Kevin S Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 80202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin S Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How to Read the American West
Imagining Mount Athos
Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, by Veronica della Dora, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 312 pp., US$35.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780813930855 Mount Athos, the 6,670-foot-high pyramid that crowns a peninsula jutting from Greece into the Aegean Sea, is the Holy Mountain of the Eastern Orthodox religion. Even so, few people ever visit this monastic community due to its isolation by a rugged c…
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
The three Pueblo mission churches of San Esteban del Rey, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and San José de Laguna are the most visually striking structures in the western New Mexico pueblos of Acoma, Zuni, and Laguna. Prime examples of “structures of permanence” on the landscape, the churches define local cultural identity. Church permanence and Pueblo identity are expressed in a five-part typology of visible characteristics: natural materials and ha…
Imagining heaven and earth at Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado
Rumors of a giant cross hidden deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains finally proved true in 1873 with William Henry Jackson's photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Moran further immortalized the cross, with many Americans imagining the peak as a Christian symbol of the righteous conquest of the West. Multiple geographical imaginations have since been quilted into the cultural fabric of the peak, such as a pil…
Mountain symbolism and geographical imaginations
Mountains stand tall in the quest for understanding nature-society interactions. To study this mountain symbolism without a careful consideration of how mountain literature reflects and shapes geographical imaginations would only tell part of the story, much like evoking a tale of Sir Edmund Hillary without Tensing Norgay, or George Mallory without Andrew Irvine. Mountains of the Mind and The Artificial Horizon embrace the mystique of mountains f…
Colorado Fourteeners and the Nature of Place Identity
The fifty‐four Colorado Fourteeners–mountains more than 14,000 feet in elevation–were early symbols of westward expansion, mineral wealth, and wondrous scenery, and they are increasingly popular as environmental icons in place attachment at national, regional, state, and local scales. The symbolism of this contrived yet iconic collection of peaks is examined through the evolution of the Fourteener concept, the popularity of peakbagging, and the r…
Creating Colorado
List of interesting documents concerning energy use in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya, some with
In Search of a Navajo Sacred Geography
One must know one's terrain. This phrase, mumbled by George Garrad, the gin-soaked cartographer in the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, directed by Christopher Monger, voices a vehement rationale for understanding mountains through field exploration. Garrad and his assistant, Reginald Anson, have arrived in Wales to measure the heights of mountains. But Garrad's irksome personality and penchant for condescensi…
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
The glaciated ranges of southwestern Colorado constituting the San Juan Mountains are culturally significant to residents and visitors. As certain mountains are imbued with meaning, they become "peaks of identity," tangible and towering symbolic landscapes representing a distinctive set of community and cultural ideals. This paper explores the symbols and themes of San Juan peaks of identity, with a focus on the mountain amenity town of Lake City…
The Chaco Meridian
The Mountainous West
Zane Grey and Images of the American West
The western novels by Zane Grey have been source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey's popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined, but it is less clear how his work acquired fundamental role in the creation of western imagery. With the ability to influence much of the public, mass media dominate the molding of popular culture. A medium that …
The Chaco Meridian
Colorado Fourteeners and the Nature of Place Identity
The fifty‐four Colorado Fourteeners–mountains more than 14,000 feet in elevation–were early symbols of westward expansion, mineral wealth, and wondrous scenery, and they are increasingly popular as environmental icons in place attachment at national, regional, state, and local scales. The symbolism of this contrived yet iconic collection of peaks is examined through the evolution of the Fourteener concept, the popularity of peakbagging, and the r…
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
Zane Grey and Images of the American West
The western novels by Zane Grey have been source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey's popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined, but it is less clear how his work acquired fundamental role in the creation of western imagery. With the ability to influence much of the public, mass media dominate the molding of popular culture. A medium that …
Mountain symbolism and geographical imaginations
Mountains stand tall in the quest for understanding nature-society interactions. To study this mountain symbolism without a careful consideration of how mountain literature reflects and shapes geographical imaginations would only tell part of the story, much like evoking a tale of Sir Edmund Hillary without Tensing Norgay, or George Mallory without Andrew Irvine. Mountains of the Mind and The Artificial Horizon embrace the mystique of mountains f…
Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
The glaciated ranges of southwestern Colorado constituting the San Juan Mountains are culturally significant to residents and visitors. As certain mountains are imbued with meaning, they become "peaks of identity," tangible and towering symbolic landscapes representing a distinctive set of community and cultural ideals. This paper explores the symbols and themes of San Juan peaks of identity, with a focus on the mountain amenity town of Lake City…
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
The three Pueblo mission churches of San Esteban del Rey, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and San José de Laguna are the most visually striking structures in the western New Mexico pueblos of Acoma, Zuni, and Laguna. Prime examples of “structures of permanence” on the landscape, the churches define local cultural identity. Church permanence and Pueblo identity are expressed in a five-part typology of visible characteristics: natural materials and ha…
Imagining heaven and earth at Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado
Rumors of a giant cross hidden deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains finally proved true in 1873 with William Henry Jackson's photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Moran further immortalized the cross, with many Americans imagining the peak as a Christian symbol of the righteous conquest of the West. Multiple geographical imaginations have since been quilted into the cultural fabric of the peak, such as a pil…
In Search of a Navajo Sacred Geography
One must know one's terrain. This phrase, mumbled by George Garrad, the gin-soaked cartographer in the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, directed by Christopher Monger, voices a vehement rationale for understanding mountains through field exploration. Garrad and his assistant, Reginald Anson, have arrived in Wales to measure the heights of mountains. But Garrad's irksome personality and penchant for condescensi…
Imagining Mount Athos
Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, by Veronica della Dora, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 312 pp., US$35.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780813930855 Mount Athos, the 6,670-foot-high pyramid that crowns a peninsula jutting from Greece into the Aegean Sea, is the Holy Mountain of the Eastern Orthodox religion. Even so, few people ever visit this monastic community due to its isolation by a rugged c…
Zane Grey and Images of the American West
The western novels by Zane Grey have been source of imagery about the American West for almost the entire twentieth century. The plots and characterizations of Grey's popular novels set in the American West have been thoroughly examined, but it is less clear how his work acquired fundamental role in the creation of western imagery. With the ability to influence much of the public, mass media dominate the molding of popular culture. A medium that …
The Mountainous West
Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
The glaciated ranges of southwestern Colorado constituting the San Juan Mountains are culturally significant to residents and visitors. As certain mountains are imbued with meaning, they become "peaks of identity," tangible and towering symbolic landscapes representing a distinctive set of community and cultural ideals. This paper explores the symbols and themes of San Juan peaks of identity, with a focus on the mountain amenity town of Lake City…
The Chaco Meridian
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
Creating Colorado
List of interesting documents concerning energy use in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya, some with
In Search of a Navajo Sacred Geography
One must know one's terrain. This phrase, mumbled by George Garrad, the gin-soaked cartographer in the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, directed by Christopher Monger, voices a vehement rationale for understanding mountains through field exploration. Garrad and his assistant, Reginald Anson, have arrived in Wales to measure the heights of mountains. But Garrad's irksome personality and penchant for condescensi…
Colorado Fourteeners and the Nature of Place Identity
The fifty‐four Colorado Fourteeners–mountains more than 14,000 feet in elevation–were early symbols of westward expansion, mineral wealth, and wondrous scenery, and they are increasingly popular as environmental icons in place attachment at national, regional, state, and local scales. The symbolism of this contrived yet iconic collection of peaks is examined through the evolution of the Fourteener concept, the popularity of peakbagging, and the r…
Mountain symbolism and geographical imaginations
Mountains stand tall in the quest for understanding nature-society interactions. To study this mountain symbolism without a careful consideration of how mountain literature reflects and shapes geographical imaginations would only tell part of the story, much like evoking a tale of Sir Edmund Hillary without Tensing Norgay, or George Mallory without Andrew Irvine. Mountains of the Mind and The Artificial Horizon embrace the mystique of mountains f…
Imagining heaven and earth at Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado
Rumors of a giant cross hidden deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains finally proved true in 1873 with William Henry Jackson's photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Moran further immortalized the cross, with many Americans imagining the peak as a Christian symbol of the righteous conquest of the West. Multiple geographical imaginations have since been quilted into the cultural fabric of the peak, such as a pil…
Pueblo Mission Churches as Symbols of Permanence and Identity
The three Pueblo mission churches of San Esteban del Rey, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and San José de Laguna are the most visually striking structures in the western New Mexico pueblos of Acoma, Zuni, and Laguna. Prime examples of “structures of permanence” on the landscape, the churches define local cultural identity. Church permanence and Pueblo identity are expressed in a five-part typology of visible characteristics: natural materials and ha…
Imagining Mount Athos
Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, by Veronica della Dora, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 312 pp., US$35.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780813930855 Mount Athos, the 6,670-foot-high pyramid that crowns a peninsula jutting from Greece into the Aegean Sea, is the Holy Mountain of the Eastern Orthodox religion. Even so, few people ever visit this monastic community due to its isolation by a rugged c…
How to Read the American West
Geography (12 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Identity (music (4 works)