The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants
Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Hunting
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Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Northwest, Old
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Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Americana
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Author : Donald J. Blakeslee
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 160344792X
Most people would not consider north central Kansas’ Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known—when it is thought of at all—for agriculture and, perhaps to a few, as the home of "The World’s Largest Ball of Twine" (in nearby Cawker City). Yet, to the native people living in this region in the centuries before Anglo incursion, this was a place of great spiritual power and mystic significance. Waconda Spring, now beneath the waters of the lake, was held as sacred, a place where connection with the spirit world was possible. Nearby, a giant snake symbol carved into the earth by native peoples—likely the ancestors of today’s Wichitas—signified a similar place of reverence and totemic power. All that began to change on July 6, 1870, when Charles DeRudio, an officer in the 7th U.S. Cavalry who had served with George Armstrong Custer, purchased a tract on the north bank of the Solomon River—a tract that included Waconda Spring. DeRudio had little regard for the sacred properties of his acreage; instead, he viewed the mineral spring as a way to make money. In Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Springs, Kansas, anthropologist Donald J. Blakeslee traces the usage and attendant meanings of this area, beginning with prehistoric sites dating between AD 1000 and 1250 and continuing to the present day. Addressing all the sites at Waconda Lake, regardless of age or cultural affiliation, Blakeslee tells a dramatic story that looks back from the humdrum present through the romantic haze of the nineteenth century to an older landscape, one that is more wonderful by far than what the modern imagination can conceive.
Author : Rush Christopher Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1887
Category : America
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Author : Rod Beemer
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0870044559
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, prairie fires, lightning, and droughts tested the mettle of both native and newcomer. This is the story of man’s encounters with Mother Nature on America’s prairies and plains during nineteenth-century westward expansion and settlement.
Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1996-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684824396
Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints