The true story of three brothers who traveled 900 miles from Ohio in 1871 to the desolate, barren prairie that was Cloud County, Kansas. In a few short years, their talents, hard work, and perseverance helped transform the land into a thriving agricultural community. Overcoming disasters and adversity, they became not only the most successful farmers in Cloud County, Kansas, but leaders in the community as well.They and their children influenced nearly every facet of the county's s...

The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains...

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 y...

A genealogical study of the Doty and Kelly families originally done by John Hubert Doty and updated by MaryAnn Doty Rizzo. Includes historical information and documentation. The Doty family goes back to the Mayflower. The Kelly family are Irish Canadians. Other families include: King, Miller, Force, Logue, Logsdon, Cavanee, and Dial. Some of these families have connections to George Washington.

An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America.The physical nature of rivers has influenced the course of human history and development, whether it be in the prosecution of major conflicts (US Civil War), patterns of development and social change (dams on the Columbia River), the economy (gold rushes, agricultural development), or international relations (US and Mexico and the Colorado River). The centrality of human...

Letters from Bruce County documents an English familys 1835 immigration to Ontario where they became pioneers in the unsettled bush. The parents of this family just happen to be the authors great great grandparents, Joseph and Susannah Bacon. The letters were written from Bruce County, Ontario in 1881 and 1882 by Joseph some years after Susannahs death to his son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Elizabeth Couch Bacon, then in ResortTownship, Emmet County, Michigan. Henry and Elizabe...

Bound for the New World, an English father of seven dies at sea in 1650. Only the children fulfill their fathers dream in the beginning of the New London colonial settlement. While one descendant goes west to a settlement in Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War further divides the family. One frontiersman becomes a Loyalist serving with the Butlers Rangers while most cousins fight for the Patriot cause. This narrative follows the Beebe family who survive the vortex of the Wyoming Valley Mas...

This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely serious both for the tourism industry, and for the communities dependent upon it.Integrating knowledge from the social and physical sciences, this significant book explores they ke...

David McKee is known as the progenitor of the McKee family of Noble County, Ohio; however, with our current lifestyles and social terms, Martha, David's wife, may well be included in this status. David died rather suddenly in 1815, leaving Martha to raise and oversee their family as they continued to live in the wilderness. David and Martha were together for twenty-eight years. They had seven sons and two daughters, who went on to prosper in the local community. Several McKee descendants c...

In Thinking Like a Mountain, we have excerpted a clear and inviting introduction to the science of conservation biology from Ed Grumbine's previous book, Ghost Bears. Grumbine offers a succinct and evocative description of why we should all care about biodiversity, protected lands, connectivity, and extinction rates, and the advantages to be gained by attempting to 'think like a mountain', as so eloquently phrased by Aldo Leopold.

The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of land, both forested and cut over. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the man who started the lumber empire, significantly shaped the American economy and landscape from Wisconsin westward in the nineteenth century.A complex and private man, Weyerhaeuser emigrated from Germany in 1852 at the tender age of eighteen. In just a few years, he would be ...

The genealogy of Leon R. Hunt and Beth Carroll including the surnames of Hunt, Miller, Carroll and Chamberlain with an historical summary of these families.