Good pictures. Old airplanes. If you like airplanes You must see this book.

This book gave me great ideas about how to implement inquiry into my classroom. The students were motivated to learn because they had ownership of the classroom. The authors were realistic in their description of how to involve students in the learning process.

I haven't read this book since I was a kid. I remember that it was more advanced than your average grade school book. It has far more substance to it than the Babysitter series. The book is about a young girl learning to cope with her first moral dilemma. She is assigned to work with an older man in a rest home and ends up taking him for a drive across the country (with the aid of one of her friends) A great story and a well written book.

Excellent tips on where and how to get the best photographs in the southwest. Tells where to go, what time of day and how to take photogrpahs of outstanding desert southwest locations. I travel extensively and found this book pointing out exciting photo opportunities that I had missed. The book is specificlaly for photogrpahers.

New Yorkers are notorious for not being able to give directions. We know how to get there,just don't ask us for directions! This book gives specific address and phone #'s,subway maps and of course street locations (ie: cross streets for 1535 Broadway?It's in here).It is easy to use:shopping,restaurants,museums, movie theaters,houses of worship, etc; are classified according to uptown,downtown or midtown locales with numbered site maps. The size of the guide fits in a jacket pocket, or the newer,trendy horizontal sized purses ladies now carry.I've purchased my copy for use at my job.I may just change my rating to 5 stars

Slims' second book is written in cowboy "vernacular"..The stories are all authentic as Slim(aka Cibicue Slim) wrote them... He lived under the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona and his characters and events are all real.. Dates are accurate...Slim spins stories of old cowboys, roping and riding, funny events, and general cowboy stories. He lived to be 93 years old...and I was lucky enough to camp out with him for over fifteen years...
If you like genuine "cowboy" stories.. this is for you...His books are in limited supply...Philip Ellison Smith

This book is great i give it a 4 stars because Henry,Jessie, Violet, and Benny are staying in the humid and also try Arizona desert. One of the neighbors tells the Alden's the legend of the Lost Dutchman's Mine. also they meet jake an old prospector who has been looking for the Lost Mine many people say that he has gold fever.the boxcar children and their grandpa solove the mystery!

I think this book is a good book to read because it gives a lot of information about the Navajo way of life. I also liked it because it makes you want to know what is going to happen to Kee and his family. They are captured by the U.S. government and made to walk out of their sacred land to a fort controlled by the government. They have to do many things differently. They have to build new homes and grow crops from a place that does not supply the right materials for them. Kee learns many things on the walk and at the fort. You will never forget it once you've read it. And if you read it, you will find out if Kee's family will be free. By David Umphres, 5th grade

On a cold and windy October day in Tombstone, Arizona, Virgil Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot and killed three local men. The Earp party was allegedly acting under color of office and within the loose constraints allowed 19th century peace officers in southwestern boom towns.

For the past 117 years partisans for both sides have argued over the O. K. Corral gunfight. With the publication of this book, editor Turner brushed away the mist of time to reveal the thoughts and actions of the participants and some witnesses on that violent day so revered by believers of the western myth.

Turner divided his book into four parts: (1)prologue; (2) verbatim reproduction of the coroner's inquest; (3) the Spicer hearing to determine if a murder charge against the Earp party was warranted; and (4) an appendix for miscellaneous papers and documents of special interest. The inquest testimony covers the statements of eight witnesses. Upon its conclusion, the jurors decided the deceased expired from gunshot wounds inflicted by the Earp party.

An evidentiary hearing was held before Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer. The impetus for the hearing was a filing of a criminal complaint by Joseph Clanton, brother of one of the deceased. During the 31 day hearing a large volume of testimony was taken and reduced to statements by the court reporter. Spicer then rendered a detailed decision which exonerated the Earps and Holliday. Clanton refused to accept the decision and subsequently filed three more murder complaints against the Earps and Holliday. All three of the complaints were ultimately dismissed. What Clanton, his cohorts, and a surviving McLaury did next is detailed in numerous other books written about Wyatt Earp.

Fault can be found with the pen and ink illustrations which accompany the text. The artist "imagined" the faces of some of the witnesses. These illustrations weren't necessary and are an annoyance - possibly wished on Turner by the publisher. The photographs by contrast are interesting and informative. Glenn Boyer's preface is very good and is based on sound reasoning as to the turmoil extant in Tombstone in the 1880s. Turner livened his text with chapter foornotes and they prove crucial to the understanding of the inquest/hearing and also provide a detailed and intriguing examination of the gunfight. I'm sure Mr. Boyer lent a helping hand with author Turner's analyses.

At first glance this is a dry and matter of fact book with little interest except for the most serious of readers. However, casual readers of Western Americana will be pleasantly surprised by the complexity of the times and the broad based corruption which permeated the activities occurring in and around Tombstone. This book doesn't detract from Wyatt Earp's reputation as a fearless fighter although it might dim the luster on his law enforcement badge. It's possible the gunfight could have been avoided but an educated guess is that a similar outcome would have taken place in 9 out of 10 instances.

Too much misinformation has been written about the O. K. Corral gunfight which at the time was of little importance beyond the environs of southern Arizona. The subsequent deification of Wyatt Earp elevated this fight to olympian proportions and assigned to it a cause and effect which had no relationship to reality.

Turner performed a valuable service in locating and collecting this material as it will assist in changing the lurid to the ordinary and the myth to the truth.

Have you ever wanted to explore a Hopi Reservation and also help the main character with a mystery? Read Rob MacGregor's book Prophecy Rock and you will do just that. The main character in this book is Will Lansa. Will lives in Aspen with his mother. Will's mother decided to go to Europe for a month with her boyfriend Tom. For the summer, he visits his father, Pete Lansa. Will eats all different types of Hopi special recipes, which was very different to him. Pete is a police chief on a Hopi Reservation. On the Hopi reservation, he gets a job and meets a girl that he is very interested in. Will has no chance with her because she lives with her grandmother and she is very traditional. Will is only half Hopi and is considered white to all the full-blooded Hopi's. There is a murder that Will's father is investigating and Will wants to help, but will Will be in danger? You won't know unless you read the book. What I enjoyed most in this book is all the adventures and mysteries leading to the killer at the end of the book. Also all the interesting facts about Hopis and their reservation. In my opinion, I think others should read this book because it is very educational in an exciting way. Also when you start reading, it's hard to put it down. It pulls you in, and it's hard to back off. This book also has very good details; it's almost like you're there and one of the characters. This is a great book for others to read, but you won't know unless you read it yourself. So what are you waiting for get your very own Prophecy Rock book and read it today.