Download or read book Buffalo Chips written by Ron Peevey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His love of the old west and his love of his new found wife, Julie, were his biggest inspirations, although he writes about everyday things also. Ron lives in Hobson, Montana and is teaching construction to high school students. They build one house in a school year in Lewistown, Montana and he hopes to continue building until he is forced to retire. Ron participates in the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Lewistown and has since he moved to Montana.
Download or read book Buffalo Chips written by Theresa Mary Reid Woodeshick and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an insightful compilation of wit, humor, political commentary, soul-searching, and love. Theresa tackles a variety of themes from lighthearted glimpses of family and friends to more thought-provoking discussions of good and evil. While her book primarily featuresfree-verse, there is also a sprinkling of Haiku, limerick, and a sonnet.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Great Plains written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Download or read book written by Ron Stephenson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Cloud Rising is about Alex Hunter who is a former FBI agent who has a microchip implanted in his head that is connected to a mainframe computer called Michelangelo. With a direct connection to the computer he is able to do things a normal person can't do. Valuable antiques began to disappear around the world and a special investigator for the FBI Linda Lovely who went to the FBI Academy with Alex Hunter enlists his help to solve the problem. Linda Lovely enters Alex Hunter's world of technology that is far beyond what anyone else in the world has. While trying to get Alex Hunter to help a Senator Norris disappears at a skiing lodge in Aspen, Colorado. Alex takes Linda to Aspen, Colorado to his Aspen facility in a way she has never traveled before. Alex Hunter is more interested in Linda Lovely then in helping the FBI. He agrees to help her because of his interest in her. Nancy Robinson is an investigator for all American insurance Company and is sent to Aspen, Colorado to help find Senator Norris because of the life insurance policy they have on him. Strange things happen around Nancy Robinson and if you're not careful you could get hurt. There are people in this world who have a black cloud over their head and Nancy is one of them. With her roommate Candice Davis a fiery redhead who likes kinky sex they head for Aspen, Colorado where they meet up with Alex Hunter and Linda Lovely. For some reason while Nancy Robinson is around Alex Hunter the black cloud disappears but as soon as he is gone trouble begins began. The story travels through several cities and countries around the world. This science fiction story may even explain what flying saucers are?
Download or read book Buffalo Chips written by Larry Monkelban and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast food disguised as literature. Short stories for America's MTV-battered attention span. It is paced to fill the time spent on your bus or subway commute, or the wait in a doctor's office. The true story of the Tonawanda Little League's Challenger program sits beside the more or less true story of the worst softball team ever assembled. Middle-aged punk rockers. A light-hearted look back at the Fourth Crusade. A utopian town with an interesting means of defending its purity. A sage wino who serves as a park bench Dr. Phil for some of Buffalo's star-crossed lovers. All come to you in handy bite-sized morsels. Filling out the field is Matthew David Mason's finest hour in a three-part story. A tale that takes you back to a forgotten war in America's past, examining this war's losses and their consequences.
Download or read book Guide Book and Map to the Gold Fields of Kansas Nebraska and Great Salt Lake City written by Obridge Allen and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buffalo Chips written by Neil Meili and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Panhandle Tales written by Mike Cox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Panhandle is like a whole 'nother country. The area stretching from just south of Lubbock all the way north to Oklahoma is filled with ranch land, oil fields, windy plains, and some of the Lone Star State's most unique history. Meet the duck that started a gun battle in Oldham County and find out how Kate Polly's pancake flipping saved her life. Or witness Gene Autry's days as a performer in Childress and a different sort of "gold rush" in Palo Duro Canyon as historian Mike Cox shares his favorite pieces of the Panhandle's past.
Download or read book Lives of Game Animals written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Road West written by Keith Heyer Meldahl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon written by Billy Dixon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon" (A Narrative in which is Described many things Relating to the Early Southwest) by Billy Dixon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Energy in American History written by Jeffrey B. Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--
Download or read book Daily Warm Ups Nonfiction Reading Grd 1 written by Ruth Foster and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes 150 leveled passages with a variety of interesting topics ; Comprehensive questions that target reading skills & strategies ; Standards & benchmarks."--Cover.
Download or read book American Buffalo written by Steven Rinella and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the indispensable handbook for American pioneers traveling west in the mid 19th century. Commissioned and published by the U.S. government and written in a straightforward and helpful voice by U.S. Army officer Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887), it offers all the useful and necessary advice overland travelers to the far West needed to ensure a safe journey: . the different routes to California and Oregon . how to pack a wagon for the journey . finding and purifying water . repairing broken wagons . weathering storms . how to handle saddle wounds . the best way to make a fire on the prairie . interacting with Indians . hints on the best methods of hunting . and much more. Complete with all the original maps and illustrations, this replica edition is a remarkable artifact of one of the most exciting and dangerous eras in American history.
Download or read book Functional Approaches to Language Culture and Cognition written by David G. Lockwood and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections. The first section ‘Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice’ starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena. In the second section ‘Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics’ general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture.
Download or read book The Way of the Warrior written by Phenocia Bauerle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With vigor and insight, Crow elders tell their favorite stories of the exploits of memorable leaders from years past in The Way of the Warrior. Rousing adventures and unforgettable warriors inhabit these tales: the impetuous Rabbit Child, who rushes to his fate as he keeps a sacred vow; the rise to power and dreaded revenge of Red Bear, one of the greatest and most spiritually powerful Crow leaders; the dazzling success and even greater shame of Spotted Horse; and the legendary bravery of Top of the Mountain. ø Decades ago the storytellers represented in this volume?including Carl Crooked Arm, Plain Feather, and Cold Wind?recounted these tales to two Crow brothers, Henry Old Coyote and Barney Old Coyote Jr. The Old Coyote brothers recorded, transcribed, and translated into English the accounts, which have now been edited and introduced by Barney's granddaughter, Phenocia Bauerle. Bauerle?s editing has preserved the power of the traditional Crow oral tales and has made them accessible to non-Crow readers as well. The result is a work that entertains and teaches readers about traditional Crow leaders and their world. This remarkable collection of stories also shows that the values that guided and inspired the Crow people in the past remain meaningful for them today.
