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Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countries - Brazil and Colombia - baseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet until the late 1980s few professional teams actively scouted and developed players there. This book is about the man who changed all that and brought Venezuela into Major League Baseball in a major way.

A collection of essays on the ways Native communities have interacted with the environment. This work examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practised among Native communities. It focuses on the complex relationship between indigenous ecological practices and other ways of interacting with the environment.

Since the re-publication of her novel "The Squatter and the Don", Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. This work fetaures essays that appraise a politically complex Mexican American writer.

Provides the necessary touchstones and guidelines for persons within institutions preparing for new leadership. Written by professional educators, this book is based on a survey of 3,000 deans and department heads in community colleges in the United States and Canada.

Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as possible from a large family that had 'too much religion' and too little else. This title presents her story.

Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the US Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. This title explains the controversy raging over the US Forest Service's management of America's national forests.

Doesn't shy away from the racism that dwells within the unexamined hearts of so many Americans.

Looks at atelier politics through the lens of literature focuses in particular on the female model, with special attention to her race, ethnicity, and class. This title offers an account of the rise and fall of the female model in nineteenth-century realism, a trend felt well into the twentieth century, especially in the new field of photography.

What could be safer than Grand Forks, North Dakota, settled on the vast, flat plain of the Red River? This book tells the story of that month-long disaster from the point of view of one who lived through it - fighting the flood shoulder-to-shoulder with her neighbors, and watching in horror as the water breaks the dikes.

Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily's emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of travelling the region, however, was far more than a fascinating wine frontier.

Farmers and pragmatists, hard-working people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee Martin's ancestors left no diaries or journals or letters; apart from birth certificates and gravestones. This is one man's story of love and compromise as he separates from his family's history.

In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna''s death in 1821. The principal author of the diaries, Anna, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life.This edition of the diary includes the entire text in translation as well as a critical apparatus, contextual introductory material, and extensive notes. Rowena McClinton''s translation from German script, an archaic writing convention, makes these primary eyewitness accounts available in English for the first time. These diaries will be of immense value for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century and missionary efforts in the South during this time. McClinton gained unlimited access to the diaries and other supporting documents for the completion of this project, published with the consent of the Moravian Church of the Southern Province.Volume 1 includes diary entries from 1805-13, a preface, and an introduction. Volume 2 includes diary entries from 1814-21, the editor''s epilogue, and a names index and a subject index for both volumes.Rowena McClinton is an associate professor of Native American studies at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Chad Smith is the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The red and black Concord stagecoaches that crossed the West in the 1860s, known to the Indians as "fire boxes," have been celebrated in Mark Twain's fiction and John Ford's films. Predating the transcontinental railroads, they provided vital lines of communication to the East during the Civil War and opened to development the newly settled regions beyond the Missouri River. From 1862 to 1866 Ben Holladay owned and operated a network of stagecoach lines from Kansas to California, the main one following the central mail route between Atchison and Salt Lake City established by the U.S. government in 1848, and other lines branching into the mining country of California and Montana and Idaho territories. In spite of bad weather, primitive roads, holdups by highwaymen, and trouble with Indians, Holladay's coaches delivered passengers and mail on schedule. J. V. Frederick describes in fascinating detail the organization and operation of a vast transportation empire ruled by a man with executive genius and a gambler's instincts. Although Holladay forbade drinking and profanity on the job, he commanded the loyalty of his drivers, whom he dressed in broad-brimmed sombreros, corduroys trimmed with velvet, and high-heeled boots. He sold out just before the Union Pacific Railroad was completed and until his death in 1887 remained popular with Americans, who named racehorses and cigars after him.

John Davis's relations with his wife, Serena, are unsatisfying. In the late 1930s, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a place from his past - the Montana mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them. Plans are further disrupted by a catastrophe - a forest fire that rages uncontrolled for three days.

Owing much to young the author's intimate association with the Omahas at their reservation in eastern Nebraska, the stories were of an Indian cast that perplexed the critics. This title contains nine stories appeared from 1901 to 1905 in the Overland Monthly; five were collected in The Lonesome Trail in 1907.

In 1910, when the town of Pendleton, Oregon, held its first large-scale rodeo, the Pendleton Round-Up, it introduced a new kind of rodeo queen - not a traveling cowgirl performer but a young, middle-class woman from its own town. This work examines the history, evolution, and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen.

Sheds light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English language instruction and its effects on Native students. This book traces the shifting ownership of English as the language was transferred from one population to another and its uses were transformed by Native students.

How Connie Mack built a team many consider baseball's greatest ever.

Describes the joys and anxieties of preparing for fatherhood in a setting as challenging as it is promising. This work features a story of two people exploring the unmapped territories of loss and grief and finding solace and grace in the mountains.

Explores the excitement of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, and its gradual disappearance. Writing in the form of a journal, Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft, measuring people's short lives and relationships against the seemingly immutable history of the earth.

An anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. This work includes short stories, essays, autobiographical sketches, and excerpts from novels, written between 1974 and 1986 by women of the postwar generation. Their work reflects everyday life in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Drawing on family memories, letters, diaries, reviews, and, in particular, the notebooks that Mildred Walker (1905-1998) kept for each novel, this title presents an account of how the author's mother's (Walker) characters emerged in the landscapes that she visited again and again: Vermont, the Midwest, and most frequently Montana.

Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.

Through a discussion of the status of women in the period and of attitudes towards slavery, this book demonstrates Southerne's complex that attempt to explore a parallel between the conditions of slaves and women in contemporary society.

In 1874, Fort Robinson was founded amid the piney ridges of northwest Nebraska to stem the attacks of the Sioux, angered by settlers encroaching on the High Plains and by gold prospectors invading their sacred Black Hills. This book describes the importance of Fort Robinson during the Sioux wars, including the Ghost Dance Uprisings of 1890.

Presents Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) and other Indian pieces; a novelette, Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman; and, nine short stories, mostly with a rural setting, including "The Vine", her first to be published.

For most of the nation, Alabama government is emblemized by Governor George Wallace blocking the entry to the University of Alabama, defying court-ordered integration and championing states' - rights slogans. This title brings a sense of its colorful past about its government and political institutions.

Although Willa Cather partook of the familiar subjects and themes of the Wordsworthian school of romanticism, Cather was not nearly so concerned with what we see as how we see. Her intensely individual perspective, more creatively romantic than has been previously recognized, gave her work its own kind of elegant form.

Abraham Lincoln's single goal of saving the Union required not simply subduing the South but contending as well with divisiveness in the North. In this account, Radical Republicans represent consensus with Lincoln more than conflict, sectional more than economic interests, and party over faction.