Author: Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity—from witch-hunting to log rolling, sometimes with tragic results—this book is a perfect stroll through New England’s past for resident and visitor alike. Yankee history is rife with all manner of shipwreck victims surviving any way they know how; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks, cougar and bear attacks, and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best.
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
Author: Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity—from witch-hunting to log rolling, sometimes with tragic results—this book is a perfect stroll through New England’s past for resident and visitor alike. Yankee history is rife with all manner of shipwreck victims surviving any way they know how; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks, cougar and bear attacks, and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region’s bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity—from witch-hunting to log rolling, sometimes with tragic results—this book is a perfect stroll through New England’s past for resident and visitor alike. Yankee history is rife with all manner of shipwreck victims surviving any way they know how; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks, cougar and bear attacks, and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best.
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving, 1825-1931
Author: Alfred Geer Hempstead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Penobscot Boom and the Development of the West Branch of the Penobscot River for Log Driving
Author: Alfred Geer Hempstead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
The Kennebec Wilderness Awakens
Author: Mary R. Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kennebec River Valley (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kennebec River Valley (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Habitat
Bibliographic Guide to North American History
The Interrupted Forest
Author: Neil Rolde
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
More than half of Maine has never been settled--millions of acres of quasi-wilderness.
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
More than half of Maine has never been settled--millions of acres of quasi-wilderness.
Painting the Inhabited Landscape
Author: Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271093226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271093226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geologic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however, was decidedly different. In this important study, Margaretta Markle Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled, explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane and investigates the patrons who supported his career, with an eye to understanding how New Englanders thought about their land, their economy, their history, and their links with widely disparate global communities. Lane’s works depict nature as productive and allied in partnership with humans to create a sustainable, balanced political economy. What emerges from this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply resonant with its former uses—and a human history that incorporates, rather than excludes, Native Americans as shapers of land and as agents in that history. Calling attention to unexplored dimensions of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in the scholarship on American art of the period, examining how that body of work commented on American culture and informs our understanding of canon formation.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description