Nch'i-wána, "the Big River" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nch'i-wána, "the Big River" write by Eugene S. Hunn. This book was released on 1990. Nch'i-wána, "the Big River" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along its banks. Known to these people as Nch’i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat. At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn’s authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.
Big River
Big River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big River write by Roger Miller. This book was released on 1986. Big River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dramatizes the experiences of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River.
Great River
Great River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great River write by Paul Horgan. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Great River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe. Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of a scholar, and the love of a long-time resident, Paul Horgan describes the Rio Grande, its role in human history, and the overlapping cultures that have grown up alongside it or entered into conflict over the land it traverses. Now in its fourth revised edition, Great River remains a monumental part of American historical writing. “Here is known and unknown history, emotion and color, sense and sensitivity, battles for land and the soul of man, cultures and moods, fused by a glowing pen and a scholarly mind into a cohesive and memorable whole.” —The Boston Sunday Herald “Transcends regional history and soars far above the river valley with which it deals . . . a survey, rich in color and fascinating in pictorial detail, of four civilizations: the aboriginal Indian, the Spanish, the Mexican, and the Anglo-American . . . It is, in the best sense of the word, literature. It has architectural plan, scholarly accuracy, stylistic distinction, and not infrequently real nobility of spirit.” —Allan Nevins, author of Ordeal of the Union “One of the major masterpieces of American historical writing.” —Carl Carmer, author of Stars Fell on Alabama
Big River's Daughter
Big River's Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big River's Daughter write by Bobbi Miller. This book was released on 2013-10-04. Big River's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.
Big River Rancing
Big River Rancing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big River Rancing write by John O'Hara. This book was released on 2002. Big River Rancing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of the Clarence River Jockey Club and its contribution to Australian racing and the New South Wales Northern Rivers region.
