Run, River, Run - 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 Run, River, Run write by Ann Zwinger. This book was released on 2022-03-08. Run, River, Run available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pages in 1975 that Anne Zwinger's account of the Green River and its subtle forms of life and nonlife may be taken as authoritative. 'Run, River, Run,' should serve as a standard reference work on this part of the American West for many years to come." —New York Times Book Review
Great River of the West
Great River of the West - 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 of the West write by Professor of History William L Lang. This book was released on 2013-10-10. Great River of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place. Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.
Where the Great River Bends
Where the Great River Bends - 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 Where the Great River Bends write by Michael E. Denny. This book was released on 2008-11-01. Where the Great River Bends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A remarkable place where geography has defined history, Wallula Gap is that narrowing of the mighty Columbia River halfway between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Bob Carson and his colleagues tell a fascinating story ¿ of a striking land where the forces of geology worked on a spectacular scale, of a desert oasis where Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, promoters and entrepreneurs, and modern-day agriculturalists and wind farmers have all made their mark. Through the prism of Wallula, the historic gateway to the Columbia Plateau, readers learn much about the region.
Great River of the West: the Columbia River
Great River of the West: the Columbia 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 of the West: the Columbia River write by . This book was released on . Great River of the West: the Columbia River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jefferson's America
Jefferson's America - 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 Jefferson's America write by Julie M. Fenster. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Jefferson's America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration—and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the American purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Spain still coveted that land and was prepared to employ any means to retain it. With war expected at any moment, Jefferson played a game of strategy, putting on the ground the only Americans he could: a cadre of explorers who finally annexed it through courageous investigation. Responsible for orchestrating the American push into the continent was President Thomas Jefferson. He most famously recruited Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific, but at the same time there were other teams who did the same work, in places where it was even more crucial. William Dunbar, George Hunter, Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis, and the dauntless Zebulon Pike—all were dispatched on urgent missions to map the frontier and keep up a steady correspondence with Washington about their findings. But they weren’t always well-matched—with each other and certainly not with a Spanish army of a thousand soldiers or more. These tensions threatened to undermine Jefferson’s goals for the nascent country, leaving the United States in danger of losing its foothold in the West. Deeply researched and inspiringly told, Jefferson’s America rediscovers the robust and often harrowing action from these seminal expeditions and illuminates the president’s vision for a continental America.
