Author: Mark Spragg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781573228251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In a "piercing voice from the heartland" ("Publishers Weekly"), Spragg tells the story of a boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming, with a family struggling against the elements and against themselves, and of the wry and wise cowboy who taught him life's most important lessons.
Where Rivers Change Direction
Author: Mark Spragg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781573228251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In a "piercing voice from the heartland" ("Publishers Weekly"), Spragg tells the story of a boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming, with a family struggling against the elements and against themselves, and of the wry and wise cowboy who taught him life's most important lessons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781573228251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In a "piercing voice from the heartland" ("Publishers Weekly"), Spragg tells the story of a boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming, with a family struggling against the elements and against themselves, and of the wry and wise cowboy who taught him life's most important lessons.
An Unfinished Life
Author: Mark Spragg
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400043808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In an extraordinary tale of love and forgiveness, Mark Spragg brings us this novel of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson has a history of choosing the wrong men. After yet another night of argument turned to violence with her boyfriend, Roy, Jean knows it's time to leave—if not for herself, then for her ten-year-old daughter, Griff. But the only place they can afford to go is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's family is dead and her deceased husband's father Einar wishes Jean was too. Of course, Griff knows none of this—only that here in Wyoming, with a grandfather she has never known and his crippled friend Mitch, she may finaly be able to find a home.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400043808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In an extraordinary tale of love and forgiveness, Mark Spragg brings us this novel of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson has a history of choosing the wrong men. After yet another night of argument turned to violence with her boyfriend, Roy, Jean knows it's time to leave—if not for herself, then for her ten-year-old daughter, Griff. But the only place they can afford to go is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's family is dead and her deceased husband's father Einar wishes Jean was too. Of course, Griff knows none of this—only that here in Wyoming, with a grandfather she has never known and his crippled friend Mitch, she may finaly be able to find a home.
The Rockies in First Person
Author: Ron McFarland
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786451637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have revealed themselves as a respectable literary genre, distinct with an inimitable literary voice and a unique capacity to intersect narration and reflection. This study focuses critical attention on ten memoirs from the northern U.S. Rockies, including Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. By comparing memoirs representing states that share similar demographic, ecological, and socio-economic characteristics, this historic and literary analysis reveals both commonalities and divergences among American Western memoirs. Each chapter compares two books of similar thematic concerns, ranging from regional values and rural evolution to dynamic landscapes and the experiences of American Indians.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786451637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have revealed themselves as a respectable literary genre, distinct with an inimitable literary voice and a unique capacity to intersect narration and reflection. This study focuses critical attention on ten memoirs from the northern U.S. Rockies, including Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. By comparing memoirs representing states that share similar demographic, ecological, and socio-economic characteristics, this historic and literary analysis reveals both commonalities and divergences among American Western memoirs. Each chapter compares two books of similar thematic concerns, ranging from regional values and rural evolution to dynamic landscapes and the experiences of American Indians.
Rivers
Author: Michael Farris Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451699441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451699441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Easy Fiddle Solos
Author: Dick Weissman
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610655788
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This book of original pieces is intended to give the beginning fiddler an immediate grasp of the fundamentals of fiddling in an instructive yet enjoyable way. the authors assume that the student is capable of reading music in the first position in various keys. Rare in fiddle notation- a tablature
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610655788
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This book of original pieces is intended to give the beginning fiddler an immediate grasp of the fundamentals of fiddling in an instructive yet enjoyable way. the authors assume that the student is capable of reading music in the first position in various keys. Rare in fiddle notation- a tablature
Sailing Directions (planning Guide).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Sailing Directions - Planning Guides
Author: National Geospatial-intelligence Agency
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577856634
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577856634
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The North Atlantic as a geological basin. Address
Author: Thomas Mellard Reade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
National Search and Rescue Manual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description