This book is immediately helpful! After reading through a very interesting life story of the author, the book outlines simple details of THE TOOL. Using THE TOOL has helped me to clear up a sinus condition the very first time I tried it !

His life story details his progress towards creating THE TOOL in a scientific manner.. hypothosis followed by experiment leading to conclusion. Definetely recommended reading for anybody willing to stretch the bounds of healing and reality manifestation.

I was deeply inspired at reading Byron Gentry's biography, and about the self-help work he discovered and developed. This book empowers readers to quickly, simply, and painlessly make positive changes in their lives.

Dr. & Mrs. Gentry have condensed years of research and development into a concise methodology that even beginners can follow. I have used his methods for the past five years--they are failsafe. Especially useful is his method for energizing compatibility between two or more people. I have used his beacon method to bring to my practice just the right clientele whom I can help, are interested in my work, can benefit from it, can pay for it and who can refer other clients to me. His life story is very interesting. Dr. & Mrs. Gentry continue to do research. The key to do what they do is to practice, practice, practice! Mental healing takes energy and preciseness, conviction and intention. As he teaches, most of us spend too much time being angry--we waste vital energy. We need to take the energy we conjure up when angry & turn it and ourselves into positive energy to heal. Angry energy might as well be a shot gun. Healing energy is the miracle! It's free and abundant--everyone can manifest it.

A truly inspiring book and ultimately a practical lesson about the steps to recovery from a horrendous accident. Medical professionals can learn much from this, the patient's point of view.

For anyone who has been in a serious accident, or any friend or family member of an accident victim.

Marsha takes us step by step into the world of someone suddenly faced with multiple traumas, someone so terribly hurt by a runaway bus in a random crosswalk. Throughout her 88 day ordeal in three different hospitals, and throughout her subsequent recovery at home as well, she demonstrates a rare courage and spirit in the face of constant pain and despair. She triumphs over the depersonalized medical system by retaining her dignity and humanity during times when many other folks would just go mad. And, against all odds, she keeps her promise to herself and snow skis one year after the accident.

Truly an inspiration for anyone facing serious trauma recovery!

Sarah E. Olson

Even though it took me nearly 10 years to track down this book, what a great read! I couldn't put it down. I am now the proud owner of all of Georgina Gentry's books. Can't wait to read her new book coming out sometime in August 2002.

The story of Iron Knife and Summer Sky is both compelling and timeless. Though it is a romance novel and you expect the hero and heroine to be together in the end, there are several places in this book where you begin to doubt Iron Knife and Summer Sky will, indeed, live happily ever after. Such as when the Cavalry finds and "rescues" Summer and Iron Knife becomes severely ill. Iron Knife and Summer sizzle when together, yet to picture them as real people you could almost imagine them sitting side by side, content simply to be in each other's company. The subplot of Grey Dove is equally compelling and enthralling. I have read western themed books by Johanna Lindsey, and "Cheyenne Captive" ranks on a par with Ms. Lindsey's "Savage Thunder". Exciting, thrilling, and engrossing, "Cheyenne Captive" will sweep you away and make you believe in True Love.

This was my introduction to Georgina Gentry's writing. I loved this book and have read every one of her books, except for the first book in her Panorama of the West Series, Cheyenne Captive (I think that's it). Only because I haven't been able to find it!! I loved Trace Durango and Cimarron Heinrich and all of the Durango family.

I hade the fortune of finding this book at a garage sale for about a quarter, and I have to say it was a great way to spend a dead president. This book is sizziling and a great Cinderella, western, and Indian love story. Plus both characters are Indian and not an Indian warrior kidnapping a white innocent, this book has steaming love scenes and I would definitely recommend it!

Wow! Georgina has done it again!! I loved this story. I couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about how it was going to turn out. So many twists and turns. Iron Knife and Summer Sky definately have found their once in a lifetime love. A must read for Georgina Gentry fans or anyone else looking for a story about the untamed west of long ago, and a Cheyenne dog soldier that would go through hell and back against all odds to be reunited with his lover and their children.

Georgina Gentry has done it again. What a story! Iron Knife and Summer were truly meant for each other. But when Summer found out that Iron Knife wasn't as faithful as she thought, their relationship began to fall apart. Summer's mother was ill back in Boston and decided to visit with her for the last time. She took all three children and set out for Boston.

Summer's devious father sent false messages to both Summer and Iron Knife's friend who worked for a newspaper in Denver to try and break up their marriage.

Iron Knife took matters in his own hands. He decided to dress up like a white man in fine clothes and travel the trains to see Summer in Boston. He needed to hear from her own lips if she didn't want him anymore like the false messages had indicated.

Along the way, Iron Knife tried to save a young woman from being abused by a drunken cad, who turned out to be the son of the wealthy man who owns most of the town. Needless to say, Iron Knife missed the train to Boston while getting knocked out by the Town's Sheriff and thrown in jail.

When Summer's father finds out that Iron Knife was on his way to see his daughter, he cashes in on a favor a judge owed him. The judge sends orders to throw him in a chain gang far away.

I won't give the story away. Read it!! All the characters in this book are very colorful and exciting. Sometimes you'll catch yourself wanting to scream at the bad guys, but then Georgina Gentry puts all the players at work to make for a wonderful ending...

A great book for the amateur genealogist. It is light enough that, unlike many books on the subject, it is readable, yet it contains a wealth of information. The book description says "some entries will provoke a chuckle, others a bit of embarrassment, still others a sense of wonder and pride." This is certainly true. As a person of German heritage who (sadly) does not speak German, I was indeed filled with a sense of wonder when I looked up my great-grandfather's name, Hundesauger.

For anyone who is researching German names and family genealogy this book is the definitive, in-depth, and scholarly work in the field of German names. A "must own" book for the serious researcher of German families and names

I'm an amateur naturalist -- and had the plants of the Eastern US pretty well under control. All that went out the window when I moved to Nicaragua. This is the first broad, clear, complete guide to neo-tropical woody plants (and lots of the herbaceous plants as well) I've seen. Although it was written for Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru, it does well enough for Central America. Just leafing through the illustrations has given me the family, and often the genus, of lots of the plants I've seen in our cloud forests. The author has a very readable style, laced with an understated sense of humour that bubbles to the surface on several occasions. See the entry for Euphorbiaceae, for example.

The book is not, however, for the complete beginner. Unless you are thoroughly familiar with the arcane botanical terminology, you will need a botanical dictionary. "Plant Identification Terminology" by Harris is a good one.

This book is the only one to cover so extensively the flora of Colombia in such an accessible way. You won't regret this purchase. It certainly deserves five stars.

I was given the opportunity to catalog Dr. Gentry's herbarium collection at the Desert Botanical Garden in 1987-88. I haven't seen the new edition mentioned here, but read the original work at the time I was cataloging his herbarium specimens. Through it, I was able to share his experience as an explorer in the spirit of John Wesley Powell, someone who knew that the American southwest is best delineated by watersheds, not along false lat/long lines. I met Dr. Gentry a couple of times, and remember the occasions well. Last time I saw him, when I was cataloging his collection, I overheard a conversation between him and a consultant for the Fort McDowell Indian Community. The consultant was asking about desert-adapted crop plants. Dr. Gentry went into great detail describing many desert plants suited to agriculture - tepary beans, jojoba, Lippia (Mexican oregano), agave, chiltepines, gum arabic, etc. I learned a lot just by eavesdropping. The consultant listened, but did not hear the words. He recommended that the Fort McDowell people plant cotton. Not because it was best suited to desert agriculture - far from that. They planted cotton because it needs vast quantities of water. They did not want the best desert-adapted crops. What they wanted, instead, was the best crop for wasting water, so that they could establish valid rights to the water. Worse, I watched them clear off vast acreages of mesquite forests to make room for the water-wasting cotton crop. The Hopi call this koyaanisqatsi. This book should help folks in southwestern north America realize that we have a bounteous resource, if we can only learn to use it.

Located in a transition zone between the Sonoran Desert and the tropics,this region is well known for its biodiversity, thanks to a 1942 study by botanist Howard Scott Gentry. Revision of his classic work began before his death in 1993. For researchers, this is a must-read book. It provides a clear overview of botanical studies of the Rio Mayo, a contemporary view of the vegatation, excerpts from the original text and an annotated list of plants.

You can't go wrong with any book by Georgina Gentry! I have been tracking down and reading her out of print books ever since I read her first book! You can usually find her out of print books in used book stores or Amazon.com's auction resources, etc. "Half-breed's Bride" grabs you in the first chapter and never lets you go! It is more intense than most of Georgina Gentry's books (but, not quite as much historical background as usual). Everyone has secrets in this book! The reader finds out the secrets little by little. All of the characters in this story are extremely strong and unforgettable. The story is exciting and very lustful as it takes you through a journey of human character (black, white, and grey).

I know this book is no longer published but I have to write on it. This is a wonderful book! Every character has a secret that entwines with one large secret. And as the book procedes a little bit of the secret it dolled out. I found the book fascinating and could not put it down until I read every last word. Some of the characters are not as bad as the appear and some are worse. It is for you to jusge.

Teaching is a tough job. This book seems to uplift those of us (educators) who are in need of a bit of motivation and a few new ideas. Students are blessed to have Sharon Gentry as a teacher if she teaches anything like this book suggests she must. This is a definite read for those in education or planning on it!

I am an educator and I found this book to be very uplifting. What we do is a hard but very important job. This book offers good ideas presented in an upbeat way. My hats off to Sharon Gentry! What lucky children there are to have/had her as a teacher.