Edwin C. Hustead
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199573349
- eISBN:
- 9780191721946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573349.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management, Pensions and Pension Management
This chapter compares the administrative costs of public sector defined benefit and defined contribution systems offered by the federal government and many states. Administrative expenses are ...
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This chapter compares the administrative costs of public sector defined benefit and defined contribution systems offered by the federal government and many states. Administrative expenses are presented as percentages of both income and assets, and the author discusses how administrative expenses might enter into the decision by a public sector employer as to whether to establish a defined contribution plan.Less
This chapter compares the administrative costs of public sector defined benefit and defined contribution systems offered by the federal government and many states. Administrative expenses are presented as percentages of both income and assets, and the author discusses how administrative expenses might enter into the decision by a public sector employer as to whether to establish a defined contribution plan.
Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.003.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: ...
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The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: a chance for researchers to combine history and archaeology on a known shipwreck. The Montana archaeological site provided researchers the perfect opportunity to amass a body of evidence about the construction details of western river steamers. Archaeology and history had the perfect opportunity to generate comprehensive insight into this understudied genre of historic ship architecture. Archaeologists brought to the excavation their arsenal of documenting tools and analysis while historians sought out archival information concerning the life of the Montana. Together they explored steam vessels of the nineteenth century that represented valuable capital and most often, regardless of the extent of damage, were floated and repaired in a short time. The thorough study of the Montana makes clear the lengths to which steamboat engineering evolved in order to economically compete against railroads. The study of the Montana also revealed the fatal architectural flaw that, in combination with striking the bridge abutment, destroyed the steamboat.Less
The identification of the steamboat Montana in September 2002 in the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri, by an East Carolina University (ECU) research team unlocked a tantalizing opportunity: a chance for researchers to combine history and archaeology on a known shipwreck. The Montana archaeological site provided researchers the perfect opportunity to amass a body of evidence about the construction details of western river steamers. Archaeology and history had the perfect opportunity to generate comprehensive insight into this understudied genre of historic ship architecture. Archaeologists brought to the excavation their arsenal of documenting tools and analysis while historians sought out archival information concerning the life of the Montana. Together they explored steam vessels of the nineteenth century that represented valuable capital and most often, regardless of the extent of damage, were floated and repaired in a short time. The thorough study of the Montana makes clear the lengths to which steamboat engineering evolved in order to economically compete against railroads. The study of the Montana also revealed the fatal architectural flaw that, in combination with striking the bridge abutment, destroyed the steamboat.
Guenter Lewy
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199746415
- eISBN:
- 9780199866151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746415.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This introductory chapter reviews the US Supreme Court's decisions regarding the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and the states' right to legalize assisted death. As of the time of writing, ...
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This introductory chapter reviews the US Supreme Court's decisions regarding the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and the states' right to legalize assisted death. As of the time of writing, Oregon, Washington, and Montana allow physician-assisted suicide. The fact that until 1997 physician-assisted suicide was illegal in all states of the union explains the suicide practice of Dr. Jack Krevorkian—a pathologist with no special expertise in end-of-life care—whose conduct, until ended by his imprisonment, probably represented the worst case scenario of a maverick doctor on his own. Equally unsettling is the fact that despite its illegality in most jurisdictions, the deliberate ending of life by physicians occurs rather often. This euthanasia underground, an entirely unregulated aspect of medicine, reveals a pattern that not only is secretive and deceptive but also has great potential for abuse. The question therefore is probably not whether to permit physician-assisted suicide. The real choice we face is whether we seek to regulate and control the practice of assisted death, or whether it is left unregulated and unchecked, which creates great risks for both doctors and patients.Less
This introductory chapter reviews the US Supreme Court's decisions regarding the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and the states' right to legalize assisted death. As of the time of writing, Oregon, Washington, and Montana allow physician-assisted suicide. The fact that until 1997 physician-assisted suicide was illegal in all states of the union explains the suicide practice of Dr. Jack Krevorkian—a pathologist with no special expertise in end-of-life care—whose conduct, until ended by his imprisonment, probably represented the worst case scenario of a maverick doctor on his own. Equally unsettling is the fact that despite its illegality in most jurisdictions, the deliberate ending of life by physicians occurs rather often. This euthanasia underground, an entirely unregulated aspect of medicine, reveals a pattern that not only is secretive and deceptive but also has great potential for abuse. The question therefore is probably not whether to permit physician-assisted suicide. The real choice we face is whether we seek to regulate and control the practice of assisted death, or whether it is left unregulated and unchecked, which creates great risks for both doctors and patients.
Sarah K. Fields
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040283
- eISBN:
- 9780252098543
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040283.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. This book looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them—golfer Tiger Woods, ...
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Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. This book looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them—golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist—when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, the book examines how sports figures in the United States have used the law to regain control of their image. As the book shows, decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws related to privacy, defamation, and publicity—areas pertinent to the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer alike. It also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart of issues separating individual rights from the public's perceived right to know. A fascinating exploration of a still-evolving phenomenon, this book is an essential look at the legal playing fields that influence our enjoyment of sports.Less
Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. This book looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them—golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist—when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, the book examines how sports figures in the United States have used the law to regain control of their image. As the book shows, decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws related to privacy, defamation, and publicity—areas pertinent to the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer alike. It also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart of issues separating individual rights from the public's perceived right to know. A fascinating exploration of a still-evolving phenomenon, this book is an essential look at the legal playing fields that influence our enjoyment of sports.
James Belich
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199297276
- eISBN:
- 9780191700842
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297276.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ...
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As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, but was divided into two distinct ecological zones, eastern prairie and western plains, each of which encompassed parts of the states bordering the central tier — Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana to the west, and Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri to the east. The rough dividing line between Plains and Prairies was the 100th meridian, which ran through the middle of the four core states. Plains and Prairies shared one major obstacle to settlement: the local Indians. They were not numerous, but their adoption of the horse and the gun had turned them into extremely formidable light cavalry.Less
As early as the 1830s, the Old Northwest began to expand and blur into that elusive region known as the Midwest. The post-war Midwest centred on a tier of four states, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, but was divided into two distinct ecological zones, eastern prairie and western plains, each of which encompassed parts of the states bordering the central tier — Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana to the west, and Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri to the east. The rough dividing line between Plains and Prairies was the 100th meridian, which ran through the middle of the four core states. Plains and Prairies shared one major obstacle to settlement: the local Indians. They were not numerous, but their adoption of the horse and the gun had turned them into extremely formidable light cavalry.
Ilaria Serra
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823226788
- eISBN:
- 9780823235032
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823226788.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Italian immigrants came to America to pursue an artistic dream, but they remain “immigrant workers” at heart. They strongly maintain the ethos of the artisan, with its ...
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Italian immigrants came to America to pursue an artistic dream, but they remain “immigrant workers” at heart. They strongly maintain the ethos of the artisan, with its mixture of manual labor and creativity, more than pretenses of artistic genius. They tell their stories in the quiet mode that links our autobiographies. One of them in particular who does not find success, Luigi Olari, strikes a very human note in his description of failure. Even the quite well-known Alfred Crimi, a painter, Pietro Montana, a sculptor, and Luigi Lombardi, an orchestra director, never put on airs about the position they acquired but always highlighted their struggles, being men of survival. Two of them, the actors Rocco De Russo and Emanuel Gatti, directly experience the decline of theater due to television, and their autobiographies become narratives of the end of an era more than tales of personal triumph. All of these artists started at the bottom, and they unabashedly admit that.Less
Italian immigrants came to America to pursue an artistic dream, but they remain “immigrant workers” at heart. They strongly maintain the ethos of the artisan, with its mixture of manual labor and creativity, more than pretenses of artistic genius. They tell their stories in the quiet mode that links our autobiographies. One of them in particular who does not find success, Luigi Olari, strikes a very human note in his description of failure. Even the quite well-known Alfred Crimi, a painter, Pietro Montana, a sculptor, and Luigi Lombardi, an orchestra director, never put on airs about the position they acquired but always highlighted their struggles, being men of survival. Two of them, the actors Rocco De Russo and Emanuel Gatti, directly experience the decline of theater due to television, and their autobiographies become narratives of the end of an era more than tales of personal triumph. All of these artists started at the bottom, and they unabashedly admit that.
Janet Finn
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211360
- eISBN:
- 9780520920071
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211360.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history ...
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This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, the book shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich veins of copper in the Rockies and the Andes flowed for the giant Anaconda Company, the miners and their families in both places struggled to make a life as well as a living for themselves. Miner's consumption, a popular name for silicosis, provides a powerful metaphor for the danger, wasting, and loss that penetrated mining life. The book explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a new model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.Less
This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, the book shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich veins of copper in the Rockies and the Andes flowed for the giant Anaconda Company, the miners and their families in both places struggled to make a life as well as a living for themselves. Miner's consumption, a popular name for silicosis, provides a powerful metaphor for the danger, wasting, and loss that penetrated mining life. The book explores themes of privation and privilege, trust and betrayal, and offers a new model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.
Timothy E. Wise
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496805805
- eISBN:
- 9781496805843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496805805.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter is concerned with the role yodeling played in mass media constructions of the fictional cowboy in the early twentieth century. With the emphasis on semiotics and musical connotation, it ...
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This chapter is concerned with the role yodeling played in mass media constructions of the fictional cowboy in the early twentieth century. With the emphasis on semiotics and musical connotation, it examines the relationship of yodeling to the attributes of the idealized cowboy in a mythic American West as presented on radio and in film. It relates elements of the cowboy construct, for example bravado and braggadocio, to the specific features of the yodeling heard in the recordings, such as speed and virtuosity. Also considered is the emergence of singing cowgirls, whose themes and styles contrast with those of their male counterparts. Using Wilf Carter as a paradigm for cowboy-style yodeling, the discussion extends to Elton Britt, Slim Whitman, Patsy Montana, harmony yodeling, the Girls of the Golden West, and the DeZurik Sisters, among others. The musical features characterizing cowboy yodeling styles are differentiated from those of hillbilly yodeling styles.Less
This chapter is concerned with the role yodeling played in mass media constructions of the fictional cowboy in the early twentieth century. With the emphasis on semiotics and musical connotation, it examines the relationship of yodeling to the attributes of the idealized cowboy in a mythic American West as presented on radio and in film. It relates elements of the cowboy construct, for example bravado and braggadocio, to the specific features of the yodeling heard in the recordings, such as speed and virtuosity. Also considered is the emergence of singing cowgirls, whose themes and styles contrast with those of their male counterparts. Using Wilf Carter as a paradigm for cowboy-style yodeling, the discussion extends to Elton Britt, Slim Whitman, Patsy Montana, harmony yodeling, the Girls of the Golden West, and the DeZurik Sisters, among others. The musical features characterizing cowboy yodeling styles are differentiated from those of hillbilly yodeling styles.
Matthew Shindell
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226662084
- eISBN:
- 9780226662114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226662114.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter traces Harold C. Urey's early life and family history from his Anabaptist upbringing in a small farming community in northern Indiana, to his early schooling and his college years at the ...
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This chapter traces Harold C. Urey's early life and family history from his Anabaptist upbringing in a small farming community in northern Indiana, to his early schooling and his college years at the University of Montana, where he studied biology and chemistry. The chapter ends with his decision to serve in the chemical industry during World War I, addressing how this decision would have fit with both the pacifist teachings of the Church of the Brethren and his budding persona as an American chemist.Less
This chapter traces Harold C. Urey's early life and family history from his Anabaptist upbringing in a small farming community in northern Indiana, to his early schooling and his college years at the University of Montana, where he studied biology and chemistry. The chapter ends with his decision to serve in the chemical industry during World War I, addressing how this decision would have fit with both the pacifist teachings of the Church of the Brethren and his budding persona as an American chemist.
Annalies Corbin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This book tells of the Montana, which was a shining example of modern design and technological sophistication when it made its maiden voyage in 1879. But it is remembered for its ironic end: only ...
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This book tells of the Montana, which was a shining example of modern design and technological sophistication when it made its maiden voyage in 1879. But it is remembered for its ironic end: only five years after it was launched, the Montana struck a railroad bridge near Bridgeton, Missouri, and sank. One of the largest stern-wheel vessels ever to navigate a western river, the Montana was built to compete with railroads. The recent archaeological excavation of its wreckage, combined with a wealth of written and visual material documenting its construction and use, offers fascinating insights into a little-known aspect of Western expansion.Less
This book tells of the Montana, which was a shining example of modern design and technological sophistication when it made its maiden voyage in 1879. But it is remembered for its ironic end: only five years after it was launched, the Montana struck a railroad bridge near Bridgeton, Missouri, and sank. One of the largest stern-wheel vessels ever to navigate a western river, the Montana was built to compete with railroads. The recent archaeological excavation of its wreckage, combined with a wealth of written and visual material documenting its construction and use, offers fascinating insights into a little-known aspect of Western expansion.
Dale Maharidge
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520262478
- eISBN:
- 9780520948792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520262478.003.0030
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
Sacramento may be the capital of California, but the city has a long history of a hardscrabble underbelly. Among the attractions are the waterways that run through the city—the clear American and the ...
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Sacramento may be the capital of California, but the city has a long history of a hardscrabble underbelly. Among the attractions are the waterways that run through the city—the clear American and the muddy Sacramento rivers join near downtown. The draw is not the presence of water in rare quantity for parched California, but the riverbanks thick with vegetation that conceals the camps of the homeless “river people.” Michael S. Williamson and Dale Maharidge spent a lot of time in these camps back in the 1980s and fittingly end their journey in the place where it began—Sacramento and the surrounding Central Valley. The camps Michael and Dale found in the early 1980s weren't as elaborate as those photographed by Dorothea Lange. One camp later grew in size, a village of shanties belonging to Montana Blackie and his hobo buddies. The cops kept the river people cowering in the shadows through the 1980s. Dale wrote stories about most of those sweeps, for the newspaper and in a book about Blackie, The Last Great American Hobo. Then he left town.Less
Sacramento may be the capital of California, but the city has a long history of a hardscrabble underbelly. Among the attractions are the waterways that run through the city—the clear American and the muddy Sacramento rivers join near downtown. The draw is not the presence of water in rare quantity for parched California, but the riverbanks thick with vegetation that conceals the camps of the homeless “river people.” Michael S. Williamson and Dale Maharidge spent a lot of time in these camps back in the 1980s and fittingly end their journey in the place where it began—Sacramento and the surrounding Central Valley. The camps Michael and Dale found in the early 1980s weren't as elaborate as those photographed by Dorothea Lange. One camp later grew in size, a village of shanties belonging to Montana Blackie and his hobo buddies. The cops kept the river people cowering in the shadows through the 1980s. Dale wrote stories about most of those sweeps, for the newspaper and in a book about Blackie, The Last Great American Hobo. Then he left town.
Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Incorporating standard Phase II predisturbance procedures allowing maximum data collection for the least survey time and cost, the East Carolina archaeological team documented the remains of the ...
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Incorporating standard Phase II predisturbance procedures allowing maximum data collection for the least survey time and cost, the East Carolina archaeological team documented the remains of the Montana on the Missouri River bottomlands across from St. Charles, Missouri. The wreck site's position on the riverbank allowed easy documentation of half the hull, including the stern, and logical inference of what the submerged half looked like. Survey of the Montana site included documentation of the prominent features on site, as well as documentation of associated artifact scatters and other site features. The journey of understanding from the initial riverbank view of the Montana's wreckage has been profound. Western river steamers were not simply barges with engines; they represented a wholly integrated marine technology specifically designed to deal with and conquer an unpredictable freshwater river environment. Powerful, imaginative, and seemingly unbound by ship-construction standards and traditions, western engineers found startlingly practical solutions to engineering problems, proving their shipbuilding prowess.Less
Incorporating standard Phase II predisturbance procedures allowing maximum data collection for the least survey time and cost, the East Carolina archaeological team documented the remains of the Montana on the Missouri River bottomlands across from St. Charles, Missouri. The wreck site's position on the riverbank allowed easy documentation of half the hull, including the stern, and logical inference of what the submerged half looked like. Survey of the Montana site included documentation of the prominent features on site, as well as documentation of associated artifact scatters and other site features. The journey of understanding from the initial riverbank view of the Montana's wreckage has been profound. Western river steamers were not simply barges with engines; they represented a wholly integrated marine technology specifically designed to deal with and conquer an unpredictable freshwater river environment. Powerful, imaginative, and seemingly unbound by ship-construction standards and traditions, western engineers found startlingly practical solutions to engineering problems, proving their shipbuilding prowess.
Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.003.0005
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
A scale model of the stern section of the Montana, based on measurements, drawings, and photographs compiled during the archaeological project, was developed specifically to answer questions ...
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A scale model of the stern section of the Montana, based on measurements, drawings, and photographs compiled during the archaeological project, was developed specifically to answer questions concerning the engineering of the vessel. As an added bonus, the activity of model construction provided much-needed insight into how the Montana was constructed. It seems likely from the model construction that the Montana was built in simple prefabricated pieces and assembled on the ways. This method would have been cost effective and efficient given the ship's abnormally large size and the constraints imposed by it. The engines on the Montana were powerful for their size, converting the 130 to 160 pounds (59 to 75.6 kg) of steam pressure supplied by the boilers to locomotive power. The Montana was driven by two of these engines: one mounted on each set of cylinder timbers, port and starboard. The Montana carried boilers specially developed for western river use called flue boilers. Just as steamer hulls and engines had been adapted to the particular exigencies of a riverine environment, the western river flue boiler was a regional variation of accepted boiler technology. And like the other components of the western river steamer, it was designed to contend with the harsh elements of river use while advancing engineers' aims to make boats that were powerful, light, and maneuverable.Less
A scale model of the stern section of the Montana, based on measurements, drawings, and photographs compiled during the archaeological project, was developed specifically to answer questions concerning the engineering of the vessel. As an added bonus, the activity of model construction provided much-needed insight into how the Montana was constructed. It seems likely from the model construction that the Montana was built in simple prefabricated pieces and assembled on the ways. This method would have been cost effective and efficient given the ship's abnormally large size and the constraints imposed by it. The engines on the Montana were powerful for their size, converting the 130 to 160 pounds (59 to 75.6 kg) of steam pressure supplied by the boilers to locomotive power. The Montana was driven by two of these engines: one mounted on each set of cylinder timbers, port and starboard. The Montana carried boilers specially developed for western river use called flue boilers. Just as steamer hulls and engines had been adapted to the particular exigencies of a riverine environment, the western river flue boiler was a regional variation of accepted boiler technology. And like the other components of the western river steamer, it was designed to contend with the harsh elements of river use while advancing engineers' aims to make boats that were powerful, light, and maneuverable.
Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032542
- eISBN:
- 9780813039244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032542.003.0006
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The Montana's archaeology offered many answers to questions concerning mountain steamers that researchers have been unable to answer with reference to history alone. The wreck site also enabled them ...
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The Montana's archaeology offered many answers to questions concerning mountain steamers that researchers have been unable to answer with reference to history alone. The wreck site also enabled them to ask intelligent questions that would not have occurred to them had they not studied it. History and archaeology have taken them far in this quest for knowledge of the western river steamer. More questions can be asked and answered with more work on site. The material culture carried aboard the vessel has, as yet, barely been examined. Yet, the Montana carried in her hull the goods of everyday life on the western frontier. While the Montana's hull demonstrates the pinnacle of wooden ship construction for inland transportation, the goods it carried represent the everyday lives of all who braved the American West. The Montana's history and subsequent archaeological investigation can be utilized as a case study for understanding and appreciating the development of the trans-Mississippi West. Through the Montana's activities, trade, transportation, and population patterns that shaped both the past and present are discovered.Less
The Montana's archaeology offered many answers to questions concerning mountain steamers that researchers have been unable to answer with reference to history alone. The wreck site also enabled them to ask intelligent questions that would not have occurred to them had they not studied it. History and archaeology have taken them far in this quest for knowledge of the western river steamer. More questions can be asked and answered with more work on site. The material culture carried aboard the vessel has, as yet, barely been examined. Yet, the Montana carried in her hull the goods of everyday life on the western frontier. While the Montana's hull demonstrates the pinnacle of wooden ship construction for inland transportation, the goods it carried represent the everyday lives of all who braved the American West. The Montana's history and subsequent archaeological investigation can be utilized as a case study for understanding and appreciating the development of the trans-Mississippi West. Through the Montana's activities, trade, transportation, and population patterns that shaped both the past and present are discovered.
Kevin E. Doherty, David E. Naugle, Holly E. Copeland, Amy Pocewicz, and Joseph M. Kiesecker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267114
- eISBN:
- 9780520948686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267114.003.0022
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
A framework for conservation planning was developed to evaluate options for reducing development impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, North ...
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A framework for conservation planning was developed to evaluate options for reducing development impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Lek-count data (2,336 leks) were used to delineate high-abundance population centers, termed core regions, that contained 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the known breeding population. Sage-grouse abundance varied by state. Wyoming contains 64% of the known sage-grouse population and more active leks than all the other states combined within the study area. Montana contains fewer sage-grouse (24%) than Wyoming, but actions that reduce sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) tillage by providing private landowners incentives to maintain sagebrush-dominated landscapes would provide lasting benefits because core regions in Montana are at comparatively low development risk. Habitat restoration in areas with low risk of development but containing fewer sage-grouse fit into the overall conservation strategy by targeting populations that promote connectivity of core regions.Less
A framework for conservation planning was developed to evaluate options for reducing development impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Lek-count data (2,336 leks) were used to delineate high-abundance population centers, termed core regions, that contained 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the known breeding population. Sage-grouse abundance varied by state. Wyoming contains 64% of the known sage-grouse population and more active leks than all the other states combined within the study area. Montana contains fewer sage-grouse (24%) than Wyoming, but actions that reduce sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) tillage by providing private landowners incentives to maintain sagebrush-dominated landscapes would provide lasting benefits because core regions in Montana are at comparatively low development risk. Habitat restoration in areas with low risk of development but containing fewer sage-grouse fit into the overall conservation strategy by targeting populations that promote connectivity of core regions.
Robb Hernández
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479845309
- eISBN:
- 9781479822720
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479845309.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Meza’s archival dissolution had profound effects on his contemporaries, among them Teddy Sandoval. This chapter examines how two disparate sites, the home and public art space, conjoin in shared ...
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Meza’s archival dissolution had profound effects on his contemporaries, among them Teddy Sandoval. This chapter examines how two disparate sites, the home and public art space, conjoin in shared networks of ceramics repatriated after his death in 1995. Focusing on the custodial efforts of his partner and estate executor, Paul Polubinsaks, the chapter utilizes an archive elicitation process to unpack Sandoval’s diverse art practices and avant-garde collaborations ranging from faux finishes, renegade street graffiti, transgender fictions of self, and mail art personae. It also discusses the posthumous completion of his Gateway to Highland Park for a commuter rail station in Los Angeles and details what became LA’s first Latinx AIDS memorial.Less
Meza’s archival dissolution had profound effects on his contemporaries, among them Teddy Sandoval. This chapter examines how two disparate sites, the home and public art space, conjoin in shared networks of ceramics repatriated after his death in 1995. Focusing on the custodial efforts of his partner and estate executor, Paul Polubinsaks, the chapter utilizes an archive elicitation process to unpack Sandoval’s diverse art practices and avant-garde collaborations ranging from faux finishes, renegade street graffiti, transgender fictions of self, and mail art personae. It also discusses the posthumous completion of his Gateway to Highland Park for a commuter rail station in Los Angeles and details what became LA’s first Latinx AIDS memorial.
Robert L. Newell, R. W. Baumann, and J. A. Stanford
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098688
- eISBN:
- 9780520943803
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098688.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter describes the stoneflies located in the Glacier National Park and Flathead River basin in Montana. It explains that 58 species were documented in the Flathead River, 58 from Glacier ...
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This chapter describes the stoneflies located in the Glacier National Park and Flathead River basin in Montana. It explains that 58 species were documented in the Flathead River, 58 from Glacier Park, and 95 and 74 species respectively from west and east of the continental divide. The chapter stresses the need to conduct more studies on the number of Lentic stoneflies in this region and on hyporheic stonefly fauna.Less
This chapter describes the stoneflies located in the Glacier National Park and Flathead River basin in Montana. It explains that 58 species were documented in the Flathead River, 58 from Glacier Park, and 95 and 74 species respectively from west and east of the continental divide. The chapter stresses the need to conduct more studies on the number of Lentic stoneflies in this region and on hyporheic stonefly fauna.
Matthew L. Basso
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226038865
- eISBN:
- 9780226044224
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226044224.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World ...
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“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men such as these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II. This book describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived—on the job, in the community, and through union politics. It recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. The book provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness, and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.Less
“I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.” So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men such as these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II. This book describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived—on the job, in the community, and through union politics. It recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. The book provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness, and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.
Stephanie Vander Wel
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252043086
- eISBN:
- 9780252051944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043086.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Chapter 3 continues the focus on WLS’s 1930s radio stars and their treatment of gender by examining the musical and cultural significance of Patsy Montana’s singing cowgirl persona. Like Lulu Belle, ...
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Chapter 3 continues the focus on WLS’s 1930s radio stars and their treatment of gender by examining the musical and cultural significance of Patsy Montana’s singing cowgirl persona. Like Lulu Belle, Montana included a fluid mix of musical styles and vaudevillian practices. But instead of offering parodies of southern culture, Montana’s gender-bending songs took place in the imaginary West. In her musical depictions of tomboy cowgirls and glamorous western heroines, Montana combined virtuosic yodeling with what her listeners described as a “sweet” singing style. As such, she refashioned the West into a place where standard models of gender could include autonomous cowgirls who yodeled to the heights of their vocal range while singing sweetly about the symbolic freedoms associated with frontier individualism.Less
Chapter 3 continues the focus on WLS’s 1930s radio stars and their treatment of gender by examining the musical and cultural significance of Patsy Montana’s singing cowgirl persona. Like Lulu Belle, Montana included a fluid mix of musical styles and vaudevillian practices. But instead of offering parodies of southern culture, Montana’s gender-bending songs took place in the imaginary West. In her musical depictions of tomboy cowgirls and glamorous western heroines, Montana combined virtuosic yodeling with what her listeners described as a “sweet” singing style. As such, she refashioned the West into a place where standard models of gender could include autonomous cowgirls who yodeled to the heights of their vocal range while singing sweetly about the symbolic freedoms associated with frontier individualism.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719085055
- eISBN:
- 9781526109958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0015
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of the Sensory Ethnography at Harvard University reflects on the film ‘Sweetgrass’ he made in 2009 about the last migration of sheep through ...
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This interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of the Sensory Ethnography at Harvard University reflects on the film ‘Sweetgrass’ he made in 2009 about the last migration of sheep through Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range. It is an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals. With its observational filmmaking style of long shots and minimal camera movements it offers a prescient example of observational filmmaking as ‘sensory ethnography’ that was initially roundly rejected by many anthropological film festivals before achieving artistic acclaim and theatrical releases in the United States, Canada, Latin America, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.Less
This interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of the Sensory Ethnography at Harvard University reflects on the film ‘Sweetgrass’ he made in 2009 about the last migration of sheep through Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range. It is an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals. With its observational filmmaking style of long shots and minimal camera movements it offers a prescient example of observational filmmaking as ‘sensory ethnography’ that was initially roundly rejected by many anthropological film festivals before achieving artistic acclaim and theatrical releases in the United States, Canada, Latin America, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
