Crossing kansas (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: As New. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.

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.

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Engineered Irony, a 150th commemorative edition, revisits civil engineers Octave Chanute and George Morison's greatest achievement to 1869-the completion of the Hannibal Bridge-and their 1870 report, The Kansas City Bridge. Kansas City, Missouri, has enjoyed its Heart of America moniker for generations. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, after years of negotiations and political machinations, chose in 1867 to span their historic bridge-the first ever to cross the Missouri River-at Kansas City, then known as the City of Kansas and formerly the Town of Kansas. The Hannibal Bridge MADE Kansas City, Missouri Vol. 1 (blue front cover) is a reprint of Chanute and Morison's 1870 report on the construction of the bridge, together with a newly developed biography of Chanute by Bill Nicks, and an essay on the importance of the bridge to civil engineering by engineer Brian Snyder. Vol. 2 (red front cover) is the culmination of David W. Jackson's decade plus effort to compile this sesquicentennial souvenir highlighting archival resources identifying nearly 1,500 individual skilled laborers and contractors-including five who lost their lives in the venture-who achieved a modern miracle between 1867 and July 3, 1869. During that Independence Day weekend fete, 30,000 spectators from across the Midwest descended upon the fledgling City of Kansas to celebrate the remarkable moment on the Missouri Riverbank. Another feature of Engineered Irony is a comprehensive gallery of all the known images of the Kansas City Bridge (aka. the Hannibal Bridge) from 1867 to 1917, when the bridge was replaced by its descendant, the Second Hannibal Bridge. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 166, [2] pages. Illustrated cover. Signed by the author, Diane Leatherman, on the title page Includes Prologue and 34 chapters. Born in Kansas City just as her parents were emerging from the Great Depression, Diane Leatherman learned early to dread the "crossing of Kansas" when the family traveled west each summer. There were few restaurants or gas stations with clean restrooms. Nothing in those days was air-conditioned. The state was flat, hot and endless. Life has gotten easier--for most of us. With all of the problems modernization makes, still each of us have more opportunity to fully develop ourselves, especially women. Ms. Leatherman began college at a small girls school in the middle of Missouri, which her grandmother had attended a half century before, and finished a degree almost 15 years later. She has been a park ranger, teacher, worked at an "eighteenth century" dirt-level farm and has served as Executive Director of Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Maryland. She is a member Maryland Writers Association, National Writers Union, and Publications Marketing Association. Fictionalized memoir, mature women will recognize the bright little girl who grows up to see no recourse but marriage at the end of the 1950s. When the social revolution of the 1960s manages to reach her, she begins to be restless with her role and throws her life into a spiral that imperils her and her children, yet results in a more complete person. Diane Leatherman (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Engineered Irony, a 150th commemorative edition, revisits civil engineers Octave Chanute and George Morison's greatest achievement to 1869-the completion of the Hannibal Bridge-and their 1870 report, The Kansas City Bridge. Kansas City, Missouri, has enjoyed its 'Heart of America' moniker for generations. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, after years of negotiations and political machinations, chose in 1867 to span their historic bridge-the first ever to cross the Missouri River-at Kansas City, then known as the City of Kansas and formerly the Town of Kansas. The Hannibal Bridge MADE Kansas City, Missouri! Vol. 1 (blue front cover) is a reprint of Chanute and Morison's 1870 report on the construction of the bridge, together with a newly developed biography of Chanute by Bill Nicks, and an essay on the importance of the bridge to civil engineering by engineer Brian Snyder. Vol. 2 (red front cover) is the culmination of David W. Jackson's decade plus effort to compile this sesquicentennial souvenir highlighting archival resources identifying nearly 1,500 individual skilled laborers and contractors-including five who lost their lives in the venture-who achieved a modern miracle between 1867 and July 3, 1869. During that Independence Day weekend fete, 30,000 spectators from across the Midwest descended upon the fledgling City of Kansas to celebrate the remarkable moment on the Missouri Riverbank. Another feature of Engineered Irony is a comprehensive gallery of all the known images of the Kansas City Bridge (aka. the Hannibal Bridge) from 1867 to 1917, when the bridge was replaced by its descendant, the Second Hannibal Bridge. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index.…

Zustand: New.