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Publisher: Arrow
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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A retelling of traditional tales from a variety of North American Indian tribes.

Author: Merlin K. Potts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781479427055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Man's search for wealth has taken him to many out-of-the-way places. What is now Jackson's Hole was a way of life to the Native Americans who summered here and wintered in the lower and warmer regions to the east of Togwotee Pass. A summer in this secluded valley meant plenty of fish and other wildlife for food, skins for clothing and teepees, as well as a cool, well-watered environment. Snowmelt-fed streams bordered by vegetation supported many beaver and other fur-bearers that attracted men of European descent in their never-ending quest for commercial wealth. Mountain men and trappers considered the natural resources of the area as there to be taken for their own personal gain, By 1840 beaver became scarce and fell from fashion. The land that supported bison was thought good for domestic cattle, so ranchers settled in Jackson Hole from one end to the other. Dry years and the Great Depression forced many of them to sell out. Now millions of visitors come each year to recapture the thrill of wandering in a land still much as the Native Americans left it. This is a new wealth that depreciates little under protection as a National Park. An increasing number of people look for ways to identify themselves with those who led the way into this new land. "Campfire Tales of Jackson Hole" give you this opportunity in an easy to read text that takes you back to the people and evens that transpired in the valley.

Author: Thomas M. Atkinson
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
ISBN: 9781646030835
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Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Pere is living the life in central Florida. Money is tight, but odd jobs at the marina keep him in mac 'n' cheese and Chesterfields and pay the few bills that can't be put off. His good buddy Clyde, who lives in an identical condo across the street, can always be relied upon for bait and swapping lies. One day is the same as the next, until his girlfriend, Missy, is sentenced to two-years at Lowell Correctional in Ocala for methamphetamine possession. In Ohio, Missy's ex-husband puts their ten-year-old daughter Tammy on a Greyhound direct to Florida. Skinny and blonde and small for her age, Tammy steps off the bus with only a pack of colored markers and a black trash-bag of dirty clothes. Pere is suddenly a reluctant surrogate father, trying to survive on a shrinking income, and struggling to maintain his own fragile sobriety. Together, Pere and Tammy are an accidental family wandering lost in the land of temporary tags and disability checks, where the smell of caustic chemicals and fried food hangs in the air like wet laundry, and in the course of a single day they find out who needs taking care of, and who, exactly, is taking care of them.

Author: John H. Monnett
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 9780871087553
Category : Fly fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Bob Hanson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876031698
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There are finer ways to entertain and teach than with a skillfully told story set in an atmosphere of friendship and communion around the glow of a crackling campfire. This collection of stories includes humorous, ghost, and adventure stories; stories from other lands; stories with a moral; and Native American tales.

Author: John Long
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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"The American Indians loved to share stories around the campfire, both as a major form of entertainment and as the means for passing on tribal history, culture and beliefs. The modern reader has found their ageless creations myths, legends, war ceremonies, trickster and hero tales no less enchanting than those who first told and heard them centuries ago. John Long and his researchers reviewed over one hundred renowned anthologies in compiling Pale Moon, and the result is a unique collection grounded in the bedrock of ancient culture, pulsating with nature's indomitable energy and the soul's struggle with the Great Mystery. The themes are as old as fire itself and are part of mankind's heritage--literary, ethnic, folkloric. The telling of them maks living myths."-- From Amazon.ca.

Author: S. E. Schlosser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493011243
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences under starry skies. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.

Author: Rick Steber
Publisher: Bonanza Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The storyteller spins a web of fantasy while the campfire sends a shower of sparks leaping into the night sky to drift among the ancient stars. It is in this manner that the history of mankind has been passed from one generation to the next. In North America the native people formed their cultures and spiritual beliefs through stories. Stories described the origins of earth and mankind, of floods, fires, hunts, wars, heros, the supernamral, myths and legends. Young people knew what had happened in the world because their elders communicated it to them around the campfire. The first Europeans to make their way among the Indians were mountain men who told fantastic and mystifying tales of great cities to the east and other worlds that existed across the great shiny waters. Each successive wave of white invaders brought with it a different blend of fact and fiction. In today's world it might appear that campfire stories can no longer compete with movies and television. But no special effect can ever come close to the power and impact of human imagination. Try reading or telling a story around the campfire. Watch the faces of your listeners and know the value and significance of keeping alive our time-honored traditions of oral history.

Author: Stith Thompson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253200914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Collection of Indian tales in which each tale is shown to be representative of a certain type of tale which occurs in more than one tribe or geographical region.

Author: John H. Monnett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870815690
Category : Fly fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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To cast a fly on high country waters in the West is to be part of an angling tradition that stretches back over a hundred years. First published in 1988, John H. Monnett's Cutthroat and Campfire Tales brings that heritage alive with its stories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fishing expeditions. To the nineteenth-century angler, the West's resources appeared inexhaustible -- there seemed to be as many cutthroat trout in the rivers as there were stars in the sky. Monnett shows how the error of that assumption became all too quickly apparent, and also traces how the inevitable depletion of the trout led to early stocking efforts and changing attitudes toward conservation.