The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you.Pioneer. Adventurer. Hero.Before the railroad made travel to the isolated communities of the Sierra Nevada accessible, Snowshoe Thompson endured ...

The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you.Pioneer. Adventurer. Hero. Before the railroad made travel to the isolated communities of the Sierra Nevada accessible, Snowshoe Thompson endured the elements to trek across snowy mountains, facing...

By John L. SmithAge Range: 9-13 yearsGrade Level: 4 - 7Lexile Level: 1210LISBN: 978-1-953055-30-9Pages: 80Series: Fields of Silver and Gold (Book 6)Language: EnglishThe Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinat...

The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you.Rancher. Statesman. Groundbreaker.From slavery to respected community leader, Ben Palmer lived the dream of Black pioneers during Reconstruction. As a prosperous r...

The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you.Activist. Scholar. Trailblazer.Before she was old enough to vote, Anne Martin began fighting for women's rights and equality. Traveling across Nevada to every small town an...

Who Wants to Laugh?By: John L. Smith Sr.A variety of thoughts, joke, and anecdotes to keep readers laughing! Some romantic, some religious, and some just downright witty—readers won’t be able to turn the page fast enough to soak up the next quip!About the AuthorJohn L. Smith Sr. has been telling jokes since he was ten years old. It all started when he would tell his mother jokes to cheer her up and make her laugh. In school he was the class clown. As he got o...

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated," writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence with a contextual narrative. In ...

It is the people he encounters that shape the well written and intriguing stories told by a gentleman who becomes a President of major college. During his life which was filled with a music career, love, marriages, college professorships, children, challenges and triumphs, they share the keys to his success. His stories are packed with the details of a life lived at its fullest. Follow his journey which is shaped by the men he learns from to discover your own mentors who give positively to...

The glitter and excitement that tourists associate with casinos is only a facade. To the gaming industry's front-line employees, its dealers, the casino is a far less glamorous environment, a workplace full of emotional tension, physical and mental demands, humor and pathos. Author H. Lee Barnes, who spent many years as a dealer in some of Las Vegas's best-known casinos, shows us this world from the point of view of the table-games dealer. Told in the voices of dozens of dealers, male and ...

My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during a time of great change across the state and nation. Through his memoir, Bryan provides keen insight into the mechanics of politics, and the book serves as a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Silver State.Born in Washington, D.C. in 1937, Bryan grew up in Las...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

'Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.' Richard III is Shakespeare's most charismatic protagonist-villain, exercising his wrongdoing with devilish glee and dazzling loquaciousness. He is also one of the most notorious examples in English literature of a damaging equation of disability with moral failing. The introduction to this edition provides a fresh take on this play's attractions and repulsions. Susan L. Anderson details...