Download or read book Glimpses of Leavenworth written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small photograph album bound with a white ribbon that includes the town of Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, and the National Military Home. May have been published in the early 1900s.
Download or read book The Hot House written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time. “A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Kellerman The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the “star” players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison’s grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in “no human contact” status since 1983; “tough cop” guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the authority to sentence an inmate to “the Hole”; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old—and known as the “Catman” for his devoted care of the cats who live inside the prison walls. Pete Earley, celebrated reporter and author of Family of Spies, all but lived for nearly two years inside the primordial world of Leavenworth, where he conducted hundreds of interviews. Out of this unique, extraordinary access comes the riveting story of what life is actually like in the oldest maximum-security prison in the country. Praise for The Hot House “Reporting at its very finest.”—Los Angeles Times “The book is a large act of courage, its subject an important one, and . . . Earley does it justice.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] riveting, fiercely unsentimental book . . . To [Earley’s] credit, he does not romanticize the keepers or the criminals. His cool and concise prose style serves him well. . . . This is a gutsy book.”—Chicago Tribune “Harrowing . . . an exceptional work of journalism.”—Detroit Free Press “If you’re going to read any book about prison, The Hot House is the one. . . . It is the most realistic, unbuffed account of prison anywhere in print.”—Kansas City Star “A superb piece of reporting.”—Tom Clancy
Download or read book Leavenworth written by Rose Kinney-Holck and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leavenworth, located in the central Cascades of Washington state, was once known as Icicle, and has been home to Native Americans, settlers, miners, railroad workers, and loggers. The native tribes came to this pristine and bountiful area to hunt game and fish for salmon. The promise of gold brought miners to Leavenworth, and once the Great Northern Railroad laid down its tracks in the late 1800s, the town moved from Icicle to its present location. The Lamb-Davis Lumber Company also built a sawmill in town, but when the railroad relocated its tracks and moved its hub to Wenatchee, the sawmill closed in 1926. The little boomtown in the Cascades went bust, but it was reinvented by its residents in the early 1960s with a Bavarian theme. The Bavarian premise of Leavenworth is still intact, and today the city draws around 2.5 million visitors annually.
Download or read book Leavenworth 1854 1954 written by Leavenworth (Kan.). Historical Program Committee and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Omaha Obsession written by Miss Cassette and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.
Download or read book My Six Convicts written by Donald Powell Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... a psychologist's brilliant account of three years he spent in Leavenworth, studying the weird, pathetic, yet often hilarious quirks of the criminal mind"--Cover.
Download or read book A Glimpse of Hell written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro ha sido escrito para ser utilizado por inversores, empresarios y consultores que enfrentan el desafío de diseñar nuevas organizaciones y por los gerentes, jefes y supervisores involucrados en implementarlas, dirigirlas y mejorarlas. En Desempeño Organizacional , el Dr. Mariano Bernárdez, experto internacional en mejora del desempeño social y organizacional lleva a un nuevo nivel los conceptos de su anterior libro Tecnología del Desempeño Humano presentando por primera vez en castellano conceptos y herramientas validados por un análisis exhaustivo de la experiencia e investigación internacional en teoría y práctica empresarial y mediante su aplicación a empresas de agro negocios, universidades, constructoras, de exportación, de software, parques industriales, micro finanzas, ONG, industriales y orientadas a exportar a mercados y clientes en Estados Unidos, Asia-Pacifico, la Comunidad Europea y otros países latinoamericanos. Desempeño Organizacional presenta una metodología completa, herramientas y ejercicios para crear paso a paso nuevas organizaciones o mejorar las ya existentes, cubriendo paso a paso desde el análisis estratégico y el caso de negocio hasta la implementación y evaluación del desempeño y resultados de todas las áreas y funciones requeridas para el éxito herramientas para diseñar y rediseñar organizaciones. "Bernardez ha redefinido nuestro campo profesional en forma práctica y rigurosa. Este libro fundamental está basado en investigación sólida y prácticas empresariales exitosas." Roger Kaufman, PhD., CPT
Download or read book Stop the Presses I Want to Get Off written by Joseph W. Grant and published by Voices from the Underground. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners' Digest International, the most important prisoners' rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era.
Download or read book Good Dog Scholastic Gold written by Dan Gemeinhart and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Honest Truth delivers his most emotionally powerful novel yet. Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs go to heaven.Except Brodie can't move on. Not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return.The boy who's still in danger.So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit. With the help of two other lost souls -- lovable pitbull Tuck and surly housecat Patsy -- he is determined to find his boy and to save him. Even if it costs him paradise. Even if he loses his eternal soul.Because it's what a good dog would do.
Download or read book The Leavenworth Case written by Anna Katharine Green and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR a few minutes I sat dazed by the sudden flood of light greeting me from the many open windows; then, as the strongly contrasting features of the scene before me began to impress themselves upon my consciousness, I found myself experiencing something of the same sensation of double personality which years before had followed an enforced use of ether. As at that time, I appeared to be living two lives at once: in two distinct places, with two separate sets of incidents going on; so now I seemed to be divided between two irreconcilable trains of thought; the gorgeous house, its elaborate furnishing, the little glimpses of yesterday's life, as seen in the open piano, with its sheet of music held in place by a lady's fan, occupying my attention fully as much as the aspect of the throng of incongruous and impatient people huddled about me. Perhaps one reason of this lay in the extraordinary splendor of the room I was in; the glow of satin, glitter of bronze, and glimmer of marble meeting the eye at every turn. But I am rather inclined to think it was mainly due to the force and eloquence of a certain picture which confronted me from the opposite wall. A sweet picture-sweet enough and poetic enough to have been conceived by the most idealistic of artists: simple, too-the vision of a young flaxen-haired, blue-eyed coquette, dressed in the costume of the First Empire, standing in a wood-path, looking back over her shoulder at some one following-yet with such a dash of something not altogether saint-like in the corners of her meek eyes and baby-like lips, that it impressed me with the individuality of life. Had it not been for the open dress, with its waist almost beneath the armpits, the hair cut short on the forehead, and the perfection of the neck and shoulders, I should have taken it for a literal portrait of one of the ladies of the house. As it was, I could not rid myself of the idea that one, if not both, of Mr. Leavenworth's nieces looked down upon me from the eyes of this entrancing blonde with the beckoning glance and forbidding hand. So vividly did this fancy impress me that I half shuddered as I looked, wondering if this sweet creature did not know what had occurred in this house since the happy yesterday; and if so, how she could stand there smiling so invitingly, -when suddenly I became aware that I had been watching the little crowd of men about me with as complete an absorption as if nothing else in the room had attracted my attention; (...) - Taken from "The Leavenworth Case" written by Anna Katharine Green
Download or read book Lieutenant Dangerous written by Jeff Danziger and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) "Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity. If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do. A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”
Download or read book Leavenworth Train written by Joe Jackson and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s. Reprint.
Download or read book To Utah with the Dragoons and Glimpses of Life in Arizona and California 1858 1859 written by Utah and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858 a young recruit in the Second Dragoons marched across the plains with the U.s. Army's Sixth Column to help end an alleged rebellion by the Mormons of Utah against the authority of the federal government. A former newspaperman, this young recruit wrote articles that were published in the Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin under the pen name "Utah." The articles reflect his awareness of the temper of the times and his interest in national politics and political aspects of the U.S. Army. Besides writing about the Mormon War, he told Bulletin readers at home about the spectacular scenery of the West, the Indians of the territories, and the daily life of a dragoon. By the time the Sixth Column reached Utah, the "rebellion" among the Mormons had been resolved, but he continued to write while stationed at Camp Floyd, describing life in camp and expressing his changing feelings about the Mormons as he came to know them. Wounded in an encounter with Indians after three months at Camp Floyd, "Utah" was discharged from the army and made his way south through the arid regions of Arizona to the little town of Los Angeles in Southern California. His comments on political matters in California, Arizona, and Mexico, events in the Southwest, and his gold mining experiences on the Gila River offer readers an exceptionally articulate and perceptive view of events in the mid-nineteenth-century West. "Utah" remains anonymous in all his articles, and the editor can only suggest a speculative conclusion as to who he might have been. But as the reader comes to know "Utah," a surprisingly vivid portrait of an intelligent, learned, and patriotic man emerges, and his insights into army life, war, the government, and incidents in the early West give us a genuinely new perspective on history andsingularlar impression of a truly exceptional man.
Download or read book Character Carved in Stone written by Pat Williams and published by Revell. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overlooking the Hudson River on the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point are 12 granite benches, each inscribed with a word representing a key leadership virtue: compassion, courage, dedication, determination, dignity, discipline, integrity, loyalty, perseverance, responsibility, service, and trust. These benches remind cadets of the qualities that lead to victory and success, not just on the battlefield, but in all of life. With his signature enthusiasm and insight, Pat Williams shares the incredible stories of West Point graduates who exemplified these traits, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. He shows readers of all backgrounds how to develop these 12 essential virtues in their lives, whether they are in the corporate world, the academic world, the military, the church, or in some other sphere.
Download or read book History of Leavenworth County Kansas written by Jesse A Hall and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Leavenworth County provides a fascinating glimpse into the early days of Kansas. Through detailed accounts of key events and prominent figures, the authors paint a vivid picture of life in this pivotal region of the American Midwest. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Goliath written by Steve Alten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is threatened by Goliath, a mysterious, high-tech nuclear submarine that is virtually undetectable underwater and is powered by a bio-chemical computer brain capable of learning and developing its own agenda for all humankind.
Download or read book Conversations with Major Dick Winters written by Cole C. Kingseed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company—the now-legendary Band of Brothers—from the confusion and chaos of the D-Day invasion to the final capture of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Winters was a quiet, reluctant hero whose modesty and strength drew the admiration of not only his men, but millions worldwide. Now comes the story of his last years as witnessed and experienced by his good friend Cole C. Kingseed. Kingseed shares the formative experiences that made Winters such an effective leader. He addresses Winters’s experiences and leadership during the war, his intense, unbreakable devotion to his men, his search for peace both without and within after the war, and how fame forced him to make adjustments to an international audience of well-wishers and admirers, even as he attempted to leave a lasting legacy before joining his fallen comrades. Following Winters’s death on January 2, 2011, the outpouring of grief and adulation for one of this nation’s preeminent leaders of character, courage, and competence showed just how much of an impact Dick Winters left on the world. INCLUDES PHOTOS
