Author : Lewis Ankeny McArthur
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Local author
ISBN : 9780875952772
The comprehensive guide to Oregon place names
Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0520266196
This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
Author : John W. Van Cott
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874803457
Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What istheir history? Their importance? Over thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passagesof peoples and cultures from earliest times.
Author : Helen S. Carlson
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0874174031
Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.
Author : Lalia Phipps Boone
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Dictionary format gives location and brief history or background of thousands of geographic places in Idaho.
Author : Warren Upham
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Minnesota
ISBN :
Author : Allan Richardson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0774820489
Place names can lead us on fascinating journeys into other cultures. They convey a people’s relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also be central to the revival of endangered languages. This book takes readers on an exciting voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack Tribe of Washington State and southern British Columbia. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway trace the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land by documenting more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns – combined with maps, photographs, and detailed linguistic analyses – give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity.
Author : Thomas Mathews Pearce
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Clare D'Artois Leeper
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0807147397
From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mardi Gras Bayou in between, avid writer Clare D Artois Leeper offers her own alphabet of places in Louisiana, both past and present. Louisiana Place Names includes 893 entries that reveal Leeper s distinct view of the state s history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom result in an entertaining guide to Louisiana s place name lore.
Author : Peter Browning
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780944220191
In this book are the stories of how the names of Yosemite National Park came to be: the record of who named what and when, quotations from explorers, tourists, geographers, rangers, and soldiers, and often the peculiar, humorous, or moving events that gave rise to the names on the maps today.
