Hitch Up the Horses We're Going to Town
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Release | : 1915-08-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781940376202 |
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ISBN | : 9781940376202 |
Author | : Alan Cheuse |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1402263147 |
Lyrically told and impeccably researched, Song of Slaves in the Desert traces the story of Nathaniel Pereira, a young New Yorker who's called to revive his uncle's South Carolina plantation. Nathaniel is struck by the sobering reality of slavery as he becomes captivated by the young slave Liza. Liza's never known the meaning of freedom, and as Nathaniel plunges into the murky mysteries of slavery, she can see how he might change her life forever. A masterful writer, Cheuse traces the thread of slavery from sixteenth-century Timbuktu and grapples with the wild nature of love.
Author | : Janina Ward |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2003-07-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462823890 |
Jesse finishes the school year and travels to his grandfathers ranch for what he thought was going to be his routine summer vacation. Jesse began to wonder what his grandfather meant when he said, If only you had been in my shoes passing through his grandpas bedroom he pauses to slip his feet into and old worn out pair of grandpas cowboy boots. Jesse becomes very dizzy and passes out on the bed only to awaken the following morning lying next to a juniper tree out on the range. The only thing he sees for miles is a horse, saddled and ready to be ridden. Jesses head still foggy, he mounts the horse and lets it lead the way. The countryside begins to look familiar and soon he finds himself at the old homesteadonly it had burned to the ground years before! Upon investigating Jesse finds his great-great grandmother and grandfather only they have also been dead for years. He soon realizes that he has gone back in time over seventy years and everyone thinks that he is his grandpa Fred. Jesse has no choice but to do his best to blend in until he can find a way back home. He learns many things including how to work and brand the cattle. Jesse goes along as the family takes a wagon trip to the town of Prescott. Jesse has many close encounters and interesting discoveries as the summer wears on, finally he sees visions in the night urging him to leave soon! Very adventurous reading for young adults as well as those young at heart. A stimulating trip into the old west complete with many historic photos to stimulate the imagination! A must read for anyone that has ever wondered what ranch life was like in our wonderful Arizona history.
Author | : Donald L. Fixico |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806159286 |
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskokes and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke (as “Muskogee” is spelled in the Mvskoke language), and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world. Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors, Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico’s stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the past, and foresee the future—and through them he skillfully connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history. Oral tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger story of where they come from and how they work, “That’s What They Used to Say” offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and infinitely complex permutations.
Author | : David Jussero |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-01-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781462066667 |
Sometimes witty and sometimes serious, Telling It the Way It Was provides a narrative of what life was like for the hardy and pragmatic immigrant settlers of the US breadbasket. In this memoir, author David Jussero presents a nostalgic tour of life in a predominately Finnish farm community in North Dakota from the turn of the century through the 1940s and 50s. Telling It the Way It Was relays stories about the hardships and successes of Jusseros Finnish and French ancestors who faced the demands of settling a new country by living in sod houses and braving bitter winters on the North American prairies. He tells about the mixed marriage of his French mother who immigrated to the United States to marry his dad, her Finnish sweetheart. Jussero also describes his own experiences growing up on a small wheat farm in North Dakota, attending school at one-room schoolhouses, dropping out of school at age sixteen, and doing dead-end farm jobs, which spurred him into trading the life of a hired farmhand for city life. When he was still in his teens, he made his way to the West Coast to seek his fortune. Through photographs and stories from the past, Jussero passes along his heritage and paints a vivid picture of the sturdy and rugged people who preceded him.
Author | : Richard Fletcher |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2020-11-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635684781 |
A Western tale of a greedy land baron who, after the war, tries to force small ranch owners to sell their ranches and cattle to him at below market prices when land and cattle prices are depressed right after the Civil War. Clint, an officer in the Union army, returns from the war and finds out about the land baron's tactics. He organizes a six-hundred-mile cattle drive to help the ranchers survive. The drive goes from northern Texas to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The land baron sends men after th
Author | : Billy H. Dean |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465375392 |
Raid on Innocence In the years before the Civil War began, the small town of Salinas, Indiana was starting a period of growth that could turn this farming community into a small city. The driving force behind the growth was the combined effort of two hard-working farmers with a vision to make Salinas one of the major cities in southern Indiana. William Consley raised and trained quality saddle, team, and workhorses for most of the farmers and businessmen in the northern half of the county. He always had 30 to 40 horses on his 300-acre farm but could sometimes have as many as 10 additional that were being trained. Andrew Davis had an expanding cattle business that reached out to support other businesses in the community. His 1000 acres could support over 500 head of cattle that he sent to the slaughterhouse in town, and then sent the hides to the tan yard to be made into leather. The ice harvesting he did in the winter allowed his beef to be shipped back east to market. All of his businesses provided employment for a large portion of the citizens of the community and encouraged an influx of more settlers to the town. There weren't any citizens who had a stake in the slavery issue even though most of them still had strong ties to relatives in the south. When war does break out, only a few young men volunteer to go in the Army, either North or South. The community makes every attempt to avoid the war until the war came to them. What happens that day will surprise and shock you and will explain what becomes of the town afterwards.
Author | : David Yoder |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Adult child abuse victims |
ISBN | : 1424328217 |
Author | : Lewis Hill |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595194001 |
When Lewis Hill first walked to school in 1930, it was to a one-room schoolhouse with no running water. "The nearest electricity," he writes "was about ten years away." He and his schoolmates had never seen a paved road, a fire truck, or a tractor. While Hitler was remaking the map of Europe, their tattered geography books were pre-World War I. By focusing on his neighbors, his family, and the small details of everyday life, Hill shows how the twentieth century came thirty years late to the backwoods of his boyhood. This was a simpler time of square dances and school pageants, when women spent much of their free time "rubbering" (listening in) on the new-fangled party lines and men drove their first cars as if they were horses, stopping often to let them rest. Democrat was a nasty word during those years of the New Deal. Children would happily divide into North and South or Cowboys and Indians for the sake of a good game of Prisoner's Base, but if anyone suggested Democrats versus Republicans, no one would volunteer to be a Democrat. Hill transports us back to a faraway time and place, a world poor in such things as electricity but rich in family life and honored traditions. It was a world that would disappear forever with the coming of World War II and the incursion of modern life. Hill's sly sense of humor and his keen ear for the cadences of Yankee speech make this book shine. You will savor every chapter of his funny, fascinating and wonderfully warm-hearted memoir.
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Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Jews |
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