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Journal of a trapper / by Russell, Osborne,1814-1892.(CARDINAL)433199; Haines, Aubrey L.(CARDINAL)125389;
Includes index and bibliography.Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, considering as you pass along that he has been chiefly educated in Nature's School under that rigid tutor experience. . . .Born in a little Maine village in 1814, Osborne Russell ran away to sea at the age of sixteen, but he soon gave up seafaring to serve with a trading and trapping company in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1834 he signed up for Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia. Subsequently he joined Jim Bridger's brigade of old Rocky Mountain Fur Company men, continuing with them after a merger that left the American Fur Company in control of the trade. When the fur trade declined, he became a free trapper operating out of Fort Hall, staying in the mountains until the great Westward migration began. Osborne Russell's journal covering the years 1834 to 1843 is, in the words of editor Aubrey L. Haines, perhaps the best account of the fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains when the trade there was at its peak. It is a factual, unembellished narrative written by one who was not only a trapper but also a keen observer and an able writer. Edited from the original manuscript and originally printed in a limited edition of 750 copies, this classic piece of Western Americana is now available to the general public.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Fur trade;
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Queer legacies : stories from Chicago's LGBTQ archives / by D'Emilio, John,author.(CARDINAL)143742; Gerber/Hart Library and Archives.(CARDINAL)850512;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and index.Merle's story -- The struggle for self-acceptance : the Life of George Buse -- Renee Hanover : always a radical -- Max Smith : A gay liberationist at heart -- The gay liberation era in Chicago -- A queer radical's Story : Step May and Chicago Gay Liberation -- The Transvestite Legal Committee -- A national network under the radar : The Transvestite Information Service -- A mother to her family : the life of Robinn Dupree -- Controversy on campus : Northwestern University and Garrett Theological Seminary -- Activist Catholics : Dignity's work in the 1970s and 1980s -- Dennis Halan and the story of Chicago's "Gay Mass" -- Moving forward with Integrity -- Lutherans Concerned : a continuing struggle -- Running for office : the campaign of Gary Nepon -- Ten years after Stonewall : The police are still attacking us -- Trying to work together : The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago -- Knowledge Is power: Chicago's Gay Academic Union -- Sexual orientation and the law -- A lesbian community center in Chicago -- The Artemis Singers and the power of music -- Printing our way to freedom: The Metis Press -- Picturing lesbian history : the passion of Janet Soule -- Lesbian Chicago : striving for visibility -- We are family : The birth of Amigas Latinas -- Our legacy lives on : Amigas Latinas as an activist force -- Challenging a color line : Black and White Men Together -- Chicago mobilizes to march on Washington -- Confronting AIDS : The response of Black and White Men Together -- The rise of bisexual activism -- Impact '88 : becoming a force in electoral politics -- Facing of with the media: The work of GLAAD-Chicago -- Building community : Peg Grey and the power of sports -- Fighting the military ban : James Darby and the effort to mobilize veterans -- The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS -- A community fights AIDS : The work of BEHIV -- Making schools safe -- We will not stay quiet : The 85% Coalition."There is no single archive of gay life in Chicago. But since 1981, the Gerbert-Hart Library and Archives has been collecting records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified individuals and organizations. In this book, legendary scholar John D'Emilio draws on those archives to illuminate the scope of people and groups that literally made history. These include publishers, lawyers, athletes, artists, performers, transvestites, bisexuals, and Latinx organizers, to name a few overlapping constituencies. They also include institutions like Dignity, long the primary organization giving voice to LGBTQ Catholics, as well as the Gay Academic Union. In that last case, D'Emilio takes the first steps toward a full history of how scholarly research, writing, and teaching developed and how a visible LGBTQ presence became institutionalized in American higher education. D'Emilio's casual and enthusiastic essays range from politics to culture, from social life to institutions. And though the milieu is Chicago, many of the essays reach beyond to illuminate national events. Overall, this is a kaleidoscopic look at the diverse flavors of organizing and community-making that have been pursued by gay men and women over the decades"--
Subjects: Gay people; Sexual minority community; Gay people; Gay liberation movement; Homosexuals.;
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Physicians for the people : Black doctors and the struggle for health-care equality in Alabama, 1870-1970 / by Ellis, Jack D.,author.(CARDINAL)144997;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index."African Americans have always fared worse than whites in enjoying the benefits of material progress and medical discovery. Black sociologist and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois argued that high mortality rates among Black people were rooted not in racial inferiority but in "the conditions of life," a fact illustrated by tuberculosis, which was three times higher among Blacks than whites, as well as the infant mortality rate for nonwhite children, which was 149.7 deaths per 1,000 births as opposed to 92.8 per 1,000 for white children. In "Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970," Jack D. Ellis argues that the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives hold special significance in this regard, illuminating both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in the medical professions. At the center of Ellis's study are African American doctors who practiced in Alabama between the late 1870s and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. During those years, a total of 241 Black medical graduates passed their licensing examinations and opened offices in the state. Ellis poses these questions: What were their geographical and family origins, and why had they been attracted to the study of medicine? Where had they trained, and how did they manage to function as professionals in a climate of racial oppression? What was their relationship to white doctors practicing in their communities, and how did they compensate for their systematic exclusion from local medical societies and hospitals? To identify Alabama's Black doctors of the past, Ellis first turns to the annual membership lists of each medical society in the state's sixty-seven counties, where the names of licensed practitioners who were not members also appeared, followed by the abbreviation "col." (for "colored"), a routine practice of the era that only ceased in 1965. Ellis then compiles oral histories from various interviews with physicians, dentists, and family members who were able to provide information on conditions affecting African-American medical practice in Alabama between the 1930s and 1970s. Portions of these oral histories include doctors' recollections of childhood, family life, and early education, and their evolving interest in the sciences, which occurred despite the weakness of libraries and laboratories in Black schools. Also included are the doctors' memories of medical training and the problems they encountered once in practice, from the wholesale poverty of their patients to the parallel worlds in which Black and white practitioners pursued their calling, as well as their accounts of the years spent trying to gain admission to Alabama's county medical societies, where membership was required to be admitted to hospital staffs and to pursue specialty training. As Ellis shows, this proved to be the hardest battle of all, even though Black doctors had passed the same licensing examinations as white doctors. From their first appearance in Alabama, Black physicians hoped to cooperate with their white peers, but their efforts went largely ignored; white doctors tended not only to share the racist norms of their time but often exceeded them. Black doctors being denied hospital training came at an enormous price to their careers and to the health of the state's Black citizens, the effects of which can still be seen today in statistical data, which shows that Black doctors face a disproportionate number of sanctions when compared to white physicians, and that the maternal and infant mortality rates for Black women and children are still much higher than their white counterparts"--
Subjects: African American physicians; Physicians; African Americans; Discrimination in medical care; Medical care; Racism against Black people;
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Unrooted : botany, motherhood, and the fight to save an old science / by Zimmerman, Erin,author.aut.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.Library of the dead -- Learning to look -- Tiny worlds -- Intrepid enough -- Learning to see -- Uncertainty, in science and life -- Adaptation -- The lady vanishes -- The view of life -- Botanist at large.Growing up in rural Ontario, Erin Zimmerman became fascinated with plants - an obsession that led to a life in academia as a professional botanist. But as her career choices narrowed in the face of failing institutions and subtle, but ubiquitous, sexism, Zimmerman began to doubt herself. Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is a scientist's memoir, a glimpse into the ordinary life of someone in a fascinating field. This is a memoir about plants, about looking at the world with wonder, and about what it means to be a woman in academia - an environment that pushes out mothers and those with any outside responsibilities. Zimmerman delves into her experiences as a new mom, her decision to leave her position in post-graduate research, and how she found a new way to stay in the field she loves. She also explores botany as a "dying science" worth fighting for. While still an undergrad, Zimmerman's university started the process of closing the Botany Department, a sign of waning funding for her beloved science. Still, she argues for its continuation, not only because we have at least 100,000 plant species yet to be discovered, but because an understanding of botany is crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. Zimmerman is also a botanical illustrator and will provide 8 original illustrations for the book.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Zimmerman, Erin.; Zimmerman, Erin (Evolutionary biologist); Women botanists; Women in higher education.; Botany.; Motherhood.; Plants.; Women botanists.; Women botanists;
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Stellar pack. by Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268;
We Are The Chuggineers -- Kids Learning Box: Preschool -- Xander English Prepositions -- Farm Story Maker -- Arty Mouse Tracing -- Vowel Sounds: Long A -- Vowel Sounds: Short A -- Storybook Animations: A New Flamingo in Town -- Power Word: Dad -- The Library Song -- Learn Alphabet Song In Arty Mouse Tracing, Arty Mouse and his colorful friends engage, enthuse, and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal, and curved lines to create pictures, letters, numbers and more!Lily's farm is full of crazy ANIMATED critters from chickens to cows to airplanes and pizza! Pick from 9 locations like the PIG PEN or FRESH VEGGIES! Children can build any scene they imagine with 100 funny, cuddly, and wild stickers!An all-in one app for preschool and kindergarten kids! Featuring 10 different categories to learn and practice from alphabet and letter recognition to colors, shapes, memory match and more!Join Mister Clay as we learn about the letter A and the two sounds (long a and short a) that it makes. This song will teach children the sounds of the letter A in catchy, repeatable refrain. And listen for examples of both sounds in words!Join Mister Clay as we learn about the letter G. This song will teach children the sound of the letter G in catchy, repeatable refrain. And listen for examples the letter G in words!Dad is one of our Power Words! In this story, a baby lion wakes his sleeping Dad for a bit of play, but after a romp Dad and cub fall back to sleep together.Dona Rosa's friends tell her about a stranger in town. But, when the new flamingo arrives at the lake, they are surprised to learn that he's Dona Rosa's brother.The Library! The library is where you go to read books, magazines, hear stories, or listen to music! The library has so many great things that it makes us want to sing! Sing along to this awesome library jam!Early readers learn new words for their reading adventure! Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.Early readers learn new words for their reading adventure! Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.Ride the rails in an exciting new Chugginton adventure! A follow up to ' Chug Patrol: Ready to Rescue' storybook, this action-packed story includes dynamic multi-level games, positive reinforcement and rewards, video clips, and fun interactions with the characters. Emerging readers can follow along or practice their skills with highlighted text while reading independently.Play hide and seek with Xander and learn basic prepositions in a fun way!"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Pre-Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: - Forms 3 to 4 word sentences - Can talk and carry on conversations - Continues to grow vocabulary - Listens to stories, simple songs, and nursery rhymes - Recognizes letters"Pre-K.
Subjects: Educational games.; Alphabet; Electronic books.; Literacy; Mobile apps.; Reading (Preschool); Video games.; Vowels;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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The Battle of Gettysburg : the turning point in the Civil War / by Sutherland, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)688309; Canwell, Diane,author.(CARDINAL)386762;
Includes bibliographical references (page 77) and index.Lincoln Memorial -- Early Battles -- The fighting continues -- The battle of Gettysburg -- Time line of the Civil War -- Educational videos -- Examples of confederate uniforms -- Examples of union (Federal) uniforms -- Series glossary of key terms -- Further reading and internet resources -- index -- Further information.Beginning in 1861, the battles of the Civil War resulted in sacrifice, bloodshed, and heroism. During the first two years of the war, Southern troops won many victories, but their fortune changed at Gettysburg and Vicksburg when Northern forces began to defeat the South. It is estimated that over 10,000 engagements were fought, with the Union forces finally declaring a victory in 1865. Each title in this series contains photos throughout, and back matter including: an index, further reading lists for books and internet resources, a timeline, and examples of Confederate uniforms. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions--building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars are highlighted graphics with content rich material within that allows readers to build knowledge and broaden their perspectives by weaving together additional information to provide realistic and holistic perspectives. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the chapter they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter as well and provide readers with suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.;
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Undaunted Mind The intellectual life of Benjamin Franklin by Hayes, Kevin J. author.(CARDINAL)293061;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-446) and index.Circles of the Mind -- Small Chapmen's Books -- Joyful Schooldays -- Reading by Candlelight -- The Clan of Honest Wags -- The Courant Library -- Reader on the Road -- The Lair of the Green Dragon -- What Franklin Read in London -- Sailing Home with Memories of London -- The Junto -- Richard Lewis and the News -- The Library Company of Philadelphia -- How to Make an Almanac -- Science -- The Philadelphia Academy -- The Northwest Passage -- The Art of War -- An American Intellectual in London -- The Call for Racial Tolerance -- Travels in a Time of Strife -- The Emblems that Made America -- Solon and Sophocles -- The Mystery of the Book Lists -- Franklin Court."Undaunted Mind tells the story of Franklin's intellectual life from the books he read as a child to those he read as he continued his idiosyncratic program of self-education. As an apprentice in his brother's printing house, Franklin's intellectual life developed through his contact with his brother's writerly friends. After running away to Philadelphia, Franklin developed a new group of friends, all of whom loved reading. While in London in his late teens he met several important intellectuals who encouraged his intellectual pursuits. After returning to Philadelphia from London, he and some friends formed the Junto, a club for mutual improvement that made reading and writing important activities. He formed the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first subscription library in colonial America. As a printer he read some of the best writing in the eighteenth century. He became a scientist, assembling a great scientific library, which helped his electrical research. Franklin founded the Philadelphia Academy, which would become the University of Pennsylvania. As agent for the Pennsylvania Assembly, Franklin lived in London for many years, where he befriended some of Britain's greatest minds. Different concentrations of books in his library reveal Franklin's interests in travel and exploration, warfare, and slavery. His time in Paris gave Franklin another great intellectual experience, but he ultimately returned home to live the last five years of his life in Philadelphia, where he imparted his knowledge and experience to a new generation of Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies. ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 ; Associations, institutions, etc. ;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lady in the dark : Iris Barry and the art of film / by Sitton, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)406374;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the Isle of Man. An aspiring poet, Barry attracted the attention of Ezra Pound and joined a demimonde of Bloomsbury figures, including Ford Maddox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Waley, Edith Sitwell, and William Butler Yeats. She fell in love with Pound's eccentric fellow Vorticist, Wyndham Lewis, and had two children by him. In London, Barry pursued a career as a novelist, biographer, and critic of motion pictures. In America, she joined the modernist Askew Salon, where she met Alfred Barr, director of the new Museum of Modern Art. There she founded the museum's film department and became its first curator, assuring film's critical legitimacy. She convinced powerful Hollywood figures to submit their work for exhibition, creating a new respect for film and prompting the founding of the International Federation of Film Archives. Barry continued to augment MoMA's film library until World War II, when she joined the Office of Strategic Services to develop pro-American films with Orson Welles, Walt Disney, John Huston, and Frank Capra. Yet despite her patriotic efforts, Barry's "foreignness" and association with such filmmakers as Luis Buñuel made her the target of an anticommunist witch hunt. She eventually left for France and died in obscurity. Drawing on letters, memorabilia, and other documentary sources, Robert Sitton reconstructs Barry's phenomenal life and work while recasting the political involvement of artistic institutions in the twentieth century.
Subjects: Biographies.; Barry, Iris, 1895-1969.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Film Library; Archivists; Film critics; Motion picture film collections; Motion picture film;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Programming the Intel Edison: Getting Started with Processing and Python by Norris, Donald,Author.(CARDINAL)525514;
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Available for distribution in: USA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
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Medieval Francis in modern America : the story of eighty years, 1855-1935 / by Callahan, Adalbert John.;
Allegany " 1855-1901 -- Retrospect -- Nicholas Devereux -- The coming of the friars -- Allegany -- The college -- Along highways and byways -- Buffalo to Texas -- In the metropolis -- The friars in Connecticut -- The departure of Father Pamphilus -- Sisters of Saint Francis -- Early presidents and provincials -- Loss and gain -- Father Joseph Butler -- Rounding out a century -- Paterson : 1876-1901 -- The seed of Christianity -- Our lady's hill -- Seeking a new home -- In the Adirondack foothills -- A second foundation -- Age of brick and mortar -- Father Aloysius called to Rome -- Beginnings in Butler -- Restoration of the Frauenberg -- A call from the rockies -- Grace Valley -- Along the Delaware Valley -- Developments in the West -- Thuringia becomes a province -- The Leonine Union -- The province of the most holy name : 1901-1936 -- A new province -- Silver linings -- Father Denis becomes Minister General -- A Franciscan Cardinal -- Father Joseph's jubilee -- A martyr of the Eucharist -- Election of Father Anselm -- A new seminary -- The passing of a patriarch -- "Beati Mortui" -- Church extension -- Church extension (continued) -- Church extension (concluded) -- Later events -- Death comes to a pioneer -- Recent foundations -- A new house of studies -- Educational developments -- The Franciscan Apostolate.
Subjects: Franciscans. Province of the most holy name of Jesus.; Franciscans; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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