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Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike
Jared OrsiIn Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
History and Presence
Robert A. OrsiFrederika Randall (New York: Picador, 2010), 264–267; on Pope John Paul II ( Saint Karol Wojtyla) and Fatima, see George Weigel, ... The phrase in the text is from Robert H. Sharf, “Experience,” in Critical Terms for Religious Studies, ed.
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise ...
Jon T. ColemanJared Orsi has shown how aspiring gentlemen like Zebulon Pike used frontier hardships to enhance their status. See Jared Orsi, “Zebulon Pike and His 'Frozen Lads': Bodies, Nationalism, and the West in the Early Republic,” Western ...
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
More editions... Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash , Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse, Jay Taylor, and Kim Todd read the entire ...
Lamar Series in Western History: Emerald City: an ...
Matthew W. Klingle... including Thomas Andrews, Kathy Brosnan, Kent Curtis, Jared Farmer, Mark Fiege, Drew Isenberg, Ari Kelman, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Sara Pritchard, Jeff Sanders, Robert Self, Bruce Stadfeld, Ellen Stroud, and Bob Wilson. Kathyrn Morse ...
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared OrsiThis book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century.
National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on ...
PreviewCONTENTS PART I two three four five PART II List of Illustrations | ix Acknowledgments | xi Introduction | 3 Adrian Howkins, Mark Fiege, and Jared Orsi one Beyond the Best Idea: A Look at Mount Rainier, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert ...
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the ...
PreviewJared Orsi n early September 1805, two very powerful men were I thinking about rivers. Upon their concerns hung the fates of nations. One was Nemesio Salcedo, the highest-ranking Spanish official in northern Mexico. On September 9, from ...
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Jared OrsiAn fascinating history of flood control efforts in Los Angeles from the 1870s to the present, showing how engineering has continually failed to contain nature. This book teaches us to think of cities as ecosystems.
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan ...
Preview7 Flood Control Engineering in the Urban Ecosystem JARED ORSI A winter storm rolled onshore at Los Angeles on February 13, 1980. A second storm followed a day later, then a third and a fourth and a fifth. A sixth storm brought the heaviest ...
Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
Prakash KumarMark Fiege, Fredrik Jonsson, and Jared Orsi were part of a reading group where we discussed the crossover themes between environmental history and the history of science. Thaddeus Sunseri very generously read several chapters, and ...
Citizen's Guide to Colorado's Water Heritage
Colorado Foundation for Water EducationBy Jared Orsi - e don't usually think of Colorado rivers as being important for navigation. Wehave interstates for that. Roadsigns point the way to all destinations. The McDonalds, Motel 6, and Conoco station at the next interchange take care of ...
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the ...
Richard J. Orsiabout Mills, Eberlein warned, “we shall be in an awkward fix if Mills flies the track and pulls out and there is grave danger he may”; Eberlein to Cornish, San Francisco, July 15, 1903, Eberlein Correspondence. For the campaign to oust Mills for ...
Citizen Explorer: The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike
Jared OrsiVirgil W. Dean. Special issue, Kansas History 29 (Spring 2006): 34–47. Oliva, Leo E., ed. “'Sent Out by Our Great Father': Zebulon Montgomery Pike's Journal and Route across Kansas, 1806.” In “The Pike Expedition: A Bicentennial Reflection ...
Recreating the Rhône: nature and technology in France since ...
Sara B. Pritchard... Karin Ellison, Martina Kaup, Ari Kelman, Matthew Klingle, Neil Maher, Betsy Mendohlson, Suzanne Moon, Linda Nash, Jared Orsi, Karen Oslund, Adam Rome, Josh Silverman, Adam Sowards, Ellen Stroud, Greg Summers, Joseph Taylor, ...
Darling
Frederic RaphaelIt was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Jackson Squared
Smallwood F. RobertSmallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...
Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers
Robert RogersRobert Rogers. Arcadia Ebooks 2016 [email protected] www. arcadiaebooks.altervista.org Robert Rogers Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers (1765) INTRODUCTION. FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. The Journals of Major Robert ...
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,: Extracted Out of ...
Robert Thoroton... of the Gift of Robert de Archis ; and whatever Robert de Grefley, and Albert, his Son, the Founders, gave to the said Church of Swinjheved, fourteen Acres which Robert Rosell gave, and. the Exchanges which Rxsger de Buran and his Men ...
United States Congressional Serial Set
More editions08/21/79-08/31/79 1079323199 HOUSE RECORDING STUDIO . 10/09/7910/30/ 79 1079324021 ROBERT MCCLORY . 10/24/79 1079324019 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 10/31/79 1079324016 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 11/11/79 793240 ROBERT ...
Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and ...
Patrick Allan SharmaG. H. R. to Robert McNamara, February 1975, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 117. Shaun Farragher to Robert McNamara, September 28, 1977, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 118. Blaxall, interview with author. 119. Shapley ...
The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers ...
Millard B. GrimesIn 1981 he received the John E. Drewry Award for Distinguished Achievement in Journalism. ... Robert Tribble Neely Young Robert Chambers ROBERT E. TRIBBLE, 1982-83 Robert E. (Bob) Tribble started his newspaper company with ...
Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...
Robert RobinsonMr. Robert Robinson was born on the 8th. of October, 1735, at Swaff ham in the county of Norfolk.* His father Mr. Michael Robinson, a native of Scotland, was an exciseman ; his mother was the daughter of Mr. Robert Wilkin, of Mil- denhall, ...
Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey
William C. ArmstrongWe now tabulate herewith the early household descending from (B) Robert Lanning based on data kindly furnished by Mr. Robert C. Lanning of Washington, N.J. Robert Lanning Robert Lanning married Martha Hart who died in 1749. She was ...
Robert Smithson
Robert SmithsonRobert A. Sobieszek ln 2001 a nondescript cardboard package with taped sides was discovered in a warehouse storing what was left of Robert Smithson's estate. Nearly thrown out as trash, the package revealed two large works on paper ...
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
Previewdirector Kaliche Warni script Kaliche Warni ROBERT WHEATON A Little Off Mark 1986 (16mm, b&w, 9 min) producer / production co. Robert Wheaton director Robert Wheaton script Robert Wheaton camera S. Torriano Berry editor Robert ...
Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience
Yaroslav KomarovskiPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Buswell, Robert E., and Robert M. Gimello. “Introduction.” In Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, edited by Robert E. Buswell and Robert M. Gimello, 1–36.
Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations Of ...
Leah ZahlerBuswell, Robert E., Jr., and Robert M. Gimello. "Introduction." Paths to Liberation: The Marga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Robert M. Gimello, eds. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 7.
Army Air Force Victories
Preview... ROBERT J MEYER, ROBERT J MILES, ROBERT E MONCRIEFF, REX E MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M 1LT ...
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