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Author: Tim Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781087872339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of the award-winning novels, The Indian Fighter and The Cow Hunters (Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award), this is the First novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series.
Author: Timothy Brush
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1603446168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Halfway between Dallas and Mexico City, along the last few hundred miles of the Rio Grande, lies a subtropical outpost where people from all over the world come to see birds. Located between the temperate north and the tropic south, with desert to the west and ocean to the east, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas provides habitat for a variety of birds seen nowhere else in the United States. If you want to see a Hooked-billed Kite, Muscovy Duck, or Altamira Oriole, this is the place." "Drawing on years of personal observation and study, Timothy Brush has written a classic work of natural history about the little-known breeding bird communities of the Valley and the diversity of nesting strategies and behaviors that can be seen. Brush estimates that there are more than 150 current breeding species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier, he describes the habits, distribution, changes in occurrence, and general outlook of these as well as former breeders, concentrating on Valley specialties and other birds of particular interest in the Valley." "Art by Gerald Sneed and color photographs by several of Texas' top nature photographers show off some of the Valley's famous birds. Historical maps of vegetation and geology help us gain a better perspective on the changes that have taken place along the Rio Grande and on the breeding bird communities of the U.S.-Mexico frontier."--Jacket
Author: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1469656116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.
Author: Ginger Lee Pedersen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1614236682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century society couple who helped turn a tropical wilderness into a Gilded Age paradise. Palm Beach’s sunny and idyllic shores had humble beginnings as a wilderness of sawgrass and swamps only braved by the hardiest of souls. Two such adventurers were Fred and Byrd “Birdie” Spilman Dewey, who pioneered in central Florida before discovering the tropical beauty of Palm Beach in 1887. Though their story was all but lost, this dynamic couple was vital in transforming the region from a rough backcountry into a paradise poised for progress. Authors Ginger Pedersen and Janet DeVries trace the remarkable history of the Deweys in South Florida from their beginnings on the isolated frontier to entertaining the likes of the Flaglers, Vanderbilts, Phippses, Cluetts, Clarkes, and other Palm Beach elite. Using Birdie’s autobiographical writings from her bestselling books to fill in the gaps, Pedersen and DeVries narrate a chapter in Florida’s history that has remained untold until now.
Author: Canxue
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781940953540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain, where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can enter a paradisiacal garden. Exploring life in this city through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life - barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures.
Author: Tim Robinson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-02-28
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781481899536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the third installment in the "Tropical Frontier" series. The Gladesman, a disgusting, vile swamp dweller comes to Port Starboard - a tiny settlement on the northwest shore of 1880's Lake Worth - and everything goes downhill from there. Because of him, however, the residents discover that Maggie Hooker, a black woman and the town's shopkeeper/postmistress, is the glue that holds the community together (yes, there was a black postmistress on Lake Worth, Fannie James, during that period).
Author: Patrick D. Smith
Publisher: Pineapple PressInc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781561642236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.
Author: Joe Knetsch
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-27
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780982110546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For nearly three decades, Dr. Joe Knetsch has been one of the leading authorities on Florida's three Seminole Wars. Over the years, his articles have been published in many of the state's leading historical publications and in journals as varied as "The Journal of America's Military Past" and "Florida Keys Sea Heritage Journal." Finding these important works, or even knowing they exist, has often been difficult. Now, in this one volume, The Seminole Wars Foundation has gathered many of Dr. Knetsch's articles on the Second Seminole War in one convenient place. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from showing how the cattle industry helped bring on the war, to examining how hurricanes and tropical storms affected its conduct. In this authoritative book we learn how Floridians coped with the war, from St. Augustine to Tampa, to Tallahassee. We also learn how the soldiers fought the war in remote places like Charlotte Harbor, the Everglades, and the Cove of the Withlacoochee. We also meet some of the more interesting players in the conflict, from those who played smaller parts, like Benjamin Putnam and Sam Heintzelman, to major figures like Thomas Jesup and William Worth. With extensive endnotes and a bibliography that is a valuable resource by itself, "Fear and Anxiety on the Florida Frontier" will be a treasured addition to the library of anyone interested in Florida history and in the story of the Seminole Wars.
Author: Timothy Bottoms
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1743313829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history.
Author: Tim L. Lewis
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1647011140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finding game after the shot is of paramount importance to all hunters, users of firearms and bows alike. No other book has amassed so much vital knowledge on the subject as Tales of Trails. The pages deal comprehensively with all aspects of post-shot tracking, and yet the information is conveyed in an understandable and interesting way with many examples and spellbinding accounts. Anyone anxious to improve his or her tracking skills will deeply appreciate this book, but so will those who simply enjoy the tales of the hunt and descriptions of nature.
