Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several c...
Excerpt from Gustavus Vasa: And Other PoemsGustavus 'vasa was originally plan ned (the reader will smile) at eleven years of age. When the author began to know what poetry was, his first design was to write an epic poem - no matter of what sort or character, so it was an epic poem. The subject was soon chosen and the pro gress of the work was various sometimes hurried on with all the ardour of hope and enterprise, sometimes relinquished for mo...
Lucy Amudsen has a plus-sized approach to life. She and her colleague, Daniel O'Brien, are maverick charter pilots for hire. Using laptops and cell phones they contract to fly airplanes all over the world. A routine charter in Brazil lands them in the cockpit of an aging 737 airliner and propels them into mortal danger. Their suspicions about the airplane and its hidden cargo arise before they even takeoff from a South American resort city. Wh...
The Southern harmony & musical companion: containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems, selected from the most eminent authors in the United States and well adapted to Christian churches of every denomination, singing schools, and private societies: with a musical anthology on compact disc.
