Life And Death On The Prairie
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Life And Death On The Prairie
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Author : Stephen Longmire
language : en
Publisher: Center for American Places
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Life And Death On The Prairie written by Stephen Longmire and has been published by Center for American Places this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Landscape photography categories.
Life And Death On The Prairie
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Life And Death 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 2011 with Nature categories.
Iowa's Rochester Cemetery is one of the most unusual and biodiverse prairies left in America, boasting more than 400 species of plants--337 of them native to the region--on its thirteen-and-a-half acres. Among them are fifteen massive white oaks that stood watch as the surrounding landscape was converted into farmland after Euro-American settlers arrived in the 1830s. The cemetery is the last resting place of these pioneers and their descendants, down to the present. Graves and wildflowers are scattered across the hills that geologists consider sand dunes; these are held in place by the deep roots of the plants and people. Pioneer cemeteries have been recognized as important prairie remnants and seed banks ever since Aldo Leopold, another Iowa native, called attention to them in his landmark essays of the 1940s, as he developed the new field of ecological restoration. At Rochester Cemetery, the drama of the prairie's survival continues to this day, in a controversy that flares up as reliably as spring's shooting stars. To botanists across the country, this place is a pilgrimage site. To local residents, it is either a source of pride or a shameful weed lot (some feel regular mowing would show more respect for the dead). To the photographer and writer Stephen Longmire, it is a place where the stories of the rural Midwest are written on the land--a long exposure, extending back to the days when Meskwaki Indians camped nearby and wildfire held back the forest. In the creative tension between people and place, Rochester's prairie holds its native ground. Historic cemetery plantings grow wild among the native wildflowers, and bright plastic flowers decorate modern graves. In compelling photographs and prose, Longmire shows this patch of original Iowa to be a living record of all the land's uses since its settlement.
Death On The Prairie
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Author : Paul I. Wellman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Death On The Prairie
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Author : Paul Iselin Wellman
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Death On The Prairie written by Paul Iselin Wellman 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 1987-01-01 with History categories.
Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces—all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.
Death In A Prairie House
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Author : William R. Drennan
language : en
Publisher: Terrace Books
Release Date : 2007-01-18
Death In A Prairie House written by William R. Drennan and has been published by Terrace Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-18 with Architecture categories.
The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association
Death On The Prairie The Terrible Struggle For The Western Plains With Plates
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Author : Paul Iselin Wellman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Death On The Prairie The Terrible Struggle For The Western Plains With Plates written by Paul Iselin Wellman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Life And Death In A Small Southern Town
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Author : Gayle Graham Yates
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Life And Death In A Small Southern Town written by Gayle Graham Yates and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with History categories.
Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal impressions with the words of Shubuta people telling their own stories, Yates offers a rich narrative of the town from its Choctaw prehistory through the tremendous economic, political, racial, and social changes that led to its present. The author's pilgrimage leads us to the Hanging Bridge, where some black Shubutans were lynched; to a bank that did not fail during the Great Depression; and to the office of the doctor who tends broken hearts as well as broken arms. Yates takes us to Shubuta's most beautiful gardens and ugliest vacant lots, to all the stores in town, to the new post office, and to the town hall. In the process, we learn how Shubuta evolved from a racially stratified town to one in which the descendants of slaves are now political leaders, librarians, business owners, and police officials. Yates also tells of her own moral journey from judgmental young activist to middle-aged scholar mellowed by experience, travel, and reading who sees her home with newfound compassion. Ultimately, she shows us Small Town southern America: a strong, frail, fascinating, and complex human community.
Death On The Prairie
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Author : Kathleen Ernst
language : en
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Death On The Prairie written by Kathleen Ernst and has been published by Llewellyn Worldwide this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Chloe takes custody of a quilt once owned by the beloved author, the sisters set out on the trip of a lifetime, hoping to prove that Wilder stitched it herself. But death strikes as the journey begins, and trouble stalks their fellow travelers. Among the "Little House" devotees are academic critics, greedy collectors, and obsessive fans. Kari is distracted by family problems, and unexpected news from Chloe's boyfriend jeopardizes her own future. As the sisters travel deeper into Wilder territory, Chloe races to discover the truth about a precious artifact—and her own heart—before a killer can strike again.
Life And Death Of An Oilman
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Author : John Joseph Mathews
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1974-12-01
Life And Death Of An Oilman written by John Joseph Mathews 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 1974-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Life In Prairie Land
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Author : Eliza Wood Farnham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Life In Prairie Land written by Eliza Wood Farnham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Illinois categories.