Download or read book Big Cedar Farewell written by R. Ricker and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The featured story - Big Cedar Farewell - was inspired by the author's actual ice boating experience on Big Cedar Lake in Wisconsin upon the passing his grandfather. The featured story is followed by an anthology of real-life vignettes and several created short stories. Somewhat autobiographical, the collection includes an essay on Leadership, an Historical Narative taking place in the author's native State of Maryland, as well as a selection of the author's poems.

Download or read book Hard Scrabble written by John Graves and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Goodbye to a River ruminates over what an “unmagnificent” Texas homestead has meant to him. “A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” —Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review “His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions.” —The New Yorker “If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves’s Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiod’s] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris.” —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World “Hard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the ‘given’ creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster.” —Southwest Review

Download or read book Bloodlines written by Brian T. Seifrit and published by Brian T. Seifrit. This book was released on 2006 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheriting a cattle ranch called the Double-U from a great Uncle in 1825. The Vanfells begin a treacherous journey across the Rocky Mountains. Plagued with tempestuous weather and illness, they made temporary shelters and hoped the weather and their luck would change but they are held hostage by the elements and the family diminishes to eight...

Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

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Download or read book Letters from Alaska written by John Muir and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters published in the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin by naturalist Muir when he was exploring Alaska in 1879-80. He describes the natives and missionaries, gold mines and towns, mountains and glaciers, trees and wildlife, and other aspects. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Download or read book The Baton written by R. Ricker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the author was raised in Baltimore and graduated high school in 1951 from Baltimore City College. Following graduation from the University of Virginia in 1955 with a BA in Economics, he served in the United States Army in the Adjutant General Corps prior to returning to the University of Virginia for graduate studies. In 1959, the author graduated from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia with an MBA in Business Administration. For many years the author's career focused primarily on the restructuring and turnaround of troubled banks in Washington. D.C and the Northern Virginia area. In 1987 and 1988, the author organized, from his attic is Mclean, Virginia, Virginia Commerce Bank (VCB), with initial capital of $6.25 million. VCB grew to assets of $3 billion, 28 branch offices, and subsequently became the largest community bank headquartered in Northern Virginia. In 2014, VCB was sold to United Bank of Charleston, West Virginia, in a tax-deferred common stock exchange for approximately $492 million. The author is the broker/owner of his own real estate and consulting business, Bankers Realty, Inc., and resides in Winter Hill in Falls Church, Virginia.