Author : R. Gregory Nokes
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides an account of the massacre of over thirty Chinese gold miners on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, a crime that has remained unsolved since 1887, and provides evidence that indicates the killers were a gang of seven rustlers and schoolboys who were never prosecuted for the murders.
Author : Grace Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803251076
During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is valuable because it writes a little-known way of life into the national chronicle. We are put in touch with the kind of people who set the country on its feet and in the generations since have kept it there. . . . Primarily it is a book of courage and effort tempered by the warmth of those who trust in goodness and practice it."-Christian Science Monitor "The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life."-Seattle Post Intelligencer
Author : Fred Barstad
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Backpacking
ISBN : 9781585921201
Information about some of the finest trails through Hells Canyon, a National Recreation Area of cavernous gorges, timbered plateau, ridgetop meadows, and mountain wilderness.
Author : Duwain Whitis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780981939582
Whitewater boating guidebook for the Snake River in Hells Canyon and the lower Salmon River with topographic maps and mile-by-mile descriptions
Author : Pamela Royes
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1619028832
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four–year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love. Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home–coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.
Author : Tracy Lowell Vallier
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN :
In this book, the first written on the geology of Hells Canyon, a world-class scientist tells the story of the deepest gorge on the North American continent. Born as islands in the Pacific Ocean, the rocks in Hells Canyon moved slowly northward with the North American continent after it broke loose from the Pangea supercontinent. Finally, the islands collided with the North American continent and were zippered to it. Bathed again by the sea, deeply eroded, and subsequently covered beneath a mile of lava flows, the entire area was lifted by, and along, large faults. In addition to telling the geologic history of the canyon, the book includes a mile-by-mile guide to the major features of Hells Canyon. A glossary and an annotated bibliography also complement the author's narrative along with his personal reminiscences and more than 100 photographs, many in full color.
Author : Violet Wilson Shirley
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478701279
This is one helluva narrative about one helluva woman who believed that Hells Canyon was her heaven. You'll be captivated by Violet Wilson Shirley's stories about ranch life in the deepest part of Hells Canyon. The Pete and Ethel Wilson family lived exemplary lives. Could we survive and scratch out a productive life in this rugged terrain with rattlesnakes, fickle weather, steep slopes, and animal predators constantly challenging our bodies and minds? Could we successfully raise eight children? After she retired, Violet returned to the canyon as a U.S. Forest Service volunteer at the Kirkwood visitor center. She contributed time almost every year between 1986 and 2004. Violet's spirit is chiseled into the cliffs and slopes of Hells Canyon and floats above the rapids of Snake River as it plunges through that spectacular gorge. - Tracy Vallier
Author : Dr. Lowell Dingus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1250092523
"Given its wide range, this book should attract readers of history and lovers of the American West in addition to dinosaur junkies. " - Publishers Weekly Hell Creek, Montana, is one of the most windswept, hardscrabble locales in the American West-a quiet town of ranchers, farmers, and others who seek the beauty of the open spaces. It is also the unlikely setting of some of the most fascinating events in the history of the United States and North America. From the first-ever discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex to Lewis and Clark's landmark expedition; from the Freeman compound standoff to Sitting Bull and Little Big Horn, Hell Creek has been a central player in the events of the last two hundred years-and the last 200 million. Now, with grace and quiet wit, renowned paleontologist and writer Lowell Dingus takes us on a tour of this desolate, beautiful, out-of-the-way place and illuminates its inhabitants, geology, paleontology, and surprising place in history. Nature lovers, dinosaur buffs, and people fascinated with the turbulent history--both ancient and modern--of the American West will find much to delight them in this journey to Hell Creek.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (Or. and Idaho)
ISBN :
Author : Emily Sheehan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781760622466
Sometimes there are things you cant forget about, even when you try. They just pop into your brain outta nowhere. Walking home, or in line at the canteen, or when we were making out before. It smacks you right in the face. Right outta nowhere. I dont know whats so wrong about remembering. Caitlin and Oscar are hiding out in a motel in the middle of the Australian outback. No one knows theyre there, and seventeen-year-old Caitlin wont tell fifteen-year-old Oscar why shes running. Theyre out of money and the only thing they have on them is a rare and valuable graphic novel, Hells Canyon. But Oscar doesnt want to sell it. Not for this. Not for anything. Hells Canyon is a play that celebrates everything magical about being a young person, the tenacity of teenage friendship, and our ability to transcend tragedy by reaching for the sublime.
