Naïve, soft-spoken, genteel Southern belle, Melissa "Missy" Anders, left the soft beauty of Georgia for the wild majestic wonder and violence of early 19th century Montana. Eager to visit her school friend, the youngest daughter of the most powerful family in Melborne, Missy is unaccustomed to encountering danger at every turn. From stage robbers to gunslingers, Missy's education is quick and never-ending. When blindsided by a life-altering horror at the hands of an acquaintance that leaves her dreams of husband and children shattered, Missy ponders the validity of living. Will she give in to the despair clutching at her heart, or use the experience to provide the strength needed to make the most of a bad situation?
By land or by sea or any other way. . .The discovery of gold in 1849 caused men (and some women) to do whatever was necessary to seek their fortune. Follow along with Jim Tannenbaugh and Paul Mumford as they take two different paths from Philadelphia to California with one goal in mind: finding gold and living the rest of their lives in leisure! Their adventures will make you laugh and cry as they encounter unexpected beauty and the unspeakable evil that teaches them a valuable lesson: Greed is never good!
War is hell!At 12-years-old, Charles "Bucky" Buckworth thinks the coming war between the North and South will be fun and an adventure. Little does he know that before it's over, he will have made friends with the enemy and experienced first-hand the greed, death, devastation, and destruction that only war can bring.
It's Christmastime . . . The beloved season when dreams and wishes come true. When thoughts turn to cookies and pies, hot chocolate and candy, the love of family and friends explodes, and to the greatest Gift the world has ever known. Go back in time to experience Christmas in the 1800s with stories and poems of hope, laughter, heartache, and pain. Journey with a child whose wishes come true with an unexpected visit, a man whose faith in love is restored, and where God's creatures come to understand the true meaning of Christmas for everyone--that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. These stories and poems all point to the amazing, incredible, incomparable love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the reason for the season.
Each poem is a summary of the text or written on the central theme of the text of the New King James Bible. Ken says, "It's an easy way to get Bible knowledge in a jiffy.
A history of logging in the Arkansas and Oklahoma Ouachita Mountains from 1900 to 1950 not only examines man's interaction with a major forest resource but also looks at the effects of the forests' depletion on the people and towns that made their livelihood from the mills. Reprint.
Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.
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