Download or read book Rich Grass and Sweet Water written by John Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rich Grass and Sweet Water written by John Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth of the cowboy is powerful in American folklore, but the real life of the cowboy was hard, lonely, and rewarding, if one was seeking the less tangible rewards of being close to nature. The modern cowboy or ranch hand uses different methods but works the land with the same love as the icons of the Old West did.

Download or read book Sweetwater Creek written by Anne Rivers Siddons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.

Download or read book The Big Ranch Country written by J. W. Williams and published by Double Mountain Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.

Download or read book Sons of Wichita written by Daniel Schulman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse." Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political "contract killers," as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates. Sons of Witchita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, business associates, and many others, Sons of Witchita is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family-warts and all.

Download or read book My Friend the Indian written by James McLaughlin and published by Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : Riverside Press. This book was released on 1910 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents: Moving into the Indian Country. On the Threshold of Civilization. Life with the Agency Indians. Brave Bear and the Only One. When Cupid Camps with the Sioux. How Crow King Stopped the Medicine men. The Great Buffalo Hunt at Standing Rock. The Battle of the Little Big Horn. Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull's View of the Custer Tragedy. When Sitting Bull's Medicine Failed. The Death of Sitting Bull. How the Indian Gets his Name. Indian Sympathies. Permanent Indian Villages. On the Making and Breaking of Treaties. Modern Treaty Making. Captain Jack and his Modocs. The Masterly Retreat of Joseph and his Nez Perces. The Unwhipped Utes. Give the Red Man his Portion.

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Download or read book Dorsett s Treatise on Agriculture in All Its Various Branches from Thirty Years Practical Experience written by Folsom Dorsett and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1867 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gathering Moss written by Robin Wall Kimmerer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova, Brainpickings Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

Download or read book Sweetwater written by Buck Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corporate Poems written by Maheswar Behera and published by Rudra Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind derive pleasure from nature while on work, it starts from a farmer in the field to a skilled worker in the factory. Similarly highly educated executives of the corporates can derive pleasure from nature and relax their stressful life. He has exposure to corporate functioning and has tried to relate the natural phenomenon around us with the need of corporate. Life is stressful in modern times while working in any location or for any organisations in responsible positions. This may be a state government, a PSU, or at a private company. This is more stressful for any entrepreneurs while running a small farming to managing a giant corporate. Man need to live with nature, can relate the natural phenomenon with job at site. Everyone is enjoying nature, but the feelings should continue with us in our own development. It should work as tool to improve at job site and in the office. It should be used for the development of the organization. The corporate executives can improve the traits like creativity, innovation, strategic thinking, and openness and to be extraversion. Each poem can help the reader for development of own existing strength, for relax from a stressful working life. Reader can relate the surrounding to lead a peaceful and healthy life.

Download or read book Sweetgrass written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant novel of hope, acceptance, forgiveness and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love.

Download or read book Agrostographia written by Lawson Seed and Nursery Company and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains written by John Charles Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Col John Charles Fremont written by Samuel M. Smucker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Download or read book The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains Oregon and California written by John Charles Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: