1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Eugene L. Conrotto
Release : 1973
Genre : Miwok Indians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Miwok Means People [excerpts] by : Eugene L. Conrotto
Download or read book Miwok Means People [excerpts] written by Eugene L. Conrotto. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene L. Conrotto
Release : 1973
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Miwok Means People by : Eugene L. Conrotto
Download or read book Miwok Means People written by Eugene L. Conrotto. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Conrotto
Release : 2016-06-13
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Miwok Means People by : Eugene Conrotto
Download or read book Miwok Means People written by Eugene Conrotto. This book was released on 2016-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you live in a self-contained village where your parents and their parents and all your forebears from the beginning of time have lived. Imagine that within a day's walking distance from your village are the villages of other People-to the east and west and north and south. They are PEOPLE because they speak words you mainly understand. There are in these foothills 9000 such PEOPLE. Then imagine that in the space of a few months 90,000 ûyeayû-white men-come uninvited to all the PEOPLE'S villages to tear away the ground under the PEOPLE'S feet looking for rocks. For each one of you there are 10 of them. Imagine!
Author : Victoria Christian
Release : 2007-12-05
Genre : Photography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 870/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sunol by : Victoria Christian
Download or read book Sunol written by Victoria Christian. This book was released on 2007-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839, Antonio Sunol acquired this beautiful valley, originally inhabited by Ohlone Indians, to raise his cattle. Thirty years passed, and the First Transcontinental Railroad was poised to make history, completing the last segment of rail from Sacramento to Oakland. The final link was laidstraight through the middle of Sunoland a small village was suddenly transformed. The valley prospered with new wealth; hotels and railroad depots were built along with hay warehouses, a grocery and a mercantile, a blacksmith shop, post office, five schools, and a church. San Francisco families built summer homes in the new resort destination. The Spring Valley Water Company purchased property in the valley, where some of their largest water mains to San Francisco would flow, and even commissioned famed architect Willis Polk to design his Italian-style masterpiece, The Water Temple. Early prosperity eventually gave way to the grim realities of the Depression and the war years, however, and families began occupying the summer cabins lining Kilkare Road year-round. But as the towns permanent population grew, a new and unique community emerged.
Author : Thomas Vale
Release : 2013-04-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 027/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape by : Thomas Vale
Download or read book Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape written by Thomas Vale. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape seeks a middle ground between those conflicting paradigms, offering a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes. An introductory essay offers context for the regional chapters, and a concluding section compares results from the various regions and highlights patterns both common to the West as a whole and distinctive for various parts of the western states. The final section also relates the findings to policy questions concerning the management of natural areas, particularly on federal lands, and of the "naturalness" of the pre-European western landscape.
