Download or read book Boy From Kansas and the Whistling Blacksmith written by Coffee Time and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories and tall tales of one boy and his friend who started out in life a little bit out of the ordinary! He was brought into this world by Stork-37 during cold, wintry blizzard conditions in a small village in west-central Kansas farmland called Dundee and had to endure hardships that allowed him to grow up quite quickly. Entrepreneurial and inquisitive by nature, he had abilities and foresight that few boys his age had. That inquisitiveness helped teach him important lessons in life. “Live to learn. Learn to live” was one of his favorite sayings. Living the farming lifestyle in the 1929s, he quickly learned how to save resources and use material and tools at his disposal for creating and building small projects such as beehives, chicken and turkey shelters, and small rabbit hutches, at the same time out for taking walks and discussing life with his friend, Walking Crow. His family, especially his grandpa, encouraged his growth and assisted him with his ideas and abilities. Whistling was an art in those days, and many men made a profession of whistling and singing as groups or doing solo acts. Although well-known for his whistling and singing voice, Grandpa just whistled and sang for pleasure and the freedom to create tunes as he worked at smithin’! Together, one boy and one blacksmith, along with family, toured the Great Depression year of 1929 and made it a fun year!
Download or read book Just a Country Boy from Kansas written by Harold Riechers and published by Author House. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the recollections of the author, Harold Riechers, starting in the mid 1930s and extending through the end of the year 2002. The authors early years were spent on a family farm in north-central Kansas. He describes family life on the farm during those difficult depression years, including both fun times and sad times. The author recalls interesting and unusual incidents that happened during his grade school and high school years in a rural Kansas community. After high school he attended college on a football scholarship. He recalls a number of amusing incidents that happened while he lived in a football dormitory. Later, he married his high school sweetheart and they began a promising future together. The author describes his devastation when his young wife suddenly becomes ill with cancer and dies, leaving him to raise three young children by himself. After raising his children to adulthood, he married again and began a new phase of his life. The book will be interesting to both youth and adults. Youth will be intrigued by the authors childhood activities on a family farm and adults will enjoy reminiscing about the "good old days" of their own youth.
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Download or read book The Conquest of Kansas written by William Addison Phillips and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1856 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and Her Allies written by William Addison Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and Her Allies A History of the Troubles in Kansas from the Passage of the Organic Act Until the Close of July 1856 written by William PHILLIPS (Special Correspondent of the New York Tribune.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hyde s Corner Book I No Man s Land written by J B Bergstad and published by Woodside Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyde's Corner - Book I - No Man's Land is the first installment of a historical novel of epic proportions. Book I - No Man's Land details the tale of a family saga only three books can tell. Selmer Burks grows into a man many will call monster, yet, he is a man capable of great love and devotion to family and community. Selmer Burks, youngest son of Silas and Mathilda Burks, sees his family decimated in brutal fashion by Cedric and Jared Hyde. At nineteen, he embarks on a suicidal plot of revenge against those he holds responsible, but before he makes a fatal mistake, a newspaper headline catches his eye. With a cunning beyond his years, he wins election as sheriff of the newly formed Sundowner County. Under color of law, Selmer Burks begins a terrifying campaign of revenge that spans thirty years. His vendetta of hate claims the life of his wife and is responsible for the rape, pregnancy and death in childbirth of his beloved daughter, Laura Lee Burks. Burks makes arrangements to transport his daughter's body home. But hate has claimed it's pound of flesh and part of his sanity as well. On the drive home, Burks plots the murder of long time friend, Doctor Herman Beaman, who has accompanied him, as well as the bastard boy he sees as the demon seed of the rapist Robert Hyde.
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Download or read book Truman written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
Download or read book Rifles for Watie written by Harold Keith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired. And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a dark secret on his soul. This is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history; in its details so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there; in its dozens of different people, each one fully realized and wholly recognizable. It is a story of a lesser -- known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramat-ic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Missouri. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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