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Author | : Brooks Geer Ragen |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295806869 |
In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.
Author | : Der-shing Helmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780998193717 |
Angora is an inexperienced young girl who has been sent on a quest to save the world.Since the last world war, tensions have increased between the recovering Northern Territories and the unapologetic southern lands of Caris. The world is overwhelmed with as much terror, crime, and disease as it is by those who yearn for peace. Now, a new war looms between the two countries, and mysterious, monstrous entities may be playing for much higher stakes than anyone realizes.Armed with only her instincts and an unexplainable power, Angora must journey through this world? and perhaps decide once and for all if it is truly worth saving.The Meek Volume 1 collects the first three chapters from the epic online comic, which updates regularly at www.meekcomic.com
Author | : Deirdre J. Good |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1999-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1563382849 |
Most recent books about Jesus focus on history and biography. This book, however, focuses on culturally specific understandings of humility and meekness. Jesus the Meek King is a study of kingship in Matthew's Gospel that, unlike similar studies embedded within various commentaries on this Gospel, links meekness and kingship, placing both within the context of the Hellenistic world. In addition, it explores the specific virtue of "meekness" in Paul and in English literature from Tyndale to the present. Modern readers probably understand Jesus' use of the term "meek" to commend and exemplify submissive or humble behavior. "The meek" may even be seen unfavorably as those likely to submit tamely to oppression of injury. This provocative volume, however, proposes that Jesus as the meek king is better and more accurately understood as exercising the virtue of "disciplined calmness".
Author | : J. D. Palmer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781545304396 |
GOLD MEDAL WINNER - 2017 DAN POYNTER'S GLOBAL E-BOOK AWARDS - THRILLER The world didn't end with a religious war, or a race war, or an economic collapse. It didn't end with everyone blowing each other up with nuclear warheads and it didn't end with a natural disaster. It didn't end because someone got offended in one of the million petty squabbles that were real, or fake, or imagined. It ended quietly. Harlan is visiting his friend in Los Angeles when people start dying. His friend, the neighbors, the entire city falls victim to an unknown disease. Except for Harlan. Or so he thinks. And he learns quickly that just because there are other survivors, not all are to be trusted. Morality becomes blurred as Harlan is forced to commit questionable acts to protect himself and those around him. He must navigate through a darkening landscape fraught with violence and despair as he desperately tries to get home to the love of his life, Jessica, and the child she is carrying. IF they are still alive.
Author | : Eileen Boggess |
Publisher | : Bancroft Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1890862754 |
Ready to start her freshman year at St. Hilary's High School, Mia Fullerton has set two goals for herself: to shed her long-held nickname of "Mia the Meek" and then to soar confidently into a new social, academic, and family life.
Author | : Esther Lightcap Meek |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1585584533 |
We don't often think about the act of knowing, but if we do, the question of what we know and how we know it becomes murky indeed. Longing to Know is a book about knowing: knowing how we know things, knowing how we know people, and knowing how we know God. This book is for those who are considering Christianity for the first time, as well as Christians who are struggling with issues related to truth, certainty, and doubt. As such, it is a wonderful resource for evangelists, pastors, and counselors. This unique look at the questions of knowing is both entertaining and approachable. Questions for reflection make it ideal for students of philosophy and all those wrestling with the questions of knowledge.
Author | : Żofia Kossak |
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Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : James Meek |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2008-11-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847673759 |
1919, Siberia . . . Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .
Author | : James Meek |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788735250 |
The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize winning journalist Since Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence. Underlying the cleavage are primal myths, deeper histories, and political folk-legends. James Meek, “the George Orwell of our times,” goes in search of the stories and consequences arising out of a nation’s alienation from itself. In Dreams of Leaving and Remaining, Meek meets farmers and fishermen intent on exiting the EU despite the loss of protections they will incur. He reports on a Cadbury’s factory shut down and moved to Poland in the name of free market economics, exploring the impact on the local community left behind. He charts how the NHS is coping with the twin burdens of austerity and an aging population. Dreams of Leaving and Remaining is urgent reporting from one of Britain’s finest journalists. James Meek asks what we can recover from the debris of an old nation as we head towards new horizons, and what we must leave behind. There are no easy answers, and what he creates instead is a masterly portrait of an anxious, troubled nation.
Author | : Keith Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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