Author: John Lincoln
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The myth of the cowboy is powerful in American folklore, but the real life of the cowboy was hard, lonely, and rewarding, if one was seeking the less tangible rewards of being close to nature. The modern cowboy or ranch hand uses different methods but works the land with the same love as the icons of the Old West did.
Rich Grass and Sweet Water
Author: John Lincoln
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The myth of the cowboy is powerful in American folklore, but the real life of the cowboy was hard, lonely, and rewarding, if one was seeking the less tangible rewards of being close to nature. The modern cowboy or ranch hand uses different methods but works the land with the same love as the icons of the Old West did.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The myth of the cowboy is powerful in American folklore, but the real life of the cowboy was hard, lonely, and rewarding, if one was seeking the less tangible rewards of being close to nature. The modern cowboy or ranch hand uses different methods but works the land with the same love as the icons of the Old West did.
Sons of Wichita
Author: Daniel Schulman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455518743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse." Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political "contract killers," as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates. Sons of Witchita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, business associates, and many others, Sons of Witchita is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family-warts and all.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455518743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse." Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political "contract killers," as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates. Sons of Witchita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, business associates, and many others, Sons of Witchita is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family-warts and all.
Sweetwater Creek
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061755044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061755044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.
My Friend the Indian
Author: James McLaughlin
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Table of contents: Moving into the Indian Country. On the Threshold of Civilization. Life with the Agency Indians. Brave Bear and the Only One. When Cupid Camps with the Sioux. How Crow King Stopped the Medicine men. The Great Buffalo Hunt at Standing Rock. The Battle of the Little Big Horn. Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull's View of the Custer Tragedy. When Sitting Bull's Medicine Failed. The Death of Sitting Bull. How the Indian Gets his Name. Indian Sympathies. Permanent Indian Villages. On the Making and Breaking of Treaties. Modern Treaty Making. Captain Jack and his Modocs. The Masterly Retreat of Joseph and his Nez Perces. The Unwhipped Utes. Give the Red Man his Portion.
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Table of contents: Moving into the Indian Country. On the Threshold of Civilization. Life with the Agency Indians. Brave Bear and the Only One. When Cupid Camps with the Sioux. How Crow King Stopped the Medicine men. The Great Buffalo Hunt at Standing Rock. The Battle of the Little Big Horn. Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull's View of the Custer Tragedy. When Sitting Bull's Medicine Failed. The Death of Sitting Bull. How the Indian Gets his Name. Indian Sympathies. Permanent Indian Villages. On the Making and Breaking of Treaties. Modern Treaty Making. Captain Jack and his Modocs. The Masterly Retreat of Joseph and his Nez Perces. The Unwhipped Utes. Give the Red Man his Portion.
Dorsett's Treatise on Agriculture in All Its Various Branches, from Thirty Years' Practical Experience
Author: Folsom Dorsett
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The World's Story
Author: Eva March Tappan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Corporate Poems
Author: Maheswar Behera
Publisher: Rudra Publications
ISBN: 8194184053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Mankind derive pleasure from nature while on work, it starts from a farmer in the field to a skilled worker in the factory. Similarly highly educated executives of the corporates can derive pleasure from nature and relax their stressful life. He has exposure to corporate functioning and has tried to relate the natural phenomenon around us with the need of corporate. Life is stressful in modern times while working in any location or for any organisations in responsible positions. This may be a state government, a PSU, or at a private company. This is more stressful for any entrepreneurs while running a small farming to managing a giant corporate. Man need to live with nature, can relate the natural phenomenon with job at site. Everyone is enjoying nature, but the feelings should continue with us in our own development. It should work as tool to improve at job site and in the office. It should be used for the development of the organization. The corporate executives can improve the traits like creativity, innovation, strategic thinking, and openness and to be extraversion. Each poem can help the reader for development of own existing strength, for relax from a stressful working life. Reader can relate the surrounding to lead a peaceful and healthy life.
Publisher: Rudra Publications
ISBN: 8194184053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Mankind derive pleasure from nature while on work, it starts from a farmer in the field to a skilled worker in the factory. Similarly highly educated executives of the corporates can derive pleasure from nature and relax their stressful life. He has exposure to corporate functioning and has tried to relate the natural phenomenon around us with the need of corporate. Life is stressful in modern times while working in any location or for any organisations in responsible positions. This may be a state government, a PSU, or at a private company. This is more stressful for any entrepreneurs while running a small farming to managing a giant corporate. Man need to live with nature, can relate the natural phenomenon with job at site. Everyone is enjoying nature, but the feelings should continue with us in our own development. It should work as tool to improve at job site and in the office. It should be used for the development of the organization. The corporate executives can improve the traits like creativity, innovation, strategic thinking, and openness and to be extraversion. Each poem can help the reader for development of own existing strength, for relax from a stressful working life. Reader can relate the surrounding to lead a peaceful and healthy life.
Agrostographia
Author: Lawson Seed and Nursery Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California
Author: John Charles Frémont
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California" by John Charles Frémont. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California" by John Charles Frémont. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.