River Of Goods

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Anne-Marie Bouchard
River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence
River of Dreams celebrates the unique ways that Impressionism was practised by artists in Quebec, offering a close look at the work of such luminaries as Clarence Gagnon, Henrietta Mabel May, James Wilson Morrice, and Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté. These artists documented the shoreline of the St...
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Charles River Editors
The Red River War of 1874-1875: The History of the Last American Campaign to Remove Native Americans from the Southwest
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting written by participants *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete w...
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Anne Whitney Pierce
Down to the River
Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to an old, but dwindling family fortune. With the passage of time, the go...
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Michael Bania
Kumak's River: A Tall Tale from the Far North
In the Arctic, before winter gives way to buds and flowers, breakup occurs—the moment when the ice of a frozen river suddenly breaks apart in a spectacular sight-and-sound show. Massive chunks of ice crunch and pound against one another, pushing their way down river towards the sea. ‘“That riv...
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Stanley Crawford
The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays
First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament. This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The...
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Janet M. Hartley
The Volga: A History of Russia's Greatest River
A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history—named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times   “A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social, political, and cultural history.”—Jennifer Eremeeva, Moscow Times   “‘Without t...
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Dr. Robert H. Ruby M.D
The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River (Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback))
The Chinook Indians, who originally lived at the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington, were experienced traders long before the arrival of white men to that area. When Captain Robert Gray in the ship Columbia Rediviva, for which the river was named, entered the Columbia...
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Brian J Costello
Dry Goods, Cotton and Cane: 250 Years of Jewish Life, Business and Agriculture in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana
DRY GOODS, COTTON AND CANE: 250 YEARS OF JEWISH LIFE, BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURE IN POINTE COUPÉE PARISH, LOUISIANA. With a record of permanent settlement since the 1720s, Pointe Coupée Parish is one of the oldest communities in the Mississippi River Valley. Créole in culture, owing to the predomin...
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Lea Braden
Up the Lazy River
Science teacher Samantha Grant thinks the final step in the pursuit of her new life in picturesque River Bend will be simple. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. As she walks into Al Roth's Roth Restoration Inc. to view the remodeling plans for her newly inherited home, Samantha has no idea ...
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Jerry West
The Happy Hollisters On A River Trip
Back in hardcover format after a 50-year absence -- now with bonus special pages! The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip (Volume #2 in the Happy Hollisters series) A big fish contest at the Trading Post , the Hollisters’ sporting goods store, has everybody in Shoreham competing. After Pete catch...
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Dina Anastasio
Where Is the Mississippi River?
Discover the history and culture of one of the most famous waterways in the world: the mighty Mississippi! The most famous river in America runs like a spine between the eastern and western parts of the country, flowing through ten states before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The mighty Miss ...
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Jerry West
The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip, Vol. 2
The Happy Hollisters: America's Favorite Classic Mystery Series for Young Readers The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip (Volume #2 in the Happy Hollisters series) A big fish contest at the Trading Post , the Hollisters’ sporting goods store, has everybody in Shoreham competing. After Pete catche...
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Duane Huddleston
Steamboats and Ferries on the White River: A Heritage Revisited
From the time the Waverly first steamed up the White River to Batesville from the Mississippi River in 1831, the haunting blast of river whistles signaled service, comfort, and delight for residents along this major Arkansas waterway. In a terrain that lacked good roads, steamboats contributed sig...
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Laura Bear
Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt along a South Asian River (Anthropology of Policy)
Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river ...
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Stuart Waldman
The Last River: John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River Exploring Expedition
"It was a wild ride... and this book does it justice. Well-chosen thrills, spills, and conflicts are spliced into a narrative that highlights the danger underlying this scientific mission... Handsomely designed text... large, full-color impressionistic paintings convey the action." --School Libra...
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Joseph A. Seeley
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (The Environments of East Asia)
Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control...
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Kevin M McCarthy
Caloosahatchee River Guidebook
The Caloosahatchee flows from near Lake Okeechobee for to its outlet at Fort Myers on the southwest Gulf coast of Florida. Eighty miles long and only a stone's throw across in some places, Florida's Caloosahatchee River once played an essential part in the transport of cattle, fruit, and other goods...
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Charles W Adams
A Cheechako Goes to the Klondike: The Personal Story of a Famous River Boat Captain (Alaska Book Adventures (Epicenter Press))
The Klondike Stampede caused a transportation boom in the north, where in its thrilling heyday about 250 wooden steamboats operated in the Yukon River drainage of Alaska and the Yukon. The sternwheelers became gold rush icons. But the hardy, pragmatic entrepreneurs who ran the boats were lured by pr...
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Malcolm Russell
Mudlark’d: Hidden Histories from the River Thames
A captivating history of London as told through objects recovered from the muddy banks of the Thames and the lives of the people who owned them Mudlark’d combines insights from two hundred rare objects discovered on the foreshore of the River Thames with a wealth of breathtaking illustrations ...
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Amy C. Schutt
Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (Early American Studies)
Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially th...
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