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20 West : the great road across America
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ISBN: 0791478254 143565885X 9781435658851 9780791478257 0791474690 9780791474693 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Gold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category"I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." — from the IntroductionWhether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks—whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home.


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Feast or famine
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ISBN: 0826266363 9780826266361 9780826217899 0826217893 Year: 2008 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"Drawing on the journals and correspondence of pioneers, Horsman examines more than a hundred years of history, recording components of the diets of various groups, including travelers, settlers, fur traders, soldiers, and miners. He discusses food-preparation techniques, including the development of canning, and foods common in different regions"--Provided by publisher.

The American West at risk : science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery
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ISBN: 0197561780 1281341851 9786611341855 0199722617 9780199722617 6611341854 0195142055 9780195142051 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The American West at Risk summarises the dominant human-generated environmental challenges facing the 11 contiguous arid western United States. The importance of this story is that protecting lands and soil also protects air and water quality, and water supplies, which are critical support for our lives and our health.


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Mapping manifest destiny : Chicago and the American West : an exhibition at the Newberry Library, November 3, 2007 - February 16, 2008 : catalog
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ISBN: 0911028811 9780911028812 Year: 2008

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From colonial times through the turn of the twentieth century, maps encourages Euro-Americans to see the West as a land of promise. Maps offered visual representations of a nation destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. Chicago emerges first as a dot on these maps, subsequently becoming a bustling metropolis, and then a major center of cartographic production. The exhibition draws on the Newberry library's superb collections of historic maps and Western Americana.

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912 <78> --- 094:979 --- 094.2 <73 CHICAGO> --- 094.2 <73 CHICAGO> Oude drukken: bibliotheekcatalogi----Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--CHICAGO --- Oude drukken: bibliotheekcatalogi----Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--CHICAGO --- 094:979 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van de Pacific Staten van de V.S.--reg./lok. --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van de Pacific Staten van de V.S.--reg./lok. --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika: Far West Westelijke staten. Bergengebied --- Exhibitions --- Cartography --- Manifest Destiny --- Map publishing --- Maps --- Map industry and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- Political messianism --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- History --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van de Pacific Staten van de V.S.--reg./lok --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika: Far West; Westelijke staten. Bergengebied --- Publishing --- Newberry Library --- Newberry Library, Chicago. --- Chicago (Ill.) --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Chikago (Ill.) --- Chikaho (Ill.) --- City of Chicago (Ill.) --- Shiḳago (Ill.) --- Čikago (Ill.) --- Discovery and exploration --- Territorial expansion --- Cartes --- شيكاغو (Ill.) --- Shīkāghū (Ill.) --- Çikaqo (Ill.) --- Чыкага (Ill.) --- Chykaha (Ill.) --- Чикаго (Ill.) --- Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) --- Σικάγο (Ill.) --- Sikago (Ill.) --- Kikako (Ill.) --- שיקגו (Ill.) --- Sicagum (Ill.) --- Chicagia (Ill.) --- Chiagum (Ill.) --- Čikāga (Ill.) --- シカゴ (Ill.) --- شکاگو (Ill.) --- Shikāgū (Ill.) --- Kyekago (Ill.) --- Tchicago (Ill.) --- שיקאגא (Ill.) --- Čėkaga (Ill.) --- 芝加哥 (Ill.) --- Zhijiage (Ill.)


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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail
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ISBN: 1281958441 9786611958442 0803219288 9780803219281 0803215851 9780803215856 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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More than two hundred years later, the "voyage of discovery"-with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery-continues to draw us along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs first fell under the trail's spell at sixteen and has been following in Lewis and Clark's path ever since. In essays historical and personal, she revisits the Lewis and Clark Trail and its famous people, landmarks, and events, exploring questions the expedition continues to raise, such as, What really motivated Thomas Jefferson to send out his agents of discovery

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Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose --- Travel --- Lewis and Clark Expedition --- United States --- West (U.S.) --- Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Lewis & Clark Trail --- Lewis and Clark Trail --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Territorial expansion --- History --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU

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