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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 b...

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... counters a big slice of western life -- the good, the bad, and all that lies in between. These are the stories of that young man who, guided by ... ...the other strong men and women he meets along the way, searches for his place in a world that, in many respects, isn’t all that different from today... ...eserved by the author, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form,... ... Sarah, her father Tom, and mother inside. They were crowded onto two wooden seats just large enough to hold the three of them, and a very large tr... ...red that things could be worse. Since none of them had ever been west of the Pennsylvania mountains, they were most anxious about the life they wer... ...ck, “WAY STATION IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!” It would be good to get off these hard seats for even a few minutes, thought Sarah -- a sentiment no doubt s... ...the man with the star. “John Daggot.” “Well, Mr. Daggot, Marshal Tilghman is County Marshal, but he’s gone home for the day. I’m one Call Me Mont... ...ll. He’s probably who you’re waiting to see. Truth is, the fine folks of Ford County saw fit to elect Bill, county marshal, and me, town sheriff. B... ...other Ed, and I, all worked at one time or another as lawmen for either Ford County or Dodge City. Your friend, Captain Daggot, worked with us here...

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...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ... Henry Root, A. M., one of the most widely known members of the Washington county medical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a ban... ...h street. The manager requests that under- graduates who desire to reserve seats for friends or relatives do so at once ns the seats will be put on sa... ...ner, MORKIS L IvttNST, Mahlon B. Hopkins, For the Class of 190S). Reserved seats for the Williams- Amherst joint concert, which will take place in Nor... ...selectiuDB containing local hits and parodies, A large section of reserved seats has been set off on the floor of tiie auditorium, and nearly all of t...

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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 pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...theatre, lost in its bowl of cypress and over- grown with grass and weeds, seats and benches crumbled. Laying aside our clothes, we toss rover reeds,... ...ternoon—warm and sunny! Women, wearing eye masks, are chatting and taking seats at the Globe. Hawkers, bright yellow bands around their waists, are ... ...ROM THE PAST 444 close to the stage. Swords clatter as soldiers find seats; a captain bows to a Jesuit priest. Someone strums a zither and croa... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

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...irty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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...e, how many women to concerts and races, simply because it is the thing to do? They have perhaps, a vague idea that they may ultimately find some joy in the pastime; but, though they do the thing constantly, they never like it. Of all such men, the hunting men are perhaps the most to be pitied....

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...a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there weren?t any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush toge...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...d, as I suppose, for the purpose of shutting out improper appli- cants for seats in the House of Representatives; and I fear there is some danger that... ...gress, passed last session, intended to exclude applicants not entitled to seats, but which, there is reason to fear, will be used to exclude some who... ... sent to me, so as to multiply the chances of the delegation getting their seats. Let it be done without publicity. Below is a form which may answer... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...uary 20, 1864. HON. W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescr...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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... the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement?...

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...Excerpt: ?Halloa! Below there!? When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of...

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...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open...

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...ré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e old order of things, represented the present Court of First Instance (or County Court). So in this dark office, thick with dust, there was, as in al... ...f carpet, picked up heaven knows where, which milk- women use to cover the seats of their carts. The floor was simply the trodden earth. The walls, sw... ...ext day Comte Ferraud’s man of business, lately appointed President of the County Court in a town of some importance, wrote this distressing note to D...