Slow Road To Brownsville

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Road to Brownsville written by David Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Slow Road to Brownsville, David Reynolds embarks on a road trip along Highway 83, a little-known two-lane highway built in 1926 that runs from Swan River, Manitoba, to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico. Growing up in a small town in England, Reynolds was enthralled by both the myth of the Wild West and the myth of the open road. This road trip is his exploration of the reality behind these myths as he makes his way from small town to small town, gas station to gas station, and motel to motel, hanging out in bars, drinking with the locals, and observing their sometimes-peculiar customs. Reynolds also wanted to see the country where the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Comanches, the Apaches, and other native groups lived and died and to look at how their descendants live now. He describes the forced location of the Cheyenne people, discovers the true story of the Alamo, and finds similarities between Sitting Bull's tours and those of the Black Panthers. In the end, Reynolds sees hope, potential, and tolerance in this forgotten middle of North America.

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1771640537
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Road to Brownsville written by David Reynolds and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous Englishman explores the forgotten landscape of America’s Wild West in this “illuminating, elegantly written travelogue” (Financial Times). In his acclaimed memoir Swan River, David Reynolds invited readers into the world of his youth, growing up in Manitoba, Canada. Now, in Slow Road to Brownsville, Reynolds brings readers on a road trip along Highway 83, a little-known two-lane highway that runs from his Canadian hometown to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico. Enthralled by the myth of the American West and the romance of the open road, Reynolds explores the realities behind both as he makes his way between small towns, gas stations, and motels, hanging out in bars with the locals and learning the stories of this forgotten region that was once the frontier. Along the way he encounters many legendary figures from North American history, including Lewis and Clark, Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, and even Truman Capote.

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838340162
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Road to San Francisco written by David Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets a huge variety of Americans - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything from slavery, Indian reservations, fracking and forest fires to baseball, beer, the blues, Butch Cassidy, and Marilyn Monroe. Everyone has something to say about Donald Trump, from those who `love him' to those who `hate him. 'Reynolds follows the direction of history, the direction taken by explorers and pioneer settlers. As he travels he conjures a vivid picture of the US then and now; its landscape and its people in all their diversity.

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1771640499
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Road to Brownsville written by David Reynolds and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's journey south on Highway 83 from Manitoba to the Mexican border, exploring the realities of the romance of the road and the legends of the Wild West.

Author : Bob Cranmer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101629002
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demon of Brownsville Road written by Bob Cranmer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1988: Bob Cranmer buys a house in the Pittsburgh suburb he grew up in. He has no idea that his dream home is about to become his worst nightmare… The Cranmers seemed fated to own the house at 3406 Brownsville Road. As a young boy, Bob had been drawn to the property, and, just when the family decided to move back to Brentwood, it went up for sale. Without a second thought, they purchased the house that Bob had always dreamed of owning. But soon, the family began experiencing strange phenomena—objects moving on their own, ghostly footsteps, unsettling moaning sounds—that gradually increased in violence, escalating to physical assaults and, most disturbingly, bleeding walls. Bob, Lesa, and their four children were under attack from a malicious demon that was conjuring up terrifying manifestations to destroy their tight-knit household. They had two choices: leave or draw on their unwavering faith to exorcise the malicious fiend who haunted their home. Now, Bob Cranmer recounts the harrowing true story of the evil presence that tormented his family and the epic spiritual war he fought to save everything he held dear… INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : Samuel Penniman Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Greene County, Pennsylvania written by Samuel Penniman Bates and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl B. Raitz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851551
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Road written by Karl B. Raitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).

Author : Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1668 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, for the Year Ended ... written by Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374720401
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Road Bum written by Héctor Tobar and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookville’s Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a “road bum,” an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sanderson’s freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvador—a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism. The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live—a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off.

Author : Frank White Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Texas and Texans written by Frank White Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: