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Colorado and the silver crash: the panic of 1893
Par John Steinle. 2021
A catastrophic depression engulfed Colorado in 1893. The government's decision to adopt the gold standard and stop buying silver hit…
the mining industry like a cave-in. Unemployment reached 90 percent in Leadville, a city built on silver. Strikes by union miners in Cripple Creek and Leadville led to destruction and death. Political parties split along battle lines of gold versus silver. By 1898, the country had begun to recover, but silver mining was never the same. Using firsthand commentary, John Steinle commemorates the story of Coloradans trapped in the unprecedented social, economic, and political conflict of America's first great depression. 2021. AdultThe Big Sandy (Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf)
Par Carol Crowe-Carraco. 1979
The Big Sandy River, with its two major tributaries the Tug and Levisa forks, drains all or parts of nine…
ruggedly beautiful counties in easternmost Kentucky. Carol Crowe-Carraco brings the history of the region to life with tales of pioneer courage and Civil War violence, of riverboat romance and mining camp woes. Through her rich account one sees both the unique strength and the deep-seated troubles of this long-isolated landSpecters in doorways: the history & hauntings of Utah (Haunted Utah series #01)
Par Linda Dunning. 2003
Reveals the mysteries and miracles of haunted mansions and farm houses, ghostly hotels and public buildings, spirit-infested hospitals, churches and…
gathering places, eerie old schools, colleges and universities and the phantoms of Utah's many old mills and abandoned factories. AdultSouth 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. AdultA walk on the beach: tales of wisdom from an unconventional woman
Par Joan Anderson. 2004
In her third book of growth and exploration, Joan Anderson has struck a resounding chord among thousands of women. Shortly…
after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year along, Anderson encountered Joan Erikson who became a wise friend and confidante. Erikson wrote several books on the stages of life to encompass her own understanding of aging. In writing about their extraordinary friendship, Anderson reveals Erikson as a mentor who helped her navigate the transitions as she grew beyond middle ageYou can't never get to Puckum: folks and tales from Delmarva
Par Hal Roth. 1997
Tempest-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. UnratedCrossroads of change: the people and the land of Pecos (Public lands history #04)
Par Cori Ann Knudten. 2020
Spanning the period from 1540, when Spaniards first arrived, into the twenty-first century, Crossroads of Change focuses on the history…
of the natural and historic resources Pecos National Historical Park now protects and interprets: the ruins of Pecos Pueblo and a Spanish mission church, a stage stop along the Santa Fe Trail, the Civil War battlefield of Glorieta Pass, a twentieth-century cattle ranch, and the national park itself. AdultInteresting women of the Capital City
Par Michelle Brooks. 2021
Reclaiming Diné history: the legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Par Jennifer Denetdale. 2007
In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on…
the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816-1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845-1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita, she both underscores the centrality of women's roles in Navajo society and illustrates how oral tradition has been used to organize social units, connect Navajos to the land, and interpret the past. She argues that these same stories, read with an awareness of Navajo creation narratives, reveal previously unrecognized Navajo perspectives on the past. And she contends that a similarly culture-sensitive re-viewing of the Diné can lead to the production of a Navajo-centered history. AdultForty-Seventh Star: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood
Par David V Holtby. 2012
New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not…
until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico?s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico?s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years. David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico?s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory?s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans? efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico?s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities. Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered?then and now?for New Mexicans and for all Americans.--Provided by Amazon.com. AdultHell comes to Southern Maryland: the story of Point Lookout and Hammomd General Hospital
Par Bradley M Gottfried. 2018
Called the "Andersonville of the North," the Point Lookout Civil War Prisoner of War Camp for Confederates was the largest…
facility in the North. This book takes a fresh look at all aspects of the prison, from its formation to its closing and lasting legacy. Loaded with first-person accounts of both Confederate prisoners and Union personnel, the book helps readers get a vivid picture of what it was like to be incarcerated in the camp. Adult900 miles from nowhere: voices from the homestead frontier
Par Steven R Kinsella. 2006
Kearny's march: the epic journey that created the American southwest, 1846-1847
Par Winston Groom. 2011
In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California.…
The adventures and dangers that Kearny and his troops encountered intertwines with those of mountain man Kit Carson; Brigham Young and his Mormon followers fleeing persecution and Illinois; and the ill-fated Donner party, trapped in the snow of the Sierra Nevada. AdultBlack Range tales
Par James A McKenna. 2002
First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style,…
"Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was thereMedicine women: the story of the first Native American nursing school
Par Jim Kristofic. 2019
"After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado…
Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the world of modern medicine, but they knew they might become nurses who could build a bridge between the old ways and the new. In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's personal connection with the community creates a nuanced historical understanding that blends engaging narrative with careful scholarship to share the stories of the people and their commitment to this place"-- Provided by publisher. AdultThis is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life…
on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian trader; the last real Indian trader to operate historic Hubbell Trading Post. In 2004, the National Park Service (NPS) launched an investigation targeting Malone, alleging a long list of crimes that were "similar to Al Capone." In 2005, federal agent Paul Berkowitz was assigned to take over the year- and-a-half-old case. His investigation uncovered serious problems with the original allegations, raising questions about the integrity of his supervisors and colleagues as well as high-level NPS managers. In an intriguing account of whistle-blowing, Berkowitz tells how he bypassed his chain-of-command and delivered his findings directly to the Office of the Inspector General. AdultChesapeake Bay walk
Par David Owen Bell. 1998
The author takes young children and their parents on a shoreline journey where they can find soft-bellied bullies, birds once…
hunted for their feathers, crabs older than dinosaurs, "bald" five-year-olds, and living prehistoric creatures made of water. For preschool to grade 2. UnratedIf you lived during the Civil War (If you lived)
Par Denise Lewis Patrick. 2022
"What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would…
you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived...series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers. What if you lived during the Civil War? Would you be allowed to be a soldier? How would you communicate? What is the true story of the battle between the states? Denise Lewis Patrick answers all these questions and more in this comprehensive guide to the Civil War. A great choice for Civil War units, and for teaching children about this important moment in American history." -- Provided by publisher