate forces invaded the Southwest, Anglo soldiers, Hispanos, and sedentary Indian tribes forged alliances that allowed them to collectively wage a relentless war on Apaches, Comanches, and Navajos. Mexico’s civil war and European intervention served only to enlarge the conflict in the borderlands. When the fighting subsided, a new power hierarchy had emerged and relations between the region’s inhabitants, and their nations, forever changed. Masich’s perspective on borderlands history offers a single, cohesive framework for understanding this power shift while demonstrating the importance of transnational and multicultural views of the American Civil War and the Southwest Borderlands.
The Norton Trilogy
Author: Jack L. AugustPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
From the author of Dividing Western Waters comes a book on the development of the arid West--in particular the development of Arizona--as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona. From the administration of Teddy Roosevelt and the earliest reclamation acts to the monumental case between California and Arizona that would determine how the life-giving waters of the Colorado River would be divided, the Nortons were at the center of Arizona's development into a vital population and agricultural center. Pioneers like the Nortons shaped the very landscape of the western United States--a region that would help to supply the United States with cotton, vegetables, and livestock throughout World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Norton Trilogy follows the lives of John R. Norton (1854-1923) and the beginnings of Arizona farming; John R. Norton, Jr. (1901-1987) and his expansions into diverse crops; and John R. Norton III (1929-present) and the shaping of modern agribusiness as it responded to new water irrigation policies. As the author points out, "Several themes run through The Norton Trilogy: the most important is the interplay between human values and the waterscape. Technology, of course, played a monumental role in this drama, for dynamite, bulldozers, and reinforced concrete impacted the region's water and shaped the agricultural economy more than any Indian's digging stick. Another theme is the central role played by government--local, state, regional, and national--in shaping water policies. The biographical profiles of each John Norton addressed in this work reveal much about the history of Arizona and the central role that the quest for water has played in the growth and development of the region." Although the book focuses largely on the state of Arizona, and specifically on one Arizonan family, the story is a template of the hardworking American ideal. Senator John Kyl, a colleague of John Norton III, writes in the foreword, “The Nortons, who never suffered from lack of a work ethic, have made Arizona and the nation a better place. This book is as much an American story as it is an Arizona one.” Readers everywhere will be captivated by the generation-to-generation struggles of a family business and how these failures and successes are affected by interstate politics and public policy.