The Road to Eagle Creek

The Road to Eagle Creek
Author: Maggie Hinton
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490725601

After soldiering in the Union Army and consequently being interned in a Confederate prison camp, Wilson McEwen is finally on his way home to the territories when he is ambushed by an unknown assailant. He is found near death on the road to Eagle Creek and taken home to be nursed by his old friend, Uncle Hy, and his sister-in-law, Sass, who was just a young girl when he left for the war. He learns that an erroneous telegram from the army has informed his wife, Elizabeth, that he has died in battle. As a result, she has left Billythe son born after Wil left for warwith Sass; sold their prosperous cattle ranch; and left Eagle Creek with Wils best friend, Mason Savage. While recuperating from his wounds on Uncle Hys little farm, Wil and Billy at last become father and son. And Wil reluctantly becomes attracted to Sass. One crisis after another prevents Wil from going to find his wife and bringing her home. At last he learns the truth about those he left behind when he went to war. And he must decide what to do with his newfound knowledge.

Reckoning at Eagle Creek

Reckoning at Eagle Creek
Author: Jeff Biggers
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2010-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1458721841

Cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us to the dark amphitheatre ruins of his familys nearly 200 - year - old hillside homestead that has been strip - mined on the edge of the first federally recognized Wilderness Site in southern Illinois. In doing so' he not only comes to grips with his own denied backwoods heritage' but also chronicles a dark and missing chapter in the American experience; the historical nightmare of coal outside of Appalachia' serving as an expos of a secret legacy of shame and resiliency.

The Gospel of Trees

The Gospel of Trees
Author: Apricot Irving
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451690460

In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti. Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm. Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her father’s unswerving commitment to his mission, her mother’s misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and journals—her parents’ as well as her own—this memoir in many voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness through honesty. Told against the backdrop of Haiti’s long history of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. The Gospel of Trees is a “lush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and for Haiti.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Backpacking Washington

Backpacking Washington
Author: Craig Romano
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-06-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1594854130

Proceeds will support trail maintenance in Washington Features weekend backpacking trips, with info on how to extend most routes Guidebook covers the entire state of Washington Veteran guidebook author Craig Romano hits the trail again——this time to uncover amazing backpacking opportunities all over Washington’s wilderness. Backpacking Washington details 70 routes, from the lush Hoh River Glacier Meadows to the open ridges of the Columbia Highlands and beyond. With an emphasis on weekend trips, routes range from overnight to weeklong treks and often include options for extending trips or choosing camp spots. Features: detailed route descriptions and trail maps mileage logs with campgrounds, water, and other trail elements icons for choosing family- and dog-friendly trips recommended nearby day hikes info on the state’s three long-distance trails: Pacific Crest Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, and Wonderland Trail

Hiking Southern Oregon

Hiking Southern Oregon
Author: Art Bernstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493013378

With over 90 hikes in the Southern Cascades and Siskiyou Mountain Range, this book is easily the most comprehensive guide available for Southern Oregon's diverse hiking opportunities. Explore the Mount Thielsen, Sky Lakes, Mountain Lakes, Red Buttes, and Wild Rogue Wilderness Areas, and much more. This guide also covers all trails in Crater Lake National Park. Complete with maps, elevation profiles, and clear, informative hike narratives, this book is bound to be the standard against which all other guides for the area are judged.

Gallatin County Kentucky Fishing & Floating Guide Book

Gallatin County Kentucky Fishing & Floating Guide Book
Author: Jim Maccracken
Publisher: Recreational Guides
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2017-11-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Gallatin County KentuckyFishing & Floating Guide Book Over 600 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Big South Fork Big Sugar Creek Craigs Creek Eagle Creek (F) Little South Fork Ohio River (F) and Paint Lick Creek (F) are floatable Copyright

Trials and Tribulations of Life on an Active Subduction Zone:

Trials and Tribulations of Life on an Active Subduction Zone:
Author: Shahin Dashtgard
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813700388

"Nine field guides explore diverse topics such as urban geology and geoheritage in Metro Vancouver, the processes and postglacial adjustments of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, and human interaction and adaptation to geological and climate changes in British Columbia"--