[PDF] Thunder In The Mountains eBook

Author : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0393634183

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“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.

Author : Lon Savage
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1985-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0822971429

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The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over, three West Virginia counties were in open rebellion, much of the state was under military rule, and bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps had been dispatched against striking miners.The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death.Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners' rebellion into open warfare.Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547349742

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Through the eyes of a brave and independent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce, a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism. This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter. When Sound of Running Feet first sees white settlers on Nez Perce land, she vows to fight them. She'll fight all the people trying to steal her people's land and to force them onto a reservation, including the soldiers with their guns. But if to fight means only to die, never win, is the fight worth it? When will the killing stop? Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Thunder Rolling in the Mountains is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.

Author : Agnieszka Biskup
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1429662700

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"In graphic novel format, explores the battles and hardships faced by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce when they were forced to leave their homelands"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter A. Galuszka
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250000211

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The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.

Author : Mountain Wolf Woman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472061099

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A classic ethnography of continuing importance

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140548750

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Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International

Author : Lee Duigon
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1891375520

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Finally… Faithful Fiction that Reveals the Kingdom of God!

Introducing Bell Mountain, by Lee Duigon, the first novel from Chalcedon’s new label, Storehouse Press!

The world is going to end as soon as Jack and Ellayne ring the bell on top of Bell Mountain. No one has ever climbed the mountain, and no one has ever seen the bell. But the children have a divine calling to carry out the mission, and it sweeps them into high adventure.

For the world is already changing, and fast: legends come to life, strange beasts emerge from the forest, bandits and slave traders hunt the helpless, and war rumbles on the borderlands.

The children must make their way through all these perilsnot knowing that a professional killer has been sent to stop them.

For there are others who know the secret of the bell a terrible secret, only hinted at in the sacred writings. But do they understand Gods plan any better than the children?

The world has been shaken to its foundations before. Will this be the final shaking?

Great for young adults.

Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Thunder Mountain" by Zane Grey. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : K. Scott Agnew
Publisher : Mongoose Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2005-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781904854685

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From the award winning pen of J. Michael Straczynski comes Jeremiah, a gritty tale of life and survival in a terrifying post-apocalyptic nightmare. Taking a plot line as familiar as it is popular, Straczynski has created a background rich in detail which formed the basis of this critically acclaimed television series. Thunder Mountain is a fully detailed and lavishly illustrated sourcebook for the government base featured in the hit TV series and roleplaying game.