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Charles Alexander Sheldon. Charles Alexander Sheldon (17 October 1867 – 21 September 1928) was an American conservationist and the "Father of Denali National Park ". [1] He had a special interest in the bighorn sheep and spent time hunting with the Seri Indians [2] in Sonora, Mexico, who knew him as Maricaana Caamla ("American hunter"). [3]
Charles Sheldon was born in Wellsville, New York. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1879), and of Brown University in 1883. He pastored a church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. [3]
ISBN 9781135884710. In recent years, largely among Protestant and Catholic circles, the catch phrase "What Would Jesus Do" has become popular. The phrase is an attempt to call people to consider how Jesus Christ might respond to personal situations in daily life. While the idea of thinking about Jesus Christ might respond in a given situation ...
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A modern small-scale cattle drive in New Mexico. Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th and early 20th century American West, particularly between 1850s and 1910s. In this period, 27 million cattle were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas, for shipment to stockyards in St. Louis and points east, and direct to Chicago.
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...
Port Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, [4] located at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie. The population was 6,025 at the 2020 census . It is the principal city of the Port Clinton micropolitan area , about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Toledo .
Port Orchard, Washington. Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. [6] It is located 13 miles (21 km) due west of West Seattle and is connected to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries run to Southworth. It is named after Port Orchard, the strait that separates Bainbridge ...