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Steel Dust Dawn

By: John Richman

...Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes pla... ...ed his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes place in the Fo... ...rtune in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes place in the Fort Worth area, where he finds all the excitement he can handle worki... ... in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes place in the Fort Worth area, where he finds all the excitement he can handle working on... ... Every time my face touched the ground, a lightening bolt of pain lit me up. Fortunately, Spirit and I should make Fort Worth by noon and I’ll be ... ...lightening bolt of pain lit me up. Fortunately, Spirit and I should make Fort Worth by noon and I’ll be quick to find my way to the nearest dentist.... ... I’ll be quick to find my way to the nearest dentist. I’ve only been to Fort Worth once, and while I didn’t know where any were, I suspected a city... ...ore and that was last winter. John E. Richman 2 Maybe this was normal for Texas and I know it bothered me more than it did Spirit, but I was co... ...yed up there with friends for about a month ‘til it was time to head back to Texas to catch another. The tooth ache started just after I left. If i...

...This second novel in the series follows young "Montana" to Fort Worth, Texas in 1886, where he hires on at a major cattle ranch and ultimately saves it from foreclosure. A good deal of the story involves his horse "Spirit" and his involvement in the early Texas State Fair races. This...

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Call Me Montana

By: John Richman

... to become a man. This first novel follows him from his Montana farm to a Texas cattle drive. Along the way, he en- counters a big slice of weste... ...r to sell him. It took me another year to work off the loan, but it was well worth it. I named the colt Spirit, and I knew right off he was special... ...t I’d heard that a good hand could make a lot of money moving cattle between Texas and Oklahoma, through Indian country, and I wanted to try it. I ... ... Their saddlebags were filled with ill-gotten merchandise consisting of near forty-five dollars in cash, a handful of gold coins, a set of silver p... ... miles behind them. Irish Dan, a man who knew his guns, estimated them to be worth hundreds. With his newfound prize, McVey planned to leave the... ...didn’t matter to me as I supposed I’d be seeing a lot of towns on my trip to Texas. It was early afternoon when we arrived at our first stop, a l... ...ggot in to meet Mr. Price. He was tall and lanky, appearing to be in his mid-forties. He seemed to know Daggot well because they immediately began ... ..., one of the other players appeared unhappy about it. “This set of Colts is worth at least $100!” McVey stated in the loud and abusive voice I was... ...again. Now he’d left the fire area and walked back into the woods, thirty or forty feet off the main lot. I didn't think much of it until he yelled...

...year old William Dean Ritter, aka "Montana." Two separate adventures take him from his Montana farm to a Wyoming cattle ranch, Dodge City, Kansas and Texas in his pursuit of the dream to become a cowboy. Along the way something unexpected happens - he becomes a man. The book also introduces Montana's famous horse "Spirit." The characters and plot lines harken back to the b...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...y Satinover holds degrees from M.I.T. (SB), Har- vard (EdM), the University of Texas (MD), and Yale (MS). He completed psychoanalytic training at the... ...nsequently wanting to be like the Giver (State Two). In that state it becomes worthwhile for the creature to be like the Giver (State Three). Howeve... ...ts two hundred,” one who has two hundred wants four hundred, and so on and so forth. As a consequence, when we obtain a certain pleasure, we remain ... ...nd all of humanity. Admission to the study of reality does require certain ef- forts, but it also captivates one’s whole inner life and provides comp... ...dently choose to spiritually evolve. Later, when it no longer affects our ef- forts, we will discover that our successes and failures in achieving t... ... person to study the wisdom of Kabbalah? Indeed there is a great thing in it, worthy of being publicized: There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy to ... ...educators persuade us in vari- ous ways that it is so, and that this is a path worth treading. If children could see for themselves that something wa...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...ker. “That guy next to us is Kurt MacKinnon,” the shorter one said. “Might be worth putting money on his horse. He trains the good-looking gray.” “... ...igh as she stopped the horses beside Julie. “Ponying for Bill Chandler isn’t worth the measly pay. That man is a pain in the ass.” She snapped the ... ...ound twice. Stay together. I’m paying Sandra to escort, and I want my money’s worth.” “Sure thing, Bill.” Julie forced an agreeable nod as he booste... ...ks was so long it curled in the straw. Only his ears moved, flicking back and forth as he appraised his visitors. Sandra chuckled. “You can always ... ...y. Julie pulled her gaze from Joe and Otto. Ace seemed to be fine, but it was fortunate Kurt’s request had distracted the starter and given Otto a c... ...is dread. The horses were fine. Just fine. “So many people chugging back and forth. Don’t understand how those overpriced animals get any sleep. Wh... ...et. Work was work. You did what you had to do. They rattled over a string of Texas gates. “Sure a lot of cattle guards,” he said, eyeing the bounci...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...the liberal-minded, the United States of America reified the most noble, lofty, and worthy values, ideals, and causes. It was a dream in the throes ... ...of double standards, irks and grates. I firmly believe that it is better to face a forthright villain than a masquerading saint. It is easy to conf... ...to confront a Hitler, a Stalin, or a Mao, vile and bloodied, irredeemably depraved, worthy only of annihilation. The subtleties of coping with the U... ...t kaleidoscopically. Pakistan and Libya were transmuted from foes to allies in the fortnight prior to the Afghan campaign. Milosevic has metamorpho... ...l expansion spirit (combined with the) the puritan's 'concept of mission' (are its fortes)", gushes the anonymous author. The paper distinguishes ... ...sted and biased "justice" of the victors, a policy tool, a discriminatory travesty, worthy only of condemnation. From Dresden to Hiroshima, through... ...e hawks regard it as a superfluous leftover from the Cold War era. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) even introduced legislation to withdraw from the organiz... ...st of production is around $1-1.5 per barrel, one tenth the cost elsewhere - while Texas boasts 1,000,000 drilled wells, Iraq barely sports 2000. T... ...ating sea water. Israeli land use, hydrological and agricultural experts roam the Texas-sized country. The parties - with a combined gross domesti...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...governmentattic.org web site or in this file NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000 Serial: MDR... ...23 December 2007 to have A History of U.S. Communications Security (2 volumes) by David G. Boak, Fort George G. Meade, MD National Security Agency, 19... ...with E.O. 12958, as amended. The information denied meets the criteria for classification as set forth in Section 1.4 subparagraphs (c) and (d) and re... ... m.;or countries) is willing to make an investment ofthis kind. Because, or course, they find it worthwhile. Sometimes. in the security business. you ... ...munications .•. that is, all of them at once; nOr does it necessarily follow that all ofthem are worth intercepting. (The Army has a teletypewriter li... ...ation uneconomical to the opposition and to make the recovery of intelligence cost more than its worth to him. Don't forget for a moment that some TOP... ...ed custodian clutched the document, and DO compromise was declan:d. (el An automobile crashed in Texas and the trunk SPrIDI open. State troopers found...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...is part of a publicly traded corporation that is itself a subsidiary of a Fortune Global 500 energy and manufacturing conglomerate based in China. ... ... a large Thailand company involved in real estate and oil. With $500,000 worth of Sopogy’s technology, MAI will build a $1.5 million, 6-MW, solar-p... ...r Resource, designed to smooth out the volatility of wind-energy output. Texas-based Xtreme Power, which developed it, BUILDING THE SMART GRID ... ...uh donated 100 fve-gallon tubs of radiological decontamination products worth $250,000, and dispatched top CBI technicians to help clean up the e... ...fe-sciences company by leaps and bounds. Included on Krucky’s chart is a Texas company that is using the Cell Isolation System to provide adipose- ... ... STUDIES: This U.S. Department of Defense academic institute, located at Fort DeRussy in Waikīkī, is a meeting place for military and civilian rep...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

... on Sunday evening. I sat upon the platform of the large chapel and looked forth on a thousand coloured faces, and the choir of a hundred or more behi... ...le her to meet and master every situation. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mothe... ... pe- riod of hundreds of years, and who had not only inherited a name, but fortune and a proud family homestead; and yet I have sometimes had the feel... ...ey were mem- bers of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments. I have been made to feel sad for such persons because... ... will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will n... ...e promised land, and I resolved to let no obstacle prevent me from putting forth the highest effort to fit myself to accomplish the most good in the w... ...way to do this. Not very long ago I was making a journey between Dal- las (Texas) and Houston. In some way it became known in advance that I was on th...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...eping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, ti... ...f course a la mode. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called com forts of life, are not only not indispensable, but posi tive hindrances to... ...o buy them. He had not discovered that it was necessary for him to make it worth the other’s while to buy them, or at least make him think that it was... ...make him think that it was so, or to make something else which it would be worth his while to buy. I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate text... ...oo had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I thin... ...s, I find that for the most part they have been toiling twenty, thirty, or forty years, that they may become the real owners of their farms, which com... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...nce your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted. To the for... ...ong course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animate... ...orld, which are daily increas ing, and that splendid prospect of the future fortunes of this country which is opening from year to year. His name may... ...f person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending; and so long as it is worth defending a patriotic militia... ... to have the fullest confidence that the two bodies elected by them would be worthy representatives of such constituents, and, of course, that they wo... ...to distribute the burdens as equally as possible among them. The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union, to form a part of... ...with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteed by our Constitution. Texas was once a part of our country—was unwisely ceded away to a foreign... ...e question of annexation as belonging ex clusively to the United States and Texas. They are inde pendent powers competent to contract, and foreign n... ...n, I shall fulfill this difficult and delicate trust, admitting no motive as worthy ei ther of my character or position which does not con template ...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...s than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emot... ... Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline. It is the universal nature which gives worth to particu- 7 Emerson lar men and things. Human life, as containing ... ...s that walk by us still.” Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune. Cast the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf’s tea... ... the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk ... ...r in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or scul... ...hing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; a... ...he northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geograp...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...which is none the less an error for its promulgation as truth. With an art worthy a better cause, for example, they have insinuated the term ‘analysis... ...he middle—as if a design, in the first instance, to tear it entirely up as worthless, had been altered, or stayed, in the second. It had a large black... ..., and so suggestive of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document; these things, together with the hyper-obtrus... ... to wake him up so far that he may stop making that horrible noise, I will forthwith entertain you (and him if he pleases) with the sequel of this ver... ...ster). With your permission, I will translate. ‘Washish squashish,’ and so forth: —that is to say, ‘I am happy to find, my dear Sinbad, that you are r... ... to cut them down.”’* * “One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in Texas is a petrified forest, near the head of Pasigno river. It consists of... ...hed a country where there was a cave that ran to the distance of thirty or forty miles within the bowels of the earth, and that contained a greater nu...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

... its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and so forth. Y.M. You have arrived at man, now? O.M. Yes. Man the machine—man the... ...project and achievement? O.M. There isn’t any. In the world’s view he is a worthier man than he was before, but he didn’t achieve the change— the me... ...ame he will go to the field—not because his spirit will be entirely com fortable there, but because it will be more comfortable there than it would... ...it of the average infidel, I think. O.M. And many a missionary, sternly fortified by his sense of duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan m... ... is potent. T raining toward higher and higher, and ever higher ideals is worth any man’s thought and labor and diligence. Y.M. Consider the man who ... ...r he could smell his enemy in time to escape; then he inferred that it was worth while to keep his nose to the wind. That is the process which man cal... ...inct. O.M. She has cows, and milks them. Y.M. Instinct, of course. O.M. In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivat...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...w Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. He was also, for many years of the time, town clerk. He was a ... ...of teaching much, even if they imparted all they knew—would have thirty or forty scholars, male and female, from the infant learning the A B C’s up to... ...oirs snow on the ground. While still quite young I had visited Cincinnati, forty-five miles away, several times, alone; also Maysville, Kentucky, ofte... ...demanded. My father yielded, but said twenty dollars was all the horse was worth, and told me to offer that price; if it was not accepted I was to off... ...my sentiment so palpably that there was no mistaking it. The annexation of Texas was at this time the subject of violent discussion in Congress, in th... ... set up an independent gov- ernment of their own, and war existed, between Texas and Mexico, in name from that time until 1836, when active hostilitie... ...an they could possibly lay any claim to, as part of the new ac- quisition. Texas, as an independent State, never had exer- cised jurisdiction over the... ..., we paid a round sum for the additional territory taken; more than it was worth, or was likely to be, to Mexico. T o us it was an empire and of incal... ...Gen- eral, of my misfortune. “Yes; I heard Grant lost five or six dollars’ worth of horses the other day,” he replied. That was a slander; they were b...

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