Oneota flow : the Upper Iowa River and its people /

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Faldet moves through the history of life along the now-polluted Upper Iowa, always focusing on the ways people depend on the river, the environment, and the resources of the region. He blends contemporary conversations, readings from the historical record, environmental research, and personal experi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faldet, David S., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Colección:American land and life series.
Temas:
River life > Upper Iowa River (Minn. and Iowa) > History.
Natural resources > Upper Iowa River (Minn. and Iowa)
Human ecology > Upper Iowa River (Minn. and Iowa)
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
TRAVEL > General.
Ecology
Human ecology
Manners and customs
Natural resources
River life
Upper Iowa River (Minn. and Iowa) > History.
Upper Iowa River Region (Minn. and Iowa) > History.
Upper Iowa River Region (Minn. and Iowa) > Social life and customs.
Upper Iowa River Region (Minn. and Iowa) > Biography.
Upper Iowa River Region (Minn. and Iowa) > Environmental conditions.
United States > Upper Iowa River
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The smell of rain : where it starts
  • The two names of the river : geological beginnings
  • Big river in the Driftless : the Ice Age
  • Roots and fire : 8,000-500 B.C.E.
  • The old ones : 500 B.C.E.-1633 C.E.
  • Unknown world : 1634-1832
  • We have never sold any country : 1833-1848
  • The great improvement : 1849-1869
  • Steam, wind and the powers of the earth : 1870-1917
  • Aiding the land
  • 1914-1945
  • The juice : 1946-1970
  • On the place by the river they raise children : 1971-2004.

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