Red hills of November
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Great reading My Friends grandfather wrote this and that was why I orderd it. also we live in driving distent to this and its beautiful to see Glad to get this book thank you Grandma Joyce
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Where can I find some Rocklands. This is one family that I want to belong to. Whenever one of them is in trouble the others are always on hand to help. Great read.
1049441
Anyone knows the eastern ky.mountains (Rosemillion)
will find a true beautiful story that is both sad,happy a must read for sure
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This is one of four books in which naturalist Teale and his wife Nellie travel across the United States during one of the seasons and observe wildlife and ecosystems. While most fall volumes concentrate on leaf coloration and homely pursuits that include pumpkins, winter vegetables, and animals preparing for hibernation, the Teales' track starts in New England and then takes a meandering way westward through Michigan, the upper Plains states, dip down to the Great Salt Lake, go north to Oregon and end up in Northern California, both at the shore and inland, all done in the days before the interstate. They discover unique bird species, find the places where the butterflies stop over on their migrations, tour the redwood forests, view the autumn sky from a homemade sky-watching station, investigate the roamer of the plains (the tumbleweed), see migrating salmon, discover pikas and fern farmers, and even tell the story of a man's arduous multi-month search for his beloved dog lost in the wilderness. These books are a must for anyone who enjoys reading about wildlife and natural habitats, and there are great views of road travel before the superhighways. Like a virtual nature hike. Enjoy!
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Wonderful book.  I have friends and family making this trek this year.  This is a real good picture of the kinds of things they will be facing.  Well written, good read.
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An excellent series of stories about the dust bowl era in the Great Plains.  Timothy Egan tells us about the people and the places in a way that allows us to comprehend and appreciate the terrible hardship they endured.
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My folks were married in 1935 in Northeast Montana.  I'd heard a bit about their hard times.  Was amazed how hard people worked to keep their land dispite the "worst hard times" anyone could imagine.  I loved the historical aspects,details of the story & learning which government programs helped turn things around.
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I took this book with me on our Thanksgiving trip. Once I opened the cover it was very hard to put down. Loved going back to the 60s space program and Gemini and Apollo projects and the specter of the Cold War. I found myself thinking I was reading a Dale Brown, Tome Clancy, Cliver Cussler book. Simply and awesome read. Can't wait for the next book to come out
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This is the kind of book I like to read in October!  It's a compendium of true first-person accounts of ghosts in various Minnesota locations.  The stories are based on the author's interviews with the witnesses and many of the accounts are new material.  I particularly enjoyed the story about the Lutefisk ghost.  The chapters have a good balance of detail and narrative, and the pace keeps one's interest, which places this book a level above the usual ghost story anthologies.  I highly recommend.
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This was a very good read.  Once I started reading it I didn't want to put it down. I am looking forward to seeing the move in October.
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This book is a carefully-researched treasure trove of information about the vanished settlements of the Black Hills.  For the historian interested in the locations, layouts, and histories of these towns, it's invaluable.  It was written in 1974, when some of the "old settlers" and their immediate descendants were still around to tell stories and indicate locations.  Town sites are located in the old PLSS system rather than by modern GPS (lat. and long.) coordinates, so you'll need to know how to read a topographical map and interpret things like "SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of T7N, R2W, sec5."

Its age can also lead to disappointment for the relic hunter or ghost town seeker imagining something like the set of "Tombstone."  The last 40+ years of harsh climate and heavy tourism have taken their toll on the towns of the Hills, and many of the ruins noted as extant in the 1970s are no longer there, or have been sold and developed for yuppie McMansions.  My g'g'grandfather's house at Greenwood, which was still standing in 1974 and was a pile of boards and foundation stones in 1989 when I first saw it, is now gone completely and several large new homes now occupy the historic townsite.  In other places, the old wooden structures have decayed into piles of boards or just scraps, or have disappeared altogether.

Still very much worth a buy for the historian and for anyone wishing to take a meaningful hike through the old mining towns and sites of the Hills, the book could use a serious update.  The remnants of Hills settlements are eroding rapidly as time passes.  Maybe something for me to do if I ever retire!  Good hunting.
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I have read the whole series of the Red River Books and loved every one of them and was sad when the story ended.  Laurine Snelling is a wonderful author and  I love how she showed how through the love of God people  made it through the difficult 1800 years and into the 1900's  I also liked the traditions and food of the people from Norway.  My grandparents came from Sweden and their traditions were very similar.
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This is a great dvd if you are planning a trip, especially a photo trip, to this area.  It shows what you can do in seven days
and what you will see in mostly HD photos with some voice and some video.  It includes a beautiful highway to Cody from
E. Yellowstone gate,  and two nationally acclaimed scenic highways the Chief Joseph to the Beartooth
byway up through the Beartooth mountain range and back down.  Be sure to rent a vehicle meant for this trip.  It is
also informational and entertaining for those who cannot travel.  I think you could photograph more animals than this if you
got out to the right places in early am and late pm.  Not for those who like a lot of video and action.
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Even though I never actually visited the Adirondack State Park, after reading Larry Beahan's new book, "My Grampa's Woods: The Adirondacks," I feel that I enjoyed a wonderful trip to the woods of long ago.  Larry Describes life in a lumber camp in the Adirondack woods of 1900 in an honest an intimate way, so that you hear the noise of the loggers talking at breakfast, taste the hot cakes covered with maple syrup, and smell the horses as they sweat and strain at pulling the logs across the snow-ccovered forest floor. Life was hard then, and Larry doesn't cover over the hard part.  There was loneliness and poverty.  A dollar was always hard to find.  Sometimes someone had to sell their horse to get the fixens to visit relatives at Christmas.  And this was in the dayswhen some people depended on the horse not only for transportation, but needed the horse to help them earn money.  Mr. Beahan writes about all of these events.  There are no kings or queens in Larry's stories of the 1900's, just a lot of average folks struggling to make a living.  When I was a boy I saw a two-man crosscut saw, and I also saw a two-bitted axe.  Larry's descriptions of real men using real saws and real axes to felll real trees brought these humble tools to life. These wern't just decorative antiques. Real people, often young people, used these tools every day, scratching a living in the woods.  Last weekend I read Mr. Beahan's book straight through, non-stop, until I was done. Afterwards, I felt that my trip to the Adirondacks of 1900 had ended too soon.  I wanted to hear more about the loggers, their wives and girlfriends, and their life in the woods.  It was a fascinating world to me, and now it's gone.
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This was a very visual book about some really nice areas of the country. Enjoyed reading it and thinking of all the places I had been in years past.
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i had a copy of this wonderful old book and wished to share it with ' new' hiker friends in the area. lovely to think about the adventures of these early appreciators of The Catskill Mountains.
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Just finished this book and the author did a great job of describing the battles and the lives of those individuals in the book. For anyone wanting to read up on Indian history this is a good book about the Lakota and Red Cloud faction.