People of the Shining Mountains
Author | : Charles Seabrooke Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An eminently readable history of the Ute Indians of Colorado from earliest times to the present.
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Author | : Charles Seabrooke Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An eminently readable history of the Ute Indians of Colorado from earliest times to the present.
Author | : David Thompson |
Publisher | : Bantam Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1981-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780553148213 |
Author | : Peter Boardman |
Publisher | : Vertebrate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1906148767 |
'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds. First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable. It was awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, winning wide acclaim. His second book, Sacred Summits, was published shortly after his death in 1982. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com
Author | : Peter Roop |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504010116 |
Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark on their famed expedition, tells her life story When Sacagawea’s son asks her about her life, she isn’t sure where to begin. Does she start with her birth as a Shoshoni? Her kidnapping by an enemy tribe at age eleven? Or her role as the famous guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition? She’s seen and experienced more in her young life than most people ever will. Told from Sacagawea’s point of view, this historical novel shares the ordeals of her youth along with the memory of her long, arduous journey west with Lewis and Clark. She shares her love of nature and explains how her loyalties have changed over time. This story of Sacagawea goes beyond the legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood woman who she really was.
Author | : University of Colorado Boulder. School of Law. American Indian Law Program |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Ute Indians |
ISBN | : |
Conference agenda and materials to accompany the presentations.
Author | : Steve Frazee |
Publisher | : Center Point |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781585473151 |
The Civil War was over and most of the men who came to Oro City in Colorado came only for the gold. Young lay preacher Jonathan Roming and Mormon Heber Arnold came over the dangerous, icy mountains into the valley of the Blue River with thirty men -- veterans of the Northern Union Armies and the Southern Armies of the Confederacy -- two hostile camps uneasily united in the search for gold. Conflict was everywhere as men fought the elements and each other. Shining Mountains is the story of the people who came on foot, behind wagons, and over treacherous mountain passes in search of the gold that very few ever found.
Author | : Joyce Badgley Hunsaker |
Publisher | : TwoDot |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Indian women |
ISBN | : 9781585920792 |
Combines historical anecdotes, research, and oral traditions to create a first-person account of the life of the young Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Author | : Alix Christie |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2023-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0826364667 |
The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced from his homeland arrives at Hudson’s Bay. Angus McDonald is contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlander’s wildest imaginings: raging rivers, buffalo hunts, and the powerful daughter of an ancient and magnificent people. In Catherine Baptiste, kin to Nez Perce chiefs, Angus recognizes a kindred spirit. The Rocky Mountain West in which they meet will soon be torn apart by competing claims: between British fur traders, American settlers, and the Native peoples who have lived for millennia in the valleys and plateaus of the Shining Mountains’ western slopes. In this epic family saga, the real history of the American West is revealed in all its terror, beauty, and complexity. The Shining Mountains brilliantly limns a world now long forgotten: of blended cultures seeking allies, trading furs for guns and steel, and a way of life in collision with westward colonial expansion.
Author | : Mona Leeson Vanek |
Publisher | : Statesman Examiner |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780940151000 |
Author | : Walter Bonatti |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
ISBN | : 037575640X |
The legendary mountaineer describes his adventures in such ranges as the Alps and Himalayas, and provides details of what really happened during a controversial 1954 Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2.