Shenandoah

Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803265395
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenandoah written by Sue Eisenfeld and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Darwin Lambert
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461663989
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park written by Darwin Lambert and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.

Author : Robert C. Gildart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493016857
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking Shenandoah National Park written by Robert C. Gildart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated, this edition provides detailed descriptions and maps of the best hikes in the park. From easy day hikes to strenuous backpacking trips, this guide will provide readers with all the latest information they need to plan virtually any type of hiking adventure in the park.

Author : Julia Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shenandoah written by Julia Davis and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the valley and its history.

Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813928532
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Answer at Once" written by Katrina M. Powell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land, the residents began writing letters to National Park and other government officials to negotiate their rights and to request various services, property, and harvests. Typically represented in the popular media as lawless, illiterate, and incompetent, these mountaineers prove themselves otherwise in this poignant collection of letters. The history told by the residents themselves both adds to and counters the story that is generally accepted about them. These letters are housed in the Shenandoah National Park archives in Luray, Virginia, which was opened briefly to the public from 2000 to 2002, but then closed due to lack of funding. This selection of roughly 150 of these letters, in their entirety, makes these documents available again not only to the public but also to scholars, researchers, and others interested in the region's history, in the politics of the park, and in the genealogy of the families. Supplementing the letters are introductory text, photographs, annotation, and oral histories that further document the lives of these individuals.

Author : Michael K. Reynolds
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433678217
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Shenandoah written by Michael K. Reynolds and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siblings who immigrated from Ireland to the United States find themselves on opposite sides of the Civil War and struggling to understand God's purpose in the midst of unspeakable tragedy.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807898473
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenandoah 1862 written by Peter Cozzens and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive account of a campaign that has long been romanticized but little understood. He offers new interpretations of the campaign and the reasons for Stonewall Jackson's success, demonstrates instances in which the mythology that has come to shroud the campaign has masked errors on Jackson's part, and provides the first detailed appraisal of Union leadership in the Valley Campaign, with some surprising conclusions.

Author : John Walter Wayland
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806380117
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia written by John Walter Wayland and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1980 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the 2d, augm. ed., 1969, published by Shenandoah Pub. House, Strasburg, Va.

Author : Hullihen Williams Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813922249
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shenandoah written by Hullihen Williams Moore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of photographs devoted to one of America’s natural treasures, Shenandoah: Views of Our National Park documents one man’s decades-long fascination with this uniquely beautiful region in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Hullihen Williams Moore has been visiting Shenandoah National Park since the mid-1960s, but it was after studying with Ansel Adams in 1979 that he began seriously photographing it. Through fifty-one black-and-white duotone photographic prints, Moore reveals the quiet beauty of Shenandoah National Park. From grand vistas and waterfalls to the delicate unfurling of new ferns, these photographs capture the singular appeal that attracts 1.7 million visitors to the park each year. In two essays, Moore addresses the natural and human history of the park as well as his own personal experience of it, including the stories behind the individual images. The author has also included a helpful appendix of technical details regarding the photographs. A limited edition accompanied by original photographic prints is available from the artist at www.hullihenmoorephotography.com

Author : Ann Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493067249
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Guide to Shenandoah National Park written by Ann Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Shenandoah National Park is an information-packed book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects and more that reside in the Shenandoah Valley in a colorful, easy-to-use package. Including full-color photos and easy-to-understand descriptions and with full cooperation from the park association, this book will appeal to the 1.1 million visitors who travel to Shenandoah every year.