Author: Edward Taylor BollingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Rails that Climb
Author: Edward Taylor BollingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Hidden Ways
Author: Alistair MoffatPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea roads, he traces the arteries through which our nation's lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Moffat's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a different sort of history, a new way of understanding our past by walking in the footsteps of our ancestors. In retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.
The Moffats
Author: Eleanor EstesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152025410
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692013243
Category : Coal Creek Canyon (Boulder County and Jefferson County, Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Nothing Daunted
Author: Dorothy WickendenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439176604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
Space Below My Feet
Author: Gwen MoffatPublisher: Sigma Press
ISBN: 9781850587699
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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To the Island of Tides
Author: Alistair MoffatPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786896338
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even survived Viking raids. Today the isle maintains its position as a space for retreat and spiritual renewal. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, Moffat takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a secular retreat on the Holy Isle. To the Island of Tides is a walk through history, a meditation on the power of place, but also a more personal journey; and a reflection on where life leads us.
The Moffat Line
Author: John A. SellsPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462026559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the railroad was king. Railroad lines crisscrossed the North American continent, allowing for the long-distance transportation of oil, coal, lumbar, gold, and other valuables. Despite high operating costs and fierce competition, the search for better and more profitable routes was constant. David Moffat, a banker and railroad executive, dreamed of a direct route across the Rocky Mountains, a route that would allow him to tap into Colorados vast mineral wealth. There was, however, one major obstacle standing in his waythe 13,660-foot Continental Divide. The Moffat Line tells the story of David Moffat and the impossible dream that led to the 1927 completion of the Moffat Tunnel. The story is also about the men who drove the trains and built and operated the railroad under incredible weather and equipment challengesday and night. Together, Moffats vision and the exploits of the railroad workers combine to produce a fascinating chapter in the history of the American West.
Old Moffat
Author: Emilio DicerboPublisher: Exhibit A
ISBN: 9781840336528
Category : Moffat (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Moffat Tunnel of Colorado
Author: Edgar Carlisle McMechenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moffat Tunnel
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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