Springs of Texas
Title | Springs of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Gunnar M. Brune |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781585441969 |
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Healing Waters
Title | Healing Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Loring Bullard |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826264182 |
Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. In Healing Waters, Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s. During this period, there were at least eighty sites in the state that could be described as resorts. Because so many people were drawn to the springs by their faith in the healing virtues of the springwater, towns were frequently founded at the mineral springs. These places fought hard to capture the attention of Missourians who were seeking better health, relaxation, or good times in the late 1800s and early 1900s.Bullard first examines the development of mineral water resorts in Europe from ancient times, early spa traditions in America, and Missouri's frontier spas. He then discusses the establishment of saltworks at the state's saline springs and the importance of the early salt trade; the brisk business that grew around the bottling of mineral waters; the use and development of mineralized groundwater resources; the geologic and biologic factors that create Missouri's mineral waters; and public and professional belief in the curative values of mineral waters.Healing Waters also traces the demise of Missouri's mineral water resorts and towns. Well into the twentieth century, when modern medicine had seemingly taken hold, many physicians and scientists continued to proclaim the medicinal virtues of mineral waters. However, by the second quarter of the twentieth century, medical science and popular opinion had discounted the immediate medical usefulness of mineral waters. As advances were made in microbiology and biochemistry, and with the inherent promise of drug cures, orthodox medicine began to turn a cold shoulder on mineral water treatments. Spa treatments, with their long regimens, also did not fit well with the increasingly fast-paced lifestyles of the public. By visiting the sites, gathering local historical accounts, interviewing local citizens, and photographing remaining artifacts, Bullard has done a masterful job in providing the answers to why these vibrant social centers came to be and why they faded.
Uinta National Forest (N.F.), Indian Springs Road Realignment
Title | Uinta National Forest (N.F.), Indian Springs Road Realignment PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Federal Register
Title | Federal Register PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1276 |
Release | 1992-05-08 |
Genre | Administrative law |
ISBN |
The National Gazetteer of the United States of America
Title | The National Gazetteer of the United States of America PDF eBook |
Author | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Arizona |
ISBN |
Rivers of Sand
Title | Rivers of Sand PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher D. Haveman |
Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2020-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1496219546 |
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.
Utah Geographic Names
Title | Utah Geographic Names PDF eBook |
Author | Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Names, Geographical |
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