Oconaluftee - 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 Oconaluftee write by Elizabeth Giddens. This book was released on 2023-02-16. Oconaluftee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This seemingly isolated valley has an epic tale to tell. Always a desirable place to settle, hunt, gather, farm, and live, the valley and its people have played an integral role in some of the greatest dramas of the colonial era, the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War era. The experiences of turn-of-the-twentieth-century industrial logging alongside the national park movement show how land-use trends changed communities and families. Though the valley saw its share of conflict, its residents often lived like neighbors, sharing resources and acting cooperatively for mutual benefit and survival. They demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of threats to their existence. Elizabeth Giddens offers a deeply researched and elegantly written account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. She builds the tale from archives, census records, property records, personal memoirs, and more, showing how national events affected all Oconaluftee's people—Indigenous, Black, and white.
Take
Take - 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 Take write by Jennifer Bradbury. This book was released on 2024-06-04. Take available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In search of her missing father, Cara and her ex-boyfriend Nat venture into the Cascade Mountains, up a harrowing rock face, and navigate through time as they explore the impact of Pearl Harbor and its Japanese Incarceration Camps, Cara's family, and each other.
978-1-4671-3369-2
978-1-4671-3369-2 - 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 978-1-4671-3369-2 write by Jonathan Howard Bennett and David Biddix. This book was released on 2015. 978-1-4671-3369-2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The highest peak in the eastern United States, Mount Mitchell towers 6,684 feet over its home in Yancey County, North Carolina. It has borne silent witness to great scientific and personal achievements, tragic loss of life, heated debates, and a host of controversies both great and small. Once considered forbidding and remote, it claimed the life of its namesake, Elisha Mitchell, when he fell to his death in an attempt to firmly establish the mountain's height. In the early 1900s, entrepreneurs constructed a railroad, opening its old-growth forests to massive deforestation. This devastation stirred some of the earliest notions of environmentalism that led to Mount Mitchell's establishment as North Carolina's first state park. Today, it is a playground for tourists from around the world, offering some of the best hiking and views in the nation. Mount Mitchell showcases the rich history of the mountain along with the events and colorful characters that have shaped its story.
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement - 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 The Rise of the American Conservation Movement write by Dorceta E. Taylor. This book was released on 2016-08-04. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.
I Shawn
I Shawn - 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 I Shawn write by Denise Hengeli. This book was released on 2017-08-29. I Shawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The novella I Shawn follows the path a young man gripped by the economic depression experienced during 1938, combined with the catastrophe caused by a hurricane that devastated areas in New York in 1938. This young man became head of a family of eight children when his father got wounded in the midst of the hurricane. To assist our nations climb out of the economic depression, President Roosevelt instituted a work program for young unemployed men who not only earned money but obtained training that would help them after they were members of the Civilian Conservation Corps for two years. It is not a biography but rather a fictional story.
