Download or read book Hardscrabble Days written by Dolph Spain and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joey Spencers world, Depression plagued, rural, eastern North Carolina, is a world of limited possibilities, narrow horizons, and strong personalities. It is an era when the mere idea of indoor plumbing or TV is science fiction, but the arrival of the bookmobile or Swindells grocery truck is a much-anticipated treat. Against this background of unique time and place Joeys story unfolds. Some of his experiences are universal the death of a beloved pet, first fumbling attempts at seduction, a sons struggle to please his father but all are freshly seen through Joeys eyes and vivid imagination. Neighbors and family influence young Joey. Miss Sylvia fills her days with radio serials and the Sears and Roebuck catalog, dreaming of a better life. Valerie has dreams, too -- dreams of killing her abusive father. Malcolm Tetterton hates children, but wants to adopt one to please his wife. And within Joeys family, Arthur Lee walks the brink of madness, Uncle Harold has a shameful secret, and Molly, Joeys mother, has secrets of her own. Joey shares with the reader the joys and sorrows of his loss of innocence and coming of age during Hardscrabble Days.

Download or read book Harder Than Hardscrabble written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few farmers took jobs with construction crews at Fort Hood to remain in the area, almost the entire population—and with it, an entire segment of rural culture—disappeared into the rest of the state. In Harder than Hardscrabble, oral historian Thad Sitton collects the colorful and frequently touching stories of the pre-Fort Hood residents to give a firsthand view of Texas farming life before World War II. Accessible to the general reader and historian alike, the stories recount in vivid detail the hardships and satisfactions of daily life in the Texas countryside. They describe agricultural practices and livestock handling as well as life beyond work: traveling peddlers, visits to towns, country schools, medical practices, and fox hunting. The anecdotes capture a fast-disappearing rural society—a world very different from today's urban Texas.

Download or read book Hardscrabble Or Ballad of the Free Lunch Bar written by W. I. Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hardscrabble Road written by Jane Haddam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian probes the circumstances surrounding the death of a former client, following a maze of clues that could be tied to the arrest of a local Philadelphia right-wing radio talk-show host for illegal drugs.

Download or read book Heavenly Days written by Charles Whipple and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -none

Download or read book Hardscrabble written by Sandra Dallas and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado.

Download or read book Chicago Its History and Its Builders written by Josiah Seymour Currey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bear s Boys written by Eli Gold and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bear's Boys is a collection of inspiring stories featuring 36 men whose lives were altered by their encounter with the legendary coach while they were players and coaches at Alabama. The stories of star players such as Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, Marty Lyons, Bob Baumhower, Ozzie Newsome, and Gene Stallings show how the Coach forever changed them as young men and ball players on the field and later in life after football. When Bob Baumhower was released from the Dolphins in 1986, he immediately did what Coach Bryant would have done: he made a plan. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he snapped into practical mode. First, he sold his boat and his big house. Then, he systematically began exploring business opportunities and setting goals for the next several decades of his life. When he started his first restaurant, he knew he had yet another chance to apply the principles he learned on the football field in real life. "Coach Bryant said there's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success," Baumhower said. "That's true in the restaurant business. . . . Today, every success I have, every win that I have, in my opinion, came from the fact that Coach Bryant cared enough to talk to me and turn the light on for me Includes stories for such men as Bob Baumhower Jeremiah Castille Paul Crane Sylvester Croom John Hannah Dennis Homan Scott Hunter Lee Roy Jordan E. J. Junior Woodrow Lowe Gaylon McCollough Don McNeal Mal Moore Joe Namath Billy Neighbors Ozzie Newsome Ray Perkins Gary Rutledge Howard Schnellenberger Ken Stabler Gene Stallings Dwight Stephenson Richard Todd Pat Trammell Tommy Wilcox

Download or read book Grant written by Jean Edward Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnificent biography, Jean Edward Smith skillfully reconciles the disparate, conflicting assessments of Ulysses S. Grant, confirming his genius as a general, but convincingly showing that Grant's presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories. 40 photos.

Download or read book Jason Wingate s Legacies written by John C. Broderick and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Wingates Legacies is the tragi-comic tale of Jason Wingate- a leading citizen in the small East Texas town of Green Glade- and the effect of his life and death on virtually everyone in town. As the residents of Green Glade deal with the aftermath of Wingates death family tensions, long-held resentments, religious turmoil, and Southern charm all surface in this gripping story of love, fortune, and loss in small town America.

Download or read book Ben and the Art of Lawnmower Maintenance written by John B. Marek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average American spends 70 hours per year, the equivalent of nearly two full work weeks, on lawn and garden care. For some, lawn care is an onerous task, grudgingly accomplished, and for others it is a source of personal pride and accomplishment. Over the past four decades, author John B. Marek has variously and intermittently fallen into both camps. In Ben and the Art of Lawnmower Maintenance, he weaves humorous personal anecdotes with fascinating historical facts, and recounts his father's homespun wisdom alongside insight gained from his own suburban homesteading experiences.

Download or read book A Carpenter s Life as Told by Houses written by Larry Haun and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the production houses he built in the San Fernando Valley, and the Habitat for Humanity homes he devotes his time to now. It's an engaging read written by a veteran builder with a thoughtful awareness of what was intrinsic to home building in the past and the many ways it has evolved. Builders and history lovers will appreciate his deep connection to the natural world, yearning for simplicity, respect for humanity, and evocative notion of what we mean by "home.""--

Download or read book Ships In The Desert written by Jeff Fearnside and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disaster of the Aral Sea— a man-made environmental crisis that has devastated the region and impacts the entire world. He examines the sometimes controversial ethics of Western missionaries, and reflects on personal and social change once he returns to the States. Ships in the Desert explores universal issues of religious bigotry, cultural intolerance, environmental degradation, and how a battle over water rights led to a catastrophe that is now being repeated around the world.

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Download or read book Chicago Its History and its Builders Volume 1 written by Josiah Seymour Currey and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S. Currey - and possibly there will never be. Without making this work a catalogue or a mere list of dates or distracting the reader and losing his attention, he builds a bridge for every historically interested reader. The history of Windy City is not only particularly interesting to her citizens, but also important for the understanding of the history of the West. This volume is number one out of five and covers the time from the period of discovery to the slavery issues of the town in the 19th century.

Download or read book Rage Of The Mt Man Betrayal Of The Mt Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two action-packed Westerns from the USA Today bestselling author featuring Smoke Jensen—big as a bear, sly as a cougar, and mean as a rattlesnake . . . Rage of the Mountain Man Smoke Jensen is the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier—and he's all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads back to Boston with his wife, it gives his enemies the opening they'd been waiting for: to kill the mountain man and take over the West. But even on the unfamiliar turf of back alleys and teeming docks, Smoke is more than most men can handle...until his wife is kidnapped. Now Smoke is in a fury and in this fight all the way from Boston back to Dodge City and up to Yellowstone, where a brutal showdown with a gang of hired guns awaits—and where, in a blazing hail of bullets and blood, the legend of the big man is about to grow even bigger . . . Betrayal of the Mountain Man They called him fastest gun alive, but Smoke Jensen is determined to stay on the right side of the law. That is, until he's jumped by six low-life robbers who steal his shirt—and his identity. Smoke's tried for robbery and murder, and sentenced to hang in the morning. Someone's out to frame the Mountain Man . . . someone who's made a big mistake. Barely managing to escape on the morning of his hanging, Smoke's going after the desperados who've set him up. The gang thinks they have nothing to fear; they've already divided up the loot and gone their separate ways. But Smoke's going to hunt them down one by one. Because nobody frames the Mountain Man. Nobody who plans on staying alive, that is . . .