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...This is the first novel in the series and introduces sixteen 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 f...

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...more difficult quest -- that to become a man. This first novel follows him from his Montana farm to a Texas cattle drive. Along the way, he en- c... ...hes for his place in a world that, in many respects, isn’t all that different from today’s. Call Me Montana The... ...aces, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination, drawn from actual historical places, figures, or events, or are used ficti- ... ... lots of ambition. Now, don’t get me wrong -- my folks were good God-fearin’ people and our farm was a great place to grow up for Mary and me, but ... ... now. She’d had already complet- ed most of two years of teacher’s college in Philadelphia, but with the news that her Uncle Stuart had taken sick o... ...ife had been as Call Me Montana – The Beginning 19 a constable’s wife in Philadelphia. Tom enjoyed his police work but had always harbored a wa... ... began their journey west three weeks before, when they boarded the train in Philadelphia for St. Louis. They’d been told that life in the west was... ...McVey lacked in leadership, he more than made up for in his ability to annoy people. So the rag-tag gang headed west alongside the creek. With no ... ...e Circle R that calling somebody out for cheatin’ at cards is fight’n words. People get killed doing that. This seemed to be true in Laramie as wel...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...en, in May 1929, as the FBI recounts: "Al Capone and his bodyguard were arrested in Philadelphia for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Within 16 ho... ... million of them in a computerized database. In January 2002 a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that fingerprint examiners testifying in his ... ...t 20-seconds TV spot, broadcast during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in Febr...

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...cal, photocopy, recording or otherwise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of ... ...er and author. Portions of material in chapters 3 and 4 have been derived from The Famous Amos Story, © Wally Amos, 1983 Cover design by Dale Verme... .......................................... 13 2 No Matter Where You've Come From, You're Always Going Somewhere ......................................... .... ...J. C) Thank You, Thank You, Thank You If life is anything, it's people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all con... ...ion. I have also changed many of 11 12 • Man with No Name the names of people! places, times and dates to annoy the inno­ cent and protect the gui... ...­ cent and protect the guilty. When, during the course of the litigation, people heard that The (Nameless) Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company was s... ...lver Me­ teor, a classy, sleek-looking, bullet-like train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad. 31 32 • Man with No Name In 1948, this train was... ...1948, this train was famous for being able to make the trip to New York's Pennsylvania Station in twenty-four hours. For blacks traveling on the Sil... ...ion to the Johnson family. The Johnsons were friends of mine who lived in Philadelphia. But 66 • Man with No Name in spite of our friendship, the ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...ce, second floor, a narrow room with a pair of elegant brass spittoons, a Pennsylvania wood burning stove. High on the wall, above my desk, hung an ... ...pt at it, learning, unlearning. For every stick of wood we burned in that Pennsylvania stove we had an ardent opinion. Billy and I earned about $3,... ...gainst Mary. Reporters ridicule her when she goes shopping in New York or Philadelphia, in her attempts to refurbish the White Rouse. If she visits ...

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...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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.... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...n Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotations from this paper that appear in the text are reprinted with kind permission ... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...o list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meaning except to identify ... ...t Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 1963. 14. For a detailed discussion of... ...Kolig, E.: The Silent Revolution, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1981. Lame Deer, John (Fire): Lame Deer Seeker of Visions, R.... ...oks reprint of 1971. Ringgren, Helmer: Israelite Religion, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1966. German original, 1963. Salisbury, Neal: Manitou and Pro...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ... and then worked for four years as a journeyman printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. Twain, once he‘d mastered print... ... His first library in the United States was built in 1889 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, home to one of the Carnegie Steel Company‘s mills. “Self-Se... ...nic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Built at the University of Pennsylvania‘s School of Engineering, it was the prototype from which most...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ... and then worked for four years as a journeyman printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. ... ....‖ His first library in the United States was built in 1889 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, home to one of the Carnegie Steel Company‘s mills. “Self-Se... ...nic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Built at the University of Pennsylvania‘s School of Engineering, it was the prototype from which most...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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.......................................................................... 88 Philadelphia ................................................................. ...lume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall resto... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...r, Though it should have happened three thousand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields an... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ... the chance, Puck was as kind to them as ever, and introduced them to more people of the old days. He was careful, of course, to take away their memor... ...ey picked up the chain of otter’s foot- prints on the mud, and followed it from the bank, between the weeds and the drenched mowing, while the birds s... ...d, for Una frowned. ‘I’m not a child, and my name’s Una,’she said. ‘Mine’s Philadelphia. But everybody except Rene calls me Phil. I’m Squire Bucksteed... ...ny little roads that don’t lead anywhere.’ ‘They lead over our land,’ said Philadelphia stiffly, ‘and the coach road is only four miles away. One can ...

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...hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it....

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