When I first saw the title, I couldn't start laughing. But when I read it, I knew that the author was serious and I applaud her for her honesty. The book is straight and truthful, but it has it humorous moments.

I enjoyed the book so much that I purchased the revised edition and purchased additional copies and gave them to my friends as Xmas presents.

Indeed, this book has its place in Black History, next to the Isis Papers.

This book is great and is even greater because the first time the book was read to me was by Mrs. Salley. Everyone will love this book even if you are not from New Orleans.

Have you read it? If you haven't you should. It is about an elk named Charger. Who killed him? I'm not telling. Read it yourself.

Magnificent prints directly from the old glass plates - the originals. These are kept by the Western History Section of the Denver Public Library. I have had the folio since about 1975 and continually find nuances in these pictures that I had previously missed. I also wonder what a copy brings at present. Not that I would part with mine!

A truly incredible diary kept by William Henry Jackson's good friend, Elwood Bonney during the last ten years of Jackson's ninety nine year life. The editor is astutely sensitive and the footnotes provide a great deal of information. One will learn more about Jackson through this book than any other. It would be fair to say that Jackson would agree with the latter statement as his opinions are expressed so well by Bonney. The friendship between the two will be coveted by the reader.

I spotted this book at the library near the check-out desk and grabbed it-the subtitle, The Frontier photography of William Henry Jackson, sounded like something I could pick up and browse in between tasks (this was between Thanksgiving and Christmas). I have a grown son in California and a grown daughter who is a photographer and who travels the world pursuing new vistas for her camera. I am buying her this book as it resonates with the kind of tale she has told me of her adventures. It is described as juvenile literature, which is all well and true because the language is accessible to junior-high-aged children, but nevertheless regrettable because perhaps most adults will therefore never consider reading it. Yet the writing, the concepts, and above all the photography are so full of the beauty, the optimism, the struggles and challenges of our nation in the nineteenth century as we grew from a rural thinly populated mainly eastern seaboard land to a multiethnic, continental, industrial society that I found it entirely engrossing. All these social and cultural threads weave through the narrative painlessly, and the glory of the photos of life and nature and the real people I have always heard (only as names in history books) at the time of the conquering of the west are reason you keep turning those pages.

An amazing work which should be praised to the heavens by those advanced wine tasters who want to better understand what it is they're seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling. And why. Not a book for beginners, this is a carefully structured work of high calibre, right up there with the other landmark winetasting works by Amerine, Baldy, Broadbent, Noble and Peynaud. Every serious wine library should have a copy.

Mr. Jackson has written a book that will help the reader gain insight into tuning in to God's voice. By listening to God, you can hear God. And by hearing God, you, too, can gain the wisdom that God desires for all of His children. This book captures the attention of the reader. It is in an easy to read format, yet the depth of the words in the book will leave the reader with a better understanding of how to gain the one on one relationship that God wants, and hopefully, the reader desires. God is still alive today. He still speaks today. This book helps to direct the reader on how to fine tune his or her heart to hearing directly from God. It guides the reader so that he or she may do more than just read about God. What greater source of Wisdom than the Author of it? Love utters the Truth.

Kate is wonderful. I could not put this book down. She raised her son on her own and showed him what a "real" mother is like. The ending was wonderful and moving.

This is a great "readers digest version" of the lives of ruling women. This book includes biographys of women from Empress Alexandra to Queen Cleopatra. It contains some photos. This book is a wonderful reference to have around the house. It would be extremely helpful for someone writing a report on any woman who ruled directly or indirectly over a kingdom throughout history. Well written it is a pure pleasure to add to any collection. Note: this is more of a who's who or reference book. It does not in any way resemble a novel. Although the stories of these women's lives are written very well. Not a dry read.