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Holy Ground, Healing Water : Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas /
Most people would not consider north central Kansas' Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known-when it is thought of at all-for agriculture and, perhaps to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Environmental history series ;
no. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most people would not consider north central Kansas' Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known-when it is thought of at all-for agriculture and, perhaps to a few, as the home of ""The World's Largest Ball of Twine"" (in nearby Cawker City). Yet, to the native people living in this region in the centuries before Anglo incursion, this was a place of great spiritual power and mystic significance. Waconda Spring, now beneath the waters of th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1603442111 9781603442114 9781603447928 160344792X 9781603443111 1603443118 |