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 Free Download Andy Mark, "The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company: Early Logging in Northeastern California" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1609497414, 1540221237 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 3.8 mb In the late 1800s, the green gold of California's inland timber belt included the long-coned sugar pine and cinnamon-dusted ponderosa pine of Big Chico Creek Canyon. Tucked into the steep terrain of present-day Butte and Tehama Counties, the bustling West Branch Mill logging operations moved timber from the foothills east of Chico to waiting markets in Sacramento, Marysville and San Francisco. Local author Andy Mark recounts the lesser-known history of the West Branch Mill, recalling a time when resident physician Newton T. Enloe treated the daring men who faced daily peril, John Bidwell's bumpy and sometimes treacherous Humboldt Wagon Road was essentially the only route to town and Big Chico Creek was lined with an elevated flume running lumber and ambulance rafts. The book includes stories about robberies, accidents, narrow escapes from almost certain death, celebrations and other good times, as well as the concern in those days by local citizens about the negative impact of unregulated logging practices, even local man-caused climate change.  Free Download Robert H. Jackson, "Pames, Jonaces, and Franciscans in the Sierra Gorda" English | ISBN: 1443816922 | 2017 | 240 pages | PDF | 14 MB In the mid-sixteenth century, the Spanish faced a prolonged conflict in Mexico known as the Chichimeca War (15501600) beyond the porous cultural frontier between the sedentary indigenous populations of central Mexico and the bands of nomadic hunters and gatherers collectively known by the derogatory Náhuatl term Chichimeca or Mecos. Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries developed methods and an organizational scheme to evangelize the sedentary populations of central Mexico, but this did not work well beyond the Chichimeca frontier where missions often proved to be ephemeral. Moreover, the missionaries uncovered evidence of the persistence of pre-Hispanic religious beliefs as they also did in central Mexico. In many cases, the missionaries focused their attention on the colonies of sedentary indigenous peoples established beyond the frontier. This study outlines efforts over more than 200 years to evangelize the Pames and Jonaces in a huge territory known as the Sierra Gorda that covered parts of the modern states of Querétaro, Hidalgo, Estado de Mexico, Guanajuato, and San Luis Potosi, and involved Franciscan, Dominican, Augustinian, and Jesuit missionaries. It documents the last missionary impulse spurred by the project of José de Escandón and a new group of Franciscan missionaries to get the Pames and Jonaces to adopt a sedentary lifestyle after two centuries of failed efforts.  Free Download Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail by Elizabeth Wenk English | July 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1643590073 | 224 pages | EPUB | 87 Mb This new book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk includes photos and descriptions of approximately 300 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs in the High Sierra. Focused on areas above 8,000 feet in elevation from Yosemite south through the Whitney Region, by restricting the collection of species to higher elevations, the book can include all commonly seen species and nearly half of all higher elevation species in a compact guide. Make plant identification more approachable to hikers, this book differentiates between species using features easily identifiable to a non-botanist. Descriptions include the species' common and scientific names, family name, growth form, flowering time, elevation range, region, specific locations on popular trails, and how to identify the plant using color, petal number, leaf shape, height, and more.  Free Download Peter Albrecht, Paul Jackson, "Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013: Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138180416, 1138892297 | EPUB | pages: 185 | 1.2 mb Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK's contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building - particularly of the country's security and justice institutions.  Jerry Ghionis. I.C.E. Society – Sierra Genre / Category:Photography File Size :994MB The Ice Society was a subscription-based photography educational website created by Jerry Ghionis dedicated to empowering fellow professionals and enthusiasts to take their photography and business to new heights.  Johnson, Colin, Robert W., "Sierra Leone, 1938: Journey through a vanished world" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0953643026 | PDF | pages: 101 | 1.2 mb  Mary Hill, Phyllis M. Faber, Bruce M. Pavlik, "Geology of the Sierra Nevada" English | 2006 | pages: 467 | ISBN: 0520236955 | PDF | 11,4 mb  Elizabeth Henson, "Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965" English | 2019 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0816538735 | PDF | 6,3 mb The early 1960s are remembered for the emergence of new radical movements influenced by the Cuban Revolution. One such protest movement rose in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. With large timber companies moving in on the forested sierra highlands, campesinos and rancheros did not sit by as their lands and livelihoods were threatened. Continuing a long history of agrarian movements and local traditions of armed self-defense, they organized and demanded agrarian rights.  David T. Page, "Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada" English | 2017 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 1682680886 | EPUB | 134,8 mb An updated and redesigned guide one of America's greatest destinations
 John Idriss Lahai, "Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016: The Long Struggle from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Present " English | ISBN: 1138604763 | 2018 | 332 pages | PDF | 5 MB This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016. It provides a balanced coverage of the local and international conditions that frame the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of human rights: its rise and fall, and concerns for the broader engendered issues of the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, women's struggle for recognition, constitutional development, political independence, war, and transitional justice (as well as "contributive justice," which the author introduces to explain the consequences of the problems of the temporal nature of transitional justice, and the crisis of donor fatigue towards peacebuilding activities), local government, democracy, and constitutional reforms within Sierra Leone. While acknowledging the profound challenges associated with the promotion of human rights in an environment of uncertainty, political fragility, lawlessness, and deprivation, John Idriss Lahai sheds light on the often-constructive engagement of the people of Sierra Leone with a variety of societal conditions, adverse or otherwise, to influence constitutional change, the emergent post-coflict discourse on "contributive justice," and acceptable human rights practice. |
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