Colonizing Russia's Promised Land

Colonizing Russia's Promised Land
Author: Aileen E. Friesen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442637196

Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe, examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.

A History of Pahrump, Nevada

A History of Pahrump, Nevada
Author: Robert D. McCracken
Publisher: Nye Country Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781878138514

Pahrump, Nevada, located west of Las Vegas has..."sustained a number and variety of cultures: prehistoric hunters and gatherers, the Southern Paiute, and finally white settlers who came in search of opportunity in the last half of the nineteenth century"--Bk jacket.