Deep Creek

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393285499

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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston Pdf

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

Author : Dana Hand
Publisher : HMH
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547488578

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Deep Creek by Dana Hand Pdf

One of the Washington Post’s Best Novels of the Year: A “fascinating” tale of murder in 1880s Idaho, based on real historical events (The Daily Beast). Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: over thirty Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a métis mountain guide with too many secrets. As they track the killers across the Pacific Northwest, through haunted canyons and city streets, each must put aside lies and old grievances to survive a quest that will change them forever. Deep Creek is a historical thriller inspired by actual events and people: the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in remote and beautiful Hells Canyon, the brave judge who went after their slayers, and the sham race-murder trial that followed. In this enhanced ebook edition, Deep Creek teams history with invention, setting authentic photographs and maps alongside the authors’ brilliant fiction to illuminate this long-forgotten American tragedy, in a tale of courage and redemption, loss and love. The Washington Post has named Deep Creek a Best Novel of 2010, and The Daily Beast/Newsweek ranked it among the dozen best Western novels since 1960.

Author : Beverly Lowry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781984898364

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Deer Creek Drive by Beverly Lowry Pdf

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. “Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John Grisham In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038596375

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Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (N.F.), Deer Creek Shaft and E Seam Methane Drainage Wells Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCBK:C081886575

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Dams
ISBN : UOM:39015048063526

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National Program of Inspection of Dams by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Florida
ISBN : PSU:000007934353

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Florida Geographic Names by Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names Pdf

Author : Timothy A. Doolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fishing
ISBN : 0929915070

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The Complete Fishing Guide to Deep Creek Lake by Timothy A. Doolan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036555829

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Idaho Panhandle National Forest (N.F.), Myrtle Creek HFRA, Healthy Forests Restoration Act Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393077537

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Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston Pdf

"Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator in the collection’s title story. “But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West.” Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part – and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women – together and apart.

Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : OSU:32435081084030

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Gazetteer - United States Board on Geographic Names by United States Board on Geographic Names Pdf

Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459256637

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Deep in the Valley by Robyn Carr Pdf

Look for Robyn’s new book, The Best of Us, a story about family, second chances and choosing to live your best life—order your copy today! Welcome to Grace Valley, California— where blood runs thicker…ties are stronger…and love is all the more sweet. Visitors to the town often remark about the valley's peace and beauty—both of which are plentiful. Unlocked doors, front porches, pies cooling in the windows—this is country life at its finest. But visitors don't always see what lies at the heart of a community. Or just beyond… June Hudson grew up in Grace Valley, the daughter of the town doctor. Leaving only to get her medical training, she returned home and followed in her father's footsteps. Some might say she chose the easy, comfortable route…but June knows better. For June, her emergency room is wherever she's needed—or wherever a patient finds her. She is always on call, her work is her life and these people are her extended family. Which is a good thing, since this is a town where you should have picked your husband in the ninth grade. Grace Valley is not exactly the place to meet eligible men—until an undercover DEA agent suddenly starts appearing at all sorts of strange hours. Everybody has secrets down in the valley. Now June has one of her own.

Author : Oregon. State Engineer,John Howard Lewis,John T. Whistler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Drainage
ISBN : UCAL:$B77643

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Warner Valley and White River Projects (irrigation and Drainage) by Oregon. State Engineer,John Howard Lewis,John T. Whistler Pdf

Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : IND:30000090579404

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Decisions on Geographic Names in the United States by United States Board on Geographic Names Pdf

Author : James Andrews
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499726

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The Best Overnight Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains by James Andrews Pdf

Located astride the Tennessee-North Carolina border, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park contains more than one hundred trails that trace eight hundred miles of rugged terrain. This fact is certain to bewilder any newcomer who might be eager to explore the Park's backcountry but is unsure where to start. This book, intended as a beginner's guide to hiking the Smokies, offers lively, informative descriptions of twenty-two trails that can be completed in a day or less. For anyone who has yet to discover the beauty of the Smokies, the highest North American mountains east of the Mississippi, the trails described here offer a splendid introduction. Scenic overlooks at Mount Le Conte, Clingmans Dome, Gregory Bald, and other peaks are included along these pathways, as are some of the well-known waterfalls of the Park, such as Laurel Falls, Rainbow Falls, and Ramsay Cascades. In addition to vital data about the length of the trail, its elevation gain, and "how to get there," each trail description is packed with interesting facts and Smoky Mountain lore. Detailed maps are also included. In their introduction, the authors provide a brief overview of the park's history as well as useful tips for novice hikers. The Authors: Kenneth Wise, an administrator at the University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville, has hiked in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for more than twenty years. He is the author of Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains: A Comprehensive Guide. James Andrews,a partner in the firm of Andrews, Hudson & Wall, P.C., has hiked the Park trails for more than a decade. He is the coauthor, with Wise, of The Best Overnight Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains.