Book Description
A look at Arkansas as seen through the eyes of its residents. The result of an online photography contest sponsored by the newspaper in 2008.
Author : Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781597251457
A look at Arkansas as seen through the eyes of its residents. The result of an online photography contest sponsored by the newspaper in 2008.
Author : Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781597252607
A look at Arkansas as seen through the eyes of its residents. The result of an online photography contest sponsored by the newspaper in 2010.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781597255042
Capture Arkansas IV is a unique approach to fine-art book publishing. An online community of local photographers submitted photos to be considered for this book in specific categories (or challenges) on capturearkansas.com. Then, area residents voted to determine which photos would be published. The chapters in this book are pulled from the challenges phosted to capturearkansas.com. From 232,217 photo submissions to the pages of this book, 3,923,276 votes from local folks helped shape what you hold in your hands. It's Arkansas through the eyes and lenses of local photographers and enthusiasts. Enjoy.
Author : Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781597254359
Capture Arkansas III is a unique approach to fine-art book publishing. An online community of local photographers submitted photos to be considered for this book. Area residents voted to determine which photos would be published. It's Arkansas through the eyes and lenses of local photographers and enthusiasts.
Author : Don Roth
Publisher : Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781929919772
It can be said that the American Civil War has drawn more interest and historical scholarship than any other event in our nation's past. The War as it was fought west of the Mississippi River has perhaps been the least covered of all the aspects of the conflict. General J. O. Shelby at Clarendon, Arkansas: The Capture and Destruction of the USS Queen City addresses the cauldron of lawlessness generated by deserters from both sides behind enemy lines, while highlighting the destruction of the USS Queen City by Gen. Joseph O. Shelby. This 1864 event on the lower White River, 50 miles from the Mississippi River, marks the only sinking of a Federal warship in Arkansas waters. Considered one of the best Confederate cavalrymen to operate in the Trans-Mississippi, Shelby led his "Iron Brigade" on one of the longest cavalry raids of the Civil War.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368198173
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Richard S. West
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789121191
A DEFINITIVE BUT HIGHLY EXCITING LIFE OF ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL AND HITHERTO NEGLECTED FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY David Dixon Porter (1813-1891) was a U.S. Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War. Porter began naval service as a midshipman at the age of 10 under his father, Commodore David Porter, on the frigate U.S.S. John Adams. He served in the Mexican War in the attack on the fort at the City of Vera Cruz, commanded an independent flotilla of mortar boats at the capture of New Orleans, and later advanced to the rank of (acting) rear admiral in command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which co-operated with the army under Maj.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign. After the fall of Vicksburg, he led the naval forces in the difficult Red River Campaign in Louisiana. Late in 1864, Porter was transferred from the interior to the Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war. Porter worked to raise the standards of the U.S. Navy in the position of Superintendent of the Naval Academy when it was restored to Annapolis. He initiated reforms in the curriculum to increase professionalism. In the early days of President Grant's administration, Porter was de facto Secretary of the Navy. When his adoptive brother David G. Farragut was advanced from rank of vice-admiral to admiral, Porter took his previous position; likewise, when Farragut died, Porter became the second man to hold the newly created rank of admiral. He gathered a corps of like-minded officers devoted to naval reform.
Author : Shay E. Hopper
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1557288453
Adopted by the State of Arkansas for 2008 Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for middle-level and/or junior-high-school Arkansas-history classes. This fourth edition incorporates new research done after extensive consultations with middle-level and junior-high teachers from across the state, curriculum coordinators, literacy coaches, university professors, and students themselves. It includes a multitude of new features and is now full color throughout. This edition has been completely redesigned and now features a modern format and new graphics suitable for many levels of student readers. The completely revised fourth edition includes new unit, chapter, and section divisions as well as five brand-new chapters: an introductory chapter with information on the symbols, flag, and songs of Arkansas; chapter 2, which covers the geography of Arkansas; chapter 3, on state and local government; chapter four, on economics and tourism; and a “modern” chapter on the Arkansas of today and the future, which completes the learning adventure. This edition also has two “special features”: one on the Central High School crisis of 1957 and another on the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. It also has new and interesting features for students like the “Guide to Reading” (at the beginning of each chapter, there is a list of important terms, people, places and events for the student to keep in mind as he or she reads [corresponding to blue vocabulary words in the text, which are define in the margin]), “County Quest,” “I Am an Arkansan,” “Did You Know?” “Only in Arkansas,” “A Day in the Life,” “Chapter Reflection” questions and activities, over forty-five new content maps, and a comprehensive new map atlas.
Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1885
Category : World history
ISBN :
Author : Gary C. Cole
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1490798544
Riding With the 19th Texas Cavalry in the War West of the Mississippi 1862-1865 is the story of William Hardy Bennett’s Confederate military service as a Private in Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence and his experiences during Reconstruction that followed the war. He enlisted with the Mesquite Light Horse Militia in Dallas County, Texas on 8 January 1861 some one and a half months before the citizens of Texas ratified the State’s Ordinance of Secession. Some fourteen months later on 21 March 1862, he enlisted with Captain Allen Beard’s Company, Burford’s Texas Cavalry in Dallas, Texas to defend his family, Dallas County, and the State of Texas against a Yankee army determined to invade and destroy the State. Beard’s Company became Co. B of the 19th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was an important part of Colonel William Henry Parsons’ Texas Brigade that fought with distinction in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Hardy fought in some fifty engagements and was often in harm’s way, but he survived and returned to Dallas County, Texas after the war and prospered despite the economic and political problems that plagued the county during Reconstruction.