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.
Western Waters
Author: Tom AlkirePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811768724
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this collection of essays about well-known (and some not-so-well-known) Western waters, author Tom Alkire blends how-to, where-to, and natural history with lyrical prose and a deep insight that only comes with knowing a place well. From rainforest rivers to desert rivers, from tidal rivers to those along the Continental Divide, the author has waded and fished these waters over the decades. Along with his fishing adventures, the book also looks at the geography, the early explorers of, and the modern-day impacts on the rivers themselves.
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.
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
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.
The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters
Author: John Hazlehurst Boneval LatrobePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.
Forging New Rights in Western Waters
Author: Robert G. DunbarPublisher:
ISBN: 9780783718415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters
Author: James T. LloydPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferryboat disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description