50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) offers an expansive exploration into the rugged terrains and adventurous spirit quintessential to the Western genre. This anthology captures a broad spectrum of styles, from the vivid storytelling of epic landscapes to the gritty, suspenseful encounters with the elements of the wild. An exhilarating array of narratives awaits within these pages, each capturing the optimism and challenges of frontier life. The anthology stands as a literary mosaic, weaving together tale...

The Bridge of the Gods is a pioneering historical romance of the Pacific Northwest, weaving Indigenous legend, frontier memory, and nineteenth-century romantic narrative into a dramatic account of the Columbia River country before European settlement. Centered on the legendary natural bridge across the Columbia and the rivalries, devotions, and prophecies surrounding it, the novel combines melodramatic plotting with earnest ethnographic curiosity. Its elevated diction, scenic grandeur, and...

"Public education is constantly evolving, and new challenges require school officials to be insightful, prepared, and innovative. It is because of these changing times that this book, which offers a different view of systems analysis and organizational behavior, is so valuable."—Frank Bush, Executive DirectorIndiana School Boards Association"Educational leaders need a basis for confident decision making. The authors have a solution for ch...

The captivating story of the religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth— and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO.2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies AssociationIn March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination...

A classic children's story about a wonderful dog and his adventures."They're holding White Ruff for ransom," Chet's father said. "They want a thousand dollars."Meanwhile the big collie awoke. Noise drummed against his ears, the roar of a motor and the rumble of rolling wheels. Suddenly there was a screeching sound! The box containing Ruff went flying through the air, crashed and rolled over and over. Ruff jumped clear of the blazing gasoline. He was free!But where was ...

When Gene Stallings came to Texas A & M in December of 1964, there were a lot of players that were just eating their way through school.Dude McLean Class of 1965**********When we went through spring workouts in 1965 there were a few turds that should not have been out there and we would hit them hard and try to run them off.John Nilson Class of 1966**********After the first game under Coach Stallings in 1965 against LSU ..We ran over 10...

In this, his fifth book, Bob returns to historical fiction with the story of a young Keechie Indian thrust into the world of the white man following his capture during a historic battle on the upper West Fork of the Trinity River. He falls in love with an Irish beauty who has emigrated from Ireland with her family, and who brings with her a great secret entrusted to her by the head of the McMalley clan. Their love story is one of the many stories of life on the Trinity in the 19th century....

Jim Bob Justice is a fourth generation Texan who has spent most of his life along the Brazos River in Texas.Using an old map that was given to his grandfather, Judge Judd Justice, by his client, a Comanche Indian woman, and a tapestry map from the Vatican on loan for an exhibition which Jim Bob visits in Lubbock, Texas, he makes an archeological discovery inside a great rock mound on the Brazos upriver from his home place which shocks the world.This story which spans several centuries is h...

In the year 1919 Bob Ray Gilbert and Emil Marcy, farmers, neighbors, and friends, who live along the Red River in an area west of Burkburnett, Texas, are faced with a decision which will change their lives and the lives of several of their friends who join with them in their quest to protect their farms and mineral resources from the madness all around them as the oil boom surrounds their farms, and a city of 10,000 springs up almost overnight at the south end of a mile long toll bridge ov...

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the pulpit undraped, and upon it the hour-glass stood beside the open Bible. Anything more stiff and barren than the interior of the meeting-house it would be difficult to find.An unwonted stir breaks the silence and solemnity of the waiting congregation, as an official party enters. It is the Governor of the colony and his staff, who are making a tour of the province, and have stopped over Sunday in the little frontier settlement,—for although the Governor is an august man, even h...

Follow the antics of two young people as they go on an adventure with their friends to find the perfect pet.