Flint Hills Farm Girl

Flint Hills Farm Girl PDF Author: Barbara Moore Robinson
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ISBN:
Category : Education, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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Flint Hills Farm Girl

Flint Hills Farm Girl PDF Author: Barbara Moore Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : Education, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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Flint Hills Farm Girl

Flint Hills Farm Girl PDF Author: Barbara Robinson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986700078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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A real-life account of events experienced by many farm children of the 1940's. The author recalls walking to Blue School, District 15, from the family's farm in the Flint Hills each school day from the first of September to the end of April.

Addie of the Flint Hills

Addie of the Flint Hills PDF Author: Adaline Sorace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602801233
Category : Chase County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Herd Register

Herd Register PDF Author: American Guernsey Cattle Club
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1540

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My Memories Of Pioneer Life In The Flint Hills

My Memories Of Pioneer Life In The Flint Hills PDF Author: Margaret Massey
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1644169428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Margaret Massey was born into a poor farming family in 1937 just as our nation was coming out of the Depression. She tells of life without bathrooms, running water, or electricity in rural areas. She relates her fears as a child during the World War II era, of school years, her marriage, the births of five children, and the death of the oldest son in 1972, and the boys' ranch they started in their home in his memory. In 1980, she and her husband visited Israel and there met a writer from Hollywood named Stephanie Liss. They shared their story with her and in 1981, she was contracted with CBS to write a script about their lives. After it was written, CBS refused to air it because it was too Christian and family oriented for their program schedule. With encouragement from family and friends, Margaret and Bob coauthored their own story titled The Flinthills Family: Our Journey to the Cross, and now she has written her own memories in this book.

Swimming in the Volcano

Swimming in the Volcano PDF Author: Bob Shacochis
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802199313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 711

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A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award–winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years” (William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with Swimming in the Volcano, a “splendid first novel” that illuminates the beauty and life of the Caribbean (Library Journal). On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman he once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation—one that proves impossible to resist. Both an enchanting love story and a sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutal and seductive a novel as the world it evokes. “Scores of island people, from conspiring politicians to barbers on the beach, sprawl across the pages like oleander and hibiscus . . . each of [the book’s] scenes is expertly wrought.” —The New York Times Book Review

THE FLINTHILLS FAMILY-Our Journey to the Cross

THE FLINTHILLS FAMILY-Our Journey to the Cross PDF Author: Bob Massey
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1635754607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Bob Massey was born during the depression in Wichita, KS. The only job available to his father was as bouncer in a nightclub and his mother was fry cook. They lived in a small apartment in the back of the nightclub until Bob was 2 years old when they moved to a farm near Udall, KS. Two brothers were born during the years on the farm. In 1943, his parents divorced and his father was immediately drafted. Bob lived with grandparents in western KS during the war and because his father suffered shell-shock upon his return, the boys were sent to live with their mom and a very harsh stepfather who expected them to work many hours a day on their farm. Bob survived a near fatal accident at age twelve and upon recovery developed a devil-may-care attitude to cover his anger and hurt. Bob married his high school sweetheart and they had five children. His title shows where he lives, how he came to know the Lord, and how the death of his oldest son led the family to the cross and tells of ministry developed from that experience.

Flint Hills Cowboys

Flint Hills Cowboys PDF Author: Jim Hoy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700617582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known as the home of the Big Beef Steer, these rugged hills have produced exemplary cowboys-both the ranch and rodeo varieties-whose hard work has given them plenty of material for equally good stories. Jim Hoy grew up in the Flint Hills on a ranch at Cassoday that's been in his family for five generations and boasts roots "as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland." He now draws on this area's rich cowboy lore-as well as on his own experience working cattle, breaking horses, and rodeoing-to write a folk history of the Flint Hills spanning a century and a half. Hoy blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that richly recalls the ranching life and the people who lived it. Here are cowboys and outlaws, rodeo stars and runaway horses, ordinary folks and the stuff of legends. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years before seeing print. And he tracks down the legend of Bud Gillette, considered by his neighbors the world's fastest man until he fell in with an unscrupulous promoter. He even unravels the mystery of a lone grave supposed to be that of the first cowboy in the Flint Hills. Hoy also explains why a good horse makes up for having to work with exasperating cattle-and why not all horses are created (or trained) equal. And he traces Flint Hills cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to today's trucking era, with most railroad stockyards torn down and only one section house left standing. Writes Hoy, "I feed on the stories of the Hills and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses." His love of the land shines throughout a book so real that readers will swear they hear the click of horseshoes on flint rock with every turn of the page.

Heritage of the Great Plains

Heritage of the Great Plains PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Contains articles on the literature, language, folklore, history, art, and music of the Great Plains.

Frances the Angel Dog

Frances the Angel Dog PDF Author: Joyce Woodard Pejakovich
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533253545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Even in a tropical paradise, life can be difficult - especially for a homeless, injured dog. In this heartwarming story of a Mayan dog from Belize, a retired, married couple, both former Army Colonels, rescues the broken dog. The wife, "Meme," instantly believes God has given them the responsibility to care for the dog she names, "Frances the Angel Dog." Her husband, "Papa" agrees, even though they are both very busy with their mission to build a school for the children of the Caribbean country. As Frances the Angel dog grows strong as a result of the care and love from her new family, she discovers she has powers that reach far beyond healing her injured leg.