Hilason Treeless

Any advice for a driver with disabilities?

I recently purchased a treeless saddle Hilason disadvantage. Basically for me hold me can travel, but my arms and legs are really weak. If you have ANY advice for me, that would be awesome. I'm taking classes once a week I had my first two days, and the instructor was very helpful, but any other experience that is impressive. Well therapeutic riding when I was younger but SOO little of it focused on horseback riding and I was really frustrated with them because they were doing what I do in my wheelchair, just in the horse. And that is the only therapeutic place near where I live.

What we get to do in these centers depends on their disability and its severity. You say you have the arms and legs weak. Sidewalkers Need? This will limit what you can do. Is it possible to increase strength in your legs. Can you control the horse with your legs? If your arms are weak, What could you do to strengthen them? What specifically would you like to be able to do with the horse and how the limitations affect this? You need to consult with the therapist and see if he or she can make some adjustments to the agenda of his horse. Basically I would like to see one thing at a time and break it in steps so that one step is based in the other during the process. You will have to be patient with yourself and the instructor. You have to decide what to do given its limitations and then talk to the therapist about how to get from where you are to where you want to be. Break process into smaller steps and more. Be realistic when setting your goals, but not afraid to try. setbacks are not failures, usually nothing more than to hurry the process. If you like traveling, you carry on regardless. Happy Trails HorseFeatherZ

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The Triffids - Treeless Plain [12/9] * $31.87 Disc 0:No track list available

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Teepee Village Sticker Picture $8.41 Create an accurate and realistic scene of traditional Indian life with the help of 34 full-color sticker images depicting decorated teepees, hunters on horseback, tribe members gathering food, and much more. Apply reusable stickers again and again to background scene revealing a treeless plain dotted with coyotes and grazing buffalo.

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Musk Oxen $4.46 Herds of musk oxen roam the treeless tundra of the Far North. Following closely are wolves, predators looking for a meal. The wolves are no match for the powerful adult musk oxen with their helmet-like horns. When the herd is threatened, the adults form a circle around their young to protect them. Musk oxen, with their long, thick hair, are built to survive the harsh arctic winters. But the wolves still watch the herd ?for a calf that can?t keep up or an old musk ox too weak to survive.

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Dismal River $15.87 The Nebraska Sandhills of the 1880s are a vast, untamed expanse of treeless, rolling hills scoured by harsh wind and blistering sun. Into this rugged landscape former Indian scout Lone McGantry reluctantly agrees to lead an expedition of explorers and adventurers headed by an English lord. The hardships of the environment soon become secondary, however, when other threats-both from within and without-overtake the expedition. Deceit, betrayal, stampeding buffalo, a raging grass fire, and a band of ruthless marauders all must be dealt with. The very survival of the expedition is at stake. Lives will be lost and the banks of the Dismal River will be scorched and stained by blood before the ordeal is finished.

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Spink County (Paperback) $32.16 The area that now encompasses Spink County was virgin prairie grassland 140 years ago, inhabited by Native American Sioux who survived by hunting the millions of roaming buffalo. The land was surveyed a few years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in accordance with the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Homestead Act of 1862. Within 25 years, the land was completely covered with farms, ranches, and towns and connected to the rest of the United States by a grid of railroads. Thanks to the then new science of photography, the amazing transformation of vast, treeless, sparsely populated prairie into a completely settled agricultural community is recorded here in wonderful and fascinating detail. Spink County is the pictorial record of an amazing historical movement.

Manon Lescaut $12.45 "The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment." So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prevost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prevost and first published in the edition of 1753.

Bodie: 1859-1962 $18.47 Nestled amongst the sage-covered, windswept hills of Californiaas Eastern Sierra is the site of one of the most notorious mining towns of the Old West. In 1859, gold was discovered in the treeless hills northeast of Mono Lake. By 1879, Bodie was a metropolis of nearly 10,000 souls and was briefly the third-largest city in California. Excitement was short-lived, however, and word soon spread that the mines had reached peak production. An exodus began, but contrary to popular belief, Bodie was never totally abandoned. People continued living in this curious and beautiful place throughout the 1950s, and in 1962, the California State Parks system purchased the town site. Now stabilized against the elements, Bodie is today known as the largest unrestored ghost town in the West.

Sedalia $21.38 Sedalia, now a bustling hub of central Missouri, began as a mere interruption to a vast expanse of prairie grass. George R. Smith purchased 337 acres of treeless prairie in 1856, leading his neighbors to question his sanity. When he persuaded the Pacific Railroad to locate a depot on his land, his imageand that of his Sedvillebegan to change. Sedville, later Sedalia, soon became the county seat of Pettis County and earned a reputation as the Queen of the Prairies. Sedalia chronicles the transformation of a rugged prairie town to the home of the Missouri State Fair and host to the international Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. Sedalias history is illustrated through more than 200 vintage images, showing the people, places, and events that shaped the town.

Travellers Malta & Gozo $4.5 Malta and Gozo draw over a million visitors each year. Tiny though it is, Malta has an extraordinarily rich historical and cultural heritage. Set at the crossroads of numerous Mediterranean sea routes, it has been coveted and colonized by many different maritime powers. The most glorious phase in its history was the 268-year reign of the Order of St John, whose legacy can still be seen in the fine buildings that survive. The first impression, if you come in summer, is a dry, barren, treeless rock. The other striking factor is the scale of the development, which spreads out in all directions. Conscious of this, the island is now working hard to boost its image. The 1990s saw major renovations of hotels, particularly those in the four- and five-star categories. Gozo, meanwhile, carries on at its own gentle pace. If peace and solitude are priorities, this smaller, greener island provides the perfect escape.

Vail (Paperback) $32.12 Prior to 1962, sheep ranchers and homesteaders occupied Gore Creek Valley. A sleepy place studded with aspen and pine groves, the valley lay ripe for discovery. Two men, Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, had a dream to build the perfect ski area. Earl knew of a mountain, and they climbed No-Name Mountain in 1957. Although the mountain seemed unpretentious, when Pete reached the top and saw the treeless back bowls, he smiled at Earl. The men had found their mountain. That day, Vail was born. With the spirit of adventure, the dream shaped the mountain, the mountain shaped the village, and the village prospered. As American skiing grew, it became a sport and then a lifestyle, and Vail is now the largest ski resort in America. Winter is why people come and summer is why they stay. How this all happened in 50 years is a story of dreams, perseverance, creativity, and unforgettable people.

In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898 $3.95 In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the whalers, driving four hundred reindeer more than seven hundred untracked miles. At the heart of the rescue expedition lies another, in some ways more compelling, journey. "In a Far Country" is the personal odyssey of Tom and his wife Ellen Lopp-- their commitment to the natives and the rugged but happy life they built for themselves amid a treeless tundra at the top of the world. The Lopps pulled through on grit and wits, on humility and humor, on trust and love, and by the grace of God. Their accomplishment would surely have received broader acclaim had it not been eclipsed by two simultaneous events: the Spanish- American War and the Alaska gold rush. The United States and its territories were transformed abruptly and irrevocably by these fits of expansionist fever, and despite the thoughtful, determined guidance of the Lopps, the natives of the North were soon overwhelmed by a force mightier than the fiercest Arctic winter: the twentieth century.

Birding Colorado: Over 180 Premier Birding Sites at 93 Locations $16.31 From prairies to peaktops, Colorado attracts an intriguing mix of birds, from Mountain Plovers to Rosy-Finches and  Lazuli Buntings to Black Swifts. Birders from all over the country visit Colorado to see western and prairie specialties in scenic splendor. Birding Colorado lists likely birds at each site. A 15-page Appendix lists status and distribution of all the species recorded in the state. Take this book along as you visit treeless prairies in Pawnee National Grassland; cottonwood stream bottoms along the major rivers that rise in Colorado (North and South Platte, Republican, Arkansas, Rio Grande, San Juan, Colorado, and Yampa/Green); pinyon-clad mesas of southeastern and western Colorado; chasms, mesas, and mountains in four national parks (Black Canyon, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, and Rocky Mountain); marshes, ponds, and streams in four national wildlife refuges (Arapaho, Browns Park, Alamosa, and Monte Vista); incomparable mountain, mesa, and prairie highways and byways. Or simply use it for a day or two during a ski vacation, family outing, or urban visit.

Hunter's Log: Field Notes, 1988-2011 $13.09 "Hunter's Log" is Timothy Murphy's long-awaited book of hunting poetry. With his faithful Labrador, Feeney, Murphy wanders in deep snow along the windbreaks of the Sheyenne and Red River valleys, reciting poetry and firing at the pheasants Feeney flushes. His poetry is deceptively simple, rhymed verse in the manner of Robert Frost. Murphy's poetry is internationally acclaimed, yet he is not well known on the Great Plains--where his unique poetic vision was shaped. Trained by Robert Penn Warren and mentored by Richard Wilbur, Murphy has tuned his voice to the treeless windswept landscapes of the northern plains. His poetry explores the rural countryside of North Dakota. Heavily influenced by Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset's "Meditation on Hunting," Murphy sees hunting as a spiritual activity. There is nothing cloistered in his poetry. He tramps through the tall grass prairie of eastern Dakota and along the ridges and buttes that overlook the mighty Missouri, then cooks up what he kills in exquisite stews and ragouts. Timothy Murphy's genius is to write poetry that is accessible to all, simultaneously simple and profound, and deeply imbued with the spirit of place.

Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story $23.69 Devil's Gate--the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming--a remote place including Devil's Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail--to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devil's Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one thing: ownership of the land and the stories they choose to tell about it. The static serenity of the once heavily traveled region masks a history of conflict. Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. The Sun name was linked with the land for generations. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin's Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856. The treeless, arid country around Devil's Gate seems too immense for ownership. But stories run with the land. People who own the land can own the stories, at least for a time.

In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898 $3.95 In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the whalers, driving four hundred reindeer more than seven hundred untracked miles. At the heart of the rescue expedition lies another, in some ways more compelling, journey. "In a Far Country" is the personal odyssey of Tom and his wife Ellen Lopp-- their commitment to the natives and the rugged but happy life they built for themselves amid a treeless tundra at the top of the world. The Lopps pulled through on grit and wits, on humility and humor, on trust and love, and by the grace of God. Their accomplishment would surely have received broader acclaim had it not been eclipsed by two simultaneous events: the Spanish- American War and the Alaska gold rush. The United States and its territories were transformed abruptly and irrevocably by these fits of expansionist fever, and despite the thoughtful, determined guidance of the Lopps, the natives of the North were soon overwhelmed by a force mightier than the fiercest Arctic winter: the twentieth century.

Mother of Sorrows $3.95 With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel, "Mother of Sorrows "presents ten interwoven stories of an American family starting out in the post--World War II suburbs of Washington, D.C., a world of identical brick houses and sunstruck, treeless lawns, a world of initial hopefulness from which shame and loss have seemingly been banished. This is the story of two adolescent brothers whose father has suddenly died, and of their beautiful and complicated mother, a mother whom the younger son worshipfully imagines as "Our Mother of the Sighs and Heartaches . . . Our Mother of the Gorgeous Gypsy Earrings . . . Our Mother of the Late Movies and the Cigarettes . . . Our Mother of Sudden Attentiveness . . . Our Mother of Sudden Anger." This is the brother who narrates these tales as he looks back thirty years later, the only remaining survivor of a world he seeks both to leave behind and to preserve in words forever, a world of sorrow that has held him spellbound even as he has attempted to create a life of his own. Suffused with the beauty of Richard McCann's extraordinary language," Mother of Sorrows i"ntroduces us to a voice that is urgent, contemplative, elegant, angry, revelatory, and like no other in contemporary fiction.

Three Thousand Years in Africa: Man and His Environment in the Lake Chad Region of Nigeria $43.63 The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment: virtually treeless sand and a broiling clay plain in the fierce heat of the dry season, then much of it inundated and impassable in the wet season as whole areas turn into shallow lakes or marsh. Yet even this hostile landscape and climate have sustained human communities in continuous occupation for some three hundred years. Professor Connah traces the story of human adaptation to and exploitation of this unusual environment from prehistoric to modern times. He presents a natural history of Man in the region, based largely on archaeological data but drawing also on written evidence, ethnography and oral tradition to reconstruct human history and experience in this largely unknown area. This ecological approach therefore cuts across the conventional boundaries between academic disciplines and the book is intended for students of African history as well as of archaeology. It provides too the historical context in which modern development programmes for the region can be set and to some extent judged. The book is amply and well illustrated.

L Is for Last Frontier: An Alaska Alphabet $16.02 Unrivaled by any other state for sheer size, Alaska is a land of mystery and wonder to many Americans. Bordered by water on three sides, it remains a remote and last frontier...until now. "L is for Last Frontier: an alphabet book" written by Carol Crane, takes readers on an informative adventure through the "land of the midnight sun." Lecturer and book reviewer Carol Crane was recently described as "A walking, talking bibliography of children's books." Her twenty-five years in children's literature supply the essential experience to bring Alaska's vast wildlife and culture to children. Alaska's sheer size lends to its diversity, but Carol Crane employs a two-tiered approach and produces a seamless sampling of the state's culture and wildlife. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a rhyme for younger readers: "T is for Tundra, a treeless arctic plain. Short warm summers, in winter, a frozen terrain. "On the same page, older students can read the sidebar text to gain a richer understanding of the same topic. About the Author: Carol Crane advocates education through reading. She travels extensively and speaks at state reading conventions across the United States. Her thematic approach to learning has been widely accepted and successfully used by many reading teachers. Eight years ago, she founded "Bed, Breakfast and Books," a summer institute for teachers and media specialists across the country. "L is for Last Frontier" is Carol's 4th book with Sleeping Bear Press. She lives with her husband, Conrad, in Bradenton, Florida. About the Illustrator: Renowned wildlife artist Michael Monroe was the winner of the 1997 Michigan Duck Stamp award.

Wild Costa Rica: The Wildlife & Landscapes of Costa Rica $22.79 The small Central American country of Costa Rica--less than one-eighth the size of California--boasts the highest density of plant and animal species in the world. Its wild and rugged landscapes include dense rainforests where jaguars roam, a volcano that spews rivers of molten lava, and beaches as unspoiled as they were when Christopher Columbus first anchored his ships off the Caribbean coast in 1502. Costa Rica's rich biodiversity is the result of a hugely varied topography that creates a wide range of natural habitats, and of the presence of animals and plants native to both North and South America. In "Wild Costa Rica, " photographer Adrian Hepworth explores the natural riches of Costa Rica, providing engaging reports from the field and more than 200 stunning color photographs. We learn about Costa Rica's rainforest, cloudforest, and paramo (high, treeless plain); the abundance of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects these habitats support; and the country's network of protected areas--a system of parks, reserves, and refuges that makes up over twenty percent of Costa Rica's land. These areas--including such flagship wildlife-watching locations as Tortuguero and Corcovado--attract more than a million visitors every year. The money generated by responsible eco-tourism is central to the survival of Costa Rica's wild places. Hepworth's photographs show us breathtaking vistas introduce us to distinctive native wildlife, including the scarlet macaw, the resplendent quetzal, the three-toed sloth, and spider and howler monkeys. "Wild Costa Rica" gives us a fascinating picture of the most biologically diverse country in the world.

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? $26.27 Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? opens with the line: "The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks." From there, Brage Award-winning author and playwright Johan Harstad's debut--previously published to great success in eleven countries and now making its first English-language appearance--tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong's shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Following a series of personal and professional disasters, Mattias finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be there--that's when a truck approaches him, driven by a troubled, fantastic man with an offer that will shortly change Mattias's life. And so, surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters--aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself--launches Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion?, the epic story of Mattias's pop-saturated odyssey through the world of unconventional psychiatry, souvenir sheep-making, the Cardigans, and space: the space between himself and other people, a journey maybe as remote and personally dangerous as the trip to the moon itself.

A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887 $19.84 In a "Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887," Ty Cashion surveys the formative development of northwest Texas where the Clear Fork of the Brazos cuts a path between the timbered region and the treeless plains beyond. Despite the unfamiliar and often harsh environment, the first pioneers--mainly southern stock raisers--persisted through conflicts with Plains Indians, the Civil War, Reconstruction, outlawry, rapid settlement, and diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the history of the Clear Fork country as well. Notable among them were Anglo men and women--some of them earnest settlers, others unscrupulous opportunists--who followed the first pioneers; Indians of various tribes who claimed the land as their own or who were forcibly settled there by the white government; and African Americans, both former slaves and buffalo soldiers and their families, who remained on the land after their terms of enlistment expired. A dominant theme in Cashion's depiction of the Clear Fork country is that from its earliest days boom-and-bust cycles have characterized the region as a result of the land's fickle nature, the policies of various governments, and the business decisions of men as far away as the East Coast. An even more prominent theme is that a strain of violence touched almost every aspect of life. Soldiers and Indians, cowboys and buffalo hunters, vigilantes and outlaws provide a colorful backdrop for this history. Yet Cashion forsakes the romantic image of gunslingers and a casual acceptance of violence by portraying the more prosaic people and events in which a larger regional story unfolds. Based on primary sources, and sensitive to recent historiographical trends, this book reinterprets and amplifies an old and familiar story of frontier development.

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (Paperback) $35.19 In Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, readers follow a man who wishes not to be followed, a man who, after a series of personal and professional disasters, finds himself lying on a rain-soaked road in the desolate, treeless Faroe Islands, population only a few thousand, a wad of bills in his pocket and no memory of how he had come to be there. From there, Brage Award-winning author and playwright Johan Harstad`s debut novel--previously published to great success in eleven countries with its first English-language appearance in June 2011--tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon: the man who was willing to stand in Neil Armstrong`s shadow in order to work, diligently and humbly, for the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Through Harstad`s "delectably light but nonetheless impactful prose . . . [t]he novel`s finest moments wrap you up in communion with Mattias, as if you are spending a quiet afternoon with an old friend, chatting but mostly thinking" (Three Percent). Surrounded by a vivid and memorable cast of characters--aspiring pop musicians, Caribbean-obsessed psychologists, death-haunted photographers, girls who dream of anonymous men falling in love with them on bus trips, and even Buzz Aldrin himself--"Harstad combines formal play and linguistic ferocity with a searing emotional directness" (Dedi Felman, Words Without Borders) to bring Mattias to the realization that he cannot always blend into the background.

Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Wa $29.63 The "Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington" offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state and serves as a field guide for people seeking to find and identity these species."Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington" includes: -317 vascular plants, six mosses, and one lichen -Full-color photographs of the plants and their habitats, line drawings, and distribution maps -Detailed species descriptions, identification tips, and recommended times for making identifications -Current conservation status and state rank -Complete reference list, synonymies, and glossary Each rare plant is fully characterized through rich description of its appearance, reproductive strategy, associated plants, and habitat, identification of current threats to its survival in Washington, and scarcity in areas outside the state. A trip across Washington presents an array of habitats, from dripping spruce and hemlock forests along the coast to arid grasslands and shrub-steppe and sand dune systems east of the mountains, from low-elevation outwash prairies to treeless slopes of volcanoes and granite peaks, from basalt flows and rocky islands to salt marshes and tiny seeps and riparian edges. This book brings attention to the rarest and least understood plant species that find niches in this complex landscape. Pamela Camp is a private consultant in field biology and restoration ecology and former Spokane District Botanist with the Bureau of Land Management. John C. Gamon is a Natural Heritage Program Manager with the Department of Natural Resources. "This guide will be the primary source of information on rare plants for land managers, ecological consultants, and others who need the most recent data on Washington's rare plants. I heartily endorse and recommend it." -Art Kruckeberg "It is axiomatic that you cannot conserve that which you cannot find or identify, and that more biological losses owe to ignorance than to malice or indifference. This is why I take such heart and pleasure in the "Field Guide to Rare Plants of Washington." By refreshing the great botanical legacy of Hitchcock, Kruckeberg, Denton and their ilk with contemporary knowledge and nomenclature, enriched by thirty-three years of experience from the Washington Natural Heritage Program, the authors have created a clear and handsome volume of immense conservation importance for our time and for the challenging times to come. What we manage to save of our rich floristic heritage may be largely thanks to this book and its contributors." -Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, author of "The Butterflies of Cascadia, Wintergreen, " etc.

Coon Dogs and Outhouses Volume 1 Tall Tales from the Old South $20.06 Sometimes I stop and try to figure out where the stories come from and why I write the way I do. Im sure much of it is a result of the land I grew up on and the people who were trying to scratch a living from it. If he stays in contact with it long enough, the land will brand a man as surely as the red-hot iron brands a Western calf. Im sure the flat, almost treeless, bayou-studded Delta of my early years, which later was replaced by Mississippis rolling, red clay hills, both left their marks on me].My father was a good storyteller and I suppose I picked up some of his talents. There is much satisfaction in telling a good story] Luke Boyds first collection of 25 short stories reflects the folk humor and local color that are hallmarks of Southern writing. His story telling is part remembrance of a culture that is gradually fading, part recollection of lessons learned over a lifetime. His matter-of-fact style and clarity of detail are cut from the cloth of the oral tradition that flourished in the rural South of his upbringing. He deftly places the hilarious story of chain saw-toting Phinos Ledbetter and his botched baptism at the East Fork Southern Missionary Baptist Church alongside the powerful memory of an uncle known by the poor tenant farmhands he served only as The Jesus Doctor. These unforgettable characters are depicted so clearly and accurately as to leave the reader guessing which stories are fact and which are imagined. And whether the teachers in these tales are smudged with the dust of chalk or caked with the mud of the field, their lives and lessons are faithfully recorded here in straightforward prose that evokes a special time and place. For more stories from Luke Boyd, see Coon Dogs and Outhouses, Volume 2: Short Stories from the Mississippi Delta. ISBN # 978-1-59095-839-1 Dr. Lucas G. Luke Boyd was born in a three-room shotgun house on Jabe Dunaways place near Anguilla, Mississippi in the depths of the Depression. His father managed one of those sprawling cotton plantations the Delta was known for, and it is this plantation culture that left an indelible mark on young Luke. After a stint in the Army and then earning a Ph.D. in English History at the University of Tennessee, he began a career in education that spanned 48 years both at the secondary and college levels. He retired after serving for 19 years as Principal of Battle Ground Academy, a private college preparatory school in Franklin, Tennessee.

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History of Palestine - The Last Two Thousand Years $45.32 PREFACE THE compression of the last two thousand years of Pales tinean history within the limits of a single volume, presented numerous difficulties. Though in the introduction the remoter backgrounds have been lightly sketched, the writer avoided the pre-biblical and biblical periods. The archeological discoveries made in recent years and the prospective results of the ex cavations now in process, will have to be evaluated before a new and useful content of political, social and economic facts can be poured into the fixed outline established by the Bible and Josephus, Because no more than current comment may be applied to history while in the making, the temptation has been withstood to analyze and summarize the wealth of material accumulated since Palestine came under the British mandate. The literature on Palestine in all languages, is extremely numerous. In some respects the detailed information available is almost overwhelming in its minutiae. For some interesting periods, however, a small nugget of fact is the only reward for the patient sifting of tons of verbal ore Much that has been written about Palestine has been inspired by the reverent desire to establish the literal accuracy of biblical passages, whether they describe past conditions or presage the future. Many authors have speculated in the interest of some pet theory, and as many have yielded to the enticement of archeological dis putation. Hopeful of its future the author in 1900 sought for a useful, balanced history of Palestine. Kittos four hundred and twenty-six interesting pages contained less than, three pages devoted to all that happened in Palestine since 1291, Other periods were treated even more scantily. Munk, though a little kinder to the sixteenth century, was wholly fugitive in his vii viii PREFACE treatment of other periods. Episodic histories there were aplenty, but they began and ended abruptly Even painstaking archeologists cultivated this disjunctive and intermittent atti tude In all books treating of the country, the great blanks were between the third century and the Crusades, and from the fall of the Latin Kingdom to present times This treatment created a well-defined state of mind towards everything Pales tinean. A single illustration will serve In the nineteenth cen tury, a period of intense investigation, Palestine was largely treeless, its rocks exposed, and the land poorly cultivated To the pious this was evidence of the fulfillment of a curse. To the sceptic it was proof that the biblical writers exaggerated the land was infertile, and the country hopeless A third group accepted the Bible as accurate but speculated on climatic changes, and the drying up of water courses to explain the difference between the past and the present. The author had no preconceived theories To fill a blank in his own knowledge he devoted the leisure of thirty years to patient research and a careful study of the topography and his toric sites. The Palestine thus discovered dif

J. Sterling Morton $37.61 J. STERLING MORTON BY JAMES C. OLSON UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS LINCOLN, NEBRASKA COPYRIGHT 1942 by UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Alt rights reserved Printed in the United States of America by THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA J, STERLING MORTON PREFACE J. STERLING MORTON is honored throughout the world as the founder of Arbor Day. A statue of him stands in the Hall of Fame in the nations capitol. In Nebraska City, Nebraska, his home for almost half a century, there is another statue of the Nebraska Tree Planter. This latter one was erected in part by pennies, nickels, and dimes contributed for the purpose by school children from all over the world. On Arbor Day, April 22, 1932, the United States Government issued a postage stamp in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Arbor Day, which was also the centennial of the birth of its Author. Every school boy is familiar with Mortons work on behalf of the forestation of the treeless plains, and his efforts to popularize tree planting throughout the country. This aspect of Mortons life was known and appreciated by his contemporaries. They also knew him in another light, one that has been somewhat forgotten by a later generation. They knew him as a vigorous and colorful writer, a forceful and entertaining speaker, a Democrat who clung tena ciously to the traditions of the party, a conservative from a section of the country that seemed for a time to produce only radicals, a man who, though virtually always in the minority, was ever a force to be considered. His friends knew him as a man of genial personality who, despite his many stern convictions, was easy to get along with. They knew also of the simplicity and beauty of hishome life, and of the close devotion between him and his wife and sons. This study is the first attempt at a full length biography of J. Sterling Morton. It was written as a doctoral dissertation, and was made possible by the establishment of a fellowship in history at the University of Nebraska by Mr. Mark Morton, of Chicago, the only living son of . Sterling Morton. The author has had free access to vii the large collection of papers left by J. Sterling Morton, which have lain virtually untouched since his death, and hitherto have not been available for research. This study is based primarily upon Mortons papers described in the Bibliography. Working with them, the problem has been one of the selection rather than the collection of source material. I am deeply grateful for generous help received throughout the preparation of the biography. Mr. Mark Morton has placed every facility at my disposal, and has patiently answered innumerable queries about the life of his father. Mr. Sterling Morton has been ever ready to take time from his own busy schedule to discuss the work, and to provide me with information concerning his grand father. At no time, however, has he, or Mr. Mark Morton, attempted in the slightest to influence me in my judgments. Superintendent N. C. Abb