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A Way Across The Mountain
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Author : Scott Stine
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-09-22
A Way Across The Mountain written by Scott Stine and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with History categories.
From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first non-Native people to traverse the range from east to west. That crossing, made long and brutal by bewildering terrain and deep snow, is widely and rightly considered a milestone in the exploration of intermontane North America. Following Walker’s death in 1876, an alluring tale arose concerning his trans-Sierran route. In the course of the crossing, goes the story, Walker found himself on the northern rim of Yosemite Valley at the plungepoint of North America’s tallest waterfall, staring into the most awesome mountain chasm on the continent. Over the decades since then, this time-honored tale has hardened to folklore. Dozens of historical works have construed it as a towering moment in the opening of the West. But in fact this tale of Yosemite’s discovery has no basis or support in firsthand accounts of the 1833 Sierran crossing. Moreover, there is much in those accounts that contradicts Yosemite lore, and much that points to a trans-Sierran route well north of Yosemite Valley. In A Way Across the Mountain, Scott Stine reconstructs Walker’s 1833 route over the Sierra. Stine draws on his own intimate knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, and employs the detailed travel narrative of the Walker brigade’s field clerk, Zenas Leonard. Stine documents the inception, growth, and persistence of the Yosemite Myth and explores the extent to which that lore has overshadowed Walker’s greatest discovery—that the huge swath of continent between the Wasatch Front and the Sierran crest is hydrographically closed, draining not to an ocean, but to salty lakes and desert sands.
Our Way Across The Mountain Ho
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Author : Henry Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Our Way Across The Mountain Ho written by Henry Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
The Way Through The Mountains
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Author : Steve Frazee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Give Me This Mountain
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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Across The River Up To The Mountain
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Author : Theodora Johanna Snyder
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-01-27
Across The River Up To The Mountain written by Theodora Johanna Snyder and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-27 with Fiction categories.
Troubles, tragedies, temptations. The story of two people on opposite sides of the world who know nothing about each other but have similar lives. Gloria Foundling and Jarius Heidenborg. Learn about them, their lives and their friends. Is there a purpose they dream of each other and meet and fall in love in a beautiful valley of dreams? How do they react to meeting each other on Facebook discovering they are both real people? Why does every attempt to get together permanently fail? How much pain and anguish can one suffer after all? Meet Grace, Merci, Faith and Hope and see how they help Gloria through her lifes journey and discover the reason she was kidnapped by the Dark One, who is the arch-enemy of a man she comes to know as Father. When life goes awry, love makes a way.
Meanwhile Across The Mountain
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Author : Jens Olof Lasthein
language : en
Publisher: Bokförlaget Max Ström
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Meanwhile Across The Mountain written by Jens Olof Lasthein and has been published by Bokförlaget Max Ström this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with categories.
The book is an intimate portrait of a part of the world that is seldom mentioned or recognised and the result of years of travelling in the area. Lasthein uses his panoramic camera as a means of both being in the middle of a situation and getting a wide-angle view of the scene. His pictures are often composed of multiple interacting actions. In the Caucasus the concept of borderland gets especially vivid. Here Europe meets Asia and Islam meets Christianity; a myriad nationalities, languages and cultures live side by side. In spite of the unresolved wars and conflicts since the fall of the Soviet Union, people of the new countries and republics are still emotionally tied together by their common history. Jens Olof Lasthein's pictures tell stories full of life from a region which is most often talked about only when bombs explode or border conflicts flare up anew.
The Earth Girdled
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Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Earth Girdled written by Thomas De Witt Talmage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Hawaii categories.
Silence On The Mountain
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Author : Daniel Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004
Silence On The Mountain written by Daniel Wilkinson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
Across Many Mountains
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Author : Yangzom Brauen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-03
Across Many Mountains written by Yangzom Brauen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives were destroyed forever. Thousands were tortured, prison camps were set up and Kusang's monastery was destroyed. The family were forced to flee across the Himalayas in the depths of winter, battling cold, fear, starvation and exhaustion. It took a month to reach India, where they were then passed from one refugee camp to another, all the while fighting hunger and disease. Kusang's husband and her younger child died, but somehow Kusang and her daughter Sonam survived. In Across Many Mountains Sonam's daughter, Yangzom, born in safety in Switzerland, has written the story of her inspirational mother and grandmother's fight for survival, and their lives in exile. It is an extraordinary story of determination, love and endurance.
Mount Mitchell And The Black Mountains
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Author : Timothy Silver
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-12-04
Mount Mitchell And The Black Mountains written by Timothy Silver and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-04 with Nature categories.
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today. Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But nature's stories--of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain--are also part of Silver's narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.