Don’t fence Slocum in… After rescuing Jackson Wimmer from a gang of rustlers, John Slocum accepts the rancher’s offer of a job as foreman on the Bar-S Ranch. Between the drunken incompetence of the cowboys and his boss’s intemperate disposition, Slocum wonders if he made the right decision. Then when Wimmer is found murdered, Slocum learns the old coot thought highly enough of him to leave him the Bar-S in his will. But even as Slocum embraces his change in fortune, he knows he has also inherited Wimmer’s enemies…

Certain Comeoverers by Henry Crapo Howland, first published in 1912, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The book chronicles James Jeffers' life from about age two but it purposefully falls short of being either memoirs or autobiography. With this work he has attempted to simply record for his children, grandchildren, and others the wonderful events of his life as he experienced them. The book covers thousands of miles of travel along with living and working with peoples of differing cultures on three continents and in the Caribbean, five foreign countries, and fifteen different states spanning the nation from coast to coast to coast.

In 1895, at the age of 51, Captain Joshua Slocum left Boston on his sloop Spray. Three years later, after sailing single-handed 46,000 miles around the world, Slocum returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Through this, he was revered by sailors and adventurers around the world. The story of this journey is a classic tale of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. "Walden without the training wheels." -Nathaniel Philbrick