Download or read book Last of the Great Scouts Buffalo Bill written by Helen Cody Wetmore and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Last of the Great Scouts written by Helen Cody Wetmore and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last of the Great Scouts is a biography of William F. Cody a.k.a Buffalo Bill, written by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore. Buffalo Bill was of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West. His legend began to spread when he was only 23. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. In authors words the reason for writing this biography were twofold. Primarily, her intention was to provide an authentic biography of her brother in response to many books of varying value that have been published. The second reason was purely personal. Helen wanted to share with readers who Bill was personally and to present his true personality. Contents: The Old Homestead in Iowa Will's First Indian The Shadow of Partisan Strife Persecution Continues The "Boy Extra" Family Defender and Household Tease Indian Encounter and School-day Incidents Death and Burial of Turk Will as Pony Express Rider Echoes From Sumter A Short but Dashing Indian Campaign The Mother's Last Illness In the Secret-service Will as a Benedict How the Sobriquet of "Buffalo Bill" Was Won Satanta, Chief of the Kiowas Will Made Chief of Scouts Army Life at Fort M'pherson Pa-has-ka, the Long-haired Chief The Hunt of the Grand Duke Alexis Theatrical Experiences The Government's Indian Policy Literary Work First Visit to the Valley of the Big Horn Tour of Great Britain Return of the "Wild West" to America A Tribute to General Miles The "Wild West" at the World's Fair Cody Day at the Omaha Exposition The Last of the Great Scouts

Download or read book The Last of the Plainsmen and Last of the Great Scouts written by Zane Grey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last of the Plainsmen This historical novel chronicles the last mission of the last of the plainsmen. The Last of the Great Scouts The life story of Colonel William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill." Few other characters make a stronger appeal to the American imagination than Buffalo Bill.

Download or read book Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody Buffalo Bill written by Helen Cody Wetmore and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last of the Great Scouts is a biography of William F. Cody a.k.a Buffalo Bill, written by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore. Buffalo Bill was of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West. His legend began to spread when he was only 23. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. In authors words the reason for writing this biography were twofold. Primarily, her intention was to provide an authentic biography of her brother in response to many books of varying value that have been published. The second reason was purely personal. Helen wanted to share with readers who Bill was personally and to present his true personality. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Old Homestead in Iowa_x000D_ Will's First Indian_x000D_ The Shadow of Partisan Strife_x000D_ Persecution Continues_x000D_ The "Boy Extra"_x000D_ Family Defender and Household Tease_x000D_ Indian Encounter and School-day Incidents_x000D_ Death and Burial of Turk_x000D_ Will as Pony Express Rider_x000D_ Echoes From Sumter_x000D_ A Short but Dashing Indian Campaign_x000D_ The Mother's Last Illness_x000D_ In the Secret-service_x000D_ Will as a Benedict_x000D_ How the Sobriquet of "Buffalo Bill" Was Won_x000D_ Satanta, Chief of the Kiowas_x000D_ Will Made Chief of Scouts_x000D_ Army Life at Fort M'pherson_x000D_ Pa-has-ka, the Long-haired Chief_x000D_ The Hunt of the Grand Duke Alexis_x000D_ Theatrical Experiences_x000D_ The Government's Indian Policy_x000D_ Literary Work_x000D_ First Visit to the Valley of the Big Horn_x000D_ Tour of Great Britain_x000D_ Return of the "Wild West" to America_x000D_ A Tribute to General Miles_x000D_ The "Wild West" at the World's Fair_x000D_ Cody Day at the Omaha Exposition_x000D_ The Last of the Great Scouts

Download or read book The Last Days of the Last of the Great Scouts written by Zane Grey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling book. This is one of his stories.

Download or read book Baseball s Last Great Scout written by Daniel L. Austin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1937 Hugh Alexander, a kid fresh out of small-town Oklahoma, had just finished his second year playing outfield for the Cleveland Indians when an oil rig accident ripped off his left hand. Within three months he was back with the Indians, but this time as a scout—the youngest ever in Major League history. In the next six decades he signed more players who made it to the Majors than any other scout. His story, Baseball’s Last Great Scout, reads like a backroom, bleacher-seat history of twentieth-century baseball—and a primer on what it takes to find a winner. It gives a gritty picture of learning the business on the road, from American Legion field to try-out camp to beer joint, and making the fine distinctions between “performance” and “tools of the trade” when checking out prospects. Over the years Alexander worked for the Indians, the White Sox, the LA Dodgers, the Phillies, and the Cubs—and signed the likes of Allie Reynolds, Don Sutton, and Marty Bystrom. This book, based on extensive interviews and Alexander’s journals, is filled with memorable characters, pithy lessons, snapshots of American life, and a big picture of America’s pastime from one of its great off-the-field players.

Download or read book Troop 6000 written by Nikita Stewart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of the first Girl Scout troop founded for and by girls living in a shelter in Queens, New York, and the amazing, nationwide response that it sparked “A powerful book full of powerful women.”—Chelsea Clinton Giselle Burgess was a young mother of five trying to provide for her family. Though she had a full-time job, the demands of ever-increasing rent and mounting bills forced her to fall behind, and eviction soon followed. Giselle and her kids were thrown into New York City’s overburdened shelter system, which housed nearly 60,000 people each day. They soon found themselves living at a Sleep Inn in Queens, provided by the city as temporary shelter; for nearly a year, all six lived in a single room with two beds and one bathroom. With curfews and lack of amenities, it felt more like a prison than a home, and Giselle, at the mercy of a broken system, grew fearful about her family’s future. She knew that her daughters and the other girls living at the shelter needed to be a part of something where they didn’t feel the shame or stigma of being homeless, and could develop skills and a community they could be proud of. Giselle had worked for the Girl Scouts and had the idea to establish a troop in the shelter, and with the support of a group of dedicated parents, advocates, and remarkable girls, Troop 6000 was born. New York Times journalist Nikita Stewart settled in with Troop 6000 for more than a year, at the peak of New York City’s homelessness crisis in 2017, getting to know the girls and their families and witnessing both their triumphs and challenges. In Troop 6000, readers will feel the highs and lows as some families make it out of the shelter while others falter, and girls grow up with the stress and insecurity of not knowing what each day will bring and not having a place to call home, living for the times when they can put on their Girl Scout uniforms and come together. The result is a powerful, inspiring story about overcoming the odds in the most unlikely of places. Stewart shows how shared experiences of poverty and hardship sparked the political will needed to create the troop that would expand from one shelter to fifteen in New York City, and ultimately inspired the creation of similar troops across the country. Woven throughout the book is the history of the Girl Scouts, an organization that has always adapted to fit the times, supporting girls from all walks of life. Troop 6000 is both the intimate story of one group of girls who find pride and community with one another, and the larger story of how, when we come together, we can find support and commonality and experience joy and success, no matter how challenging life may be.

Download or read book Here Come the Girl Scouts The Amazing All true Story of Juliette Daisy Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure written by Shana Corey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing, all-true story of the first Girl Scouts and their visionary founder. Juliette Gordon Low--Daisy to her friends and family--was not like most girls of the Victorian era. Prim and proper? BOSH! Dainty and delicate? HOW BORING! She loved the outdoors, and she yearned for adventure! Born into a family of pathfinders and pioneers, she too wanted to make a difference in the world--and nothing would stop her. Combining her ancestors' passion for service with her own adventurous spirit and her belief that girls could do anything, she founded the Girl Scouts. One hundred years later, they continue to have adventures, do good deeds, and make a difference!

Download or read book The Last Girl Scout written by Natalie Ironside and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past lies like a nightmare over the world.Two hundred years after the War when atomic fire rained from the skies and burned the world to cinders, human civilization has had time to rebuild within the burned-out husk of Old America. But the old terrors of the past still persist, and while some work to build a better world, others still dream of reclaiming the glory of the Old World.In southern Appalachia, political commissar Magnolia Blackadder is sent on a mission into the irradiated Exclusion Zone of Old DC, where an evil that humanity thought it had vanquished centuries ago is waking up and rebuilding its strength. Along the way, she meets a strange woman with terrible secrets and an unspeakable past, and as they forge a bond and brave the terrors of the wasteland together, she learns that some demons are not so easily exorcised, and that some stones are better left unturned. In this her debut novel, award-winning author Natalie Ironside delivers a new vision of the post-apocalypse, a tale of adventure, terror, love, and that most basic and most powerful of all human desires: Freedom.

Download or read book Scouting for Wild Ones written by Brittney McGann and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scouts Spies and Heroes of the Great Civil War written by Linus Pierpont Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Get Off My Honor written by Hans Zeiger and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boy Scout defends the honor of the stalwart organization from the cultural onslaught threatening it.

Download or read book Scouting with Daniel Boone written by Everett T. Tomlinson and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett T. Tomlinson's "Scouting with Daniel Boone" offers readers an exciting and educational journey into the wilderness with one of America's legendary frontiersmen, Daniel Boone. The story unfolds with themes of exploration, survival, and the rugged adventures of early American pioneers. Set against the backdrop of the untamed American frontier, the narrative captures the essence of Daniel Boone's resourcefulness, courage, and his deep connection to the wilderness. Through the adventures of the young scouts who accompany Boone, readers are transported into a world of exploration and discovery. The novella delves into themes of self-reliance, teamwork, and the value of learning outdoor skills. As the young scouts face the challenges of the wilderness alongside Daniel Boone, they embody the qualities of resilience and the spirit of adventure. "Scouting with Daniel Boone" celebrates the pioneering spirit of early America and the importance of outdoor education. Everett T. Tomlinson's storytelling invites readers to join the scouts on their wilderness adventures, emphasizing the enduring values of self-reliance and the rewards of exploring the natural world.

Download or read book Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion written by George Bird Grinnell and published by Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1928 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scout Mindset written by Julia Galef and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe—and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world—which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.

Download or read book First Girl Scout written by Ginger Wadsworth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts in 2012, a lavishly illustrated account of the fascinating life of the woman who started it all

Download or read book The Baku Boy Scouts written by Lloyd Sparks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ollie wants to lead a Boy Scout troop. Wade wants to lead soldiers into combat. Dr. Snider just wants to go home and retire. The three men find themselves taking a group of reluctant teenagers on a campout in the wilds of Nagorno Karabakh, where the get hopelessly lost. They wander into the no-man's-land between Armenia and Azerbaijan and find themselves caught up in a small war. To make things worse, the US has lost a nuclear warhead in the area and the Russians and Iranians want to find it as badly as the Americans do. The kids come upon it first and only the Baku Boy Scouts and their arch-rivals, the Math Genies, can avert a major international incident.