Download or read book He Caught the Westbound written by Dayton Lummis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He caught the westbound is an old American hobo expression for someone who has departed from this life. In the case of this book it is employed to be symbolic of a passing American way of life and the people who created that. We live in troubled times, and the author often uncomfortably reminds us so. Yet positive travel experiences relieve the pessimism wherein the author says, It could be worse. But not much . . .

Download or read book Westbound written by Paul Krebill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go west, young man! The magic of the American West captured young Earl Norris during high school and held him hostage all his life. As pastor of a tiny church in the small town of Saline in eastern Montana, he found himself a world away–in more ways than one-- from his earlier life in Chicago. How would he deal with the perplexing differences? Having grown up in an urban environment with over four million people, he now lived in a town with a population of less than five hundred, and in a state with only about seven hundred thousand. Earl had gone west alone because his high school sweetheart, Lynn Ellerton, who could not accept the idea of becoming the wife of a pastor, had broken their engagement. Will he remain a bachelor? Could he ever re-connect with Lynn? Or will there be someone eligible in Saline, Montana? Will his detractors-- the morning coffee crowd at the local gas station-- force him out with their whispered suspicions? Might he find work further west? With declining population, what of the survival of the Saline church? Meanwhile what happened to Lynn? Did she settle for a job in her father’s company in Chicago? Her story is even more surprising than Earl’s. Westbound leads the reader through many a twist and turn in the lives of these two high school sweethearts, Earl and Lynn. Their stories will take the reader north to Alaska, west to California, and south to New Zealand as well as across the Atlantic to London in a tale of triumph and tragedy, tenderness and love.

Download or read book A Westbound Sun written by Jim Hurley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young farmer and his team of horses plunge into a freight train in 1915. A callow teenager shoots an intruder to death in the early 1950’s. A high school boy encounters Louis Armstrong. A college student meets his poetic idol. A journalist rides a nuclear submarine into the depths of his fears and ambitions. A middle-aged man finally confronts a deadly illness and forms lifelong bonds of sustainment. A poet exchanges text messages with a bird. An aged lover counsels a young star-gazer. A fisherman seeks truth from rivers. An octogenarian ponders tragedy and gratitude. A husband, father and brother pledges his gratitude to his wife, daughter and family. In the versatile and compelling rhythms of his short stories, memoirs and poems, Jim Hurley contemplates the stunning beauty and sorrow of living and illuminates how love and resilience make life and our betrothal to it more purposeful. “Like Orpheus, Jim Hurley leads us into hell but finds the wherewithal to lead us back into sunlight.” — Robert Bernard Hass

Download or read book Double Crossed written by W. Douglas Newton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Double Crossed" by W. Douglas Newton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The River and the Railroad written by David Menary and published by The River and the Railroad. This book was released on 2007 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Longarm 328 written by Tabor Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longarm’s about to hit this railroad gang like a freight train… Longarm is after a vicious gang that rides fast horses, carries telescopic rifles—and is driving up the body count on the Union Pacific railroad. But he’s also up against an aging, obsessed railroad detective who thinks this manhunt is his last chance to be a hero—and U.S. Marshal Custis Long is a glory-grabbing intruder. While the gang leaves a trail of bodies across the west, Longarm has to keep the chase from derailing like a head-on train wreck…

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Download or read book Tricked on the Tracks Brady Street Boys 4 written by Katrina Hoover Lee and published by Katrina Hoover Lee. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His wooden leg never slows him down. But the race to locate the surgeon who operated on him may have come to a crashing halt. Indiana, 1987. Gary Fitzpatrick hopes he can finally make sense of why his limb was amputated. And the thirteen-year-old is thrilled to uncover a tip-off to the whereabouts of the missing doctor who performed the surgery six years ago. But the determined boy’s dismay returns when their promised guide vanishes. With a red handkerchief in the possession of a vagabond as their only clue, Gary and his brothers navigate the fragile world of the Hobo Jungle. And just as the siblings lament the loss of another lead, they find themselves locked in a hot boxcar… Will the driven trio solve the mystery before their quest is permanently derailed? Tricked on the Tracks is the exhilarating fourth book in the Brady Street Boys Adventure Series. If you like faith-filled exploits, intriguing railyard settings, and entertaining encounters, then you’ll love Katrina Hoover Lee’s whistleblowing hunt. Buy Tricked on the Tracks to go full-speed ahead into fun today!

Download or read book Call of the Pines written by William V. Reynolds and published by Double Eagle Enterprises, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Great Depression hit in 1929, job opportunities became almost non-existent. The nation was restless. Thousands of men young and old found themselves wandering over the country looking for work. For a young man with little education or opportunity, riding the rails was the best way to see the country. This story is about one of these young men and his struggle to grow up in trying times.

Download or read book Chasing Ghosts written by Barbara Richard and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completing the trilogy begun with Dancing on His Grave, a story rich in American history, Canadian constables, bungling bandits, ruthless women, horses, wagons and locomotives, spiced with adultery and incest.

Download or read book Life to the Max written by L. Maxine McQueen and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is documentation that you can live life and come out laughing through most of it. From clowns and chickens to the death of a child, this book will take you through the ups and downs of struggling with and accepting what time hands you as you survive this great world of ours. The book is a compilation of stories about events that life handed her, which she has published in newspapers. Her viewpoint is humor, and faith is the means allowing us to tolerate the worst and respond to the best. Max takes you through her experiences of twenty-five years of being in business with her husband. The ups and downs of being a mom-and-pop operation are not to be missed. While running the business, she entered the sandwich generation and helped her parents and in-laws go through the ordeal of aging. At the same time, her sons were growing up and leading her through their adventures of leaving the nest. She has gone into competitive shooting and is an assistant NRA teacher and a range safety officer. Her five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren add adequate column fodder when her husband, sons, and daughters-in-law fail to do so. Memories of being raised in the '50s and '60s add to Max's humorous accounts of being a farm girl in Central Illinois. Presently, she has fabulous friends to give her constant opportunity to keep writing about the laughter all around us. Never intending to hurt, but always ready to see the funny side of life, her tales will keep you laughing and have you looking for the humor in everyday living.

Download or read book Windward West written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brannock brothers couldn't be more different, but they have one thing in common: the drive to make their dreams come true in the wild and wide-open southwest territory. Virgil Brannock's got plans-big plans: From Washington D.C. to the most desolate reaches of the territory, he'll build a railroad empire with sheer guts, raw ambition, and hot lead... Clint Brannock is a solitary man by nature, but that doesn't stop him from joining up with the Cavalry in a violent charge that will darken the desert sands with blood... Earl Brannock lives by no law but his own-until he finds a new code of honor with the Comanches. But will his brotherhood with that fierce, proud tribe put him at odds with his blood kin? Now, on a harsh frontier where weakness equals death, three brothers will cross paths once more-and three men's conflicts will come to a head as a new page in history is written amidst greed, gunfire, and the quest for glory...

Download or read book Pushing the Limits written by Chic Scott and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Banff Mountain Book Festival's Canadian Rockies Award A book to be read and digested, then sampled, then read and dipped into often...a fine achievement for this dedicated author... Bruce Fairley, Canadian Alpine Journal HOLY SHIT WAAAAAAAAAT A FABBBBBULOUS TOME. Tami Knight, Illustrator/Mountaineer This important new book tells the story of Canada's 200-year mountaineering history. Through the use of stories and pictures, Chic Scott documents the evolution of climbing in Canada. He introduces us to the early mountain pioneers and the modern day climbing athletes; he takes us to the crags and the gyms, from the west coast to Quebec, and from the Yukon to the Rockies. But most importantly, Scott showcases Canadian climbers--the routes that challenged them, the peaks that inspired them, their insatiable desire to climber harder, to push the limits. Begin the trek through Canada's climbing history... Learn about Swiss guides hired by CPR hotels who ushered in the glory years of first ascents. Continue through to the turn of the twentieth century when British and American climbers of leisure found themselves hampered by the difficulties of travel through the Canadian wilderness. Learn about the European immigrants of the 1950s who pushed the limits on the rock walls, and the American superstars who led the search for frightening new routes on the big north faces. Be there when British expatriates pioneer an exciting new trend in world mountaineering--waterfall ice climbing. Witness the popular growth of sport climbing, both on the crags and in the gyms. Finally, enjoy the story of home-grown climbers. Initially slow to take up the challenge, both at home and overseas, they are now leaders in the climbing world.

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Download or read book Defining Danger written by James W Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-three men have held the nation's highest office. Four were killed by assassins, and serious attempts were made on the lives of eight others. Add to that list the names of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, and it is reasonable to conclude that political prominence in the United States entails grave risks. In "Defining Danger", James W. Clarke explores the cultural and psychological linkages that define assassinations and a new era of domestic terrorism in America. Clarke notes an upsurge in political violence beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Since then, there have been ten assassination attempts on nationally prominent political leaders. That is two more than the eight recorded in the previous 174 years of the nation's presidential history. New elements of domestic terror in American life were introduced in the 1990s by Timothy McVeigh, the "Oklahoma City Bomber," Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and Eric Rudolph, the abortion clinic bomber. These men were politically motivated; their crimes unprecedented. These events and the perpetrators behind them are the subjects of this book. The volume conveys two central themes. The first is that individual acts of violence directed toward America's democratically elected leaders represent a defining element of American politics. The second addresses how danger is defined, through an analysis of the motives and characteristics of twenty-one perpetrators responsible for these acts of political violence where shots were fired, or bombs detonated, and, in most instances, victims died. The importance and originality of this material have been acknowledged in presentations to and consultations with the U.S. Secret Service and some of the nation's top independent private investigators. It is written in an accessible and engaging style that will appeal to the informed general reader, as well as to professionals in a variety of fields - especially in the wake of recent events and the specter of future violence that, sadly, haunts us all.

Download or read book Walking to America written by Roger Hutchinson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking To America follows and recreates the immense journey, in search of a new life and of a miracle doctor who could cure the blindness of one of their number. The journey was taken largely on foot by a small working-class family unit from England in the 1880s, to Liverpool, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and back again. Written as travelogue and as a history of one of the great neglected subjects - the New World immigrants who returned home to the Old, Walking to America is a personal tale, full of characterisation and human stories, based upon received lore, followed footsteps and careful historical research.An epic, covering thousands of miles and cultures and environments as diverse as the Victorian UK coalfields, the great imperial entrepot of Liverpool, the post-bellum American south, roaring 1880s New Orleans, the stew of the free-for-all Pittsburgh mines, Texas in the wake of the Alamo, the unclaimed Indian Territory of North America and the ultimate frontier of the Petrified Forest in Arizona - all seen through the eyes of a small group of identifiable and sympathetic, real and ordinary men, women and children from the north-east of England. Walking to America is a great and gripping adventure of discovery, hope and loss. And it is all true.