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Most of this trail, like so many others first ‘discovered’ by Joe Walker (or, more accurately, pieced together from existing Indian trails), is now a state highway.
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
John Clymer) – Lance has achieved a radical degree of nomadic freedom
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
Shoshoni in-laws,
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
The question seemed to decide or confirm something for Joe Walker. He replied sharply that he was going back to live with the Indians because ‘white people are too damn mean’.* He left soon afterwards, riding west, and
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
As his collar indicated, 10 was indeed dead. He had been shot by a local man named Chad McKittrick, who, after being arrested and charged with a federal offense for shooting an endangered animal, claimed he had thought he was shooting a feral dog. It wasn’t the perfect crime; a friend of McKittrick’s had disposed of 10’s collar in a culvert filled
... See moreNate Blakeslee • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Big Soap was a relative newcomer and a Hill favorite, a huge Italian named Enzo Carissimi—six
James McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Or, sous le toit de la même baraque, un autre pilote écrivait. Son aspect était singulier. Il portait une gandourah luisante d'un long usage. Une barbe hirsute encadrait sa figure ronde au nez relevé, au front bombé, aux yeux fixes d'oiseau de nuit. Il venait d'être nommé chef d'aéroplace à Juby. Il devait y rester dix-huit mois de suite. Il
... See moreJoseph Kessel • Mermoz (French Edition)
Moses built one pool in Harlem, in Colonial Park, at 146th Street, and he was determined that that was going to be the only pool that Negroes—or Puerto Ricans, whom he classed with Negroes as “colored people”—were going to use. He didn’t want them “mixing” with white people in other pools, in part because he was afraid, probably with cause, that
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