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Corralling the Colorado: the first fifty years of Lower Colorado River Authority
Par Jimmy Banks. 1988
The history of the Lower Colorado River Authority's first fifty years is filled with drama, political intrigue, legal battles and…
engineering feats. This book includes early rice farmers and tells how they "rustled" water with dynamite and shotguns, but concentrates on the political process that took over seventy-five years to control the rampaging recurrent flood waters of the ColoradoA history of Manhattan, Kansas
Par Lowell Jack. 2003
A collection of nine lectures and speeches given to local clubs and organizations over the past 30 years. Get acquainted…
with some pioneers important to Manhattan's development and explore a few of the more modern historical landmarksStorming the statehouse: running for governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein
Par Celia Morris. 1992
In 1990 Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein ran the two most conspicuous political campaigns in the country, aiming for governorships…
in Texas and California. Each was expected to lose to better-funded Democratic primary opponents and each faced a tough Republican competitor in the general election. Although Richards won while Feinstein lost a close race to Senator Pete Wilson, this insider's account of the campaigns illuminates the ways in which women pursue power in intense, high-stakes political contests. Strong languageOn the beaten path: an Appalachian pilgrimage (Off The Beaten Path Ser.)
Par Robert Alden Rubin. 2000
Every year, a couple thousand would-be "thruhikers" set out to walk the entire 2,000-mile length Georgia- to Maine Appalachian Trail.…
About one of every 10 actually makes it. Robert Rubin's chances did not look good. Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out, he dreamed of leaving mortgage, wife, and cul-de-sac life behind for a journey that would take half a year-- or might never end. What awaited Rubin was not the solo trek he'd imagined, but a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts with its own rules and rituals."The little white schoolhouse
Par Ellis Ford Hartford. 1977
Examines the history and significance of the one-room school house in Kentucky's educational background. "No other educational institution in Kentucky…
has been so influential as the one-room school. When only a tiny handful of the state's residents ever saw the inside of a high school classroom, much less a college lecture hall, the vast majority had intimate experience with the so-called common schools, first as pupils and later at patrons and trustees."--Back cover. 1977At home in Texas: early views of the land
Par Robin W Doughty. 1987
Potential immigrants to Texas in the nineteenth century were fed romantic notions about this land aplenty. Some painted it a…
savage and exciting country. To the classically minded it seemed reminiscent of the Mediterranean. For others with strong religious convictions, it was represented as a new garden of Eden. Author Doughty reconstructs and analyzes the way nineteenth century settlers developed an attachment to the land in order to make it their true homeLong river winding: life, love, and death along the Connecticut
Par Jim Bissland. 2003
One traveler's journey of discovery along New England's longest and most significant river--the Connecticut, which turned up fascinating stories secrets…
and mysteries. The Connecticut River Vallley has long been a watershed of American literature, leader and social trendsA personal country
Par A. C Greene. 1979
The author evokes the West Texas where he grew up and which lives within him--his bonds with the land, with…
neighbors and family, with childhood memories, and with regional crotchets, humors, and wild weathersHeavy metal: the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers
Par Michael Fabey. 2022
Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers…
who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier. AdultDaughters of Arraweelo: stories of Somali women
Par Ayaan Adan. 2022
Somali women tell their stories, sharing experiences of love, war, displacement, family, identity, and everyday life. In their own words,…
these are stories of mothers and daughters, teachers and social workers, scientists and medical professionals, lawyers and politicians--all Somali women who have made their marks on Minnesota. -- ?c Adapted from publisher's descriptionStalin's general: the life of Georgy Zhukov
Par Geoffrey Roberts. 2012
"Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names. He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow,…
Stalingrad and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the Allied generals to enter Berlin and it was he who took the German surrender. He led the huge victory parade in Red Square, riding a white horse, and in doing so, dangerously provoking Stalin's envy. His post-war career was equally eventful--Zhukov found himself sacked and banished twice, and wrongfully accused of disloyalty. However, he remains one of the most decorated officers in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Since his death in 1974, Zhukov has increasingly been seen as the indispensable military leader of the Second World War, surpassing Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery and MacArthur in his military brilliance and ferocity. Making use of hundreds of documents from Russian military archives, as well as unpublished versions of Zhukov's memoirs, Geoffrey Roberts fashions a remarkably intimate portrait of a man whose personality was as fascinating as it was contradictory. Tough, decisive, strong-willed and brutal as a soldier, in his private life he was charming and gentle. Zhukov's relations with Stalin's other generals were often prickly and fraught with rivalry, but he was the only one among them to stand up to the Soviet dictator. Piercing the hyperbole of the Zhukov personality cult, Roberts debunks many of the myths that have sprung up around Zhukov's life, to deliver fresh insights into the marshal's relations with Stalin, Khrushchev and Eisenhower. A highly regarded historian of Soviet Russia, Roberts has fashioned the definitive biography of this seminal 20th-century figure." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSRenderbrook: a century under the spade brand
Par Steve Kelton. 1989
The hundred-year-old Spade Ranch was built with earnings from barbed wire, the Yankee invention that revolutionized Texas ranching and made…
a cattleman out of entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood. Today, the ranch still belongs to Ellwood's descendants. This lively narrative chronicles the ranch's growth, mirroring the history of ranching in West TexasSouth Pass: gateway to a continent
Par Will Bagley. 2014
Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation's history and to the development of the American West. Fur…
traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. AdultNotorious Victoria: The Life Of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
Par Mary Gabriel. 1998
Victoria Woodhull, born in poverty, emerged as a prominent voice of the women's rights movement, speaking before a congressional committee…
about suffrage and later declaring her candidacy for president. Between her avowal of free love and her role in revealing Henry Ward Beecher's adulteries, Victoria Woodhull slipped from the public eye-- and from the history books. Adult. UnratedA hand on their shoulder: the special love story at Marbridge Ranch
Par Mary Mae Hartley. 1989
The story of Marbridge Ranch, the first "halfway house" established in Texas to help the mentally disabled move into the…
larger society. The Marbridge Plan began when Ed and Marge Bridge's son was born brain-damaged, and they decided to devote their lives to Jim and other mentally handicapped men and women. They have since proved to skeptical professionals that many mentally handicapped people can become wage-earning, self- sufficient citizensTempest-tossed: the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker
Par Susan Campbell. 2013
An enthralling portrait of an American lady: a cross between a character out of Edith Wharton, Emily Bronte, and Sigmund…
Freud. A work as concerned with the spiritual as it is with the material, readers will be swept up in the details of a particular moment in New England history as it reveals the universal themes of human ambition, frustration, despair, and enlightenment. Adult. UnratedMongolia: a political history of the land and its people
Par Michael Dillon. 2020
"Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now…
caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. Michael Dillon, one of the foremost experts on the region, seeks to tell the modern history of this fascinating country. He investigates its history of repression, the slaughter of the country's Buddhists, its painful experiences under Soviet rule and dictatorship, and its history of corruption. But there is hope for its future, and it now has a functioning parliamentary democracy which is broadly representative of Mongolia's ethnic mix. How long that can last is another question. Short, sharp and authoritative, Mongolia will become the standard text on the region as it begins to shape world affairs." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de México (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Daniel Cosío Villegas. 2021
"This classic from El Colegio de México is republished 44 years after its first edition. The events that have left…
their mark on the history of Mexico are recorded in these pages, from the uncertain steps of its first settlers, in pre-Hispanic times, to the also uncertain steps of those who went through the crisis of the eighties in the twentieth century. Between this and that, the reader can follow the course of the viceregal era, the formative period of independent Mexico, the modern stretch of the restored Republic and the Porfiriato, the Revolution and the years of 'political stability and economic progress.'" -- Translation provided by NLSSix days in Havana
Par James A Michener. 1989
With his associate, John Kings, James Michener visited Havana in mid-1988 during research for a new novel on the Caribbean.…
He was only looking for a house and a sugar plantation in which to set the Cuban portion of the story but he found much more to excite his interest. Fascinated by the spectacle of once-grand public buildings and mansions slowly falling into ruin, Michener and Kings set out to explore all of Havana that they could see in six days, including coffee and sugar plantations in the outlying areas. 1989. Adult