Fights. Snake stories. Dishonest horse traders. Frightening experiences in Indian Territory. Shootouts between lawmen and outlaws. Fording or ferrying every river and creek between the Kansas and Texas borders. Traveling in a covered wagon. A tent, a lean-to or a wagon to call home. Receiving your schooling in the out-of-doors. Share those adventures with pioneers who lived them. The Barrett family's wayfaring from Twin Territory days into statehood. Stories from before 1890 through 1920.

Superstar in a Masquerade tells the story about Leon Russell, an award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who was born with cerebral palsy, and learned to master the piano. He became an in-demand session man in Hollywood, contributing to thousands of songs by hundreds of artists, during his seven-decade career. He was called the "Rainbow Minister & Ringleader" for the Hippie Generation, and although most people can say they never heard of him, few can say they've never heard him. After reading this book, you can play "Three Degrees of Leon," just like the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," linking him to anyone, from B.B. King to ZZ Top. As an emigre from Oklahoma to California, he invited David Gates and J. J. Cale to join him in the music mecca known as Tinseltown, where the Tulsa Trio made untold contributions to America's popular music. Read about over five hundred artists, and their songs that Leon, David, and J. J. helped create, as well as... When seventeen-year-old Leon replaced Jerry Lee Lewis on stage in 1959. How Frank Sinatra caused Leon to let his hair grow. How J. J. Cale played a role in the formation of the band Bread. How Leon saved Joe Cocker's career and created Willie Nelson's famous image. When Elton John was Leon's opening act on tour. Why DC Comics sued Leon's record label for $2 million. When David Gates's band backed Chuck Berry on stage in 1961. When Leon brazenly threw the "F-bomb" at Phil Spector. When Leon called organized Christianity the single most harmful force in history. What Broadway song Leon borrowed from for "This Masquerade."

Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.

Meet a preacher who chases a chicken through town and cannot control his dog, his tomato patch or his jiggly stomach. His wife hoards meat, makes music and creates magic with a road map. His daughter dries her socks on a schoolroom radiator, blows her nose at the wrong time and giggles. His son forms an alley-pickers' club and drops water balloons on pedestrians from the roof of the blacksmith shop. Laugh along with a nostalgic look at the antics and adventures of a mid-American preacher's family.

Haven Thorne and Willa Bennette were childhood sweethearts who had it all—a partnership, a home, and a future planned out ahead of them—until Willa’s life was threatened by a silent killer and their relationship was torn apart. Heartbroken and alone, both women struggled to live without each other for the first time. Years later, they both believe they’ve finally moved on and settled into their new lives. But it doesn’t take long for fate, chance, and Mother Nature to step in and mix things back up. Can true love withstand both time and distance in order to bring Haven and Willa back together, or are they now as different as the sand and stars—too far apart to be together once more?

True stories of a large, growing family living in a primitive hewn-log cabin in the hills of Northern Idaho from 1930 to 1944. Told in both prose and poetic styling and sprinkled liberally with humor.

Michael Casher’s fifth novel ventures into the unseen realm of manipulative beings who help shape Earth’s history for an unnamed higher power.When Harlan Trotter, an unemployed factory worker, is charged with the murder of his former best friend – a crime he would never commit – he seriously doubts if life is always what you make of it. His suspicions are aroused when things quickly go from bad to worse without any effort on his part and his eyes are soon opened to the fact that a lot of his bad luck is someone else’s doing. But whose?In the ensuing battle between the guardians of fate and the human will, he discovers exactly who and what are the true masters of human destiny. With the help of Belle Summer, the beautiful but eccentric Deputy Coroner who believes in his innocence, Trotter’s life is transformed from that of “prey†into “predator†as he and Belle search together for answers and “hunt down†the elusive denizens of Earth’s invisible underworld.

Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to North America's Great Plains.