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Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century

By: John H. Drury,Joan Sewell Gilbert

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Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century

By: John H. Drury,Joan Sewell Gilbert

Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk (“Bear Mountain”) to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738538604

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9780738538600

Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

By: John H. Drury,Joan Gilbert

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Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

By: John H. Drury,Joan Gilbert

Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system that moved coal nine miles over the mountains to Mauch Chunk by Switchback Gravity Railroad, and forty-six miles along the Lehigh Canal to Easton. With the arrival of the railroads, the Switchback became a major tourist attraction. As rail excursionists descended on Mauch Chunk to experience a hair-raising ride on America's first roller coaster and enjoy the magnificent scenery, the coal shipping town, billed by the railroads as "the Switzerland of America," became a tourist destination second in popularity to Niagara Falls. In a story stranger than fiction, the town exchanged its name for the name of Jim Thorpe when the 1912 Olympic hero was laid to rest there in 1954. Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) tells the story of the athlete and his burial, the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the Lehigh Canal, the social scene, and the town's Victorian legacy.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738509639

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9780738509631

Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics

By: John Terborgh

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Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics

By: John Terborgh

Things are going wrong with our environment," writes John Terborgh, "even the parts of it that are nominally protected. If we wait until all the answers are in, we may find ourselves in a much worse predicament than if we had taken notice of the problem earlier. By waiting, one risks being too late; on the other hand, there can be no such thing as being too early." Terborgh's warnings are essential reading for all who care about migratory birds and our natural environment. Why are tropical migrant species disappearing from our forests? Can we save the birds that are left? Terborgh takes a more comprehensive view of migratory birds than is usual--by asking how they spend their lives during the half-year they reside in the tropics. By scrutinizing ill-planned urban and suburban development in the United States and the tropical deforestation of Central and South America, he summarizes our knowledge of the subtle combination of circumstances that is devastating our bird populations. This work is pervaded by Terborgh's love for the thrushes, warblers, vireos, cuckoos, flycatchers, and tanagers that inhabited his family's woodland acreage while he was growing upbirds that no longer live there, in spite of the preservation of those same woods as part of a county park. The book is a tour of topics as varied as ecological monitoring, the plight of the Chesapeake wetlands, the survival struggle of Central American subsistence farmers, and the management of commercial forests.

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224

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Princeton University Press

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0691219494

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9780691219493

The Canadian Parliamentary Companion

By: John Alexander Gemmili

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The Canadian Parliamentary Companion

By: John Alexander Gemmili

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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394

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338534784X

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9783385347847

The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman

By: John Henry Newman

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The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman

By: John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's Oxford in 1828; from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal in 1879. His influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in the Church of England was profound. Volume VIII covers a turbulent period in Newman's life with the publication of Tract 90. His attempt to show the compatibility of the 39 Articles with Catholic doctrine caused a storm both in the University of Oxford and in the Church. He and others were horrified by the establishment of a joint Anglo-Prussian Bishopric in Jerusalem, considering it an attempt to give Apostolical succession to an heretical church. In 1842 he moved away from the hubbub of Oxford life to nearby Littlemore.

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684

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Oxford University Press

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0199204039

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9780199204038

Ornamented Tray

Two Centuries of Ornamented Trays (1720-1920)

By: W.D. John

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Ornamented Tray

Two Centuries of Ornamented Trays (1720-1920)

By: W.D. John

This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published. Each of its six chapters is written by a different authority. They discuss: Lace-Edge Painting The "Chippendale" Style Trays Ornamented with Gold Leaf The Freehand Bronze Techniques Stenciled Trays The Country Painted Tray The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, seven of them in full color, including pictures of trays prized by museums and private collectors, as well as hundreds selected from the unique photographic collection of the late Esther Stevens Brazer.

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449

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462912397

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9781462912391

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Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century

Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century

Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Where Have All the Birds Gone?

The Canadian Parliamentary Companion

The Canadian Parliamentary Companion

The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman

The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman

Ornamented Tray

Ornamented Tray

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