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1.
Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2001
Subjects:
Fur Garments
Fur Trade--Canada
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...contributed to a rampant but necessary fair deal for the fur business. It extended from Beaver Club Grand Seigneur's wives who fancied the beaver brooch as a sign of social standing (as discussed in chapter 2), to the aboriginal country wives...
2.
The Beaver Bites Back? American Popular Culture in Canada
Contributors:
Publisher:
McGill-Queens University Press 1993
Subjects:
Popular Culture--Canada
Popular Culture--United States
Canada--Civilization--American Influences
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...0029 by the city's new LRT, a fully automated, spanking clean rapidtransit system built in anticipation of the Olympics. A sign at the sta­tion notes the date of next year's Stampede and invites the public --addressed in the southern American...
3.
The Indian Sign Language
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1982
Subjects:
Indian Sign Language
Indians Of North America--Great Plains
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...for animal life, and with first and secondfingers denote the flat tail moving on the water, and sign for latter.Beaver Dam. Make sign for BEAVER, for WATER, and for HOLD,--the fingers in latter sign being frequently separated and sometimesinterlocked...
4.
Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2006
Subjects:
Sign Language Acquisition
Deaf Children--Language
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...13.3) [… and the boy looked down a hole, and a beaver cameout, and the dog was shaking the tree where the beehive...parents all signed with theirchildren and were enrolled in adult sign language courses. In theschool setting, all the children had...
5.
Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1966
Subjects:
Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937
World War, 1914-1918--United States
Military Administration
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...contracting office of the Quartermaster Corps "was attachedto us to sign and validate the contracts . . . and generally OK'd everyU...supervise quartermaster supplies and delegatedauthority to him to sign contracts on behalf of the War Department.T. Bliss to N...
6.
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Mississippi Press 2005
Subjects:
Strategy--Case Studies
Tactics--Case Studies
Command of Troops--Case Studies
Peninsular Campaign, 1862
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...walking trails and provides aCivil War Trails interpretative sign. BEAVER DAM CREEK The overgrown banks no longer provide an appreciation...The site ismarked with a Civil War Trails interpretative sign. GAINES' MILL Gaines' Mill was General Robert E. Lee...
7.
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire - Vol. 1
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1995 (Revised edition)
Subjects:
Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
Scouts and Scouting--West (U.S.)--Biography
Soldiers--West (U.S.)--Biography
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detect the slightest sign of beaver, however wild; and although...isthrown into the stream. The beaver, when entrapped, often...with thecurrent, or by sign of lodge, pond or canal...he encountered a fresh beaver slide, a run or path leadU...
8.
The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850: An Historical Geography
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press 1933
Subjects:
United States--Historical Geography
West (U.S.)--Discovery And Exploration
United States--Exploring Expeditions
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...some hourswhich he spent watching beaver making a dam, but he concludesthat...one of our camps on Snake River,a beaver was found with his head wedged into...that he can detectthe slightest sign of beaver, however wild; and although the...
9.
The Travels of Jedediah Smith: A Documentary Outline Including the Journal of the Great American Pathfinder
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1934
Subjects:
West (U.S.)--History--to 1848
Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831--Journeys--West (U.S.)
West (U.S.)--Description and Travel
Overland Journeys to the Pacific
Fur Trade--West (U.S.)--History--19th Century
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...branch of the Hen-neet on which they had foundsome Beaver sign.9 Beaver taken.19th March As there was no chance for trapping...Creek.122 It was fordablebut I found verry little beaver sign in it. The country generallyas the dry season advanced...
10.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A. in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West: Digested from His Journals and Illustrated from Various Other Sources
Contributors:
Publisher:
Belford, Clarke & Company 1873
Subjects:
Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878
West (U.S.)--Description and Travel
Northwestern States--Description and Travel
West (U.S.)--History--to 1848
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...barkfor winter provision. The whole beaver household, old andyoung, set out...pugnacious, never permitting a strange beaver toenter their premises, and often...that he can detect the slightest sign of beaver, how­ever wild; and although...
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