Forty West

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Michael F. Blake
Go West Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt's Great Loop Tour of 1903
In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states. It was dubbed the “Great Loop Tour,” being careful not to call it a campaign tour, although he intended to seek re-election the following year. Theodore was adamant that his speeches be devoid of any partisan rhetoric...
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Henry Doktorski
Gold, Guns and God: Swami Bhaktipada and the West Virginia Hare Krishnas: Vol. 8: The City of God
Volume eight of Gold, Guns and God tells the story of Swami Bhaktipada and his vision to de-Indianize, or Westernize, Krishna consciousness in an effort to make it more palatable to westerners. He incorporated various aspects of western and Christian culture into the temple liturgies and daily lif...
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Hourly History
California Gold Rush: A History from Beginning to End (Old West)
Discover the remarkable history of the California Gold Rush... Many of us dream of finding instant wealth. Just imagine if you were able to go to a place where you could simply gather from the ground gold worth many thousands of dollars. Now imagine that at a time when the average wage for an unski...
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Gustav F. Bahruth
I Never Met a Boat I Didn't Love: Forty Years of Commercial Fishing. A Journey through Life.
We've all heard of the old proverb "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life." This book is the true story of the development, challenges, and equipment of the commercial shrimp industry, and many of the adventures that came along with it. It tells of growing up on Grea...
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Joseph Wheelan
Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate
For forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned. In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of fo...
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Manuel Cabeza de Baca
Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits, His Crimes and Retributions
"Vicente Silva and His Forty Bandits, His Crimes and Retributions," is a new translation by Dolores Gutierrez Mills and Carmen Cabeza de Baca Pace, of a narrative written in Spanish in 1896 by Manuel Cabeza de Baca, a resident of Las Vegas, New Mexico. The chronicle depicts Las Vegas as a lawless to...
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Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love
A follow-up to *Starred Review* As in her previous book, The Bastard of Istanbul (2007), Shafak, a courageous, best-selling Turkish writer, boldly links East and West in converging narratives. In present-day Massachusetts, Ella, an unhappy housewife on the cusp of 40, begins reading manuscripts for ...
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Mike Hoggan
Between Predator & Prey: Forty-Two Years a Government Hunter
Trap-Wise Grizzly Bears, Clever Coyotes, Mountain Lions, Wolves, Cattle Mutilations, Crazy Sheepherders and other WILD Life Experiences. Between Predator and Prey —is precisely where Mike Hoggan found himself throughout his career. Every account in this book is from his real-life experiences ov...
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Blu Sanders
The Forty One: a story of hope and a car
“I thought I left West Texas for good, but sometimes things just don't quite end up like you think they will. At 35, I came home to care for my dying father and to fix a car. Maybe even to fix myself.” The Forty One is a story of relationships and commitment and grease and sweat. It explores ...
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Marty Eberhardt
Bones in the Back Forty (2) (Bea Rivers Mystery)
A Sonoran Desert garden hides deadly secrets. Volunteer coordinator Bea Rivers unearths more than she bargained for when a skeleton is discovered in Shandley Gardens' back forty. The bones belong to a man who vanished in 1969, stirring up long-buried secrets in the nearby town of Copperton, New Mex...
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LeRoy R. Hafen
Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890
To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the...
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Camille Paglia
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our un...
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Roy Eugene Rhoades
Quest For Joy: A Forty Day Feast of Joy
This book is a forty day devotional that will rock your world and lead you to the joy that you have been waiting to experience for a long time. Go ahead and get in on the feast of joy. Roy and his wife Bess minister in churches, camps, and just about anywhere that is receptive to the message of the ...
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Karen Auvinen
Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk , Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions with “candor [and] admirable courage” ( Christian Science Monitor ). Determined to liv...
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Chelan David
Stories from the Phog: Forty Years of Kansas Basketball
Runner up: American Writing Awards Sports Book of the Year Come along on a 40-year journey of Kansas basketball through the eyes of a hoops fanatic. It can be hard to describe the pull of Kansas basketball to those not in the know. Basketball is an important part of the equation, but it’s more tha...
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Rhett R. Dennerline
The Only Good Indians, a novel of the 1820 west
In the tradition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – a realistic and colorful historical account of a fifteen-year-old boy’s summer in the waning forty-year struggle between Indian tribes and white settlers for control of our nation’s original American West (the Northwest Territory) – thi...
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Heidi Laird
The Frankfurt Kitchen: Forty-One Stories of Growing Up in Post-World War II West Germany
The author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power, wielding vast influence in the world through its example as a country aspiring to great ideals, like freedom, equality, inclusion, acceptance of divers...
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Vernon L. Smith
A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I: Forty Years of Discovery
This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith’s early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics. Smith takes the read...
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Edward Dorn
Way More West (Penguin Poets)
An essential anthology of an innovative American poet Edward Dorn was not only one of America’s finest poets but a rare critical intelligence and commentator. He was a student of Charles Olson, who helped him to see the American West as a site for his quest for self-knowledge; at the core of his w...
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Steve Bodkins
Bemis & Glady West Virginia: A History of Two Mountain Towns
This narrative uncovers the exciting history that gave rise to the towns of Bemis, Glady, Flint, Montes, Woodrow and Morribell and, eventually, their decline. Many stories and historical events unfold for the first time. This work includes thousands of names of those who worked, lived and attended t...
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