True Riders
Title | True Riders PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Hapka |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1481439715 |
Brooke, who has always had to share everything with her siblings, must now also share use of her pony Foxy, which makes both Brooke and Foxy nervous about their upcoming horse show.
Hell Riders
Title | Hell Riders PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Brighton |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2013-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466859679 |
On the 150th anniversary of the world's most famous cavalry charge comes a revisionist retelling of the battle based on firsthand accounts from the soldiers who fought there In October 1854, with the Crimean War just under way and British and French troops pushing the tsar's forces back from the Black Sea, seven hundred intrepid English horsemen charged a mile and a half into the most heavily fortified Russian position in the Crimea in Ukraine. In the seven minutes it took the cavalry to cross this distance, more than five hundred of them were killed. Celebrated in poetry and legend, the charge of the Light Brigade has stood for a century and a half as a pure example of military dash and daring. Until now, historical accounts of this cavalry charge have relied upon politically motivated press reports and diaries kept by the aristocratic British generals who commanded the action. In Hell Riders, noted historian and Crimean War expert Terry Brighton looks, for the first time, to the journals recorded by survivors-the soldiers who did the fighting. His riveting firsthand narrative reveals the tragically inept leadership on the part of the British commander in chief, Lord Raglan, whose orders for the charge were poorly communicated and misinterpreted, and an unfathomable indifference on the part of British officers to the men who survived the battle and were left to tend their wounds and bury the dead in the freezing cold. While the charge overran the Russians, it gained nothing and the war continued for another two years. In finally capturing the truth behind the charge of the Light Brigade, Brighton offers a stirring portrait of incredible bravery in the service of a misguided endeavor.
Orphan Train Rider
Title | Orphan Train Rider PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Warren |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780395913628 |
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
It's the Cowboy Way!
Title | It's the Cowboy Way! PDF eBook |
Author | Don Cusic |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813149584 |
It's the Cowboy Way! tells the full story of the amazing true adventures of group members Ranger Doug, Woody Paul, Too Slim, and Joey "The CowPolka King" for the first time, from their first gigs at "Herr Harry's Phranks 'N' Steins," in Nashville, to their rise to the top of the Grammy heap. Since 1977, Riders In The Sky has faithfully tended a musical tradition kindled by singing cowboy legends, such as Gene Autry and the Sons Of The Pioneers. Throughout its long career, the group has branded the genre with its own mark, crafting a well-balanced mix of both classic and original western songs—smooth harmony, hot licks, and comedy. Over the past quarter of a century, and more than 4,500 shows, 290 national TV appearances, 203 public radio shows, nearly 700 Grand Ole Opry appearances, 2.3 million miles on the road, two Grammy Awards, three television series, and 31 albums down the trail, a group that began with a commitment to carry on an American musical tradition has itself become a national treasure.
The Bikeriders
Title | The Bikeriders PDF eBook |
Author | Danny Lyon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Motorcycle gangs |
ISBN | 9781597112642 |
First published in 1968, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon was a member of the Outlaws gang. Authentic, personal, and uncompromising, Lyon's depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society offers a gritty yet humanistic view that subverts the commercialized image of Americana. Akin to the documentary style of 1960s-era New Journalism, made famous by writers such as Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon's work, like theirs, demonstrates humanitarian interests, advocacy, and "saturation reporting." The importance of his work and our interest in the subject is reinforced by Lyon's immersion in his subject.
The Bikeriders
Title | The Bikeriders PDF eBook |
Author | Danny Lyon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Motorcycle gangs |
ISBN | 9780944092460 |
In 1968, a small and unassuming book of photographs featuring America's bikers was published. Little note was taken of its release, and it rather quietly disappeared. Today The Bikeriders is recognized as a seminal work of documentary photography by one of a new generation of photographers. This is a reissue of Lyon's long-out-of-print and much-sought-after first book, treasured both as a cult classic and a standard of photojournalism.
Riding Freedom
Title | Riding Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2013-10-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545360293 |
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats and outwitting bandits), finds love as a woman but later resumes her identity as a man after the loss of a baby and the tragic death of her husband, and ultimately settles out west on the farm she'd dreamed of having since childhood. It wasn't until after her death that anyone discovered she was a woman.