Take Up Your Mission Mormon Colonizing Along The Little Colorado River 1870 1900
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Take Up Your Mission Mormon Colonizing Along The Little Colorado River 1870 1900
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Author : Charles S. Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Take Up Your Mission Mormon Colonizing Along The Little Colorado River 1870 1900 written by Charles S. Peterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
Excavating Mormon Pasts
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Author : Newell C. Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Excavating Mormon Pasts written by Newell C. Bringhurst and has been published by Greg Kofford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with Religion categories.
Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century.
Along Navajo Trails
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Author : Will Evans
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2020-03-30
Along Navajo Trails written by Will Evans and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-30 with History categories.
A piece of Navajo history otherwise forgotten: the first-hand observations of a Mormon trader on the culture and art of his Navajo contemporaries The overwhelming interest of Will Evans, proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company, in Navajo culture spanned a half century. He shared his enthusiasm through frequent publication of portraits, vignettes, and essays; he also compiled much of his writing into a book manuscript. His subjects were his customers, friends, and neighbors, their stories of historic events such as the Long Walk, and their life as he understood it. Evans’s writings were colored by his uncommon friendship and familiarity with Navajo people but also by who he was: a trader, folk artist, and Mormon. Inspired by sand paintings, Evans appropriated their sacred images for his own paintings of murals and everyday objects. In his writing, he preserved unique records of Navajo history and of individuals about whom little biographical information otherwise remains. Much of that was based on what he heard from his Navajo acquaintances, but it also drew on his direct observations and particular beliefs about the people, their culture, and their history. Evans’s granddaughter Susan E. Woods collaborated with historian Robert S. McPherson, author of numerous books on Navajo and Four Corners history, to prepare and publish Will Evans’s manuscript, which is illustrated with a remarkable and rare selection of photos from the collections of Evans and his colleagues.
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z
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Author : Dan L. Thrapp
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1991-06-01
Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography P Z written by Dan L. Thrapp 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 1991-06-01 with History categories.
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Electrifying The Rural American West
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Author : Leah S. Glaser
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2009-11-01
Electrifying The Rural American West written by Leah S. Glaser 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 2009-11-01 with History categories.
Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era?s most prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies controlled power production, electrical transmission, and distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not ?economically feasible? for many ethnic and rural communities to access ?the grid.? Yet, government agents continued to advocate electrical living through federal programs that reached into and across farming communities and American Indian reservations to homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process, subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters. ø Electrifying the Rural American West provides a social and cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As today?s policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool to bring democracy to faraway places and ?smart grids? to deliver renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical relationship of Americans with electronic power production, distribution, and regulation.
Cultures At A Crossroads
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Author : Kathleen L. McKoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Cultures At A Crossroads written by Kathleen L. McKoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Electronic government information categories.
Navajo Land Selection
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Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Navajo Land Selection E.I.S. Task Force
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Navajo Land Selection written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Navajo Land Selection E.I.S. Task Force and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Arizona categories.
Petrified Forest National Park
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Author : George M. Lubick
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1996-04
Petrified Forest National Park written by George M. Lubick and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04 with Travel categories.
Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon--a few American national parks enjoy amusement-park status, eclipsing many other beautiful and significant parks due to their heavy political support and spectacular sights. Visitors to Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona can escape from the litter, snack bars, and crowds of the recreational parks to a 200-million-year-old ecosystem locked in stone. Enhanced by the unrivaled, colorful beauty of the adjacent Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park has captivated visitors since the area was discovered by early explorers. The history of the huge fossilized forest parallels that of Arizona. It was discovered and looted by adventurers and largely ignored by the government until President Theodore Roosevelt made it a national monument in 1906. The forest's location along Route 66 brought a large number of visitors during the time it enjoyed only monument status, but lack of funding for protection allowed much damage and theft of fossilized wood. Petrified Forest National Park: A Wilderness Bound in Time speeds the reader on an ancient ecological journey, from the time of dinosaurs to the discovery of their Triassic fossils and on through a century of political maneuvering to create a place for the forest in American history. George Lubick describes how a dedicated few understood the environmental importance as well as the unique beauty of the park's Triassic Chinle Formation and the Painted Desert. Nearly a million people "visit the Triassic" annually; this environmental history of the ancient forest is important for those who know the park as well as those interested in natural America. Petrified Forest National Park is one of the few complete histories of any national park, a well-told, balanced treatment of the environmental, political, and historical factors that shape America's natural history.
The Books Of The Grand Canyon The Colorado River The Green River The Colorado Plateau
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Author : Mike S. Ford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Books Of The Grand Canyon The Colorado River The Green River The Colorado Plateau written by Mike S. Ford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Reference categories.
A Bibliography covering one half century of Southwest literature; a sequel to Farquhar's "The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon."
The Forgotten Founders
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Author : Stewart L. Udall
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2012-06-30
The Forgotten Founders written by Stewart L. Udall and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with History categories.
"...an impressive new book... [The Forgotten Founders] is a gem that encompasses virtually every aspect of the development of our region." -ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS "[Udall] offers a convincing argument that it wasn't the cavalry, fur traders, prospectors, gunslingers or railroad builders who tamed the West; it was 'courageous men and women who made treks into wilderness and created communities in virgin valleys.' Udall's spare prose adds impact to his words." -THE SEATTLE TIMES "The West is so cluttered with misconceptions that it is hard to have a serious discussion about its history." --Wallace Stegner. For most Americans, the "Wild West" popularized in movies and pulp novels -- a land of intrepid traders and explorers, warlike natives, and trigger-happy gunslingers -- has become the true history of the region. The story of the West's development is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to former Secretary of the Interior and native westerner Stewart L. Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe. In The Forgotten Founders, Stewart Udall draws on his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement. Stewart Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a "wild west" has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Stewart Udall substitutes a compelling description of an Old West, the West before the arrival of the railroads, which was the home place for those he calls the "wagon people," the men and women who came, camped, settled, and stayed. He offers a portrait of the West not as a government creation or a corporate colony or a Hollywood set for feckless gold seekers and gun fighters but as primarily a land where brave and hardy people came to make a new life with their families. From Native Americans to Franciscan friars to Mormon pioneers, these were the true settlers, whose goals, according to Stewart Udall were "amity not conquest; stability, not strife; conservation, not waste; restraint, not aggression." The Forgotten Founders offers a provocative new look at one of the most important chapters of American history, rescuing the Old West and its pioneers from the margins of history where latter-day mythmakers have dumped them. For anyone interested in the authentic history of the American West, it is an important and exciting new work.