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Fire On The Prairie
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Author : Gary Rivlin
language : en
Publisher: Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
Release Date : 2013
Fire On The Prairie written by Gary Rivlin and has been published by Urban Life, Landscape and Poli this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
Fire On The Prairie
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Author : Gary Rivlin
language : en
Publisher: Owl Books
Release Date : 1993-03-01
Fire On The Prairie written by Gary Rivlin and has been published by Owl Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-01 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
Explains how Harold Washington and his associates overcame the Daley political machine and built an administration that crossed racial lines and transformed Chicago politics
Prairie Fire
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Author : Julie Courtwright
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2023-01-13
Prairie Fire written by Julie Courtwright and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-13 with History categories.
Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.
The Prairie Fire
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Author : Marilynn Reynolds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Prairie Fire written by Marilynn Reynolds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Canada categories.
A young boy's heroic efforts help save his family's prairie home. Beautiful pencil drawings depict this story of the early prairie years.
Prairie Fires
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Author : Caroline Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Prairie Fires written by Caroline Fraser and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.
Prairie Fire
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Author : Catherine Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-07-14
Prairie Fire written by Catherine Palmer and has been published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-14 with Fiction categories.
1998 HOLT Medallion finalist! / 1998 finalist for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice! The fictional town of Hope discovers the importance of forgiveness, overcoming prejudice, and the dangers of keeping unhealthy family secrets. Jack Cornwall lost everything during the Civil War, so when his beloved nephew Chipper is reclaimed by his father, Cornwall vows revenge on the man who took away his last link with the past. Arriving in the town of Hope, Jack finds Chipper happy in his new family. Caitrin Murphy, a cheerful Irish immigrant, helps him realizes that taking Chipper away would be cruel. Unfortunately, few townspeople trust Jack, and even Caitrin is reluctant to encourage their romance because of Jack’s lack of faith. Jack soon realizes that serious changes are needed before he can be truly happy.
Prairie Fire
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Author : Bob Beal
language : en
Publisher: Hurtig
Release Date : 1984
Prairie Fire written by Bob Beal and has been published by Hurtig this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cree Indians categories.
This book tells us about the Métis, who simply wanted the long-standing boundaries of their river-lot farms respected by the government as Ottawa divided up the land to sell it to homesteaders. It tells about the Indians, whose land had been sold by the government and tradition of self-support destroyed, and who were now literally starving while the government broke its promises or tried to tie them to concessions. It tells us about local government officials, who could not agree among themselves whether the Indians should be treated with discipline or with food. It tells us about the frightened settlers and townspeople, caught between the Indians and the Métis they often sympathized with and the government they looked to for support. And it tells about the soldiers, who heroically set out to quell a rebellion, but whose greatest ordeal was the long train journey, on which they were beset by freezing cold and extreme shortages of food.
Living With Wildland Fire On The Prairie
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Living With Wildland Fire On The Prairie written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Government publications categories.
Fire In North American Tallgrass Prairies
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Author : Scott L. Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1990
Fire In North American Tallgrass Prairies written by Scott L. Collins 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 1990 with Social Science categories.
Based on papers presented at a 1987 symposium, "Fire in North American Grasslands," cosponsored by the Ecological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America, this book represents an important contribution to key unanswered questions concerning the role of fire in grassland ecosystems: How often did fires occur in the past? Were they primarily natural or caused by humans? At what time of year did grasslands normally burn? How should fire be used as a management tool? What constitutes a proper prescribed burning regime both with and without grazing?
Prairie Fire
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Author : E. K. Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ª
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Prairie Fire written by E. K. Johnston and has been published by Carolrhoda Lab ª this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
As Owen and Siobhan begin their stint in the Oil Watch, they face military bureaucracy, a harsh environment, and yes, slaying dragons. The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Story of Owen.