The Dry Divide

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803282168

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The Dry Divide by Ralph Moody Pdf

Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity?the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing was easy. The tension between opposing forces never lets up in this book. Without preaching, The Dry Divide warmly illustrates the old-time virtues of hard work ingenuity, and respect for others. The Ralph Moody who was a youngster in Little Britches and who grew up without a father and with early responsibilities in Man of the Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma & Company, and Shaking the Nickel Bush (all Bison Books) has become a man to reckon with in The Dry Divide.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1033588942

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The Dry Divide by Ralph Moody Pdf

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281781

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Little Britches by Ralph Moody Pdf

Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199754120

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Going to Extremes by Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

"In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism."--Inside jacket.

Author : Lisa J. Servon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470775288

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Bridging the Digital Divide by Lisa J. Servon Pdf

Bridging the Digital Divide investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. The author redefines this problem, examines its severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist. Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States. Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide. Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities. Makes recommendations for future public policy. Series editor: Manuel Castells.

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619029651

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Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle Pdf

One of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness within ourselves. “A unique book in the bigfoot literature . . . that understands what most lifetime bigfooters eventually come to know: that bigfooting is about the journey more than the destination.” —Cliff Barackman, field researcher and star of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Yale–trained ecologist Dr. Robert Pyle treks into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovers both a giant fossil footprint and recent tracks. On the trail of what he thought was legend, he searches out Indians who tell him of an outcast tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. A handful of open–minded biologists and anthropologists counter the tabloids Pyle studies, while rogue Forest Service employees and loggers swear of a vast conspiracy to deep–six true stories of unknown, upright hominoid apes among us. He attends Sasquatch Daze, where he meets scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted their lives to the search, only to realize that “these guys don't want to find Bigfoot―they want to be Bigfoot!” Where Bigfoot Walks was the inspiration for the 2020 film The Dark Divide, starring David Cross and Debra Messing. Since the book’s original publication, Pyle’s fresh experiences and findings have been added to his original work through an updated chapter. With an evaluation of recent DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the study of speech phonemes in the “Sierra Sounds” purported Bigfoot recordings, an examination of the impact of the wildly popular Animal Planet series Bigfoot Hunters, the reemergence of the famous Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community, and more, Walking With Bigfoot keeps every Bigfoot enthusiast’s mind wide open to one of the biggest questions in the land and brings Pyle’s work on the “legend” of Bigfoot into the new century.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803282109

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The Home Ranch by Ralph Moody Pdf

Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw horse. Following Little Britches and developing an episode noted near the end of Man of the Family, The Home Ranch continues the adventures of young Ralph Moody. Soon after returning from the ranch, he and his mother and siblings will go east for a new start, described in Mary Emma & Company and The Fields of Home. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803282117

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Mary Emma & Company by Ralph Moody Pdf

The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family?s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281943

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The Fields of Home by Ralph Moody Pdf

The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures.

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931521

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Dividing the Spoils by Robin Waterfield Pdf

The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world.

Author : Celeste Vaughan Curington,Jennifer Hickes Lundquist,Ken-Hou Lin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520293441

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The Dating Divide by Celeste Vaughan Curington,Jennifer Hickes Lundquist,Ken-Hou Lin Pdf

The data behind a distinct form of racism in online dating The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities, Curington, Lundquist, and Lin illustrate how the seemingly open space of the internet interacts with the loss of social inhibition in cyberspace contexts, fostering openly expressed forms of sexual racism that are rarely exposed in face-to-face encounters. The Dating Divide is a fascinating look at how a contemporary conflux of individualization, consumerism, and the proliferation of digital technologies has given rise to a unique form of gendered racism in the era of swiping right—or left. The internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field, but the digital world also acts as an extension of and platform for the insidious prejudices and divisive impulses that affect social politics in the "real" world. Shedding light on how every click, swipe, or message can be linked to the history of racism and courtship in the United States, this compelling study uses data to show the racial biases at play in digital dating spaces.

Author : Jill Homer
Publisher : Jill Homer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781257658589

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Be Brave, Be Strong by Jill Homer Pdf

Jill Homer has an outlandish ambition: Racing a mountain bike 2,740 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide. But her dream starts to unravel the minute she sets it in motion. An accident on the Iditarod Trail results in serious frostbite. She struggles with painful recovery and growing uncertainties. Then, just two days before their departure, her boyfriend ends their eight-year relationship, dismantling everything Jill thought she knew about life, love and her identity. This is the story of an adventure driven relentlessly forward as foundations crumble. During her record-breaking ride in the 2009 Tour Divide, Jill battles a torrent of anger, self-doubt, fatigue, loneliness, pain, grief, bicycle failures, crashes and violent storms. Each night, she collapses under the crushing effort of this savage new way of life. And every morning, she picks up the pieces and strikes out to find what lies on the other side of the Divide: Astonishing beauty, unconditional kindness, and boundless strength.

Author : Michael McCoy
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Continental Divide National Scenic Trail
ISBN : 0898866987

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Cycling the Great Divide by Michael McCoy Pdf

Turforslag fra Canadas grænse via Montana, Wyoming, Colorado og New Mexico til grænsen til Mexico

Author : Stephen Pern
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0140095934

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The Great Divide by Stephen Pern Pdf

Growing up on a dairy farm in Sussex, England, Stephen Pern was fascinated by the American West. As an adult, he spent six months walking 2,500 miles through the West, along the Continental Divide. Here is his irreverent, engaging account of the trek--a story of blisters and beauty, of off-beat characters and surprising insights.

Author : Paul Howard
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781553658184

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Eat, Sleep, Ride by Paul Howard Pdf

For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself—setting off at 4 am each day to avoid being caught by the pros—riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn’t just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide. Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles—500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent—the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times. The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike—and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.