[PDF] The House At Otowi Bridge eBook

Author : Peggy Pond Church
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 1960
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826302816

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A tribute to Edith Warner who befriended both the Indians of San Ildefonso and the atomic scientists at Los Alamos.

Author : Peggy Pond Church
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1973-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826325505

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This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil with whom she came in contact. The quality of the country, of the many kinds of people, and of the central character come through excellently." --Oliver La Farge

Author : Edith Warner
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Los Alamos Region (N.M.)
ISBN : 0826319785

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To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.

Author : TaraShea Nesbit
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408845989

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Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.

Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743250087

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Recounts the experiences of the scientists, technicians, and families stationed at the site that planned and built the first atomic bomb, also known as the Manhattan Project.

Author : Nancy Cook Steeper
Publisher : Los Alamos Historical Society Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Los Alamos (N.M.)
ISBN : 9780941232302

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Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.