FOR THE FISHERMAN, the floaters, the river lovers, and the eager greenhorns, all ages, all skills - the Kings River is calling you. It's calling you to learn, experience and enjoy, every meandering bend. A river that traverses 90 miles northward in Northwest Arkansas needs an extensive guide with detailed descriptions to teach and entertain while it provides history and geological facts about the terrain. and a few Riverman memories to take you back in time. Thorough guide maps help you plan your trip to the river while the Riverman tips are essential for understanding the regulations, reading the river levels, choosing the right floating vessels, selecting the right fishing gear, and packing the right bait. The smallmouth bass reigns supreme over the Kings River, it also shares the habitat with over 215 species of fish. This book is comprehensive in love and lore, however, time and space will dictate focusing on the most popular sought-after game fish that populate this beloved Ozark stream. With five decades of familiarity with this free-flowing waterway, Doug Allen will share the treasure map that is public access points, outfitters you can trust, and well-known, some might say, infamous legends of the Kings. Future generations of fishermen and paddlers depend on us to preserve both the beauty and tranquility as well as document the stories and history of this royal stream-Kings River.

Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is not the typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep with a proposition: she wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into the mind of a potentially troubled girl. Fiona says that in her basement, there's a portal that leads to a magical world where a creature called the Riverman is stealing the souls of children. And Fiona's soul could be next. If Fiona really believes what she's saying, Alistair fears she may be crazy. But if it's true, her life could be at risk. In this novel from Aaron Starmer, it's up to Alistair to separate fact from fiction, fantasy from reality.

Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramped the American frontier to bring peace and religion to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the upper Missouri River country. In this biography, Robert Carriker describes De Smet’s love for the great American West and the native tribes who lived there, the Potawatomis, Flatheads, Coeur d’Alenes, Kalispels, Blackfeet, Yankton Sioux, and others to whom the Jesuit father carried Christianity. Soon the man called Black Robe became known throughout the mountains and plains as a man of peace and a friend of all Indians.

“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.

FOR THE FISHERMAN, the floaters, the river lovers, and the eager greenhorns, all ages, all skills - the Kings River is calling you. It's calling you to learn, experience and enjoy, every meandering bend. A river that traverses 90 miles northward in Northwest Arkansas needs an extensive guide with detailed descriptions to teach and entertain while it provides history and geological facts about the terrain. and a few Riverman memories to take you back in time. Thorough guide maps help you plan your trip to the river while the Riverman tips are essential for understanding the regulations, reading the river levels, choosing the right floating vessels, selecting the right fishing gear, and packing the right bait. The smallmouth bass reigns supreme over the Kings River, it also shares the habitat with over 215 species of fish. This book is comprehensive in love and lore, however, time and space will dictate focusing on the most popular sought-after game fish that populate this beloved Ozark stream. With five decades of familiarity with this free-flowing waterway, Doug Allen will share the treasure map that is public access points, outfitters you can trust, and well-known, some might say, infamous legends of the Kings. Future generations of fishermen and paddlers depend on us to preserve both the beauty and tranquility as well as document the stories and history of this royal stream-Kings River.

Suppose you were in control of $154 million dollars of legal pharmaceuticals that had been stolen, and you purchased them for $3 million. You knew that you stood to make near the normal dollar rate if they were redistributed to a legal foreign market. Would $90 million make you happy? This is a story about such temptations that begin with a missing man. In a small southern town, or a relatively medium-sized Ohio River town, there is a retired cop and, presently, a private dick looking for a missing person. He works his magic to find the man. Along the way he discovers mysterious leads that twist and turn and have him in the middle of an international drug scheme for profit. Those in power make him a fall guy for a double murder. See how this nobody skirts the law and finds the truth. Luck or ingenuity, you choose. When you read and think it is over, it is not. This reading covers a lot of territory including small towns in Kentucky, DEA, FBI, local homicide, organized crime, people so called Ohio River rats, and a donkey farm. How do some people afford those big boats on the River? Can $90 million solve all these problems? A book by Ron Carroll, a retired everything, cop, detective, narcotics, teacher, boys High School basketball coach, private investigator, and a life long college student. Oh, also, once a deputy sheriff. Awards: Mayors Award first class, for Federal Narcotics Strike Force undercover operations commander, Kentucky Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame. Self award for extreme imagination. That means I day dream a lot, why not, go figure.