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Headlights on the Prairie

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Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624716
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Headlights on the Prairie written by Robert Rebein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebein’s father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupant’s life. In Headlights on the Prairie, Rebein has created a literary shadow box of sorts, a book in which moments of singular grace and grit encapsulate a life and a world. In the tradition of memoirs such as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Ivan Doig's This House of Sky, these essays bring a storyteller's gifts to life's dramas, large and small. Following his award-winning turn on his hometown of Dodge City, Rebein takes us back to the high plains world where his family has farmed and ranched since the 1920s. It is a world populated by feedlot cowboys, stock-car drivers, and farm kids dreaming of basketball glory. Here too we find the darker tales of damaged young men returning from war, long-haul truckers addicted to crystal meth, and the sadly heroic residents of a small-town nursing home grandiloquently named Manor of the Plains. Whether contemplating a fiery crash at a race track, coming to terms with an aging parent, or navigating the last days of a beloved family dog, Rebein offers a subtle, unsparing, often moving look at the moments that go into making a writer and a man. Seen in sharp detail, and recalled from a distance, his is a story of how a man can leave his home on the prairie—and yet never really get out of Dodge.

Rails Across the Prairies

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Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459702166
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Rails Across the Prairies written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today’s realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada’s rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their owners, and the unusual irrigation works of Canadian Pacific Railway. The towns were nearly all the creation of the railways from their layout to their often unusual names. Eventually, the rail lines declined, though many are experiencing a limited revival. Learn what the heritage lover can still see of the Prairies’ railway legacy, including existing rail operations and the stories the railways brought with them. Many landmarks lie vacant, including ghost towns and elevators, while many others survive as museums or interpretative sites.

Dragging Wyatt Earp

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Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804040524
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dragging Wyatt Earp written by Robert Rebein and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown’s Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard. Along the way, Rebein covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, George Armstrong Custer, and of course Wyatt Earp himself. Rebein rides a bronc in a rodeo, spends a day as a pen rider at a local feedlot, and attempts to “buck the tiger” at Dodge City’s new Boot Hill Casino and Resort. Funny and incisive, Dragging Wyatt Earp is an exciting new entry in what is sometimes called the nonfiction of place. It is a must- read for anyone interested in Western history, contemporary memoir, or the collision of Old and New West on the High Plains of Kansas.

Prairie Time

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Author : Matt White
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585445011
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Time written by Matt White and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses his discoveries in the search for remaining areas of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas, helping readers understand what a prairie is and how to appreciate its beauty and importance, and also increasing the awareness of past and present prairies, in an effort to support their overall survival.

Railroad Gazette

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virgin of the Rodeo

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Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261693
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Virgin of the Rodeo written by Sarah Bird and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonja Getz of Dorfburg, Texas, who upon reaching her 30th birthday decides to go in search of her long-lost father. She shares this odyssey with reluctant partner Prairie James, a professional rope-twirler doing the second-rate rodeo circuit.

Best Tales of Texas Ghosts

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Author : Docia Schultz Williams
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556225695
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Best Tales of Texas Ghosts written by Docia Schultz Williams and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowed storyteller Docia WIlliams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books, then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Centeral Texas,including the Dallas area.

Dot in the Weeds

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Author : Djuna Shellam
Publisher : Magnhild Press
ISBN 13 : 097105276X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Dot in the Weeds written by Djuna Shellam and published by Magnhild Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much beloved and fan favorite Dot Baverstock is back in this fourth installment of The Em Suite—but not in a way you'd ever expect. Dot and her son Waverly have a deep, dark secret they've been keeping for years. When Dot suffers a traumatic fall, they make the difficult and daring decision to expose themselves to their extended family. Waverly has orders to report for Air National Guard duty which would leave Dot, seriously injured, on her own or in the care of strangers. Em and Eve, with their son, Liam rush out to the Palm Springs desert to the rescue. Along for the ride is Em's ex and Liam's aunt, Prairie Fire Vaughn. But, there's something else... Dot and Waverly's secret—the "Big Mystery" and the true reason the family is needed—is revealed soon after their arrival. It appears far more will be needed from them than caretaking, while also putting them in peril. There's no question. They love Dot. They'll do anything for her—even if it means breaking the law. Regrettably, Dot's fall reignites an antagonistic foe, prompting memories of her late partner, Ivey, and the root of the "Big Mystery," taking her back to the early 1970s when they first met. In mourning for her best friend and long-time infatuation, Fiona, Prairie is on bereavement leave from her job as a major league baseball physical trainer. While Em and Eve deal with the "Big Mystery," Prairie takes on the role of primary caretaker to Dot for her physical care, and to orphaned Liam as familial continuity. Prairie and Dot haven't seen each other in twenty years, not since Dot first found her to rehabilitate Em after a life-altering car crash. Their friendship grows as they spend day after day confined to Dot's upstairs bedroom. Meanwhile, secluded on the other side of the property, lovers Em and Eve dutifully tend to Dot and Waverley's problem. They're also still adapting to being parents. Two weeks earlier, upon her untimely death, Fiona left her not-quite-three-year-old son to Em to raise as her own. Em, too, is mourning Fiona, her long-time soul mate. No one but Em truly understands why their bond was so deep. If she has her way, they never will. Love, tragedy, humor, heartbreak; adventure, mystery, and danger all deliciously intertwine in this fun, yet heart-tugging installment of The Em Suite. Though Dot in the Weeds is part of a series, it is also a story that firmly stands on its own.

Spokesman of the Carriage and Associate Trades

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Spokesman of the Carriage and Associate Trades written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Safe Refuge

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Author : Terry Grosz
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662981
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book No Safe Refuge written by Terry Grosz and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No Safe Refuge, Terry Grosz continues the chronicle of his remarkable career defending America's wild creatures from those hunters, poachers, and commercial market hunters who just didn't know when to stop. Since his first days as a game warden in 1966, Terry Grosz has been fighting against the business of extinction.

Rediscovering the Prairies

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Author : Norman Henderson
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1926971795
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the Prairies written by Norman Henderson and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world’s great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois. Henderson’s often humourous descriptions of his attempts to find and train a dog and a horse highlight the difficulties involved in recreating traditional travel methods. Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier travellers, such as La Vérendrye, Alexander Henry and Peter Fidler, and the experiences of fur traders and others who struggled across this strange and forbidding landscape. His captivating account will foster a better appreciation for, and a deeper understanding of, the natural and human history of the Canadian prairies.

Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists

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Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184592
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists written by Robert Rebein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Automotive Industries

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Automotive Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Prairies and Grasslands

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Author : Marianne D. Wallace
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555919924
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book America's Prairies and Grasslands written by Marianne D. Wallace and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the flora and fauna that survive in America's prairies and grasslands.

Dark of the Moon

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Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101147229
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Dark of the Moon written by John Sandford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. “Virgil Flowers, introduced in bestseller Sandford’s Prey series, gets a chance to shine...The thrice-divorced, affable member of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), who reports to Prey series hero Lucas Davenport, operates pretty much on his own..”* He’s been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he’s never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Three weeks before, a doctor and his wife were murdered. Three homicides in Bluestem in just as many weeks is unheard of. It’s also no coincidence. And it’s far from over...

The Regiment

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Author : John Dalmas
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0743488237
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Regiment written by John Dalmas and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Tyss' only valuable resource--its mystic warriors--becomes an even more precious commodity when an invading force with superior firepower and technology threatens the Confederation of Worlds.

Practical Railroading

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Author : Oscar Centennial Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Practical Railroading written by Oscar Centennial Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: