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Lost Trails
Disordered Minds - Audio [AUDIOBOOK]
Deadly Stone Bags
All or Nothing
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The Good Body Man
Smoking Ruin
In A Dark House
The Fifth Wheel
A Kind of Puritan
The Fifth Wheel
Die Die, Mother Goose
Stalking Anubis
Die Die, Mother Goose
Class Disunion
Class Disunion
The Mentor and the Protege
Beyond the Mask
Truth or Dare
Red, White, and Dead
Who Killed Amy Tyler?
The Black Crystal Fog
The Hand of Death
Body Bag
Fine Italian Hand: A Shifty Lou Anderson Mystery

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Childhood Revisited
Billy and Blaze
Blaze Finds the Trail, Excitement at every page

Blaze Finds the Trail (Billy and Blaze Books)

Manufacturer: Aladdin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0689835205

Book Description

Billy and Blaze Are Lost

Billy and his pony Blaze love to explore the forest. So one day they set out on an old woodland road that is new to them. They have a wonderful ride, but their adventures soon lead them off the trail and deep into the woods. Before they know it, the sky grows dark with a coming storm, and Billy can't find the way out of the woods. Can Blaze find the trail and get them safely home again?

Blaze Finds the Trail is part of the classic Billy and Blaze series. Sensitive drawings and easy-to-read words capture the warmth and special understanding between a boy and his horse.

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Childhood Revisited.......2007-03-28

My favorite books from childhood. I dreamed about horses and learned to draw them from the very realistic illustrator of these books. Highly recommended for creative learners.

Billy and Blaze.......2004-04-01

First a comment about the review on above: That review from Publisher's Weekly has nothing to do with this book. I don't know what book it has to do with.

Billy and Blaze books are a wonderful series about a boy and his horse and the adventures they find while out riding. I think any child could appreciate these gentle stories. They are a nice break from the commercialized books usually marketed to boys that are based on cartoons and toys and movies.

Blaze Finds the Trail, Excitement at every page.......2000-06-16

This is a great book for young readers, especially those who love horses. This is a refreshing story about a boy named Billy and his pony named Blaze.The two have a very special bond and care very much for each other.One day they go for an outing and events happen which put them in danger. Readers are kept in suspense as Blaze and Billy struggle to get home. I would recommend this book to all young readers.

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New Stories of the Old West!

Lost Trails
Louis L'Amour , William W. Johnstone , Elmer Kelton , and Loren D. Estleman
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786018240

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New Stories of the Old West!.......2007-05-24

Western short story lovers will enjoy this new collection from Pinnacle Books. Pinnacle asked some of the best writers in the field - Elmer Kelton, Loren Estleman, Johnny Boggs, etc. - to write a new story about a famous or, in some cases, infamous character of the old West. The result is a pleasing mix of stories that bring Mark Twain, Cochise, Buffalo Bill Cody, Billy the Kid and others to life once again.

Two of the best stories in this collection, by pure accident, deal with Buffalo Bill Cody. The opening story - "Mark and Bill" - pits Cody against Twain in a contest to earn the exclusive bragging rights of being 'The American.' Throw in Teddy Roosevelt and you have a funny, riproaring tale of two giants butting heads. The second Buffalo Bill story is the diametric opposite of the first. "The Cody War" is an insightful, bittersweet, terribly human tale of the price Cody and his family payed for his fame. Another standout is "The Ones He Never Mentioned" wherein the black heart of John Wesley Hardin is well and truly revealed.

There are 14 stories in this collection and there's nary a clunker in the bunch. Recommended.

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Lost Cities, Lost Explorer!

Lost trails, lost cities,
Percy Harrison Fawcett
Manufacturer: Funk & Wagnalls
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007DNCV4

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Lost Cities, Lost Explorer!.......2006-01-01

In 1921 Col. P. H. Fawcett set down the narrative of his first 7 trips into the heart of the lost world of the Amazon Basin and it's mountain ramparts of Bolivia and Peru (beginning in 1906). He was searching for the fabled City of Gold which had lured many a conquistador. He never returned from his 8th trip. He simply walked into the jungle and was never heard from again. This book was edited by Brian Fawcett - after waiting a number of years to make sure he wasn't coming back. B&W photos, maps, and line drwings illustrate. Fascinating reading. An overlooked classic.

Lost Trails and Forgotten People: The Story of Jones Mountain

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Lost Trails and Forgotten People: The Story of Jones Mountain
Tom Floyd
Manufacturer: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Lost Trails of the Cimarron
Harry E. Chrisman
Manufacturer: Swallow Pr
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THE PATHLESS TRAIL - A McKay Knoulton and Ryan Adventure - Time Lost Series

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THE PATHLESS TRAIL - A McKay Knoulton and Ryan Adventure - Time Lost Series
Arthur O. Friel
Manufacturer: Centaur Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GKUJA0

The Lost Wagon Train (Retta Barre's Oregon Trail, Book 1)

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LIKE TRAVELING THE TRAIL WITH RETTA
Retta Barre's adventures............

The Lost Wagon Train (Retta Barre's Oregon Trail, Book 1)
Stephen Bly
Manufacturer: Crossway Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1581343914

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Retta Barre's not the first 12-year-old girl to travel the Oregon Trail, and she won't be the last. But for something that's supposed to be the grandest adventure of her life, the days sure are dull! Thick dust, vindictive bugs, and picking up buffalo chips--not exactly the stuff of the action-packed penny novels she loves to read.

When things change in Retta's life, though, they change fast! A simple trip into the prairie, mixed with Retta's enthusiasm and timing, brings adventure and trouble--all at the same time! Soon Retta is the talk of the wagon train, and her friends don't want to miss the next caper she's sure to stumble into. And Retta certainly won't let them down.

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LIKE TRAVELING THE TRAIL WITH RETTA.......2003-04-25

A delightful young heroine and realism on the westward journey. A clean, delightful read for myself, my children, and grandchildren!

Retta Barre's adventures...................2002-06-08

Retta Barre is truely an engaging character. She is 12 yrs. old the summer her family leaves Ohio to travel the Oregon Trail. The days are long and boring for Retta,but that doesn't last for long once she meets up with the indian Two Bears and his family.....the adventures begin. Retta finds herself in in fixes that she knows God is leading her through. This is a fun little series.

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Book 2. The Buffalo's Last Stand
Book 3. The Plain Prairie Princess

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An excellent read-full of history & tales of lost treasure.

Lost Treasures on the Old Spanish Trail
George A. Thompson
Manufacturer: Western Epics Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0914740318

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An excellent read-full of history & tales of lost treasure........1998-11-20

The book was thoroughly enjoyable as the author takes the reader through more than 3 centuries of history in the American Southwest from the first Spanish conquistadors to the American settlers. Tales of lost mines and treasures fill the pages. Of particular interest is the magnitude of early explorations of the southwest from the early 1500's to the 1800's. For anyone interested in the history of the southwest and of lost mines and treasure, this book is a must read. This reader's interest was certainly piqued and I will undoubtedly seek out more information about this gripping period of history.

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Lost Trails, Lost Cities
P.H. Fawcett
Manufacturer: Funk & Wagnalls,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQ8GAW

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Captured by History
Very highly recommended

The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 074326049X

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Captured by History.......2007-06-19

I absolutely loved this book. Everyone in my family loved this book. It is a rip-roaring adventure that explains an important piece of South American history in a way that captivates the attention at the same time that it makes that particular period in history understandable. How could a small group of illiterate Spanish explorers change the history of an empire of 10 million people? This book is a real-life example of the ideas proposed in the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Although I visited many of the important sites in Peru in which the story takes place a few years ago, I now want to return in order to see those places again from the vantage point of what I learned in "The Last Stand of the Incas." This book makes history come alive and the lessons contained therein have relevance in today's world.

Dr. Betsy Hesser

Very highly recommended.......2007-06-11

"Last Days" is that rare history: a ripping tale told with verve and engagement yet also a satisfyingly analysis of an episode in which the forces of culture and conquest collided with remarkable, some would say execrable, but in the end utterly unavoidable outcome. Kim MacQuarrie draws a reader into the vortex of Spain's overthrow, subversion, and debasement of the Inca Empire -- for good measure, bookending that chronicle with the story of how American adventurers Hiram Bingham and later Gene Savoy and Vincent Lee made stunning finds in Inca archaeology. As a stylist MacQuarrie is culpable for lapses into repetition and the occasional clunker sentence (and woe betide whoever let a misspelling of "illiterate" slip through). But this is mere reviewer's barking; when it comes to delivering the goods, MacQuarrie the caravan master never falters. With telling detail, such as asides on how words we use, like "jerky," came from runasimi, or "people speech" (now Quechua), the tongue that linked the Incas' diverse satrapies, and a crisp account of how a mere 100,000 Inca could rule a empire of 10 million extending across the Andes cordillera (an equation the Spanish conquerors reprised in the face of an even worse ratio, thanks to hot lead, cold steel, and armored cavalry), the author forces the reader, like a lid-locked Alex in "A Clockwork Orange," to behold that transformation's guileful, greed-possessed savagery, a Grand Guignol of slaughter as statecraft, as well as its inevitability. No event in the colonization of the New World so aptly sustains the bill of indictment against the Great Nations of Europe for their sins in that secondhand Eden - like avatars of a certain current-day empire and their dreams of transmitting democracy, the conquistadors liked to pretend that their mission was bringing Christianity to pagan indigenes -- and MacQuarrie, an anthropologist and filmmaker (full disclosure: he and I have a passing acquaintance, courtesy of a series on which we both worked), composes that brief with unblinking precision. He gives us process - the mechanism Spain devised to exploit its holdings (a process that gave rise, justifiably, to the "black legend" that ever since has draped the Spanish role in the Americas like a rancid cloak); the machine the Inca developed to maintain their own enterprise (in lieu of paying taxes, imperial subjects could work - as MacQuarrie slyly notes, the average prelapsarian Inca peasant paid tribute to his government at a rate less than that at which today's Americans pay to theirs), the essential technological gap between defenders and invaders (for all practical purposes, the Inca, were Bronze Age club-wielders going into the paint with Spaniards whose swords, lances, and armor were the 16th century equivalent of Abrams tanks). He gives us people - conquistadors Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, illegitimate sons of Spain's hardscrabble Extremadura region who sought to scrub out the stains of bastardy with gold, silver, and blood; Inca emperor Atahualpa, seemingly born to the purple but in reality scant generations removed from his own ancestors' bloody rise to power, and his inheritors Paullu and Manco Inca, who, at first gulled into thinking the Spanish their benefactors, quickly came to their senses and began what would be a four-decade guerrilla war that ended only when the last emperor, Tupac Amaru, was captured and executed. And MacQuarrie gives us parallelism, that elusive gift available to those who have eyes to see it. With Shakespearean balance, he shows how events brought Pizarro and Almagro to variations on the grief they visited on Atahualpa, foreshadowing the inglorious end accorded Spain's rubicund heyday. It's a fitting irony that, among the cast of parties to the Inca Empire's last days, the name of only one - Tupac (as in Shakur, the West Coast rapper named for rebel emperor Tupac Amaru and immortalized by drive by) enjoys any real currency, while Pizarro and Almagro and even Spain inhabit the dustbin of history. In a just world, "Last Days" would be translated into the Inca lingua franca, recorded for CD, cassette, and podcast and distributed through the Andes, that today's Quechua-speaking millions could hear the details of the history they have lived and converted into folktales. Wouldn't hurt to put it out in Spanish, either - and it goes without saying that the Forty Years' War Spain wound up fighting against rebel Incas stands as a cautionary note for the American adventure in Southwest Asia.

-- Michael Dolan, author "The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place"

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