Nestled in the midst of the Mid-Ohio Valley along the Ohio River, Wood County exists as one of West Virginia's most populous areas. A unique history drives forward the county's diverse communities, and today's residents enjoy a varied palette of opportunities offered by both metropolitan centers and smaller, more rural hamlets. Wood County, West Virginia honors an integral chapter of The Mountain State's storied past, offering readers the opportunity to meet a variety of the county's personalities, including the wealthy-and later infamous-Irish immigrant Harman Blennerhassett, the industrial magnates who arrived with the harvesting of oil and natural gas, and even some everyday individuals. More than 200 vintage photographs also invite readers to experience the county's defining moments, such as the growth of the Volcano oil field after the War between the States, along with the county's tragedies, such as the 1909 collapse of Parkersburg's water tanks on Quincy Hill, which swept a newly married couple to their deaths. Capable of enjoying the prosperous times and of overcoming the difficult ones, Wood Countians have proven themselves time and again since its founding in 1799. This volume is a fitting tribute to the strength and will of all who have called Wood County home.

Wood County (WV) (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Betty, Leavengood

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood's third edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This third edition includes: 37 hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical notes, photographs, and anecdotes; and detailed maps and descriptions with elevation/distance.

Tucson Hiking Guide (The Pruett Series)

Sports & Outdoors

WestWinds Press

Review\nBetween Tucson and Nogales, Arizona, the Santa Rita Mountains preserve an environment and a history unique to the Southwest. Patagonia, Sonoita, Canoa, Sahuarita - the surrounding communities echo images of a not-so-distant past, when Apaches, Mexican campesinos, and Anglo ranchers, miners, and loggers, mission dwellers, and cavalrymen all laid claim to (and fought for) a piece of the Santa Ritas. These days, we are privileged to hike through this haunted range unthreatened except by nature's own surprises - the disturbed rattler, the unexpected storm, the flash flood. Leavengood & Liebert have collaborated to write an authoritative and prosaic hiking guide to the Santa Ritas. 37 hikes are detailed in text, maps, and photos. Each hike description is embellished with tales, anecdotes, historical footnotes, and explanations enough to satisfy the most curious modern explorer. Each hike is introduced by a general description of the terrain, followed by essential facts like trail length, elevation gain, best time of year to go, approach routes, and vehicle recommendations. -- Midwest Book Review

Hiker's Guide to the Santa Rita Mountains (The Pruett Series)

Mike Liebert

Hiking & Camping

The Grand Canyon is as well known for its intrepid adventurers as it is for its overwhelming beauty. While the most well-known adventurers are men, many of the Canyon's heroes are heroines. In Grand Canyon Women, Betty Leavengood corrects this omission from history and tells the stories of these daring, remarkable individuals.
River runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, and housewives, these women braved the remote and rugged terrain of the Grand Canyon. Some were there as a result of circumstance, while others sought the landscape with passion and purpose. Most met the challenges of the Canyon; others suffered a darker fate. All of them, however, were changed forever by their experiences. For each of the fifteen women profiled, Betty Leavengood shows how, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, each woman discovers her identity.
October 20, 1928 was a crisp autumn day in Green River, Utah....Bessie and Glen Hyde launched their scow onto the Green River and began the journey of their lives. From here, the two would join the Colorado and 'float' 660 miles through the Grand Canyon for some forty-nine days with plans to reach Needles, California....But in the late '20s the section of the Colorado that ran through Cataract Canyon was one of its fiercest and wildest. It harbored treacherous whirlpools, deep holes, obtrusive rocks that could wrap a boat like a sheet of paper.... Once you began the run, there was no turning back
From tales of bold exploration to moments of crushing defeat, from places of life-defining discovery to the tidy homes of rural routine, this collection takes the reader on both humorous and heart wrenching journeys.
These women willinspire the reader, and their stories will enrich anyone's stay at the Grand Canyon.

Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape (The Pruett Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

This rich, enthusiastic guide to the Tucson, Rincon, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains has been completely revised. Betty Leavengood's third edition of her bestselling Tucson Hiking Guide offers new routes and updated access information, detailed maps, and clear descriptions to area trailheads. This third edition includes: 37 hikes rated easy to difficult by mountain range; revised information on precautions for desert hiking; historical notes, photographs, and anecdotes; and detailed maps and descriptions with elevation/distance.

Tucson Hiking Guide

Westwinds Pr

2014 Third Edition. Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women-Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives-each of whom, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.

Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape

Grand Canyon Conservancy

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