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Book Synopsis The Life of a Texas Farm Boy by : Jack Woods Coleman
Download or read book The Life of a Texas Farm Boy written by Jack Woods Coleman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of a Texas Farm Boy is the autobiography of our dad, Jack Woods Coleman. He was born in rural Texas near San Antonio during the Great Depression and turns 82 years young in January 2016. He has long desired to write about his life so that future generations of the Coleman family will know about this extraordinary man.
Download or read book Texas Farm Boy written by Joe Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Boys' and Girls' Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Between the Enemy and Texas by : Anne J. Bailey
Download or read book Between the Enemy and Texas written by Anne J. Bailey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana, trying to hold the western Confederacy together. The many units of Texans who joined this fight had a second objective—to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves “between the enemy and Texas.” Historian Anne J. Bailey studies one Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. Historian Norman D. Brown calls this “the definitive study of Parsons's Cavalry Brigade; the story will not need to be told again.” Exhaustively researched and written with literary grace, Between the Enemy and Texas is a “must” book for anyone interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Texas Farmers' Congress by : Texas Farmers' Congress
Download or read book Proceedings of the Texas Farmers' Congress written by Texas Farmers' Congress and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson by : William G. Hyland (Jr.)
Download or read book Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson written by William G. Hyland (Jr.) and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life and work of a preeminent presidential biographer
Download or read book Jess written by Jackson K. Putnam and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation.
Book Synopsis Evening Street Review Number 28 by : Barbara Bergmann
Download or read book Evening Street Review Number 28 written by Barbara Bergmann and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. Evening Street Review reads submissions of poetry (free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry) and prose (short stories and creative nonfiction) year round. Submit 3-6 poems or 1-2 prose pieces at a time. Payment is one contributor’s copy. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Response time is 3-6 months. Please address submissions to Editors, 2881 Wright St, Sacramento, CA 95821-4819. Email submissions are also acceptable; send to the following address as Microsoft Word or rich text files (.rtf): [email protected]. For submission guidelines, subscription information, published works, and author profiles, please visit our website: www.eveningstreetpress.com.
Download or read book Kill the Farm Boy written by Kevin Hearne and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an irreverent series in the tradition of Monty Python, the bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly written feast scenes. “Ranks among the best of Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett.”—Chuck Wendig “When you put two authors of this high caliber together, expect fireworks. Or at least laughs. What a hoot!”—Terry Brooks Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, a hero, the Chosen One, was born . . . and so begins every fairy tale ever told. This is not that fairy tale. There is a Chosen One, but he is unlike any One who has ever been Chosened. And there is a faraway kingdom, but you have never been to a magical world quite like the land of Pell. There, a plucky farm boy will find more than he’s bargained for on his quest to awaken the sleeping princess in her cursed tower. First there’s the Dark Lord, who wishes for the boy’s untimely death . . . and also very fine cheese. Then there’s a bard without a song in her heart but with a very adorable and fuzzy tail, an assassin who fears not the night but is terrified of chickens, and a mighty fighter more frightened of her sword than of her chain-mail bikini. This journey will lead to sinister umlauts, a trash-talking goat, the Dread Necromancer Steve, and a strange and wondrous journey to the most peculiar “happily ever after” that ever once-upon-a-timed. Praise for Kill the Farm Boy “A rollicking fantasy adventure that upends numerous genre tropes in audacious style . . . a laugh-out-loud-funny fusion of Monty Python–esque humor and whimsy à la Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.”—Kirkus Reviews “Dawson and Hearne’s reimagining of a traditional fairy tale is reminiscent of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride and William Steig’s Shrek! Irreverent, funny, and full of entertaining wordplay, this will keep readers guessing until the end.”—Library Journal “Will have you laughing out loud until strangers begin to look at you oddly.”—SyFy “A smart comedy . . . nuanced, complicated, and human.”—Tordotcom “[Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne] make fun of the typical ‘white male power fantasies,’ and in that, they succeed, with their heroes all characters of color and/or falling somewhere under the LGBTQ umbrella.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1957-03-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Book Synopsis Jenkins of Mexico by : Andrew Paxman
Download or read book Jenkins of Mexico written by Andrew Paxman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the city of Puebla there lived an American who made himself into the richest man in Mexico. Driven by a steely desire to prove himself-first to his wife's family, then to Mexican elites-William O. Jenkins rose from humble origins in Tennessee to build a business empire in a country energized by industrialization and revolutionary change. In Jenkins of Mexico, Andrew Paxman presents the first biography of this larger-than-life personality. When the decade-long Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, Jenkins preyed on patrician property owners and bought up substantial real estate. He suffered a scare with a firing squad and then a kidnapping by rebels, an episode that almost triggered a US invasion. After the war he owned textile mills, developed Mexico's most productive sugar plantation, and helped finance the rise of a major political family, the Ávila Camachos. During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s-50s, he lorded over the film industry with his movie theater monopoly and key role in production. By means of Mexico's first major hostile takeover, he bought the country's second-largest bank. Reputed as an exploiter of workers, a puppet-master of politicians, and Mexico's wealthiest industrialist, Jenkins was the gringo that Mexicans loved to loathe. After his wife's death, he embraced philanthropy and willed his entire fortune to a foundation named for her, which co-founded two prestigious universities and funded projects to improve the lives of the poor in his adopted country. Using interviews with Jenkins' descendants, family papers, and archives in Puebla, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Washington, Jenkins of Mexico tells a contradictory tale of entrepreneurship and monopoly, fearless individualism and cozy deals with power-brokers, embrace of US-style capitalism and political anti-Americanism, and Mexico's transformation from semi-feudal society to emerging economic power.
Download or read book Borderlands Boy written by Ken Carpenter and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical, moving and intensely personal coming-of-age memoir is also a coming out story of a gay boy from a conservative family growing up in the U.S. Southwest in an era of political, social and cultural transformation. It is also an extended reflection on the importance of place, time, history and geography in shaping who we are and who we become. In post-World War II America, the specter of nuclear destruction and environmental crises, challenges to racism and women’s inequality, the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution threaten to tear the country apart. Already struggling with what it means to be different and what kind of man to become, the author faces the ultimate moral test of courage and conscience when he graduates from college and is drafted to fight in Vietnam. How will he navigate these tumultuous years and what will he learn from his experiences? How can he survive, find love and a purpose in life? And what lessons are there in such a story for future generations in a world without borders?
Download or read book Farm Boys written by Will Fellows and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, these plain-spoken accounts will move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city. “When I was fifteen, the milkman who came to get our milk was beautiful. This is when I was really getting horny to do something with another guy. I waited every day for him to come. I couldn’t even talk to him, couldn’t think of anything to say. I just stood there, watching him, wondering if he knew why.”—Henry Bauer, Minnesota “When I go back home, I feel a real connection with the land—a tremendous feeling, spiritual in a way. It makes me want to go out into a field and take my shoes off and put my feet right on the dirt, establish a real physical connection with that place. I get homesick a lot, but I don’t know if I could ever go back there and live. It’s not the kind of place that would welcome me if I lived openly, the way that I would like to live. I would be shunned.”—Martin Scherz, Nebraska “If there is a checklist to see if your kid is queer, I must have hit every one of them—all sorts of big warning signs. I was always interested in a lot of the traditional queen things—clothes, cooking, academics, music, theater. A farm boy listening to show tunes? My parents must have seen it coming.”—Joe Shulka, Wisconsin “My favorite show when I was growing up was ‘The Waltons’. The show’s values comforted me, and I identified with John-Boy, the sensitive son who wanted to be a writer. He belonged there on the mountain with his family, yet he sensed that he was different and that he was often misunderstood. Sometimes I still feel like a misfit, even with gay people.”—Connie Sanders, Illinois “Agriculture is my life. I like working with farm people, although they don’t really understand me. When I retire I want the word to get out [that I’m gay] to the people I’ve worked with—the dairy producers, the veterinarians, the feed salesmen, the guys at the co-ops. They’re going to be shocked, but their eyes are going to be opened.”—James Heckman, Indiana
Book Synopsis Musings of a Minnesota Farm Boy by : David Johnson
Download or read book Musings of a Minnesota Farm Boy written by David Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David grew up in the 1950's on a Minnesota turkey farm. These memoirs...or musings, tell the story of his childhood in a "Leave it to Beaver" lifestyle. David recalls two near death experiences while growing up! Join with him in these memories of a life that is much rarer in today's world of cell phones, social media and hectic lifestyles. If you grew up in the 1950s, you will relate to these memories of those days. Enjoy the journey back in time.David now lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife Elizabeth. They have 5 children. His oldest, Jeremiah, died while serving in Iraq. They are also blessed with 6 grandchildren.
Book Synopsis Last Cavalier by : Nolan Porterfield
Download or read book Last Cavalier written by Nolan Porterfield and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Lomax was an American original, a man of intellect, tireless ambition, visionary zeal, and vast contradictions. Perhaps best known as a pioneer American folklorist, he was also a successful businessman, an influential educator, and the patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars whose work continues to influence American culture on both popular and academic levels.
Book Synopsis The One and the Golden Circle by : Don Beene
Download or read book The One and the Golden Circle written by Don Beene and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some call the author a mystic, a seer. He knows himself simply as, "The Seeker." Editors note: The One and The Golden Circle is intelligent, fascinating, ingenious and thoroughly entertaining. The sequencing of the human genome is complete and great strides forward in medicine are anticipated. But what other secrets await us in our DNA internal roadmap of life? Do we have ancestral and evolutionary memory locked in our genetic make up? Do we have the ability to consciously recall the events that led to modern man? This book examines that very possibility in an ingenious and compelling way. Learn what man may become thousands of evolutionary years from now! Wind your way through the fascinating world of the human genome. Savor the mystery, intrigue and romance. Live in the mind of primitive man. Trace further back into your personal past to common ancestor to all life on this planet, and beyond! Experience the shocking and controversial conclusion! You will want to read it a second time, and a third. You will want to share what you've learned with friends. Disclaimer: This book may change your life!
Book Synopsis The Films of Audie Murphy by : Bob Larkins
Download or read book The Films of Audie Murphy written by Bob Larkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work not only traces Audie Murphy’s life as a film actor (from Beyond Glory, 1948, to A Time for Dying, 1971) but also provides a biography that runs from his birth to his three years in the army, winning every possible combat medal including the Congressional Medal of Honor—and from his Hollywood debut at James Cagney’s invitation to his final dramatic decline, gambling his fortunes away, becoming involved in violent episodes, and dying in a plane crash in 1971. Each of the 49 film entries gives full credits, including casts, characters, crew, date of release, location, and cost, backgrounds for directors and main players, and comments and anecdotes from interviews with Murphy’s colleagues. Critical reviews are quoted and the work is richly illustrated with film stills and private photographs.
