Morning Comes To Elk Mountain

Author : Gary Lantz
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415271
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morning Comes to Elk Mountain written by Gary Lantz and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz’s response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the seasoned visitor as well as the newcomer to the refuge. The national wildlife refuge that’s the focus of the book was among the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and instead the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction. Today the refuge hosts more than a million visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a spiritual landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home. “The manuscript is incomparable in its depth and breadth of natural and human history of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and, by extension, of southwestern Oklahoma. Anyone with even a passing interest in the refuge or western Oklahoma would absorb abundant knowledge of the entire region nowhere else available in one volume.”—Gary Clark, author of Backroads of the Texas Hill Country: Your Guide to the Most Scenic Adventures and columnist for the Houston Chronicle “I enjoyed the narrative and the intimacy of the story as well as the photography.”—George Maxey, geology professor

Author : Elk Mountain Hotel (Elk Mountain, Wyo.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historic Elk Mountain Hotel written by Elk Mountain Hotel (Elk Mountain, Wyo.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Shannon Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Oklahoma written by James Shannon Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tyra A. Olstad
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415522
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen of the Plains written by Tyra A. Olstad and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although spare, sweeping landscapes may appear "empty," plains and prairies afford a rich, unique aesthetic experience--one of quiet sunrises and dramatic storms, hidden treasures and abundant wildlife, infinite horizons and omnipresent wind, all worthy of contemplation and celebration. In this series of narratives, photographs, and hand-drawn maps, Tyra Olstad blends scholarly research with first-hand observation to explore topics such as wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, expectations and acceptance, and even dreams and reality in the context of parks, prairies, and wild, open places. In so doing, she invites readers to reconsider the meaning of "emptiness" and ask larger, deeper questions such as: how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us? Above all, what does it mean to experience that exhilarating effect known as Zen of the plains?

Author : Peter J. Blodgett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149787
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motoring West written by Peter J. Blodgett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume—the first of a planned multivolume series—offer a panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Christian Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book "The Land of the Sky", Or Adventures in Mountain By-ways written by Christian Reid and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ira Spring
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594853843
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Classic Hikes in Washington written by Ira Spring and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Full-color coffee-table quality hiking guidebook with lush, hand-drawn trail maps * Written by Washington's godfathers of hiking guidebooks, Harvey Manning and Ira Spring * In a state rich with luscious trails, these hikes are the ones you can't miss (or, at least, must start with) 100 Classic Hikes in Washington is the progeny of Washington's first hiking guidebook, and is the best-selling guidebook of all time. There's a reason: it's gorgeous. The photos of trails and vistas are breathtaking. These are hikes you will want to hike, dream about hiking, or both. Based on their more than 100 years of combined experience in Washington's backcountry, Ira Spring and Harvey Manning chose their favorite trails for this compendium of classic hikes. Along with the images and hand-drawn maps, you'll get the authors' first-hand descriptions of the trails they hiked many times over. Featuring spectacular views, flower-filled alpine meadows, lakes and streams, ancient forests, animals and birds, and solitude, these trails will give hikers a taste of Washington's best. Infused with a strong conservation message, this guidebook not only introduces hikers to Washington's gems but encourages them to become active participants in an effort to preserve and, in some cases, reclaim the remaining wilderness.

Author : Mark Spitzer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415999
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Gar written by Mark Spitzer and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America, resulting in needless killing. Massive oil spills in its breeding range have not helped its population either. Interspersing science, folklore, history, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish provides for an entertaining odyssey that examines management efforts to preserve and propagate the alligator gar in the United States. Spitzer also travels to Central America, Thailand, and Mexico to assess the global gar situation. He reflects on what is and isn't working in compromised environments, then makes a case for conservation based on personal experience and a love for wildness for its own sake. This colorful portrait of the alligator gar can serve as a metaphor and measurement for the future of our biodiversity during a time of planetary crisis.

Author : David N. Penley
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460264444
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Controller written by David N. Penley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Controller is the compelling memoir of a Canadian Air Force Officer who started off in the junior ranks as a radar technician and later qualified as air traffic controller during the Cold War 1970s and 1980s. Presented as a highly readable collection of vignettes, this volume is chock full of air force history, human interest twists, hilarious pranks, exciting chills and spills of operational flying, situations of the bizarre and unexplainable, and impressions of air force culture. This fascinating collection of anecdotes will interest anyone intrigued by aviation, military history, flying stories, radar technology, self-achievement, the military family, and the overcoming of mental health problems. Learn from Sparky's mistakes as he begins to succumb to the effects of chronic stress, alcohol dependency, and fear, and yet overcomes his demons to heal and go on learning and working successfully in the Air Force for many more years. Eventually he would end up as a military mental health counsellor....