The Day of the Bonanza: A History of Bonanza Farming in the Red River Valley of the North

History

Drache, Dr. Hiram Dr.

Americas

Hobar Publications

Discover one of the last frontiers in the contiguous 48 states, which were heralded as a great agricultural Garden of Eden. A divergent ethnic composition, long and severe winters, a short growing season, and muskeg swamps intensified the problems of this isolated frontier. But the natural forest and abundance of waterpower helped shape the area’s history. The author focuses on pioneers who settled within a 60 – 70 miles on the northern border of Minnesota in an area extending from Baudette on the west to Kettle Falls on the east. Realizing that this would be some of the last free land, the pioneers had hopes that were probably greater than on earlier frontiers.

Koochiching: Pioneering Along the Rainy River Frontier

This book offers lively review of one of the most overlooked and yet critical factors in farm management. Farming, probably more than any other industry, has chronically suffered from poor or indifferent management. This is an account of how business-like, management-oriented farmers have succeeded through the erratic economic cycles and may provide insight into the future of American agriculture.

Plowshares to Printouts: Farm Management As Viewed Through 75 Years of the Northwest Farm Managers Association

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

An account of one of the most isolated frontiers in the lower 48 states where many people came to exploit the public domain and then left. Legitimate homesteaders came, settled, and to a large extent failed, while thousands of lumberjacks – living in lumber camps – toiled to harvest nature’s bounty.

Taming the Wilderness: The Northern Border Country, 1910-1939

Drache, Hiram Dr.

This is a story of the one of America's unsung heroes in the field of aviation-Carl Ben Eielson. Eielson grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Hatton, North Dakota, and was endowed with sufficient talent to make a comfortable living in any career he desired. Since early in life he dreamed of nothing but flying. After being trained as a military pilot in World War I, he spent two years as a barnstormer in the upper Midwest. In the fall of 1922 he went to Alaska to teach school and at once saw the need for aerial transportation in that massive, uncharted land of isolated settlements. In 1923 he flew the first airmail flight in interior Alaska, which made him an instant hero to all Alaskans, who were accustomed to waiting for months between mail deliveries. In 1924 he flew the first airmail flight under government contract between Fairbanks, Nenana, and McGrath. His fame as a pioneer bush pilot enabled him to win the pilot's position with Sir Hubert Wilkins, and the two thrilled the world with their flight from Barrow to Spitzbergen and later with their flights in the Atlantic. In 1929, at age 32, Eielson met death while on a flight over the frozen wastes of Siberia. A 100-day, three-nation search kept his name before the public in 1929-30, but exploits and contributions have all been forgotten.

Polar Pilot: The Carl Ben Eilson Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

In the book’s forward, Ray Goldberg, Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business emeritus, Harvard University, writes, "It is impossible to do justice to the unique contribution of the entrepreneurs of agriculture whose accomplishments Dr. Drache recounts in Creating Abundance. These leaders, together with their extended families, are continuing to change the structure of the U.S. agribusiness system from genetic inputs to sophisticated, healthy, and nutritious food products to the development of functional food, nutriceuticals, pharmaceuticals, fiber, and energy." "As did the vision before them, these entrepreneurs of the new century are providing ways to assure the consumer of consistency, quality, and safety using expertise that can trace animals and crops from the gene to the final product…(they) keep the U.S. agribusiness/agriceutical system competitive in a global marketplace."

Creating Abundance: Visionary Entrepreneurs of Agriculture

Leaders & Notable People

This manual includes framing square terminology, brace layout, and complete procedures for common rafter (with and without a tail), hip and valley rafter, and jack rafter layout. Roof types, board foot measure, stair layout, and other framing square applications are presented. Exercises are provided throughout the manual plus an appendix containing popular rafter tables.

Rafter Layout with the Framing Square for School and Home Workshop

Hoerner, Thomas

Bear, Forrest W.

Reference

This is an educational tool to be used in a classroom setting or by commercial firms and other agencies for inservice training programs. This manual contains illustrations of the different measuring instruments, an explanation of their construction, and how to use the instruments for specific applications. The tools explained are micrometers, vernier calipers, thickness gages, and wire gages. Classroom exercises and laboratory worksheets are included for instructional and evaluation purposes.

Micrometers, Calipers and Gages

Science & Math

Hoerner, Thomas A.

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

A manual for use in teaching the torque wrench. Emphasis is given to what is torque and how it applies to work, units of torque, torque conversion tables, types of torque wrenches, and how to use the torque wrench. The manual includes a classroom exercise and a one-page laboratory worksheet on using torque wrenches.

Torque and Torque Wrenches

Basic Electricity & Practical Wiring Instructor's Manual

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