The Treloars
Author: Mary Fisher
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 374
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Author: Mary Fisher
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger B. Natte
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738561820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFort Dodge was founded in 1850 as a military post to police the Iowa frontier. A subsequent land boom created fortunes that were reinvested in the local economy. The town soon earned the nickname "Mineral City" because of the extensive deposits of coal, gypsum, limestone, and clay. By 1900, the city was a rail center and the world's largest producer of gypsum products. With a highly diversified economy, the city prospered and by World War I was able to claim to have more skyscrapers per capita than any other city in the Midwest and beautiful public buildings designed by some of the nation's leading architects. Between 1900 and 1925, Fort Dodge enjoyed the role as an important political center and the home of two U.S. senators, the director of the U.S. Mint, the solicitor of the Department of the Treasury, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and the first presidential press secretary and speechwriter. Sons and daughters of the community went on to establish national reputations in art, music, literature, science, and journalism. Images used in this volume come primarily from the archives of the Webster County Historical Society and were chosen to represent the changing character of the community from 1850 to 1970.
Author: Patrick Eiffe
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 362
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aleister Crowley
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Charles Niquet Olden
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780949202048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst pub. 1921. Rare book.
Author: TGH Strehlow
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1922146781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJourney to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the Lutheran mission at Hermannsburg, as they travel, with Aboriginal companions, in extreme heat, along the dry riverbed of the Finke River, to the nearest railhead in search of medical assistance. They never reach help: the journey ends at Horseshoe Bend, with Pastor Strehlow’s death. Ted Strehlow grew up with Aborigines on the mission, and his knowledge of their customs and stories was unique. The book combines this knowledge, with a detailed awareness of the landscape and its sacred places, the battles that have been fought there, the lonely outposts of white settlement, and of the Biblical resonances of their own journey through this desert setting.
Author: Ronald Malcolm Gibbs
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 9781921601859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of South Australia, from settlement in 1836 to the time of Australia's Federation in 1901.
Author: Charles Edward Lawrence
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 276
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