Charlie Hawk is getting big enough to learn to fly, but will he turn out to be chicken?

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz influenced western Kentuckians, including Bill Monroe and Ike Everly. Yet attention to how these and other African Americans enriched the music played by whites has obscured the achievements of black country-music performers and the enjoyment of black listeners. The contributors to Hidden in the Mix examine how country music became "white," how that fictive racialization has been maintained, and how African American artists and fans have used country music to elaborate their own identities. They investigate topics as diverse as the role of race in shaping old-time record catalogues, the transracial West of the hick-hopper Cowboy Troy, and the place of U.S. country music in postcolonial debates about race and resistance. Revealing how music mediates both the ideology and the lived experience of race, Hidden in the Mix challenges the status of country music as "the white man’s blues." Contributors. Michael Awkward, Erika Brady, Barbara Ching, Adam Gussow, Patrick Huber, Charles Hughes, Jeffrey A. Keith, Kip Lornell, Diane Pecknold, David Sanjek, Tony Thomas, Jerry Wever

A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger. "Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Out on the eastern plains of Colorado, where fields of wheat sway gently in the summer breeze and cattle graze on pastures of grass, there are colonies of prairie dogs that live in prairie dog towns.

All Victoria Chandler wants to do is marry a gentleman of quality and live in comfort in a cosmopolitan city. Her father, however, insists she move to the Territory of New Mexico where his mining properties are located. There, she is kidnapped by Mexican bandits, forced to marry the man who rescues her, and expected to live on his isolated ranch! Thomas Hawkins sees rescuing Victoria Chandler as his last chance to save his nearly bankrupt ranch. He never dreams he'll end up married to the pampered heiress who'll find his homesteader's cabin totally unacceptable. Will he send her back to her life of privilege or teach her to live and love in his world?

This book is intended to update the many individuals that may not know that much about Black history, especially about the begining of the slavery with the first ten black given to the Spaniards on their voyage around the coast of Africa in 1442, when the first contact was made with the Moors. Some Moors was captured by an officer with the Spainard first expidetion around the Atlantic coast of Africa, as that officer was directed to carry those Moors back to Africa; in exchange for them he received ten blacks and a quantity of gold dust. These ten blacks and their ancestors were the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas and may it be known that many lives of young African Natives were lost durning their ship voyages to the new world beginning in the early 1500s.