Flying Off Rattlesnake Mountain

Author : Sylvia Dyer Turnage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 1880726386

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Flying Off Rattlesnake Mountain by Sylvia Dyer Turnage Pdf

This narrative non-fiction story follows the life of Micajah Clark Dyer and how he came to have a remarkable theory about flying, the roadblocks he encountered as he toiled to bring his vision to fulfillment, and the ridicule he endured from some of his neighbors because they could not understand him and his passion. It depicts life as it was lived by the North Georgia pioneers who settled the land which had become available in the early 1800s following government removal of the native Indians. It is based on information gleaned from every available source--old newspapers, census reports, family recollections, and historical records, some copies of which are included in the Appendix. Through the story, you get a rare look into ann isolated land and era where no cameras or newspapers existed, yet where a genius--just a poor, uneducated farmer--built and flew a controllable aircraft long before anyone else was able to accomplish that feat.

Author : Sylvia Dyer Turnage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Aeronautical engineers
ISBN : 1880726297

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Georgia's Pioneer Aviator Micajah Clark Dyer by Sylvia Dyer Turnage Pdf

Micajah Clark Dyer was a poor mountain farmer who invented, patented, built and flew a rustic aircraft off Rattlesnake Mountain in Union County, GA in the 1800s. Having limited formal education and building his craft with only basic tools, he managed to incorporate flight navigational controls on his machine that were years ahead of others trying to invent a flying machine, including the French and German inventors who only accomplished this about two decades later.After Dyer¿s death, it was said that his widow sold the craft and patent to someone from Atlanta. Without a camera or newspaper in the North Georgia mountains at the time to report the story, Dyer¿s feats were almost forgotten¿until 130 years later, in 2004, when his patent was discovered by a great-great-great-grandson as he was searching the Internet. The patent revealed the mind of a genius, and the story of his life is one you will long remember. A few month later, the family located several 1875 newspapers that reported the story of the invention.The story of this remarkable man includes many full-color photographs of the family, their homeplace, and commemorating events that have been held to honor him for his invention.

Author : Larry Webb
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543453621

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Toyah Medicine Woman of Bluff Creek by Larry Webb Pdf

This book concerns an actual group of Native Americans known as the Toyah culture who lived in Central Texas for six hundred years, culminating with their disappearance around seven hundred years before the present. This Toyah cultures prehistoric empire began in Taylor County, Texas, and proceeded southeasterly across the Edwards Plateau through South Texas and into Northern Mexico. Their eastern boundary extended to the Gulf of Mexico while their western boundary coincided with the Pecos River basin. The book is written in two parts, with the first part taking place some seven hundred years before present and chronicling the life of Chandana, a strong young Toyah medicine woman and shaman struggling with lifes mundane things and some things quite serious and imposing. Chandanas life is written in the form of a novel as it is based upon the authors discovered evidence as to how her life may have unfolded. The second part of the book illustrates some of the authors discoveries, evaluations, and research among what was left behind by these Toyah Native Americans who lived along Bluff Creek, Flag Creek, and Elmmott Creek. Finally, the author offers direct and circumstantial evidence illustrating why and how this great Toyah Empire was replaced by other Native Americans, starting around the year 1300.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89067546473

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Nevada Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Don Waters
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780874174700

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The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain by Don Waters Pdf

Master storyteller Don Waters returns to the desert in his third book set in the American Southwest. With the gothic sensibility of Flannery O’Connor and emotional delicacy of Raymond Carver, these nine contemporary stories deftly explore the lives of characters losing or clinging to a fleeting faith and struggling to find something meaningful to believe in beneath overpowering desert skies. Soldiers, seekers, priests, prisoners, and surfers pursue their fate amid bizarre, sometimes overwhelming circumstances. In “La Luz de Jesús,” a gutless Los Angeles screenwriter, a believer in nothing but the god of Hollywood, must reorient after he encounters a group of penitents in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The decorated soldier in “Española” faces more chaos back home than he did during his tour in Iraq. And “The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain” pairs a “trustee” prison inmate and a wild mustang horse, both wards of the state of Nevada, as they fumble toward a spiritual truth. These stories capture the spirit of a region and its people. Once again Waters assembles an unconventional cast of characters, capturing their foibles and imperfections, and always rendering them with compassion as these modern-day martyrs and spiritually haunted survivors strive for some kind of redemption. Ingenious, sometimes forbidding, often absurd, and altogether original, The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain is a stirring tribute to the lives, loves, and hopes of the faithful and the dispossessed.

Author : Glenn Scherer,Don Hopey
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Appalachian Trail
ISBN : 0811726665

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Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States by Glenn Scherer,Don Hopey Pdf

Explores the Appalachian Trail through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123444148

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Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf

A regional studies review.

Author : ROBERT C. VALLIERES,Jacquelyn M. Howard
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781612345833

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Wounded Warriors by ROBERT C. VALLIERES,Jacquelyn M. Howard Pdf

Robert C. Vallieres struggled to find his ônew normalö when he returned home after serving in the military. An accident in Kuwait left him suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) internal injuries, leaving him in constant pain. After clinics, bottles of painkillers, and behavior modification pills, hope seemed to vanish. Then a local weekly newspaper ad caught his eye: a bird-watching trip to see raptors in the mountains of New Hampshire. An Emily Dickinson poem that states, ôHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tuneùwithout the words, and never stops at all,ö sprang to his mind. Wounded Warriors is VallieresÆs story of self-healing from crippling ôinvisibleö wounds through the help of birds. The problems of TBI and post-traumatic stress disorder do not have definitive solutions. His story of recovery offers a winged hope to thousands of military personnel who suffer these physical and mental battles.

Author : Glenn Scherer,Don Hopey
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811711296

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Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States by Glenn Scherer,Don Hopey Pdf

41 day hikes and overnight trips in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York Complete with elevation profiles, topographic maps, descriptions of terrain, and notes on landmarks, side trails, and shelters Includes directions to trailheads and information on available parking Completely revised and updated to reflect recent trail changes Indexes sort the hikes by difficulty and length 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}

Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1585444197

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Sky As Frontier by David T. Courtwright Pdf

A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.

Author : Diane Yates
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490827261

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Going This Way by Diane Yates Pdf

There are many words that could be used to describe Charlie Yates. He was funny, talented, driven, generous, friendly, loving, dependable, trustworthy, courageous, and sometimes annoying and aggravating. When he came into this world, he was but a lump of clay in the Potter's hands. Through the years, God kneaded, rolled, turned, shaped, tested, and fired the vessel that became His faithful servant. The stories about Charlie are legend in his circles of influence. He was an aviator, a veteran, a husband, father, teacher, friend, and a child of God. The young sinner and the older, wiser, forgiven sinner lived, created, told, and retold stories. He verbally recounted his stories with great energy and animation, and he also shared them through movies, pictures, and books. The stories were of his adventures, mishaps, jokes, near-death experiences, joys, sorrows, struggles, and battles. After he died, people who knew him wanted to hear more. In this book are some of the stories that reveal the character and transformation of a gifted, yet ordinary, person whom God used for His purposes and His glory.

Author : George A. Warren
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547533139

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The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour; or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by George A. Warren Pdf

"The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour; or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain" by George A. Warren. 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.

Author : Visionary Living, Inc.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811745772

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Monsters of West Virginia by Visionary Living, Inc. Pdf

Find out about the bizarre creatures that live in West Virginia.

Author : Dean C. Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781794888814

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By the Seat of My Pants: A PilotÕs Progress from 1917 to 1930 by Dean C. Smith Pdf

By the Seat of My Pants is Dean Smith's story of his life as a flying cadet in WWI, an airmail pilot in the 1920's and, lastly, as the lead aviator in Admiral Byrd's 1928 Antarctic expedition. Told in a self-deprecating style with a matter of fact sense of humor, it is an engaging read from start to finish. Passages describe airmail runs heading West with no maps or runways available, and Smith's interesting take on the Byrd Expedition is a version of events not in the official records. Indeed, Smith claims his log-diary, which mysteriously went missing once the party returned stateside, was most likely stolen by Byrd himself lest it conflict with his narrative of the expedition.

Author : Leavell, Jo Ann Paris
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 1455606847

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Joy in the Journey by Leavell, Jo Ann Paris Pdf

This is a semi-autobiography where Guy Rice Doud recounts significant events in his life and how they spiritually changed him. He encourages the reader through simple parables/tales of town life which lead the reader to walk through life in a Christian manner.