Though sugar coated and boastful, it covers a great deal with photos only she could/would provide. A must for any serious Mae West collector, especially if you can get it with it's original cover.

This is as close to a personal meeting with this remarkable woman as anyone could ever hope to get. Miss West's autobiography reads as though she were in the room dictating it word for word. It's all here; the humor, the wit, the history, and her life as she wanted it to be known. There are some great photos included as well. A lot of fun to read-I just wish it were longer!

This was an amusing and interesting autobiography by that goddess of sensuality and inventor of the innuendo, Mae West. If you like her, you'll love this book. If you're indifferent to her, you'll still appreciate this tale of life in the theatre and film industries from the early part of this century. If you don't like her, then all I can say is what's your damage?

Terry Hamburg'sGrand Entrances is an informative and compelling survey of attractive, artistic retail storefronts in San Francisco provides a closeup color portrait of some of the city's most colorful creations. Over eight color illustrations and photos capture everything from signage to murals and exceptional presentations. Art and architecture schools with sections on commercial art will find this a 'must'.

This book has heart and soul. The imagination and humor these storeowners and artists display is amazing! I especially appreciated the captions which tell the story of each storefront. The details are unexpected and funny. I also liked the Introduction which gives a great history of how San Francisco came to have so many "grand entrances." I know which book I will be giving to friends and family this holiday season!

Grand Entrances opens the door to the whimsy that is in the heart of San Francisco. The superb photographs capture the spirit of the artists, the shopkeepers who proudly display the creations, and the climate of the people who live in the area. This book rather reminded me of the children's book about the man who painted his house purple in a neighborhood where all the houses looked alike. However, in this case, everyone painted his or her storefront with wild imagination. Indeed, looking at the photos and reading the background about this era, I wondered if people at that time appreciated the beauty and creativity of the times. Personally, I savored the diversity of San Francisco. San Francisco encompasses all kinds of spirits, and this book captures that unique strength. Grand Entrances was fun!

Wonderful content and photos ... I've lived and worked in Yellowstone for 20 years and had never seen the "once approved, never built" drawing of the Old Faithful Inn. have been to many of the "lodges" featured, and will use the book as inspiration to visit a few more! I've scooped up several for gift giving this holiday season.

Give this one with a pair of airline tickets

From Lee Whittlesey, Park HistorianYellowstone National Park, Wyoming: Old Faithful Inn is the first lodge featured in Great Lodges of the West. The Inn is as much a part of Yellowstone National Park as the geyser it is named after. The author covers its history and architecture and brings to life a much loved landmark.From Deirdre Shaw, CuratorGlacier National Park, Montana: Christine Barnes has pulled together some little known history about the historic lodges of Glacier National Park and the region, then spun a story history buffs and park visitors will truly enjoy. Historic photos from the park archives along with architectural drawings and color photography makes Great Lodges of the West both informative to read and beautiful to look at.From David Wark, Historic ArchitectCrater Lake Lodge rehabilitation project: Great Lodges of the West tells the important story of Oregon¹s Crater Lake Lodge. Christine Barnes informs the reader of a Lodge built on naive optimism, its deterioration, and the real threat of demolition. She then illustrates how the Lodge¹s rebirth is evidence of what citizens can accomplish when they value their architectural heritage

Book was put together very nicely. I know Gwen and team put alot of hard work and time into creating this. The descriptions of the ranches, food, etc. GREAT JOB! Unfortunatly I have not been at the King Mountain Ranch in Granby, Colorado for about a year now. Memories of guests are fond. The Guest Ranch expierience is wonderful as are all guest ranches. The book is definatly an authority on letting the reader get a feel for what it is like. "Enjoy the recipes, on the open ranges where cowboys roam, or just in your kitchen at home". Thanks Gwen for having me in your book. Chef Mark M. De Nittis

Gee, our daughter-in-law is fast becoming a culinary superstar. We have shared this book with so many people they are becoming suspicious of our objectivity.

I love being able to search for a guest ranch vacation and know the quality of the food in advance. And, the recipes are awesome!

My daughter is 3 1/2 years old and can't get enough of the Pixie Trick books. We have read the entire series (all 8 and hoping for more)and are currently working on our second go round. The writing keeps her interest and the characters are memorable. She even lays in bed after we are done reading and "reads" to herself. This series of books are her first chapter books and as a Mom I would have to say they are perfect. I can't wait till she is really reading them on her own. Bogey Bill in book 4 his her favorite character and she loves saying Robert B. Gnome. Tracy - you have done an excellent job with this series!

There is a pixie that is called: Jolt, and he likes video games, but alot more with people in it!!!!! And latter in the story Jolt go in the video game too!!! Sprite and Violet went in the viedo too!!!!!!! When they won all the games but not sepeted the last game and in that level the triked the pixie and the pixie went the otherworld !!!!!!!

My daughter is 8 years old and she has devoured every Pixie Trick book she can get. She is now waiting for the newest. These books were not only fun but made her love to read.What could be more fun than fairies gremblin and elfs in a continuios hunt to save our world.

This reproduction of the original 1946 guide to Route 66 is an invaluable companion for any trip on the Mother Road. Not only does it give you a feel for what the road was like at the dawn of America's love-affair with automobile traffic, but it gives you a feel for the psychology of those pioneers who attempted to drive the Route.

While we're now accustomed to well-marked Interstates with easily located on and off ramps, early cross-country routes were less highway and more stitched and patched collections of local roads, filled in with connectors and dotted with small towns. The map was, in essence, the route itself. Following these early routes was not trivial, and drivers had to take caution not to find themselves stranded without food, lodging or fuel.

Rittenhouse's guide was the first comprehensive effort to assuage fears of long-distance car travel, and provide a mile-by-mile guide to services and sights along Route 66. While most of the sites (and most of the services) he documents are long-gone, the sense of wonder that is Route 66, and the thrill of coasting into the cities through which it threads, remains fully intact. No one should drive Route 66 without a copy of this in the glove box. Doing so would rob your of a good deal of the road's history.

Note to West Coasters: though the book is arranged from Chicago to LA, it can just as easily be read backwards for the Eastbound trip.

This book reads like a good fireside friend, or an uncle, or even Tom Snyder in his famous Roadside Companion. It's a wonderful spin back in time to the period just before "Getting your kicks" became the American pastime, and provides a postcard view of the towns, cities and countryside that was America not so long ago. As an 8-time veteran of Route 66 roadtrips (and all within the last 5 years), I have to admit I'm chomping at the bit to get back out on the road and try to find traces of some of the landmark places and hamlets Rittenhouse has recorded in this highly usable travel guide. Kudos to the U of New Mexico Press for reissuing this book as a facsimile of the original (no updates save for a warm intro to the new edition by the author himself!), and doing so at a very accessible price point. A must have for any 66 roadie's collection.

I picked up Jack Rittenhouse's book in the gift shop at Little America in Flagstaff. Although you would be hard pressed to make reservations at the Palace in Winslow, it gives an idea of what the traveler had for choices. Most of all it gives you a close up of the highway and its countryside.

I like elegant language, and I don't like violence. JWH's autobiography has none of the former and plenty of the latter, yet it is exactly right for what it is, the autobiography of a notorious gunfighter who thought the easiest way to solve any problem was to kill the problem. You only had to look cross-eyed at Hardin, and you were a dead man. Yet, as John Wesley tells his story, every one of his forty-odd killings was justified. The reader almost feels sympathetic...

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That aside, this is a wonderful book. it is not well written, but Hardin never claimed to be a writer. This is the only known autobigraphy by an actual American West gunslinger, and Hardin, according to both himself and history, was one of the greatest.

There seems to be a fair amount of exaggeration and plain old tale telling, but I think you'd find that in any autobiography. This is both an insightful view into a time long gone and an entertaining read. If you've ever watched a western, read one, or just plain pretended you were an outlaw when you were a kid, then you owe it to yourselfd to have a copy of Hardin's book on your shelves.

Gunfighter is the autobiography of famed western gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. It was 1868 when John killed his first man at the age of fifteen and became a wanted outlaw. He took up a life of cattle drover, gambler, and killer whose bloody trespass through Southern states after the end of the Civil War brought him into contact with Wild Bill Hickok, the Texas Rangers, an emerging Ku Klux Klan, lynch mobs, bounty hunters, and assassins. His journal/autobiography ends abruptly in 1889 and was first published in 1896, a year after his assassination and remains the only extent and authentic autobiography of a western gunfighter. Out of print for the last four decades, this new edition of a western classic is enhanced with an informative introduction by Mark Manning and highly recommended reading for western buffs and students of American frontier history.

In this book four men from very different backgrounds tell the story of how they were won to the Cuban Revolution and devoted their lives to defending it. In the first interview you'll get a fresh perspective on the question of land mines and the never-before-revealed story of how Cubans training in the SovieUnion reacted to the October 1962 Missile Crisis. It just gets better after that.

Revolucionarios cubanos y norteamericanos platican

La gente "común" que hicieron la revolución cubana está retratada en
este libro pequeño y poderoso. Son entrevistas conducidos por dirigentes
socialistas norteamericanos (¡sí, existen!) con generales de las Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba. Los oficiales explican como fueron
reclutados inicialmente al Ejercito Rebelde y el Movimiento 26 de Julio,
sus experiencias en la guerra contra Batista, la batalla de Playa Girón
y la crisis de octubre de 1962, sus misiones internacionalistas en
Angola, Argelia, el Congo y Bolivia bajo el mando de Che Guevara, en
Siria y otros países. En el curso de las entrevistas, los conductores
resuman sus experiencias en actividades en defensa de la revolución
cubana en los EE.UU. durante esos mismos eventos históricos, además de
sus experiencias hoy en día de los militantes de un partido obrero
revolucionario en distribuir libros y periódicos en inglés y español que
dicen la verdad sobre Cuba y plantean el ejemplo de la revolución cubana
para la clase trabajadora la sigue algún día dentro de las entrañas de
la bestia imperial yanqui.

When these generals published their longer memoirs, it caused a sensation in Cuba. We learned of how they were won to the revolution, and of struggles of Cuban soldiers from the Bay of Pigs, to Bolivia, from America to Vietnam, and in Cuba itself. Those memoirs and these interviews are a clear sign that the Cuban revolution and its leadership, especially the armed forces that the US has tried to get to subvert the revolution were holding true to the revolution, and they explained some previously unknown achievements of the Cuban military. Read these interviews, done by Socialist activists from the US, and see why. The interviews in this book explain the stories of the leaders of Cuba's armed forces, the stories of fighters who changed themselves and the world and continue to want to fight.

Asa Cain is called the Undertaker's Friend because he brings so many dead desperatos to town. Asa is credited with 10 fold more bountys than is true but he doesn't try to change the figure because it makes his adversaries just a little bit more nervous when they face each other. And if you're nervous you tend to make mistakes. The Dolven gang makes a big mistake by killing Asas' servants and kidnapping his mother and sister.

The book has many twist and turns. It is graphic in discribing the way people are killed. It is a great book ! Better than louis lamour. And i love lamours work

Hard Bounty is one of the best westerns to come down the pike. Bounty Hunter Asa Cain and Deputy Cemetery John set out to rescue Cain's mother and sister from the Dolven gang. They run into all kinds of trouble and interesting people. Humor and laughs are sprinkled along the way. The rappor between Asa and Cemetery is very well done. The friendship that developes between them warms the heart. Ken Hodgson is one terrific writer and never lets the reader down. Hard Bounty goes on my all-time favorite westerns shelf.

My grandmother was a Harvey Girl, thus, my mother thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It's provided much nostalgia for her, especially reading about some of the people who used to visit her family!

This book explains what the Harvey Girls did for the west. It tells what their duties were and the cup code. It is an easy read and is even good for children as young as first grade.

This book has great pictures! It has a wonderful way of explaining how Fred Harveys restaurants worked. The harvey cup code is explained and what the harvey girls had to do on the job. It is a Great book.