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Backcountry Ghosts
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Author : Josh Sides
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-04
Backcountry Ghosts written by Josh Sides and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--
Backcountry Ghosts
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Author : Josh Sides
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-04
Backcountry Ghosts written by Josh Sides and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04 with History categories.
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation’s homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn’t always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream—that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station—others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to the Great Recession.
Folktales Of The Carolina Backcountry
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Author : Ray Belcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Folktales Of The Carolina Backcountry written by Ray Belcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Fiction categories.
From the phantom duelist of Pickens to the vengeful witch of York County, the unnatural entities scattered across the Upstate are as varied as the contours of its geography. In this compilation, Ray Belcher has gathered some of the lesser-known tales of Carolina curiosities, some of which were all but lost among the annals of ancient newspapers and others which have heretofore only existed as oral tradition. Spanning a period of over 400 years and stretching across the counties of Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, and beyond, these stories do as much to illuminate forgotten corners of Upstate history as they do to pique the imaginations of those looking for a spine-tingling tale.
Backcountry Adventures Colorado
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Author : Peter Massey
language : en
Publisher: Adler Publishing
Release Date : 2008-05
Backcountry Adventures Colorado written by Peter Massey and has been published by Adler Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Animals categories.
"Navigates your whole family along 2,550 miles of varied and spectacular terrain, from towering fourteeners to gigantic sand dunes"--Page 4 of cover.
Ghosts Of Ventura County S Heritage Valley
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Author : Evie Ybarra
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-26
Ghosts Of Ventura County S Heritage Valley written by Evie Ybarra and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with History categories.
Strange secrets and eerie tales shadow the idyllic beauty of the Heritage Valley and the meandering Santa Clara River. The spirit of a playful little boy wanders the halls of the historic Glen Tavern Inn, and the ghostly phantom of the real Zorro, Joaquin Murrieta, guards his buried gold in the foothills of Piru. The chilling cries of La Llorona echo along Sespe Creek, and a beast is still reportedly seen loping upright across the countryside near Santa Paula. Outside Fillmore, the Lady in White lingers by the old sycamore tree, sometimes materializing in cars traveling down Highway 126. Author Evie Ybarra recounts spine-tingling tales and local lore from Valencia to Ventura.
Gray Ghosts And Red Rangers
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Author : Thad Sitton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Gray Ghosts And Red Rangers written by Thad Sitton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds’ voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters hoped it would—the thrill of the chase made the men feel “that they [were] close to something lost and never to be found, just as one can feel something in a great poem or a dream.” Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers offers a colorful account of this vanishing American folkway—back-country fox hunting known as “hilltopping,” “moonlighting,” “fox racing,” or “one-gallus fox hunting.” Practiced neither for blood sport nor to put food on the table, hilltopping was worlds removed from elite fox hunting where red- and black-coated horsemen thundered across green fields in daylight. Hilltopping was a nocturnal, even mystical pursuit, uniting men across social and racial lines as they gathered to listen to dogs chasing foxes over miles of ground until the sun rose. Engaged in by thousands of rural and small-town Americans from the 1860s to the 1980s, hilltopping encouraged a quasi-spiritual identification of man with animal that bound its devotees into a “brotherhood of blood and cause” and made them seem almost crazy to outsiders.
Backpacker
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-10
Backpacker written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10 with categories.
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Cast Out Of Eden
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Author : Robert Acquinas McNally
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
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Cast Out Of Eden written by Robert Acquinas McNally and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Contested Spaces Of Early America
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Author : Juliana Barr
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-04-21
Contested Spaces Of Early America written by Juliana Barr and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-21 with History categories.
Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before. Contested Spaces of Early America brings together some of the most distinguished historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America. Contributors: Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay, Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hämäläinen, Raúl José Mandrini, Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel Truett.
Continental Reckoning
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Author : Elliott West
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-02
Continental Reckoning written by Elliott West and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02 with History categories.
Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880.