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Category : Obituaries
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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West Bend News Deaths
Author: Jacklin
Author: Lorna M. WaechterPublisher:
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Hans Rudolph Jacklin was born January 29, 1815 in Schuders, Graubunden, Switzerland. His parents were Hans Rudolf Jecklin and Magdalena Hartmann. He married Margreth Pitschi (1820-1883) April 21, 1838 in Schiers, Switzerland. They had nine children. They immigrated to the United States in 1847 and settled in Polk, Washington County, Wisconsin. Hans died July 27, 1862. Descendants and relatives lived in Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, Colorado and elsewhere.
Fourth Estate
Author: Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter
Author: Missouri's Murderous Matrons
Author: Victoria CosnerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666288
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Two notorious female serial killers from the Show Me State share the spotlight in this true crime history. At the turn of the twentieth century, people in Missouri experienced unexpected and horrible deaths due to arsenic. Two different women in two different areas of Missouri, and for two different reasons, used arsenic as a means to get what they wanted. Emma Heppermann, a black-widow killer, craved money. Bertha Gifford, an angel of mercy, took sick people into her home and nursed them to death. Follow the trails of these women who murdered for decades before being tried and convicted. From Wentzville to Steelville, Emma left a trail of bodies. And Bertha is suspected of killing almost 10 percent of the population of the little town of Catawissa. Authors Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon offer the gruesome history of Missouri’s murderous matrons.
Tales of the Big Bend
Author: Elton MilesPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890963609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Miles evokes Indian, Mexican and Anglo traditions that converge in this area in this collection of tales. They cover supernatural phenomena such as the Marfa lights and water witching, murders, feuds, and lost treasures.
Journal of Proceedings of the ... Session of the Wisconsin Legislature
Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
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The Story of Big Bend National Park
Author: John JamesonPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292745842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The history of the first national park in Texas—the politics, intrigues, controversies, and the people inspired by the stunning desert environment. A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States’ most remote national parks and among Texas’ most popular tourist attractions. Located in the great bend of the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico, the park comprises some 800,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island, and draws over 300,000 visitors each year. The Story of Big Bend National Park offers a comprehensive, highly readable history of the park from before its founding in 1944 up to the present. John Jameson opens with a fascinating look at the mighty efforts involved in persuading Washington officials and local landowners that such a park was needed. He details how money was raised and land acquired, as well as how the park was publicized and developed for visitors. Moving into the present, he discusses such issues as natural resource management, predator protection in the park, and challenges to land, water, and air. Along the way, he paints colorful portraits of many individuals, from area residents to park rangers to Lady Bird Johnson, whose 1966 float trip down the Rio Grande brought the park to national attention. This history will be required reading for all visitors and prospective visitors to Big Bend National Park. For everyone concerned about our national parks, it makes a persuasive case for continued funding and wise stewardship of the parks as they face the twin pressures of skyrocketing attendance and declining budgets.
Democracy, Deliberation, and Education
Author: Robert AsenPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271073160
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings. Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Asen’s research reveals as much about the possibilities and pitfalls of local democracy as it does about educational policy. From issues as old as racial integration and as contemporary as the recognition of the Gay-Straight Alliance in high schools, Democracy, Deliberation, and Education illustrates how ordinary folks build and sustain their vision for a community and its future through consequential public decision making. For all the research on school boards conducted in recent years, no other project so directly addresses school boards as deliberative policymaking bodies. Democracy, Deliberation, and Education draws from 250 school-board meetings and 31 interviews with board members and administrators to offer insight into participants’ varied understandings of their roles in the complex mechanism of governance.
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