Download or read book The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon written by James Brakken and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Print, 16 pt font Edition! Step into your birch bark canoe and grab a paddle! You're off to the early 1800s and the thrilling, true-life adventure disclosing the FIRST life of Old Ice Feathers in James Brakken's latest novel, The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon. When his friend and mentor dies in 1886, young Tor Loken learns of Namakagon's previous life. But why, four decades earlier, did he isolate himself in this uninhabited northern Wisconsin wilderness? Was Namakagon running from a troubled past? From a horrific crime? Now James Brakken's research reveals Namakagon's life before he came to his northern Wisconsin home. The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon is historical fiction this Wisconsin author and the third novel in Brakken's Chief Namakagon trilogy. It launched July 4, 2014, in Bayfield County, the chief's home until his suspicious 1886 death. Who was Namakagon? Through exhaustive research, Brakken now exposes the original identity of the legendary chief and solves a mystery dating back to 1846. The story is a thrilling prequel to Brakken's second novel, Tor Loken & the Death of Chief Namakagon and book one, The Treasure of Namakagon, a book that took 2nd place in Amazon's 2013 Breakthrough Novel Awards out of 10,000 worldwide entries. The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon is an astonishing true-life adventure-a tale of child abduction by renegades, then three decades living as an Ojibwe in southern Manitoba and northern Minnesota. Wedged deep in the bloody strife between the Hudson's Bay Company and rival, North West Fur Company, his people rejected him, beginning his downward spiral. Eventually, fearing execution at the hands of corrupt authorities, he disappeared. Now, 168 years later, Brakken's extensive detective work finally unveiled this man's location and his first identity. It's a captivating, stand-alone novel written for all who enjoy a fusion of thrilling fiction and fascinating history. You'll find more about the Chief Namakagon trilogy on James Brakken's website, BadgerValley.com. Reviews of James Brakken's Writing: "Weaving mystery into history, 'The Treasure of Namakagon' vivifies the tumultuous nature of 19th-century life in the legendary north woods." Michael Perry, NYT bestselling Wisconsin author ..". A fascinating tale ... There is a strong sense in this book of oneness with nature. There's rip-roaring action ... The book is so well-written." "Difficult to put down; a great read." Publisher's Weekly Magazine "The writing style of this piece is its greatest strength. The flow of the words is like an old fashioned song." Amazon Books ..". Wonderfully well written ... Compelling .... Captures the reader's attention and keeps us reading." "A good piece of writing with suspense and action ...." Jerry Apps, Award winning Wisconsin author "It's the dialog and characters that drive The Treasure of Namakagon, a book that, if the audience for westerns was more like it was in the 1950s, would likely be sitting at or near the top of the best sellers lists. It appears as if author James A. Brakken is determined to make a go of this series, and ... he's made at least one fan in this reader." Judge, 22nd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards "Open with caution. You won't want to put this one down." LaMoine MacLaughlin, President, Wisconsin Writers Association "A twisting, thrilling mix of mystery, adventure and legendary treasure. Wisconsin history buffs will find this book a treasure in itself. An exciting adventure for all ages." Waldo Asp, AARP Chairman "Brakken takes his readers down Northern Wisconsin's untamed Namakagon River, back when giant virgin forests lured heroic lumber-jacks to seek their fortune. In scene after scene, the reader is surrounded by the beauty of pristine woods and lakes, rooting for the good guys to beat out the greedy." A. Y. Stratton, author of Buried Heart "I liked it!" Professor Larry Meiller, Wisconsin Public Radio host.

Download or read book The Secret Life of Chief Namakagon written by James Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 3 in the Chief Namakagon trilogy. Who was Chief Namakagon before he came to NW Wisconsin? A fugitive in hiding? A man wanted for murder? The answers will amaze you! Learn how award-winning Wisconsin author, James Brakken, solved a 168-year-old COLD CASE by proving Chief Namakagon was actually the adventurer, John Falcon Tanner, who vanished in 1846! Follow his fascinating life among the Chippewa people and the fur traders. Caught between two worlds, his life story propelled him into fame before jealousy and greed changed everything. Share his courageous story-the true tale of a feared warrior-an Anishinabe leader, woodsman, and war hero destined for our history books. 212 pages. Illustrated. Excerpts at BadgerValley dot com.

Download or read book The Death of Chief Namakagon written by James Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the Chief Namakagon Trilogy. THE DEATH OF CHIEF NAMAKAGON begins with a horrifying but actual Lake Superior shipwreck, then a lost map, river pirates, lumberjacks, miners, charlatans, ne'er-do-wells, and the 1886 murder of Chief Namakagon for his silver treasure-all based on fact! Follow the true trail of clues in this thrilling mystery novel. Solve the twisting, turning, 14-decade-old murder case as penned by the Bayfield County, Wisconsin author whose research finally unlocks the truth. Included are maps to the Marengo silver fields, the likely location of Chief Namakagon's legendary lost silver mine. Here's more: Button your mackinaw and lace up your boots. You are about to plunge into a fact-based tale of timber, treasure, and treachery in Wisconsin's 19th century wilderness-a twisting, turning, thrilling north woods mystery based on the suspicious 1886 death of Chief Namakagon.Following a severe November gale on Lake Superior, Namakagon's body is discovered near a secluded silver mine. Our hero, nineteen-year-old Tor Loken, is determined to prove his mentor is a victim of murder. Suspicious accidents soon plague his father's backwoods lumber camp. Tor and his sweetheart, Rosie, risk their lives to protect the tribal treasure against insurmountable odds as they plot to trap the treacherous, shrewd killer.Step into the 1880s, an era of lumber camps, lumberjacks, and lawless wilderness boom towns. Join Tor and Rosie as, with you, they solve the dark mystery surrounding Chief Namakagon's murder. It's a fast-paced, fact-based thriller by the award-winning Wisconsin author whose research now unlocks the truth. Book 2 in the Chief Namakagon trilogy, this illustrated, 246-page historical fiction novel is written for adults although suitable for age twelve and up. It is a thrilling, mystery-adventure you won't want to put down. Published by Badger Valley Publishing.

Download or read book Tor Loken and the Death of Chief Namakagon written by James A. Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Button your mackinaw and lace up your boots. You are about to plunge into a fact-based tale of timber, treasure, and treachery in America's 19th century wilderness-a twisting, turning, thrilling north woods mystery based on the suspicious 1886 death of Chief Namakagon.Step into the 1880s, an era of lumber camps, lumberjacks, and lawless wilderness boom towns. Join Tor and Rosie as, with you, they solve the dark mystery surrounding Chief Namakagon's murder. It's a fast-paced, fact-based thriller by the award-winning Wisconsin author whose research now unlocks the truth. Book 2 in the Namakagon trilogy, this illustrated, 243-page historical fiction is written for adults although suitable for age twelve and up. It is a thrilling, mystery-adventure you won't want to put down.This illustrated fast-paced and fact-based historical murder mystery is BOOK II in the AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD-recognized "Chief Namakagon trilogy." It's a stand-alone adventure novel for readers of all ages and a wonderful blend of fact and fiction guaranteed to bring life to the 13-decade-old legend and unsolved mystery.The story begins with a silver mine lost in 1886 in northern Wisconsin and the mysterious death of its owner, Chief Namakagon. (Fact!) In an exciting look at life through the eyes of lumberjack, Tor Loken, we learn more and more facts surrounding this yet unsolved murder.Following a perilous November 1886 blizzard, the Ojibwe elder is found dead near his secret silver mine. (Fact!) Only nineteen-year-old Tor Loken can prove murder. Suspicious accidents soon plague the lumber camp. New faces appear. New tales are told. (All based on fact!) Tor and his sweetheart, Rosie, risk their lives to protect the tribal silver and solve the mystery.Book I in the series made the 2013 ABNA competition's semi-finals. In effect, IT TIED FOR SECOND PLACE OUT OF 10,000 NOVELS ENTERED WORLDWIDE!.Step back into the 19th century as award-winning author and conservationist, James Brakken takes you to the silver fields, the lumber camps, and the bustling boom towns from Lake Superior to Chippewa Falls. Follow the clues, see the maps, and draw your own conclusions about Namakagon's murder and the cover-up that followed.Although this is a stand-alone tale, you will soon wish to know what preceded and what will follow. James Brakken's THE TREASURE OF NAMAKAGON, launched in June, 2012, and his upcoming novel, TOR LOKEN and the THE SECRET OF NAMAKAGON will soon be on your wish list. Join Tor Loken and the rest of the lumberjacks as they endure many life-threatening adventures--all based on true events. Be in the runaway lumber train with Tor; Survive a deadly, raging forest fire; Share the wheelhouse of the Great Lakes Schooner, LUCERNE, as she struggles against a severe November gale; See how river pirates stole millions of dollars worth of timber in the spring log drives; Be with Tor and his friend Junior when they become lost in a vast wilderness. You will even learn how unscrupulous "agents" swindled thousands of lumberjacks using bogus hospital insurance script. These tales and more are based on fact and all cleverly woven together to create this thrilling murder mystery. TOR LOKEN and THE DEATH OF CHIEF NAMAKAGON will soon have you yearning to search for both the old chief's lost silver AND the truth behind his 1886 demise. Book II offers 232 pages, many illustrations, maps to Wisconsin's historic silver fields, and an extensive glossary of Ojibwe & lumberjack terms. A great MADE IN USA gift idea.From Brakken's writing came these comments:PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "So well-written." "Difficult to put down; a great read."AMAZON BOOKS says: "The writing style of this piece is its greatest strength." "The flow of the words is like an old fashioned song."MICHAEL PERRY, NYT bestselling Wisconsin author: "Vivifies the tumultuous nature of 19th-century life in the legendary north woods."

Download or read book The Treasure of Namakagon written by James A. Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Tor Loken, whose father owns a lumber camp is mentored by Chief Namakagon who might show him the way to his secret silver mine. Join Tor for a look at nineteenth century lumberjack life in northern Wisconsin.

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Download or read book Thornapple Girl One Family Against the Lumber Trust written by James A. Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, a brave young Wisconsin girl and her family stand up against the world's largest-ever lumber syndicate & corrupt gov't officials. Bullets soon fly!

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Download or read book Buried Heart written by A. Y. Stratton and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public relations expert Lauren Richmond believes her family has been jinxed in the love department. To avoid the chaos she suffered as a child, she has built a grammatically-perfect, passion-free life, which crumbles shortly after she rescues a man from muggers. The victim, Luis Hernandez, is an archeology professor on a quest to locate an ancient Mayan document that survived the Spanish Inquisition. Convinced that the Codex exists, Luis is determined to protect his ancestors' priceless artifacts. When strangers ransack Luis's home and office and then threaten Lauren, sweet and seductive Luis insists the mysterious map he inherited from his grandfather has nothing to do with the incidents. Deep in the Mexican rain forest at a Mayan dig site, Luis and Lauren must outsmart ruthless grave robbers and battle phantoms from their past to rescue a treasure that could destroy their love"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Alias Ray Olson written by James Brakken and published by . This book was released on 1917-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN THE TRUTH! This true-life thriller is closely based on press reports of the 1939 Chippewa Flowage murders and Wisconsin's largest manhunt. FIND OUT WHAT THE GOV'T DID NOT WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW! "Trouble followed Ray like Mondays follow Sundays. Had he taken any other road in life, this Milwaukee boy may have become a regular Joe, working his life away trying to make ends meet. But FATE took hold of Ray's life in 1939 and wouldn't let go." 1939 ... --When society frequently ignored gambling as a "victimless" crime. --When lawbreakers received little tolerance from the authorities. --When overzealous lawmen often overlooked citizens' civil rights. 1939-the year Ray Olson became internationally notorious. Follow Olson and his young wife, Delores, across the nation during the Great Depression, in and out of scrapes, pushing their luck beyond all limits. Until, in far northern Wisconsin, a sheriff, the FBI, and a ragtag posse of over 200 deputized citizens pursue Ray through the Chequamegon National Forest---fueled by a $1,000 dead-or-alive reward. Researched and written by James Brakken, Bayfield County's author of award-winning historical fiction novels and short stories from days past. Reviews of James Brakken's other books: "It's the dialog and characters that drive The Treasure of Namakagon." Writer's Digest "¿ A fascinating tale ¿ a strong sense ¿ of oneness with nature." "There's rip-roaring action ¿" "So well-written." "Difficult to put down; a great read." Publisher's Weekly Magazine "The flow of the words is like an old fashioned song." Amazon Books contest "Wonderfully written ¿. Compelling ¿. Captures our attention and keeps us reading. A good piece of writing with suspense and action ¿." Jerry Apps, renowned Wisconsin author "¿ Vivifies life in the legendary north woods." Michael Perry, NYT bestselling author 2nd place in 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. 1st Place: 2013, 2014, & 2016 Lake Superior Writers Award. 1st Place: 2015 Wisconsin Writers "Jade Ring" award --- a once in a lifetime honor.

Download or read book My Tanner Family History written by Gary M Tanner and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth historical record of MY TANNER FAMILY HISTORY by Gary M. Tanner. Includes 15th through 17th Century Tanners of England; The England-Jamestown Connection; The Early History of Tanners in Colonial Virginia; Joseph Tanner the first, Edward Tanner the first, Joseph Tanner, son of Edward Tanner, John Tanner the first, David Tanner, David Cofil, John H. Tanner, George Washington Tanner, George Edward Tanner, the Jennings and William Tanner Family History, Baptist Preacher John Tanner, Jr., John "The Falcon" Tanner, Indian Captive, and related individuals. Hundreds of photos, maps, and other illustrations. 240 pages. Color softcover.

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Download or read book Early Life Among the Indians written by Benjamin G. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty-four years in the 19th century, Benjamin Armstrong spent his life with Native American tribes, learning their customs and languages, and becoming the adopted son of a Chippewa chief. Armstrong sat before Presidents Filmore and Lincoln on separate occasions as interpreter and advocate for Native American visitors to Washington.In this remarkable book, Armstrong relates his many years in the west with a depth and sympathy for his Native American friends that found few parallels among his contemporaries. He discusses their religion, marriage customs, camp life, and many anecdotes of individuals with whom he formed close bonds.Armstrong did more to humanize Native Americans than nearly any white person of his day. In the end, he writes:"...the unbiased judgment of the future will be that the Indians were found good and were made bad by white people, and that the condition of things has not been one whit improved by white associates, but, on the contrary, has been degraded....[the Indians] saw that the example of the white people was far from the teachings of the missionaries, far from the truth and the pretensions of the traders, and far from justice and right."

Download or read book 45 Fairly True Tales from the Old Corner Bar written by James Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, the good old days! When the rivers of time flowed slower and local taverns served as community gathering places. Although these "fairly true" tales could have come from almost any watering hole, most originated in the old Corner Bar in Cable, Wisconsin, a usually quiet village not far from Lake Superior and deep in the Chequamegon-Nicollet National Forest.While names and some of the "particulars" have been changed, these stories are based on true events as told to or recalled by James Brakken, Bayfield County's award-winning author of historical fiction novels and short stories.So, come on in. Meet the gang. Pull up a barstool. Lift a glass and join the fun. Laugh at the latest jokes or another late-night prank gone awry. Learn more than you might wish to know about the goings on across town or in the only other tavern in the village.These fairly true tales will leave you laughing or shocked or sad or utterly flabbergasted when you learn how clever some patrons of the old Corner Bar can be one minute, yet how dimwitted the next.Step into the past in the old Corner Bar. We've been waiting for you!Note: 6 of these stories are found in James Brakken's other short story collections, Billyboy, the Corner Bar Bear and The Moose & Wilbur P. Dilby. But the remaining thirty-nine tales are new. Grab a copy of this salute to the old Corner Bar and enjoy this journey into days gone by. Illustrated. 185 pages.

Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and published by New-York : Harper & Bros.. This book was released on 1834 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.

Download or read book Billyboy the Corner Bar Bear Proof written by James Brakken and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the proof copy of James Brakken's upcoming short story collection. It lacks illustrations intended for the final, smaller version. It contains a number of typos that will be edited out. It may contain a story that will not make the final version and be replaced by another tale. This version will eventually be replaced by a large print (16 point font) version.