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We bought eighty acres of trees bordering the Mark Twain National Forest and built a Cape Cod-style house on it. This was in Christian County Missouri, twenty-six miles from my college teaching position in Springfield. And for a time it was a wonderful place to raise our three children. But by 1969, when this volume ends, the marriage was in trouble.

This is a small collection of poems and love notes written by Wesley to his young bride, Sharon, and dated from 1988, when they were married, to the present. It is a prelude to Wesley's forthcoming magnus opus, APRIL AND AUGUSTUS.

The history of an American Family consisting of nine generations of Halls that came to this country in the 19th century.In South Carolina when it was an English colony, we grew tobacco, in Georgia before the Civil War we grew cotton, in Arkansas after the Civil War we grew corn, and in Oklahoma before and after it became a state, we grew peanuts. We are truly an 'American' family.

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A true story about five wooden subchasers that engaged in island invasions in the Pacific during WWII

Pinky, A Memoir of WWII, is the first of four volumes about a young man who couldn't wait to join the U. S. Navy and go to the Pacific. In this volume T. J. Thiggens is sixteen when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. He agrees with his mother to complete the school year 1942-1943 if she will sign his enlistment papers. He goes through boot camp at Farragut, Idaho, and is transferred to Shoemaker, California, to await orders to ship overseas. On his ei...

George Miller was born the year his home state entered the Civil War. He grew up hearing stories from his father about the exploits of a Texas Ranger captain who fought in the Red River clashes with the Union forces. So when he left home at the age of thirteen, he quite naturally worked his way across west Texas to El Paso, where he joined, at the age of nineteen, the most famous law enforcement organization in the States. This book follows hi...

Brief Candle is a humorous biographical fiction about an English professor coming to terms with a mid-life crisis. Jake Boswell, a Victorian born in America during the Jazz Age, discovers that he is deeply in love with a trailerhouse girl. This comes after thirty years of good behavior and marriage to the same woman. Finally at the top of the academic ladder, Jake finds himself facing two enormous problems: at home a wife who has become a dips...

Eagles and Canaries is a collection of funny and insightful stories about men who yearn unsuccessfully for women. The problem is these men are under the illusion that all women fall into one of two categories, those who are out for a wild time at the man's expense and those who are looking for a husband first and a good time second. It is a world that if you already know quite a great deal about the chances are you need help yourself. It is wr...

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Oklahoma Pioneers is a biographical narrative about Mallie Rue Karr (1882-1971) and Horace Greeley Teeman Hall (1877-1965) who were married in Indian Territory (the Cherokee Nation) in 1900 and migrated there in a covered wagon in the spring of 1907, a few months before Oklahoma became the forty-seventh state in the Union.

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Eagles and Canaries is a collection of funny and insightful stories about men who yearn unsuccessfully for women. The problem is these men are under the illusion that all women fall into one of two categories, those who are out for a wild time at the man's expense and those who are looking for a husband first and a good time second. It is a world that if you already know quite a great deal about the chances are you need help yourself. It is wr...