The Yellowstone Event

Author : Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982141352
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Yellowstone written by Megan Kate Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offering “a fresh, provocative study…departing from well-trodden narratives about conservation and public recreation” (Booklist, starred review). Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park—one of the most popular of all national parks—but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last unmapped places in the country. The survey’s discoveries led to the passage of the Yellowstone Act in 1872, which created the first national park in the world. Now, author Megan Kate Nelson examines the larger context of this American moment, illuminating Hayden’s survey as a national project meant to give Americans a sense of achievement and unity in the wake of a destructive civil war. Saving Yellowstone follows Hayden and two other protagonists in pursuit of their own agendas: Sitting Bull, a Lakota leader who asserted his peoples’ claim to their homelands, and financier Jay Cooke, who wanted to secure his national reputation by building the Northern Pacific Railroad through the Great Northwest. Hayden, Cooke, and Sitting Bull staked their claims to Yellowstone at a critical moment in Reconstruction, when the Ulysses S. Grant Administration and the 42nd Congress were testing the reach and the purpose of federal power across the nation. “A readable and unfailingly interesting look at a slice of Western history from a novel point of view” (Kirkus Reviews), Saving Yellowstone reveals how Yellowstone became both a subject of fascination and a metaphor for the nation during the Reconstruction era. This “land of wonders” was both beautiful and terrible, fragile and powerful. And what lay beneath the surface there was always threatening to explode.

Author : Janet Chapple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733103220
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone Treasures written by Janet Chapple and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete travel guide allows the reader to enjoy the first and oldest national park in the world mile by mile. First the reader can compare the different approaches to the park and plan an itinerary. Along with fascinating facts and anecdotes, readers will learn of Yellowstone's geyser basins and the frequency of the geysers, out-of-the-way hikes, and how to spot the wildlife and wildflowers. Updates to the sixth edition include a geological time line, new color photos, and revised maps.

Author : Darrell Maloney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520648552
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yellowstone Event written by Darrell Maloney and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are some fun facts about the Yellowstone Caldera:- It's a real thing. It really does exist- It's a super volcano simmering just beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park- It has erupted in the past, and will erupt again- Scientists believe that when it erupts again it will destroy 20 percent of the United States- You do NOT want to be in that 20 percent Tony and Hannah are just a couple of high school kids who happen across a woman who will change their lives forever. She's a carnival fortune teller who warns them of a great calamity soon to befall the United States of America. The old woman tells them it will be up to them to tell the world of the impending danger. And to save the lives of millions. It would be easy to dismiss her warnings as fantasy, except for the fact that she vanishes before their very eyes. And so begins a long journey for Tony and Hannah. A journey which involves a great mystery, intrigue and danger. Not to mention threats by a government which should be trying to help them, but instead is trying desperately to keep its secrets hidden.

Author : Darrell Maloney
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726171588
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yellowstone Event written by Darrell Maloney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath Yellowstone National Park a super-volcano has started rumbling. It's been there for a very long time, though most Americans are not aware of it. Every three hundred thousand years or so it erupts with devastating consequences. Scientists say it's getting ready to erupt. Naysayers say it's a hoax. The Interior Department closes the park and orders an evacuation. Most people comply, and those who don't stay behind knowing they're risking a very violent death. Millions will die. And the lives of every survivor will be changed forever. There really is a super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park. It really has erupted in the past and WILL erupt again. And when it does scientists say it'll take up to twenty percent of the United States with it. You do not want to be in that twenty percent.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events, February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M Savino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781076477095
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supervolcano written by John M Savino and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONApproximately 75,000 years ago, an event occurred that almost wiped out human life. According to a stunning new theory, this singular event may also have completely altered the genetic evolution of humankind. It was an event that released 3,000 times the energy of Mt. St. Helens.The new book, Supervolcano, explores this eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, Indonesia, its far-reaching impact, and the strong possibility of another supervolcano eruption in our lifetime.Supervolcanoes are considered one of the five biggest threats to humankind, along with asteroids, nuclear war, disease, and global warming. But of those, supervolcanoes are the only threat that cannot be prevented.And their effects are catastrophic. So devastating was the Toba eruption and the sheer amount of ash it released into the atmosphere, it altered the global climate for years, creating a mini Ice Age that obliterated massive amounts of plant, animal, and human life. A new theory claims this earth-shattering event also caused a severe "population bottleneck" in humans, leading to the eventual extinction of all other branches of our species with the exception of one...the branch that survived Toba and became modern humans.Supervolcano will explore: -What supervolcanos are, where they are found, and why they are so deadly to life on earth.-Toba, the largest of the known supervolcanoes in the past 27 million years, and how its catastrophic environmental aftermath brought humanity to the brink of extinction.-How genetic, geological, and computer studies show that each human today is related to a survivor of Toba.-How we can prepare for the next supervolcano, which many earth scientists believe could be right here in our own backyard--Yellowstone National Park. And why they believe an eruption at Yellowstone could be as catastrophic for humanity as Toba

Author : Allison Chandler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781709736315
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Has Changed written by Allison Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's several months after the eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano, and the world is a vastly different place. Six hundred thousand Americans were killed and millions more have been displaced, scattering to the far corners of the world. Many of them went to Alaska or southern California: two vastly different places with vastly different charms, but one very important thing in common. They're both very far away from the smoking hole in the ground which was once Yellowstone National Park. The whole world has changed. Much of it is still covered with poison ash; ash which will be around for at least a generation. Ash which will shorten the lives of everyone, and not just Americans. People halfway around the globe will be forced to breathe microscopic particles of the ash for many years to come. And everyone will ultimately pay a heavy price. Jenn and her "chitlins" settle in the Mojave Desert near Victorville, California. Gwen and Melvyn and Tony and Hannah choose Etlunka Lake east of Anchorage. And each of them will be terrified when they learn their nightmares aren't over. That a secondary eruption is in the making. This, the final chapter of the Yellowstone saga, focuses not on the dead but rather the survivors. And how they cope in a terribly damaged new world.

Author : Bobby Akart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724214836
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone: Hellfire written by Bobby Akart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano is overdue for an eruption. Events have been set into motion that lit the fuse of the greatest disaster mankind has ever known.

Author : James R. Heintze
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477164
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth of July Encyclopedia written by James R. Heintze and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to persons, places, and events of historical significance, the book focuses on the Fourth of July as it has been commemorated over the span of more than two centuries, starting with the first celebrations: public readings of the Declaration of Independence that occurred within days of its signing. Biographical sketches feature presidents (and how each celebrated the Fourth) and other politicians, famous soldiers, educators, engineers, scientists, athletes, musicians, and literary figures. Other topics include parks, monuments and statues dedicated on the Fourth; famous speeches and the personalities behind their stories; and general subjects of interest including education, abolition, temperance, African Americans, Native Americans, wars, transportation and holiday catastrophes.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: