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The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

More Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

More Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.

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1449078001

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Rambo Family Tree, Volume 5

Descendents of His Last Four Children and Rambos of Unknown Ancestry

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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Descendents of His Last Four Children and Rambos of Unknown Ancestry

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

Some Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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Some Descendants of Gunnar Rambo, Oldest Son of Peter Gunnarson Rambo

By: Ronald S. Beatty

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1449083129

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Nevada's Historic Buildings

A Cultural Legacy

By: Ronald M. James,Elizabeth Harvey

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Nevada's Historic Buildings

A Cultural Legacy

By: Ronald M. James,Elizabeth Harvey

In 1991, Nevada’s Commission for Cultural Affairs was formed to oversee the preservation of the state’s historic buildings and the conversion of the best of them for use as cultural centers. This program has rehabilitated dozens of historic structures valued by their communities for the ways they represent the development of the state and its culture. Nevada’s Historic Buildings highlights ninety of these buildings, describing them in the context of the state’s history and the character of the people who created and used them. Here are reminders of mining boomtowns, historic ranches, transportation, the divorce and gaming industries, the New Deal, and the innovation of Las Vegas’s post-modern aesthetic. These buildings provide a cross-section of Nevada’s rich historic and cultural heritage and their survival offers everyone the experience of touching the past.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874178061

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The Roar and the Silence

A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

By: Ronald M. James

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The Roar and the Silence

A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

By: Ronald M. James

Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874174171

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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland

A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

By: Ronald Hoffman

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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland

A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

By: Ronald Hoffman

An intergenerational chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of the Carrolls, a prominent Irish Catholic family in Protestant Maryland. Charles Carroll (1737-1832) who represents the last of the three generations of patriarchs, is perhaps best known as the sole Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. Tracing the Carroll's history from Ireland to Maryland, this account offers a transatlantic perspective of Anglo-American colonialism and reveals the often overlooked discrimination that Roman Catholics faced in colonial America.

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080785347X

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Virginia City

Secrets of a Western Past

By: Ronald M. James

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Virginia City

Secrets of a Western Past

By: Ronald M. James

Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West. Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, and professional archaeologists, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past shows how every detail—from unearthed artifacts to reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery to surviving nineteenth-century buildings—adds to our view of Virginia City when it was one of the richest places on earth. James recreates this unlikely epitome of frontier industry and cosmopolitan living, the thriving hub of corporate executives, middle-class families, miners, prostitutes, and barkeepers—and more foreign-born residents per capita than anywhere else in the country—in a spot that had begun its life a few years earlier as the mining camp of several lucky guys. An excavation of the history of Virginia City, a window on the heyday of the American frontier, James’s book is also an enlightening look at how archaeology brings the story of the past to life.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803240082

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A Short History of Virginia City

By: Ronald M. James,Susan A. James

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A Short History of Virginia City

By: Ronald M. James,Susan A. James

Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of “the Richest City on Earth” yielded millions in gold and silver. The newly wealthy built mansions and churches, opera houses and schools, with furniture, fashions, and entertainment imported from Europe and the Far East. Here young Samuel Clemens, reporting for the Territorial Enterprise in 1863, first called himself Mark Twain. At its height Virginia City was a magnet for immigrants and the world leader in technological innovations in mining. The city’s story did not end when the Comstock Lode played out. Beginning in the 1930s, bohemian artists, literati, and tourists were intrigued by this remnant of the Old West. The leader of Manhattan’s café society, Lucius Beebe, moved here and relaunched the Territorial Enterprise in 1950. Television’s most popular western from 1959 to 1973, Bonanza, located its fictional Ponderosa Ranch nearby. In the summer of 1965, a handful of Bay Area musicians, including Big Brother and the Holding Company, performed at the Red Dog Saloon and launched psychedelic rock, part of the inspiration for a defining decade of youth culture. Today it is both a National Historic Landmark District and a living community. Visitors come to enjoy its saloons and restaurants, admire its architecture, and learn from its museums and exhibits. A Short History of Virginia City will enhance their experience and will also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of Nevada, mining, and the Old West. • Includes an illustrated walking tour describing more than thirty buildings and sites

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0874179483

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Transplantation of the Liver

By: Ronald W. Busuttil,Goran B. Klintmalm

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Transplantation of the Liver

By: Ronald W. Busuttil,Goran B. Klintmalm

Drs. Busuttil and Klintmalm present Transplantation of the Liver, 3rd Edition, which has been thoroughly revised to offer you the latest protocols, surgical approaches, and techniques used in this challenging procedure. Encompassing today's expert knowledge in the field, this medical reference book is an ideal single source for authoritative, up-to-date guidance on every imaginable aspect of liver transplantation. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Access valuable pearls, pitfalls, and insights from Dr. Ronald Busuttil and Dr. Goran Klintmalm, two of the world's preeminent experts in liver surgery. Understand today's full range of transplantation techniques with complete step-by-step descriptions of each, and access the background information and management options for each hepatic disease entity. Take advantage of detailed discussions of everything from pathophysiology and patient and donor selection, to transplantation anesthesia and operative procedures; immunosuppression; postoperative care; and ethical issues. Overcome your toughest challenges in liver transplantation. Many new and thoroughly revised chapters include: Deceased Organ Donation after Cardiac and Brain Death; Liver Transplantation for Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis; Extended Criteria Donors; Best Techniques for Biliary and Vascular Reconstruction in Living Donor Transplantation; Small for Size Syndrome; Dual Grafts for Transplantation; Arterial Reconstructions-Pitfalls; Transition of Pediatric Patients to Adulthood; Immunosuppressive Biologic Agents; Long Term Toxicity of Immunosuppressive Therapy; Stem Cell and Liver Regeneration; and Extracorporeal Perfusion for Resuscitation of Marginal Grafts. Stay current in your field and optimize patient outcomes with coverage of the most recent advances in living donor transplantation, pediatric transplantation, and gene and stem cell therapy. Access the latest information on anti-rejection/immunosuppressive drugs, as well as comprehensive discussions of each drug or combination of drugs used to suppress immune system. Effortlessly search the entire text online at Expert Consult.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455753831

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Virginia City

Secrets of a Western Past

By: Ronald M. James

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Secrets of a Western Past

By: Ronald M. James

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Monumental Lies

Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West

By: Ronald M. James

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Monumental Lies

Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West

By: Ronald M. James

A playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West. Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explore how legends and traditions emerged during the first decades following the “Rush to Washoe,” which transformed the Nevada Territory after in 1859. During this Wild West period, there was widespread celebration of deceit, manifesting in tall tales, burlesque lies, practical jokes, and journalistic hoaxes. Humor was central, and practitioners easily found themselves scorned if they failed to be adequately funny. The tens of thousands of people who came to the West, attracted by gold and silver mining, brought distinct cultural legacies. The interaction of diverse perspectives, even while new stories and traditions coalesced, was a complex process. Author Ronald M. James addresses how the fluidity of the region affected new expressions of folklore as they took root. The wildly popular Mark Twain is often a go-to source for collections of early tall tales of this region, but his interaction with local traditions was specific and narrow. More importantly, William Wright—publishing as Dan De Quille—arose as a key collector of legends, a counterpart of early European folklorists. With a bedrock understanding of what unfolded in the nineteenth century, James considers how these early stories helped shaped the culture of the Wild West.

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1647791170

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Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

By: Russell K. Skowronek,M. James Blackman,Ronald L. Bishop

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Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain

By: Russell K. Skowronek,M. James Blackman,Ronald L. Bishop

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the southwestern United States was known as Alta California, a remote part of New Spain. The presidios, missions, and pueblos of the region have yielded a rich trove of ceramics materials, though they have been sparsely analyzed in the literature. Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California fills that lacuna and reinterprets the position of Alta California in the Spanish Colonial Empire. Using both petrography and neutron activation analysis to examine over 1,600 ceramic samples, the contributors to this volume explore the region’s ceramic production, imports, trade, and consumption. From artistic innovation to technological diffusion, a different aspect of the intricacies of everyday life and culture in the region is revealed in each essay. This book illuminates much about Spanish imperial expansion in a far corner of the colonial world. Through this research, California history has been rewritten.

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University Press of Florida

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0813048885

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9780813048888

Teaching for Reconciliation

Foundations and Practice of Christian Educational Ministry

By: Ronald Habermas,Ronald T. Habermas,Klaus Dieter Issler

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Teaching for Reconciliation

Foundations and Practice of Christian Educational Ministry

By: Ronald Habermas,Ronald T. Habermas,Klaus Dieter Issler

Ronald Habermas and Klaus Issler have written a textbook on Christian education that reflects their conviction that the educational function of the church is central to Christ's mission of reconciliation. They suceed in balancing both theory and practice.

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0801043670

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Book's by Ronald M. James

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 2

Rambo Family Tree, Volume 5

Rambo Family Tree, Volume 5

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

Nevada's Historic Buildings

Nevada's Historic Buildings

The Roar and the Silence

The Roar and the Silence

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland

Virginia City

Virginia City

A Short History of Virginia City

A Short History of Virginia City

Transplantation of the Liver

Transplantation of the Liver

Virginia City

Virginia City

Monumental Lies

Monumental Lies

Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California

Teaching for Reconciliation

Teaching for Reconciliation

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