Search Results - "Slough"

Saint Paul : introduction to St. Paul and his letters / by Brisebois, Mireille

Saint Paul : introduction to St. Paul and his letters / by Brisebois, Mireille

The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.…”
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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.…”
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Among the swamp people : life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta / by Key, Watt

Table of Contents: “…Discovery : spring 1996 -- First night -- Camp man -- Crazy Dan -- City people -- Cloverleaf -- Swamp writer -- Hurricane Georges -- Man tools -- Water hunter -- Swamp camp -- The white car -- Carson -- Homesick -- Risks and changes -- Butch -- The trailer park -- Man talk -- Catching alligators -- Kitchen music -- Football -- Late-night visitors -- Chuckfee Revival -- Neighbors -- Deltona 500 -- Boats on the loose -- The slough -- The boat slip -- Mayhall -- Delta heckler -- Camp names -- Red -- Horace -- Bottle Creek -- No-name -- Random proud -- Best friends -- Big generator -- The dark ages -- Airboat -- The phone call -- Back to the mud -- The deal -- More hurricanes -- Stepping out -- Big generator -- Famous -- Christmas gift -- End of an era.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Among the swamp people : life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta / by Key, Watt

Table of Contents: “…Discovery : spring 1996 -- First night -- Camp man -- Crazy Dan -- City people -- Cloverleaf -- Swamp writer -- Hurricane Georges -- Man tools -- Water hunter -- Swamp camp -- The white car -- Carson -- Homesick -- Risks and changes -- Butch -- The trailer park -- Man talk -- Catching alligators -- Kitchen music -- Football -- Late-night visitors -- Chuckfee Revival -- Neighbors -- Deltona 500 -- Boats on the loose -- The slough -- The boat slip -- Mayhall -- Delta heckler -- Camp names -- Red -- Horace -- Bottle Creek -- No-name -- Random proud -- Best friends -- Big generator -- The dark ages -- Airboat -- The phone call -- Back to the mud -- The deal -- More hurricanes -- Stepping out -- Big generator -- Famous -- Christmas gift -- End of an era.…”
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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / by Orsi, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?"…”
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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / by Orsi, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?"…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view