Hells Gorge

Author : Grace Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803251076
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Below Hell's Canyon written by Grace Jordan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.2U/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hells Canyon Dam written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 20.

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446410870
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell's Gorge written by Matthew Parker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history. Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles. Matthew Parker explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. But he also weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal, to evoke everyday life on the construction and depict the battle on the ground deep in 'Hell's Gorge'. Using diaries, memoirs, contemporary newspapers and previously unseen private letters, he draws a vivid picture of the heart-breaking struggle on the Isthmus, in particular that of the British West Indians who made up the majority of the canal workforce. Hell's Gorge is a tale of politics, finance, press manipulation, scandal and intrigue, populated by a dazzling cast of idealists and bullies, heroes and conmen. But it is also a moving tribute to the 'Forgotten Silvermen', so many of whom died to fulfil the centuries-old canal dream.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1560 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hells Canyon National Recreation Area written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hells Canyon National Recreation Area written by United States. Congress. House. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hells Canyon National Recreation Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tracy Lowell Vallier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands & Rapids written by Tracy Lowell Vallier and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Ashworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hells Canyon, the Deepest Gorge on Earth written by William Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbia River Gorge written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gifford-Pinchot National Forest (N.F.) and Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Site-specific Invasive Plant Treatment Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: