Around Granby
Title | Around Granby PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Rafferty Hamilton |
Publisher | Arcadia Library Editions |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2013-12-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781531675233 |
The area around Granby was developed in the late 1800s and today remains true to the "Spirit of the West." It once was the Utes' summer hunting ground and was shared by fur trappers and mountain men in the winters. Later, prospectors came to Lulu City and mined for gold while loggers and homesteaders built schools and churches, forming the towns of Monarch, Selak, and Coulter. In 1905, the Moffat Railroad created a new town, putting Granby on the map. Dependable railroad access allowed ranches and businesses to thrive. The Victory Highway offered motorcars a route through the Arapaho National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park, bringing tourism to dude ranches, where guests wanted to be cowboys. After World War II, the completion of the massive Colorado-Big Thompson Water Project changed the landscape when Lake Granby buried ranches and the Lindbergh airstrip. Soon, locals discovered "white gold" when skiing and winter sports expanded the four-season, mountain-resort community.
Killdozer
Title | Killdozer PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Brower |
Publisher | Wilcox Swanson LLC/ DBA Deer Track Publishing |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2017-10 |
Genre | Granby (Colo.) |
ISBN | 9780982352014 |
The full examination of the incident and aftermath in the story of a man who built a tank out of a bulldozer and sought revenge against his perceived enemies in the small town of Granby, Colorado. He wreaked havoc and destroyed numerous buildings with his monstrous machine before taking his own life in a stand-off with law enforcement.
Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail
Title | Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Nassy Brown |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-01-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400826411 |
The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool."
The Connecticut Magazine
Title | The Connecticut Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 840 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Connecticut |
ISBN |
The Scrap Book
Title | The Scrap Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 976 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Magazine of Wall Street
Title | The Magazine of Wall Street PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1040 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Investments |
ISBN |
Follow Your Detour: Let Go of Your Pain, Conquer Your Fear, and Find the Real You
Title | Follow Your Detour: Let Go of Your Pain, Conquer Your Fear, and Find the Real You PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsay McKenzie |
Publisher | Lindsay McKenzie |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9781733811347 |
We've all been told to "follow our dreams", but what happens when those dreams aren't working out? Part personal memoir, part self-help, Follow Your Detour will inspire you to embrace the unexpected, let go of your pain and fears, and find the courage to create your own path.