Pioneer Mother - Brown, Hillary
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Esther Clark Short was a Native American woman who went West. She was a claim jumper, an enterprising business woman, and the founder of the town of Vancouver, Washington. She lived in a time when the Pacific Northwest was a place of danger and opportunity. PIONEER MOTHER:THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ESTHER SHORT, explores not only her life but the lives of the famous people she knew in the swirl of tumultuous times.

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Esther Clark Short was a Native American woman who went West. She was a claim jumper, an enterprising business woman, and the founder of the town of Vancouver, Washington. She lived in a time when the Pacific Northwest was a place of danger and opportunity. PIONEER MOTHER:THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ESTHER SHORT, explores not only her life but the lives of the famous people she knew in the swirl of tumultuous times.
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Hillary Brown is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Professor Emerita, City College, City University of New York, and the former Director of CCNY's interdisciplinary graduate program in urban sustainability. For over three decades, she's focused on energy and resource-efficient buildings and infrastructure. As an Assistant Commissioner, she founded New York City's Office of Sustainable Design in 1997, publishing both the City of New York's High -Performance Building- (1999) and Infrastructure Guidelines (2005). For six years, she served on the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) under the Research Council of the National Academies. Previous books include Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works (2014); and Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (2017). For her leadership in sustainable buildings and infrastructure, Hillary was elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2019.