Frontier Fires
Author | : Aaron Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Aaron Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Alastair Sweeny |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459704339 |
Examining the major battles of the War of 1812, Sweeny goes behind the scenes to explore business activity during the war, particularly between John Jacob Astor, the richest man in America and a financier of the war, and his fur-trading partners in Montreal.
Author | : Rosanne Bittner |
Publisher | : Popular Library |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1987-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780445204140 |
Reunited with his beloved Sarah, Blue Hawk, a half-breed known as Caleb Sax in the white world, builds a ranching empire in Texas despite the war with Mexico and attacks by Comanches and outlaws
Author | : Caroline Fraser |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627792775 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0295805218 |
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Author | : Victor Bayley (M.I.C.E.) |
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Release | : 1937 |
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Author | : Peter David |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2002-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074345572X |
Lieutenant Robin Lefler's mother died in a shuttle explosion ten years ago. So is the woman being held prisoner in Thallonian space really her? If it is, what is her connection to the mysterious woman holding a weapon that could doom entire worlds? With the lives of billions at stake, Robin Lefler, Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur must find the answers before time runs out for them and for the struggling remnants of the once-great Thallonian Empire.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816536163 |
Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast, grassy expanse that was either burnt or burning. The scene continued to burn until the land was plowed under or grazed away and broken by innumerable roads and towns. Yet, where the original landscape has persisted, so has fire, and where people have sought to restore something of that original setting, they have had to reinstate fire. This has required the persistence or creation of a fire culture, which in turn inspired schools of science and art that make the Great Plains today a regional hearth for American fire. Volume 5 of To the Last Smoke introduces a region that once lay at the geographic heart of American fire, and today promises to reclaim something of that heritage. After all these years, the Great Plains continue to bear witness to how fires can shape contemporary life, and vice versa. In this collection of essays, Stephen J. Pyne explores how this once most regularly and widely burned province of North America, composed of various subregions and peoples, has been shaped by the flames contained within it and what fire, both tame and feral, might mean for the future of its landscapes. Included in this volume: How wildland and rural fire have changed from the 19th century to the 21st century How fire is managed in the nation’s historic tallgrass prairies, from Texas to South Dakota, from Illinois to Nebraska How fire connects with other themes of Great Plains life and culture How and why Texas has returned to the national narrative of landscape fire
Author | : Gary Ferguson |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2017-06-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1604698128 |
We are living in the age of wildfire—it is changing the land, the economy, the welfare of wildlife, and the livability of the American West. Land on Fire explores the science behind wildfire and what is being done to control it.
Author | : Victor Bayley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1937 |
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