Stephen Loyd POS-301 09/22/2013 Mark Tawney Arizona: State of History Arizona is a state with a long and rich history filled with all the intricate diversity that only a state in the south west can offer. From cavemen to conquistadors and rebel soldiers to state hood and citizenship, few places on earth offer such an interesting story of incorporation as the state of Arizona. There have been at least five separate periods in the years leading up to the establishment of the last contiguous state in the union. These five include the Preterritorial Period, the Spanish Period, the Mexican Period, the U.S. Controlled Period, and the Territorial Period.
New Mexico was at one point the leading producer of turquoise in the United States until Arizona and Nevada took the lead. Now most turquoise mining has stopped do to the quantity and question of economics. Nevada has been the major producer of Turquoise since 1930. There are about 75 to 100 different mines that have produced high amounts of turquoise ranging in the thousands to millions of dollars. Associated with some of the turquoise deposits are two other gem materials that can resemble certain colors and shades of turquoise.
Medicine Man V. Conclusion The Navajo’s are best known as the Dine, the Native Americans with southwest territory. The Navajos are the second largest tribe in the United States. Their primary mode of survival is pastoralist. With the next few pages you will learn about three of the Navajo ways of life, The beliefs and values, social
Tribal villagers used the shelter long before white settlers and gold miners settled in the Sierra foothills. The pictographs were centuries old. The pictographs depected animals, reptiles and man. All of the paintings were recognizable as creatures that would have inhabited the Sierras 500 to 1,000 years ago, when the pictographs are believed to have been created. Three of the animals, though, can only be described in today’s dictionary as an adult male, female and child Bigfoot.
“The Man Who Dies...Rich Dies Disgraced.” A Captain of Industry is an innovator whose business practices and charitable contributions bridge both industry and society, which is unlike Robber Barons, who achieved fame and fortune through dishonest unscrupulous means. Generally speaking, a Captain of Industry is a man who generate money, while Robber Barons exploit money. Andrew Carnegie, millionaire and philanthropist, the man who revolutionized the steel process and created an empire, was a Captain of Industry, because he made sound investments throughout his life, funded public libraries and churches, and endowed many other organizations. As a youth, Carnegie’s schooling ended when he left Scotland, and he only had a few years of it. He later tried to make up for his lack of a formal education with self-study; he gained access to private libraries, read voraciously, and learned skills that got him numerous promotions before the age of 17.
(PTEN) is the second-largest land-based oil and gas drilling and exploration company in North America. Patterson operates within three business segments: Contract Drilling, Pressure Pumping and Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production. Contract drilling makes up 65% of total revenues, pressure pumping makes up 33% of revenues and oil and natural gas exploration and production makes up 2% of revenues. Patterson operates primarily in the Southwestern and Northeastern regions of the United States with 308 contract drilling rigs and 631,070 hydraulic horsepower in pressure pumping equipment; and operates 20 contract drilling rigs in
In 1962, an archaeological team from the University of Illinois unearthed the exact location of the blacksmith’s shop where John Deere developed his first successful steel plough in 1837. The location has been preserved in an exhibition hall which shows artefacts that were found and how the site would have looked when John Deere was present, enhanced with the sound of horse’s hooves on the treadmill, hammers on the anvil and conversations between workers. It was in a place such as this that John Deere invented the first self-polishing steel plough which opened the prairie to
The Huichol Indians The Huichol Indians are a small tribe of approximately 15,000 living in central Mexico near Ixtlan in the Sierra Madre Mountains. They are said to be the last tribe in North America to have maintained their pre-Columbian traditions. Huichol shamans and healers practice today as they have for generations. In part, their survival is due to the focus of their traditions.
They lived in homes called hogans, which were made of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud. Most were built in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s, although older built homes do exist. A systematic government was needed in 1920s during the discovery of oil. In 1923, the Navajo established a tribal government, providing it to deal with American oil companies that want to rent Navajo land for exploration. Today, the Navajo accepts changes from the past and used it to have a promising future.
Chichen Itza which means “at the mouth of the well of Itza “, is the 2nd most visited archeological site of Mexico today. It is located midway between Merida and Cancun in the northeast part of the Yucatan Peninsula and was built from 800-1000 AD. Chichen Itza is filled with many ceremonial structures such as El Castillo, The Great Ball Court, The Sacred Cenote, Platform of Eagle & Jaguar, Temple of the Jaguar, The Observatory, Venus Temple, The Temple of 1000 Warriors (columns), The Market, Casa del Venado and The Ossuary. Possibly the best known construction in Chichen Itza is El Castillo (Kukulcan Pyramid). El Castillo, whose literal translation is “the castle,” is a square-based, stepped pyramid that is approximately 75 feet tall.