ISBN: 9780803250604 - nebraska place-names (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Later printing. Softcovers. xi+ 228 pp. with bibliography and index of place-names. Later printing. Near fine, bit of spotting top portion of the front cover, internally clean and unmarked. The new edition, including selections from J.T. Link's "Origins of the Place-Names of Nebraska". Fitzgerald's portion of the book, first published in 1925, is organized by county, with the name of each place given with a brief historical entry. The bibliography and index follow this portion; the second part gives selections of historical sketches from Link's work, first published in 1933.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the thirty-five years since it was first published, Nebraska Place-Names, thanks to its completeness and reliable scholarship, its excellent arrangement and its readability, not only has remained the standard work on the subject but is by way of becoming a classic of its kind. This new edition, which incorporates the complete text of the original study, once more makes available a work of interest to every Nebraskan as well as to social historians, folklorists, and collectors of Western Americana.Enriching the Fitzpartick study, and considerably increasing its scope, are four new chapters derived from another standard work, The Origin of the Place Names of Nebraska (The Toponomy of Nebraska) by J. T. Link. These chapters concern, respectively, the name 'Nebraska'; names of cultural features (trails, ranch and overland stations, military posts, Indian reservations, forests, state parks); names of water features (streams, lakes, marshes, swamps, springs, falls); and names of relief features (bluffs, buttes, hills, valleys, canyons, gulches, flats islands).…

Zustand: New. Klappentextrnrnincluding selections from The Origin of the Place-Names of Nebraksa by J.T. Link.