Download or read book Ordeal of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest addition to Johnstone's series finds Smoke Jensen in Muddy Gap, Wyoming, taking a much-needed break from driving a herd north. But he is soon on the run again, with Jack Grubb's vicious gang of rustlers hot on his trail. Then, Chief Iron Claw's bloodthirsty Cheyenne warriors appear on the horizon and it won't be long before a war between the white man's greed and the red man's savagery turns the peaceful Bighorn Mountains into a simmering powderkeg.
Download or read book Spirit of the Mountain Man Ordeal of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Spirit of the Mountain Man a hard term in Yuma Prison gave Ralph Tinsdale and his gunhawk sidekicks time to nurse a deep hatred for Smoke Jensen - the man who put them there. In Ordeal of the Mountain Man what the vicious Utah Jack Grubbs would really kill for just rode into town Smoke Jensen.
Download or read book Oh Them Days on Red Hoss Mountain written by Leslie Finn and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of suffering abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Samantha Aikens finds herself accused of his murder by masterminding a mine cave in. Oh, Them Days on Red Hoss Mountain, depicts the life of a young woman living in an era where men ruled, and women served. A fictional history of Gold Hill is portrayed while the saga of Samantha’s hardship unfolds in a world where she has very little control. As the murder trial proceeds, Samantha’s personal life is the highlight of town gossip, and her reputation, as the only source of medical knowledge for the community, is put to the test. Oh, Them Days on Red Hoss Mountain is inspired by a tale called, “Casey’s Table D’Hote”, written by poet Eugene Field, who stayed at the hotel in Gold Hill during his days of writing for a Denver newspaper in the late 1800’s. Casey, the fictional character in the poem, is brought to life as his closest confidant, Samantha Aikens, struggles to find independence in a man’s world. This story of family, friendship, romance, and coming-of-age, captures the reader while it moves from past to present as the brave and true endure life during the Colorado gold rush.
Download or read book Ramp Hollow written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.
Download or read book Li Lun Lad of Courage written by Carolyn Treffinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.
Download or read book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Newbery Honor Book written by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
Download or read book The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren written by Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer’s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century through China’s 1911 Revolution. Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng's study illuminates the crisis of writing home in a globalized age by rescuing Li Jieren’s repeatedly revised but never finished river-novel series written from Republican to Communist China, struggling to liberate local memory from the national cum revolutionary currents. The book undercuts official historiography and rewrites Chinese literary history from the ground up by highlighting Li’s resilient geopoetics of writing that decenters the nation by adopting the place-based view of a distant province.
Download or read book The Tutor written by K. Larsen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a party gone wrong and in desperate need of money for the fall semester of college, twenty-year-old Nora Robertson needs to escape her hometown. She accepts a summer long live-in tutoring job for a handsome man and his little sister at a secluded home deep in the mountains. There is no running water. No electricity. No internet or cell service. When her tutoring job ends she's hit with a brutal turn of events ... she's not permitted to leave. After months in captivity, she makes a harrowing escape with her student that ends in a car accident on a desolate road. When Nora comes to, her student is missing. In a desperate attempt to find the girl, Nora will have to recount her time held captive. The good and the bad. Can Nora and the authorities work together to find the man who took her? Will they rescue the girl Nora tried to save?
Download or read book Historical Records of the Five Dynasties written by Xiu Ouyang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), an intellectual giant of the Song dynasty, Historical Records of the Five Dynasties offers a compelling interpretation of the Five Dynasties period (907-979). In overhauling the existing official history, Ouyang Xiu made several notable decisions. He recast the entire narrative in the popular "ancient" style to make for a rare fluency. He adopted rigorous moral categories to evaluate historical figures, reflecting the new regimen of his day. He also annotated portions of the text to establish a methodology for future writers. The Historical Records thereby became the official version-the last of China's dynastic histories to be written by an individual in a private capacity. In addition to its provocative commentary and lucid presentation, Historical Records is an eloquent statement on the art and craft of historical writing in the eleventh century.
Download or read book Daughter of the Mountain written by Vella Munn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-04-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She'd set out for California, following her father's dream--a disaster haunted dream that had killed her family and threatened the child she struggled to save. Snow-cloaked mountains, beautiful but heartless, held them prisoner. Blizzard after blizzard left them aching with cold...one step away from starvation. As months passed, Jessie almost stopped believing in warmth, safety...and rescue. Daniel Bear was a wanted man, outcast among his own people, yet willing to brave the fearsome mountain to answer the settlers' desperate need. Daniel had held Jessie's life in his hands, then given it back to her. He'd won much more than her trust. The mountain had turned Jessie's dream of freedom into a nightmare. Captain Sutter's refusal to sell land to an unmarried woman threatened to turn her dream of a home to dust. But in Daniel's arms, Jessie learned to dream again--this time of love.
Download or read book Not a Eulogy written by Keven Leslie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second installment of the Big Popi and Li’l Freckles series. Their love for each other is stronger than ever and the violent assaults on these good people continue unabated. After a deadly attack on their jet liner, they are stranded on a desert isle in the Pacific Ocean. Popi is captured by communist rebels and sold to Yemeni terrorists. Layla starts a world-wide search for her husband enlists the aide of President. After months of brutal imprisonment, He is rescued by the US Navy and reunited with his dear Li’l Freckles who said, “Popi seemed to be in fairly good shape, I mean emotionally. Physically, he is dreamier than ever. I’ve always thought he is at his handsomest when he is a little beat up.” Popi thought he had the gunslinger’s curse, causing every hot shot wannabe to want to be the one to outdraw him. Beyond his typical dashing façade, Popi was hurting from all the killing he’d had to do in protection of Layla. He said, “They are haunting me. They aren’t the spirits of the dead, but rather dream images who urge me to join them in the hell of my own making, Just as Popi was nearly recovered after months of PTSD therapy and Layla’s tender support, one of their old enemies resurfaces. The sniper shot Popi eleven times as he covered Layla with his body. He was dead long before the ambulance arrived, or was he..
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-04-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Down to Earth written by David Faure and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the norm for the legitimation of power in local society through the Republican period
Download or read book Mao s Way written by Edward E. Rice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midnight Rising written by Tony Horwitz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.
Download or read book Analytical Vocabulary Or Analytical System of Teaching Orthography written by John Usher Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mao s Way written by Edward Earl Rice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley." Bibliography: p. [574]-578.
