Author: William Coughlin BraislinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Important American Library Formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Sold by His Order ...
Author: William Coughlin BraislinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Examiner
Author: The Mississippi Kite
Author: Eric G. BolenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791887
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Floating on air currents over rural countryside and open city spaces, the Mississippi Kite presents a familiar sight to many people across the southern United States, although this graceful hawk is not well known by name. This engaging natural history, illustrated with superb color photographs, provides all a bird watcher needs to become acquainted with the kite, its life cycle, and its fascinating history with humans. Under various folk names, including Blue Darter, Grasshopper Hawk, and Mosquito Hawk, the Mississippi Kite ranges throughout the southern United States from the coasts of the Carolinas to the plains of the Southwest. The authors describe all aspects of the kite's life cycle, from breeding and nesting, raising young, and hunting and feeding to the kite's annual winter migration to South America. They also trace its intriguing relationship with humans, from its discovery by Europeans in the nineteenth century to the present day. For bird lovers and ornithologists alike, The Mississippi Kite will be an essential introduction to a bird well worth knowing. A special section on conservation and a selection of references for further reading complement the text.
Dictionary Catalog of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians in the Newberry Library
Author: Newberry LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Western Americana
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 12
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803229310
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Important American Library Formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Sold by His Order ...
Author: William Coughlin BraislinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Western Americana
Author: Texas Lithographs
Author: Ron TylerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477325980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.