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South moon under

Published in Hardcover by C. Scribner's sons (1933)

Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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A Lament for the Death of Old Florida.

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-12-15

SOUTH MOON UNDER is a page flipper and hard to set aside. Definitely 5 Star Quality.

True, it's a tale of the demeaned and marginalized Florida Cracker, who ekes a living from the Scrub, avoiding unnecessary contact with civilization; but Rawlings' anthropology is soaked with death. Her book is a lament for the death of Old Florida.

Civilization destroys the land and the critters and the people.

Life in the Scrub

Helpful Votes: 30 out of 33 total.
Review Date: 2000-04-15

South Moon Under is beautifully written with fascinating detail and plenty of suspense. Rawlings wrote this story of subsistence living in the Florida scrub country after living with a moonshiner family for several weeks. The picture of their struggle to eke a living in this marginal land makes for fascinating reading.

But the more important aspect of this novel is the revelation of what government laws and power mean in the every day lives of people living only a hair's breath away from starvation. We see how immoral and corrupt laws and those who enforce them destroyed the delicate balance of survival for the people of the scrub. I don't know if she intended it to be, but this is an anti government, libertarian novel and an important contribution to the historical record. Every liberty lover would gain much from reading this book.

Stepping Twice into the River

Published in Paperback by University Press of Colorado (2005-03-30)

Author: Robert King

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classic travel book: deep, accurate and heart felt

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Review Date: 2008-05-28

John King, as a retired English Professor, wrote here a classic gem of a travel book. It blends his deep reading and understanding of the geology and history of a seemingly drab and neglected region while slowly traveling the length of the Sheyenne River in North Dakota. He provides accurate observations and interesting encounters with natives not always at their best. With his heartfelt fondness for the region and sadness over the inexorable depopulation hitting this area as with the entire North American center he philosophizes on the greater things touching all mortals struggling to live fully awake on earth. He ends his reflections often on ironic tones of ambiguity which as a reader you will find yourself looking forward to and smiling inwardly. As a conscientious teacher of English and poet he exhibits outstanding literary craftsmanship, invoking spot-on local odd little speech inflections and word choices. Since I'm from the area I know I'll be returning often to this book to review his geological and historical understandings - outshining much larger and boring volumes. People not from this area can learn about a real trip down a small North Dakota river; but even more, all can learn how a classic travel book should be crafted. You will never believe the surprise ending!

Best Gift I Gave

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Review Date: 2008-05-08

I gave this book as a gift to my husband who is from the area. As he was reading it he constantly came and told me about places the author was talking about, and how we need to go and explore some areas.

Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art

Published in Hardcover by Kiva Publishing (2002-03-15)

Authors: Ekkehart Malotki and Donald E. Weaver

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OUTSTANDING!!!!

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Review Date: 2007-06-12

This is the book for you if you are obsessed with the Ancient Ones and Rock Writings left behind! Artwork to us, but actual messages to others back then, this book provides very insightful information about "the Ones who Went Away". The photography is intriguing and the book's layout is amazingly well done. It will have you running for your computer to book a flight to the southwest so you can see for yourself!

Filled from cover to cover with gorgeous color photography

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2002-07-14

Stone Chisel And Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art collaboratively developed by Ekkehart Malotki (Professor of Languages, Northern Arizona University) and archaeologist Donald E. Weaver, Jr. is a stunningly impressive coffee table book which is filled from cover to cover with gorgeous color photography of ancient Native American rock art, as well as a detailed, "reader friendly" text explaining the most recent discoveries, theories, and speculations about these fascinating rock art creations in the American Southwest, and what they represented to the Native American peoples and cultures who made them. Stone Chisel And Yucca Brush is strongly recommended for Native American Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.

Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

Published in Hardcover by University of Michigan Press (1998-10-01)

Authors: Lisa Melinda Keen and Suzanne Beth Goldberg

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Interesting, informative and important. A must read book.

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1999-04-03

I loved this book. A very readable journey through the court case which arose out of Colorado's anti-gay initiative, supported by a clear and descriptive primer on the larger gay rights movement. The pacing was crisp, the writing clear and the story told in a compelling fashion. I highly recommend this book.

Fascinating insights on a major constitutional case

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 1998-10-08

Suzanne Goldberg, the Lambda Legal Defense Fund attorney who worked on Romer v. Evans, and Lisa Keen, the Washington Blade journalist who won an award from the A.B.A. for her news coverage of the case, have collaborated on a truly fascinating "inside baseball" account of the litigation. Particulary useful: their detailed description of the expert testimony offered to the trial court on the issue of "suspect classification" for sexual orientation discrimination analysis. This is a must read for lawyers and legal scholars interested in Romer and gay rights generally.

Streetwise Denver Map - Laminated City Street Map of Denver, Colorado - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated light rail map & trolley stations, Boulder inset (Streetwise (Streetwise Maps))

Published in Map by Streetwise Maps (2008-04-22)

Author: Streetwise Maps

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Very useful, convenient, durable.

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-08-07

I kept the map in my backpack the whole time I was in Denver, and found it just what I needed. It included just about everything I wanted to know.

Great Maps

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-17

I lived in New York City for 35 years and always used/recommended Streetwise New York to visitors. (Their lamination means you DO NOT ruin the map -ever) Well my wife and I moved to Denver and The Streetwise Denver Map proved very useful becasue we were lost...Then on our first trip to Boulder,Co. (a genuinely hip community) mapless alas I got lost...but low and behold Streewise Denver had Boulder on it and voila --- lost no more. Seriously these are good maps. I used them whenever I travel and have wasted money on other brands but always come back to Streetwise. For one thing I've found them accurate in extremis which in a city like Rome or Venice Italy is extremely helpful let alone Naples where accuracy can save your life. (Such a dangerous dump Naples is.)

Now if they would just do a map of Vail and Aspen and Telluride I would never leave Colorado.

Stygo

Published in Paperback by MacAdam/Cage (1994-04-01)

Author: Laura Hendrie

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Engaging and fascinating

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 1999-08-07

This is a WONDERFUL book - amazing insight into the human condition. Everyone should read this!

A taste of dust

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2000-11-06

I picked up this book when I noticed a posistive testimonial by Annie Proulx. Laura Hendrie dishes up stark tales of a miniscule, single-industry (sugar beets) Colorado town where dust and snow blow alternately, and people have little to do outside of work besides observe each other and play off their neighbors' mistakes. The book's structure is nine separate but related tales, each building on characters from a previous story. The grittiness of the high plains is palpable in the relentless but subtle style Hendrie uses to convey hard living by people on the fringe of society beyond Stygo. One of these people, Essie Angel, decides she never wants to see any more than the limited view from Stygo after she gets a taste of the making of TV talk shows in the aftermath of her 19-year-old brother's conviction for murder. Stygo is populated with children who stay under furniture or porches and steal candy compulsively. Depressing? Yes, but usefully so -- I am glad to peek safely into the flip points of view of small town life this book gave me, without having to live there. Publishers MacMurray & Beck contributed to a very beautiful and thoughtful presentation with illustrations at the beginning of each story, repeated individually throughout the "chapter."

Tales Trails and Tommyknockers: Stories from Colorado's Past

Published in Audio Cassette by Audio Pr (1986-10)

Author: Myriam Friggens

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search for a friend

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2000-03-08

Myriam..for heaven's sakes where are you? i am Marilyn Hays Lewis from Boulder. Please contact me. assuming you read your reviews, i guess..

Great, great book on Colorado

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2005-06-09

I love this book. I read it the first time in 3rd grade for our Colorado history unit and I'm on my fourth copy, having worn all the others to bits (still have them, but need a presentable copy on the shelves). I've used them as a camp counselor and I'm buying copies for each of the families coming to Colorado for my wedding so they have something to read as they explore our great state.

Thanks Myriam!

Taos: Landmarks & Legends

Published in Paperback by University Press of Colorado (2002-02)

Author: William H. Hemp

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Lots of info......

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-14

Very cool book. One of my favorite NM books. And I have alot.

A Definitive book on Taos

Helpful Votes: 24 out of 24 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-28

For anyone who is an expatriate Taoseno (as I am) or for those who are just interested in this fascinating little town, Bill Hemp has written and beautifully illustrated a coffee-table-type book that one can read all the way through without getting bored and return to often to enjoy the sketches and re-read specific chapters.

In it, you will find the history of the three cultures (Indian, Spanish and Anglo) that put Taos, New Mexico on the map as a place like no other place in the world. The ancient Anasazi settled around Taos in 1000 A.D. and Taos Pueblo (dating from about 1350) is the oldest continually occupied pueblo in the Southwest. When the Spanish arrived in 1540, they set their seal on the ancient community, building churches and missions and farming the land. Then Mabel Dodge Luhan "discovered" this magical place (it is said that Taos Mountain draws people) and an influx of Anglo artists and writers began, among them D.H. Lawrence, Andrew Dasburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ernest Blumenschein, Micolai Fechin...the list is too long to mention all of them here. Later, R.C. Gorman, John Nichols, Natalie Goldberg and many others who have achieved fame in the outside world made their home in Taos (which means, "place of the red willow").

Chapters are devoted to Kit Carson, Padre Martinez, the Penitentes, the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge and even the influx of hippies with a chapter on the New Buffalo commune in Arroyo Hondo north of Taos. There are maps, portraits, landscapes, architecture, quotes, reminiscences, stories of ghosts, little-known facts and even recipes (one for green chile stew) in this rich, very readable and delightful work. I found no inaccuracies but did find a great deal of information that I hadn't known about before. Highly recommended.

pamhan99@aol.com

Then & Now: Thirty-six Years in the Rockies

Published in Paperback by Farcountry Press (2001-11-30)

Author: Robert Vaughn

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My Great-grandfather's book

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-20

This book was originally written by my Great-grandfather, Robert Vaughn, who came to this country from Wales. He wrote the book for his daughter, Arvonia Elizabeth Vaughn Sprague. The original book is extremely interesting, as it gives a very graphic view of what life was like in Montana during the latter part of the 1800s. I am intentionally spelling Vaughn this way because it was altered when he was getting a title for some land that he purchased. In Robert Vaughn's original book, the spelling of his name is the same throughout the book. I have not read Walter's reprint of Robert Vaughn's book, but the incorrect spelling of Vaughn's name and the fact that none of the descendents of Robert Vaughn were ever consulted about this book raises concerns about the accuracy of this book. My rating reflects the quality of the original book.

Robert Vaughn is my great-grandfather

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-16

This book was originally written by my great-grandfather Robert Vaughn who came to this country from Wales. He wrote the book for his daughter, Arvonia Elizabeth Vaughn Sprague. The original book is extremely interesting, as it gives a very graphic view of what life was like in Montana during the latter part of the 1800s. I am intentionally spelling Vaughn this way because it was altered when he was getting a title for some land that he purchased. In Robert Vaughn's original book, the spelling of his name is the same throughout the book. I have not read Walter's reprint of Robert Vaughn's book, but the incorrect spelling of Vaughn's name and the fact that none of the descendents of Robert Vaughn were ever consulted about this book raises concerns about the accuracy of this book. My rating reflects the quality of the original book.

A Thread of Gold: A Three Century Search for a Colorado Gold Bonanza

Published in Paperback by Western Reflections Publishing Co. (2005-11-01)

Author: R. Reed Johnson

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An interesting and informative history of western America's history which is highly recommended for students of American history

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Review Date: 2006-03-03

A Thread Of Gold: A Three Century Search For A Colorado Gold Bonanza is the fictional and historical interpretation of a three century, three state tale of three brothers searching for an ultimate gold reservoir. In the midst of their search, however, the three brothers find themselves in various significant landmarks of the old western era. Although fictional, A Thread Of Gold provides an interesting and informative history of western America's history which is highly recommended for students of American history. A Thread Of Gold is a very educational as well as highly entertaining read and quite appropriate for personal, school, and community library collections.

Great Read

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2006-01-25

This Historical fiction novel is an amazing read. Not only does the author incorporate real events, but also fictional events that draw the reader in. His writing style is great and it keeps you interested to the last page! Great book!