Author: Mary B. KegleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Evansham was an early name for Wytheville.
Early Adventurers on the Western Waters: The New River of Virginia in pioneer days, 1745-1800
Author: Mary B. KegleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Evansham was an early name for Wytheville.
The Keelboat Age on Western Waters
Author: Leland D. BaldwinPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
Seeking Western Waters
Author: Emory M. StrongPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780875952451
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emory Strong and Ruth Beacon Strong have used excerpts from the Reuben Thwaites edition of the Lewis and Clark journals that focus on the native population the Corps of Discovery came in contact with on their journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Following their journey from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean, the Strongs supplied this book with over 200 photographs, many of them sites that have been since consumed by geological, riverine or human forces.
Dividing Western Waters
Author: Jack L. August (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Tells how Mark Wilmer, an Arizona lawyer, fashioned the successful arguments that won the Supreme Court case securing Arizona's allottment of Colorado River water.
The Western Waters
Author: Violet Gadd CoontsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780870127786
Category : Barbour County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1991, Violet Coonts' book on the early settlers of the Middle Tygart Valley took 18 years to research. Available again in a new edition, this book is a must for anyone researching family roots in 18th and early 19th century Barbour County. This is the definitive book on early settlers in this region, and should be in every West Virginia history collection.
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Louis C. HunterPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157784
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Where Land and Water Meet
Author: Nancy LangstonPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989831
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results. The Malheur Basin, once home to the largest cattle empires in the world, experienced unintended widespread environmental degradation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After establishment in 1908 of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as a protected breeding ground for migratory birds, and its expansion in the 1930s and 1940s, the area experienced equally extreme intended modifications aimed at restoring riparian habitat. Refuge managers ditched wetlands, channelized rivers, applied Agent Orange and rotenone to waterways, killed beaver, and cut down willows. Where Land and Water Meet examines the reasoning behind and effects of these interventions, gleaning lessons from their successes and failures. Although remote and specific, the Malheur Basin has myriad ecological and political connections to much larger places. This detailed look at one tangled history of riparian restoration shows how—through appreciation of the complexity of environmental and social influences on land use, and through effective handling of conflict—people can learn to practice a style of pragmatic adaptive resource management that avoids rigid adherence to single agendas and fosters improved relationships with the land.
Western Times and Water Wars
Author: John WaltonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Walton first uses his magnifying glass to capture images of struggle in a California valley during a century and a half of transformation, then inverts it to scrutinize the American state, popular politics, and collective action in general. The maneuver is bold, the outcome stimulating."—Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research "A passionate and first rate historical adventure. The plot is as intricate, fascinating, and full of intrigue and detail as a Dickens or a Tolstoy novel."—John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War
Forging New Rights in Western Waters
Author: Robert G. DunbarPublisher:
ISBN: 9780783718415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Andrew Foote
Author: Spencer TuckerPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The life and career of one of the U.S. Navy's first admirals who "considered himself first and foremost a staunch Christian and an agent of divine will."--Jacket.