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Have you ever thought about all the things that might have happened in a place before you arrived? Montana's been around for a long time, and it has all sorts of interesting tales to tell. There are stories about the first peoples and how horses came to the region, stories about bison and vigilantes and how Lewis and Clark explored the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. There are some really good yarns about mountain men and gold miners striking...

A former Brooklyn wise guy is exiled via Witness Protection to small town Montana, where he spends the next decade paying penance for his earlier life-only to see it all potentially shot to hell when his past catches up to him.

Excerpt from The Spiritual Side of Our PleaIn the preparation of this volume there has been no aim whatever at literary excellence. That thought, if present at all, has been so nu consciously. Perspicuity and strength have been the chief objects, in so far as the thought of style has entered into the work. To be nu derstood, and to carry conviction to the reader in the matters whereof he has spoken, have been the dominant in¿uences with the wr...

In this landmark work, Allen Morris Jones spends a year exploring one of the wildest ecosystems in North America, hunting and examining the philosophical issues of blood sport. In the process, he creates both a compelling defense for the hunt as well as one of the tradition's first formal ethics. Jones argues that hunting must be right in that it returns us to the environment from which we evolved. When we hunt, we're no longer watching nature...

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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upw...

Set amid the exquisitely rendered landscape of the Rocky Mountains, LAST YEAR'S RIVER is the compelling story of the romance between a young New York debutante, sent off to Wyoming to bear a child, and a cowhand recently returned to the family ranch from the trenches of World War I.

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Allen Jones jokes, ?I?m not coming out of the closet until I?m finished having sex in the closet.? An autobiography full of discovery, revelation, defeat and victory actually began at the age of 19, when Jones was told to, ?Shut up you crippled-nigger-faggot.? Read how that cruel remark became his best friend. He is a black, crippled homosexual ready to activate the activist within him to un-confuse the confused. ?Blessed Assurance? is his epi...

This book explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries.

Immigration, writes Maldwyn Allen Jones, was America's historic raison d'etre. Reminding us that the history of immigration to the United States is also the history of emigration from somewhere else, Mr. Jones considers the forces that uprooted emigrants from their homes in different parts of the world and analyzes the social, economic, and psychological adjustments that American life demanded of them--adjustments essentially the same for the ...

From Midnight to Dawn evokes the turmoil and controversies of the time, including the furor over the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, congressional confrontations in Washington, and fierce disputes among black settlers in Canada over whether they should ask for money from abolitionists or strive to be self-supporting. An extraordinary examination of a part of American history, From Midnight to Dawn will captivate readers with its tales of hop...

From Midnight to Dawn evokes the turmoil and controversies of the time, including the furor over the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, congressional confrontations in Washington, and fierce disputes among black settlers in Canada over whether they should ask for money from abolitionists or strive to be self-supporting. An extraordinary examination of a part of American history, From Midnight to Dawn will captivate readers with its tales of hop...

Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric archaeology that have defined his career, such as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds and field practice. The scope is broad, covering both Britain and Europe, and while the focus is very much on the archaeology of later prehistory, papers also address the interconnection between prehistory and historic and co...

A rancher and poet in Montana has his life ruptured when a long buried dead body appears on his property.

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