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I am a curent cadet of New Mexico Military Institute, and i feel that this book really shows how much the corps can impact a persons life. Throughout the years the corps has produced many great leaders, and his book really tells about them. I recomend this book to anyone interested in attending a military school or academy

Excellent anthropology reference book ont he subject of the Mimbres people. Recommended reading for those interested in this ancient culture.

What more needs to be said as a recommendation for a Mimbres book than that Brody is part of the project. Excelelent as usual. Waiting for the next great Brody Mimbres book.

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Miracles of Sainted Earth (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, 1)
by Victoria Edwards Tester

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= A REAL VOICE, UNDERSTANDABLE, ELOQUENT, LIKE MARY OLIVER
Reviewer: Glenn G. Boyer from Tucson,, AZ USA
This is a poet of universal understanding, as all should be, but so few are. When you first dip into this poetry you follow a most unusual spirit inside and outside and around what she knows, and she knows what Winston Churchill knew - we are first and foremost spirit - that we never die because we are a part of everything. Even Victoria Tester's Index turned out to be poetry, whether she knew it or not, because when she writes that's what she writes.

It is often impossible to follow great lyric language, or wade through the imagery that became substance instead of form in modern poetry. Imagery here takes us back to Whitman, the first American poet of the land, and what it nurtures - life, strong life, boisterous life, celebrating itself as the gift of God that it is. You have no trouble understanding what is written here, and to know that the writer experienced it. Though there is inevitable acknowledgment of pain, and despair, which are part of life, most of all there is the underlying, wonderful life, of which despair is usually not a dominant part. We are reminded here that suffering is made endurable by the hope that life will go on and become better, and we will again live to celebrate life at its best. There is a voice here that says, "when all else fails you in extremis, reach out and you will touch God because He is always there, though we often forget that when things are going well."

Here is a poet that brings to life what England's poet laureate, Alfred Tennyson meant when he wrote: "Tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream." There are dreams here, "magic realism," strong spiritual acknowledgement, but the dreams in which they are encountered are never empty.

Tester's life is joy, affirmation, an invitation to rush into the world and holler, "Ain't life wonderful, and full of wonders?"

How she does this with such incredible eloquence without obscuring a clear understanding would puzzle me except that I have seen often enough how God gives a gift to a very very few, to share with the rest of us. You will read these poems over and over and become stronger for it, be comforted, because faith flies out from every page.

Definitely Pulitzer quality, but most of us know how hard it is to be noticed by the august Committee that conferred on LAUGHING BOY the big one and ignored LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL.

I thought I had lost my original copy of this book and was rather upset, so very glad to find a paperback copy. After receiving it, I found the original hardback and so I sent this one on so that my sister-in-law might enjoy this as much as I have. Just holding the book can give me good feeling about both the author and her subject!

I was searching for my copy of this book and it appears to have disappear! I used to just have a wonderful feeling just touching the book and have recommended it to a number of people who apreciate art and that of Miss Okeeffe, especially. I find such stories of how the author, Ms. Patten would encourage Miss O'Keeffe to assist her as she made them bread and the pleasure the artist got from doing that simple task. I also found it very interesting the method O'Keeffe developed for her daily walks --- carrying stones in her pockets that helped her know how far she had walked. And the precision with which she requested her simple clothing be laid out! I do think the book was one that show the love the author developed for Miss Okeeffe and that the author also saw how destructive some of the artists so called friends treated her in the last months of her life!

Quite useful as a refference for writing papers of post-graduate level. Compact book, but amount of information contained is enough to surprise you. Easy to read, especially if you have some background of knowledge related to this field.

If you grew up gobbling down books about inspiring, independent women with pioneer spirit, you will enjoy reading this loving and learned biography of the author's grandmother born in 1865. Ms. Litz' research fleshes out the economic and social circumstances only slightly apparent in the books of our youth. Lillian Weston Hazen was a successful syndicated columnist in New York City in the late 1900s when she married a promising, rich Dartmouth graduate. The Depression of 1893 bankrupted them and dried up job prospects in the East. The only position her husband could find was bookkeeper for a mining company in a rough frontier town called Gilt Edge near Lewistown, Montana. Despite tremendous physical hardships and economic setbacks, they made a life for themselves and a surviving son where many were ground down and dropped out. Despite heavy ranch labor, Lillian carved out time to write and published in Scribners and some farming journals. Her lasting legacy will turn out to be the trunk of diaries and clippings that Joyce Litz found in 1949 following her death.

This is a fine collection of 86 black-and-white photographs taken by photographer Joanne Berghold at small town rodeos around Montana in the 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike the commercialized rodeo to be seen in today's PRCA circuit, these local rodeos capture the spirit of the sport as it emerged in the early 20th century -- a family-oriented affair that brought the whole rural community together for a once-a-year celebration. Look at these pictures, and what you often see instead of covered bleachers and flashy corporate sponsor billboards is a wire arena fence with trucks and cars pulled up to it and open prairie or hills beyond. The parking lot is grass-covered, and horse trailers are parked under the trees.

The opening images set the tone of the book -- gravel roads with grass and weeds right to the edges, leading to a low horizon, where clouds drift in a big sky, a veil of rain falling into a distant mountain ridge. Then in the photographs that follow there's the contrasting activity of small town life, strung out along a treeless main street, and the gathering of people at the rodeo grounds.

A cowboy in black hat, wranglers and spurs checks out the draw for the events posted on the side of a trailer, a young girl practices roping a hay bale, hats are placed over hearts in the grandstands and in the crow's nest for the Pledge of Allegiance, horses in the dusty light move into a holding pen, a cowboy bows his head in prayer on the top rail of a chute over a saddled bronc, riders one after another take spills off bucking rough stock. The arena itself may be dusty dirt or waterlogged mud. A roper waits, eyes set in concentration, a piggin string clamped in his mouth under a full mustache; a young bulldogger skids boots first in the dirt, his arms locked around the horns of a calf. There are team ropers, barrel racers, young bull riders taping up, and bullfighters in clown makeup. In the end, buckles are awarded to the winners, cowboys head out with war bags over their shoulders, and horses move up loading chutes into a trailer.

The book is a tribute to a western tradition and way of life, still close to its roots in the workaday world of ranchers and cowboys. It includes an essay by Kim Zupan, a gifted writer and former rough-stock rider. All photos were taken in Montana in rural small towns like Boulder, Belt, Wilsall, and Roundup.

Absolutely love this book. I have been searching for this book for about a year. Though it is out of print, I now own a beautiful piece of history. Looking forward to reading more about it.