Temperance Creek

Author : Pamela Royes
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619028838

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Temperance Creek by Pamela Royes Pdf

In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four–year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love. Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home–coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.

Author : Grace Jordan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803251076

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Home Below Hell's Canyon by Grace Jordan Pdf

During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is valuable because it writes a little-known way of life into the national chronicle. We are put in touch with the kind of people who set the country on its feet and in the generations since have kept it there. . . . Primarily it is a book of courage and effort tempered by the warmth of those who trust in goodness and practice it."-Christian Science Monitor "The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life."-Seattle Post Intelligencer

Author : James White,Ellen Gould White
Publisher : Teach Services, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1572583061

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Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene by James White,Ellen Gould White Pdf

Elder James White and his wife, Mrs. E. G. White, enjoyed speaking and writing about how true science and the Scriptures are related to one another. Various experiences motivated them to consider questions about health and ultimately share their knowledge with others. Written in a time when the subject of health was almost wholly ignored, the articles they wrote led thousands of people to change life-long habits. They were also among the first to present the subject of hygiene in consistency with the Bible and Christian beliefs. The principles presented in this book have not only stood the test of time, but have been proven to be even more accurate over the past several years by scientific evidence. Mrs. E. G. White shared her thoughts on Christian temperance, while Elder James White wrote on the subject of Bible hygiene. This collection of their more important writings will both inspire and instruct you in temperance and hygiene from a Biblical point of view.

Author : Douglas Clyde Jones,D. Jones
Publisher : HarperPrism
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061007552

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The Search for Temperance Moon by Douglas Clyde Jones,D. Jones Pdf

"When former marshal Oscar Schiller investigates the violent slaying of Temperance Moon, the legendary female outlaw, he rides straight into a web of jealousy, blackmail, and deceit." --Amazon.com.

Author : Beth Piatote
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640094277

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The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote Pdf

Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed–genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven–year–old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.

Author : Derick Lugo
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1628421185

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The Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick Lugo Pdf

Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He didn't even know if he liked being outside all that much. He certainly couldn't imagine going more than a day without manicuring his goatee. But with a job overseas cut short and no immediate plans, this fixture of the greater New York comedy circuit began to think about what he might do with months of free time and no commitments. He had heard of the Appalachian Trail and knew of its potential for danger and adventure, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,192 miles of it. Then again, what could go wrong for a young black man from the city trekking solo through the East Coast backwoods? The Unlikely Thru-Hiker is the story of how an unknowing ambassador of one of the AT's least common demographics, unfamiliar with both the outdoors and thru-hiking culture, sets off with an extremely overweight pack and a willfully can-do attitude to conquer the infamous trail. What follows are eye-opening lessons on preparation, humility, race relations, and nature's wild unpredictability. But this isn't a hard-nosed memoir of discouragement or intolerance. What sets Lugo apart from the typical walk in the woods is his refusal to let any challenge squash his inner Pollyanna. Through it all, he perseveres with humor, tenacity, and an unshakeable commitment to grooming--earning him the trail name "Mr. Fabulous"--that sees him from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Katahdin in Maine.

Author : Teresa Jordan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619025882

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The Year of Living Virtuously by Teresa Jordan Pdf

Benjamin Franklin was in his early twenties when he embarked on a "bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection," intending to master the virtues of temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. He soon gave up on perfection but continued to believe that these virtues, coupled with a generous heart and a bemused acceptance of human frailty, laid the foundation for not only a good life but also a workable society. Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan wondered if Franklin's perhaps antiquated notions of virtue might offer guidance to a nation increasingly divided by angry righteousness. She decided to try to live his list for a year, focusing on each virtue for a week at a time and taking weekends off to attend to the seven deadly sins. The journal she kept became this collection of beautifully illustrated essays, weaving personal anecdotes with the views of theologians, philosophers, ethicists, evolutionary biologists, and a whole range of scholars and scientists within the emerging field of consciousness studies. Teresa Jordan offers a wry and intimate journey into a year in midlife devoted to the challenge of trying to live authentically.

Author : Blaine Pardoe,Victoria Hester
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857682

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The Original Battle Creek Crime King: Adam “Pump” Arnold’s Vile Reign by Blaine Pardoe,Victoria Hester Pdf

Adam "Pump" Arnold was both feared and regaled in Victorian- era Battle Creek. He was a bootlegger and a pimp, a robber and a con artist, an arsonist and a loan shark and even an assassin. Arnold faced off with the city over illegal liquor sales and flaunted his victory with a life-size statue of the mayor dressed as a hobo. Called the "greatest criminal in the history of Battle Creek," Arnold was convicted in a captivating public trial for the murder of his own son. Join authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester as they explore the life and misdeeds of the unabashed criminal mastermind who rocked Battle Creek to its core.

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473561786

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The Last Breath by Denise Mina Pdf

Read the third novel in the Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina. ‘One of the most original voices in crime fiction’ Daily Mail Paddy Meehan finally has it all: a flat of her own in Glasgow and a job as one of Scotland’s leading newspaper columnists. Then the police knock on her door. Her former lover Terry has been found in a ditch, shot through the head. Even though they had split up months before, Terry has left her everything, including a house in Ayrshire and boxes of notebooks. As Paddy digs deeper into his murder, it soon becomes clear that the secret he was about to expose is worth killing for. And that she is next in line.

Author : Mickey Johnson
Publisher : Wilderness Adventures Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fly fishing
ISBN : 9781885106612

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Flyfisher's Guide to Minnesota by Mickey Johnson Pdf

Minnesota has an almost limitless supply of fishable water, much of it only lightly flyfished. There are excellent trout streams in the southeast corner, strong salmon runs in the northeast, & more smallmouth, pike, & muskie fishing than seems possible. Other anglers have known for years what flyfishers are just discovering: Minnesota has some of the best fishing in the country -- & this book details it all. An all-in-one travel/fly fishing guidebook.

Author : United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : MINN:31951D016535896

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The Wild & Scenic Snake River Guide, 1997 by United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Housing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131864097

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1970 Census of Housing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004621152

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California Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (Or. and Idaho)
ISBN : UOM:39015017744882

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Final Environmental Impact Statement and Comprehensive Management Plan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034586636

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Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (N.F.), Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (N.R.A.) Comprehensive Management Plan, Baker County, Wallowa County by Anonim Pdf