The Mule Men: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada, Paperback - Louise A. Jackson

This book takes us inside the adventure, hardships, and joys peculiar to the packing trade. Part One is an account of the evolution of the packing ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It descri...

Reducere. Saddle up and ride the winding trails of the Sierra through the pages of this book. In the not so distant past, exploration and settlement of this ...

It is our intent to present as accurate and up-to-date an account as possible of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchh., known popularly as the g...

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When twelve-year-old Ruthy Donohue is sent away from home, because of an awful tragedy in the fall of 1837, she has to figure out how to cope with ...

'[A] gripping study of Western attitudes to women of a certain age and older ... Scared of the change, or just keen on social history? Here's your ...

Guidebook to walks and multi-day treks in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain's Andalucia. The 38 routes include the highest point of contine...

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The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

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Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife is a collection of 34 poems that probe the questions: 'How much does the essence of one's psyche weigh? Is the...

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A comprehensive history of the industries of the Granite City of AberdeenPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Jim FiddesIllustration(s): 8 Pl...

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Reducere. This fourth edition of The Mule Companion is a comprehensive book on mules with new photos of many real people and mules doing real mule activities...

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Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intell...

Reducere. Two scenes from the life of Queen Isabel of Portugal, a peacemaker of the Middle Ages. Illustrations include portraits of Isabel, a period painting...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nancy MaceAuthor: Mary Jane RossWhen Nancy Mace entered the Citadel, the United States government had just recently overtur...

A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of E...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Louise JacksonIllustration(s): 41 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 41 Illustrat...

Reducere. Making Good Men Better is an accessible and succinct devotional for Freemasons and those who are curious about the Craft. Each week Davis invites t...

They came from all points of the compass, these women. Some were married to men who had traveled to Nevada to make a fresh start in life or to mayb...

A technology expert describes the ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence in weapons development, the ethical dilemmas these weapons pose, ...

A fascinating, well illustrated and compact history of nursing in Great Britain. The author traces the story of nurses and the impact they have had...

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacu...

Reducere. Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the fede...

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Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.

Reducere. Before he was Old Hickory" and the "People's President, " Andrew Jackson came of age in the Waxhaw region of the Carolinas during the turmoil of th...

The vivid memoirs of a combat infantryman of the 99th Division, whose unit was at the forefront of the Battle of the Bulge and the subsequent advan...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this richly illustrated guide, nationally recognized artist and naturalist Cathy Johnson offers a complete introduction to the time-h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy RennerThough the terms "Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" have only been in our popular vocabulary since the late 1950s, peo...

Family memoir