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Chapters: Uss California, Uss West Virginia, Uss Pennsylvania, Uss South Dakota, Uss Maryland, Uss Colorado, Pennsylvania Class Cruiser. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser. She was launched on 28 April 1904 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, sponsored by Ms. Florence Pardee (daughter of California governor George C. Pardee), and commissioned on 1 August 1907, Captain V. L. Cottman in command. Joining the 2nd Division, Pacific Fleet, California took part in the Naval Review at San Francisco in May 1908 for the Secretary of the Navy. Aside from a cruise to Hawaii and Samoa in the fall of 1909, the cruiser operated along the west coast, sharpening her readiness through training exercises and drills, until December 1911, when she sailed for Honolulu, and in March 1912 continued westward for duty on the Asiatic Station. After this service representing American power and prestige in the Far East, she returned home in August 1912, and was ordered to Corinto, Nicaragua, then embroiled in internal political disturbance. Here she protected American lives and property, then resumed her operations along the west coast; she cruised off California, and kept a watchful eye on Mexico, at that time also suffering political disturbance. 1907 viewDuring that time in Mexico, she was involved in an international incident in which two of her crew were shot and killed. California was renamed San Diego on 1 September 1914, and served as flagship for Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, intermittently until a boiler explosion put her in Mare Island Navy Yard in reduced commission through the summer ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=204098 ... Read more

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I would sum up USD as a place where you can surround yourself with multiple opportunities and activities, each providing another unique experience and lifelong memory. From the tailgate parties before the football games to the research being done on one of the medical school s cadavers, you ll find people on every inch of the campus willing to teach you something new. With dedication and optimism, you can assure yourself not only a remarkable education in one of the numerous programs, but also a level of maturity and life understanding you obtained outside the classroom. Throughout the years, USD has produced a number of top scholars, promising students that its staff, education, and research opportunities can prepare everyone for a concrete career. In addition, many USD graduates have gone on to institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Harvard, and 35 students have been awarded prestigious national scholarships including the Fulbright, Truman, and Goldwater. I ve stayed at USD because of the personal attention and welcoming atmosphere it s provided, not to mention the experience and education I ve received. However, if you ve picked up this book, you re probably already aware of the top-level opportunities each student here can receive and the everyday facts and statistics the University boasts. You re also probably already aware that the party-school reputation is still alive. Now you must ask yourself,Is USD the perfect fit for me?After all, your final decision of where to go after high school shouldn t be about what a university has to offer to everyone else, but what it can offer you. Hopefully, this book can help further expand your knowledge on this small-town university and help you make the perfect decision when it comes to your schooling. Kerry Hacecky, Author ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 341 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 529 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 347 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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In 1881, nineteen-year-old Corabelle Fellows, welleducated and gently bred, overcame her parents' objections and lefther upper-class home in Washington, D.C., to become a church-sponsoredteacher among the Sioux and Cheyenne in Dakota Territory.Her story,with its personal perspective on the Indians' struggles to keep theirreligion, lands, language, and way of life, will both intrigue andenthrall readers. ... Read more

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Charming portrait of a lifestyle long gone
This book, the third in a trilogy based on the author's own childhood, focuses once again on Rachel, now a sixth grader living during a brutal winter in the 1950's in South Dakota. Rachel dreads coming home from school each day, because there are endless chores, like on any other farm.However, Rachel's large family includes only one brother, a baby named Matthew.That means Rachel and her sisters do a man's work alongside their father. Because of this, Rachel dreads snow days, weekends and any time she has to be at home and working.

A series of blizzards leaves Rachel's parents with a dilemma: keep the girls home to help or send them to town so they can go to school. (We know which option Rachel wants)Like all winters, this one eventually ends, and Rachel discovers that she has grown up more than she could have imagined.

I found this book charming as well as engaging; even though I hadn't read the previous two books in the series, I found it easy to jump right in and get to know the characters.(I liked this book well enough that I read the two previous books afterward)For a 'tween up to mid-teens, or younger if read-aloud, this book is are look at an America that has all but disappeared.

Nostalgic, Old-Fashioned Winter Story
Prairie Winter is a sweet story of the troubles and hardships facing families living on the prairie in South Dakota in the 1950s. It's been a very bad winter: lots of snow, lots of wind, and bitter temperatures. For sixth grader Rachel, this means difficult times because not only can she not go to school because the roads are so bad, but she has to do many difficult chores on her family's farm. And winter is not about to get easier.

Bonnie Geisert invokes both the simplicity and hardships of living on a farm in the 1950s. Simple pleasures like snowball fights, games like fox and goose, and listening to the radio add a very refreshing ambiance to the story, while the difficulty in shoveling, in getting home from school, in being stranded at a neighbor's house for days on end add to the reality of being a farm girl in South Dakota.

At the same time, I didn't feel like the historical setting was fully utilized. Except for not having a phone in the house, and TV just coming out, this could be a farm story from somewhat more modern times. While this doesn't hurt the story, the time period just doesn't come alive as much as possible.

However, this is a nice and simple story that parents looking for a clean read, a family read, will enjoy. While this is part of a series it seems, I honestly had no trouble following the family and its antics, even as I had not read any of the earlier books. Perhaps having read the previous books would add a bit more to the historical context, but all in all, it was a pleasant read. This is not groundbreaking writing or storytelling but it just has a really nice feel good appeal to it that is sometimes hard to find.

difficult time relating to the main character
Rachel Johnson is a sixth-grader at a Cresbard school
this year. Going to school means everything to her. She
lives in a rural part of town with no phone, so going to
school is a way for her communicate. She can talk to
friends and play in the band, that is going to Chicago
this year, it is everything she loves. Then all that could
be taken away from her when a huge snowstorm hits
Cresbard, keeping her away from her beloved school. Then,
in a surprising turn of events, her strict father agrees
to fly her and her sisters into town. She stays in an
hotel for weeks, living the good life. Will she ever
return to her farmlife again?

Prairie Winter takes place on a farm in the 1950's.
It describes the way of life for a 10 year
old farm girl in the harsh winter.This book gave a good
depiction of a slower paced, quieter time peroid in
history.It is a big contrast to the times we live in
today.I had a difficult time relating to the main
character and the different ways of this time period.
Perhaps this book would be more interesting to a younger
age reader or someone much older who might reflect on
memories of their childhood.

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This should be a children's picture book.
I'm aware this book is part of a series, but from the opening pages I was confused as to why the author wanted to write this story in this fashion. Essentially a memoir, why wasn't this story told as an illustrated picture book for young children? Or, conversely, as a completely adult work in the style of, say, Willa Cather? Because as it is it comes off as drab, mealy storytelling, rather than energetic, charming and nostalgic, as it should have. Not only is the writing stiff and awkward on more than one occasion, but it then veers into adult descriptions of meteorology or farming that seem entirely out of place in the narrative. The idea of being trapped for the winter without any contact with the outside world - which is what I thought the story was leading towards - wasn't actually what happened, or, at least, didn't happen to the protagonist...which makes for a bit of a boring story, frankly. Ultimately, the book fell far short of its mark for me.

Slow moving story...
I received this book from the Vine program, not realizing it was a "young reader" book.The story was ok, but a bit slow-moving and sort of an updated "Little House" tale of a family's struggle through a harsh winter in the country.I suppose a young reader might enjoy the book, though it doesn't offer much to draw the reader in.One issue I had with the book is that the voice of the narrator does not seem age-appropriate.In other words, much of the narrative seemed more mature than a 12-year old.I really didn't care for the book at all--though I hate to post a negative review as I am not the target audience for it. ... Read more

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Examines the history of unique national monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, discussing financial issues, government involvement, and the actual process of carving this memorial. ... Read more

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'A skillfully written, welcome addition to the scholarship on American Indian experience in federal boarding schools. Professor Child brings an important and revealing corpus of materials into public view and treats those materials with understanding and sensitivity' - Tsianina Lomawaima, author of "They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School". "Boarding School Seasons" offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often attended schools at great distances from their communities, suffered from homesickness, and their parents from loneliness. Parents worried continually about the emotional and physical health and the academic progress of their children.Families clashed repeatedly with school officials over rampant illnesses and deplorable living conditions and devised strategies to circumvent severely limiting visitation rules. Family intimacy was threatened by the schools' suppression of traditional languages and Native cultural practices. Although boarding schools were a threat to family life, profound changes occurred in the boarding school experience as families turned to these institutions for relief during the Depression, when poverty and the loss of traditional seasonal economies proved a greater threat. "Boarding School Seasons" provides a multifaceted look at the aspirations and struggles of real people. Brenda J. Child, a Red Lake Ojibwe, is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota. This is her first book. ... Read more

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Informative. Has something you've never heard of before
I picked up this book for my college class on the study of Native Americans from Civil War to present.Even though this is an educational biography on boarding school life, it is actually quite intriguing.Brenda Child completely covers the topic with very interesting material. I won't say that Boarding School Seasons is one of my favorites, but if you are interested in the topic of Indian boarding schools, then you will actually be suprised at how easy it is for this book to keep your attention.If you are viewing this book for a college course, then your class shouldn't be too hard.This is one of the few college required texts that I actually managed to enjoy

A Boarding School Primer
This short, easy to read book presents a basic overview of boarding school issues which occurred throughout the U.S. during the boarding school era.Brenda Child's book concentrates on the Red Lake Ojibwes who attendedboarding school at Flandreau specifically.The book also uses personalstories of students and their families in vignettes preserved throughletters sent to and from Flandreau. I found this book well-written,readable, and recommended as an overview of the boarding school era. ... Read more