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Adventures of a Footloose Hippie is George Eberhart's account of his 75-day trip through Europe in 1971, a time when many other fun-seeking 21-year-olds were taking to the road in search of enlightenment and entertainment. Combining journal entries written at the time with updates and context added 52 years later, this travel memoir is filled with tales of hitchhiking hazards, countercultural commentary, and sometimes humorous interactions with fellow travelers and random strangers. The trip did not turn out the way Eberhart had originally planned. However, through both initiative and happenstance he was able to re-engineer it into an experience somewhat like the Grand Tour that upper-class students of the 19th century embarked on as part of their aristocratic education. The itinerary included England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland-but not the usual ports of call. For example, Eberhart spent five days as an official monster hunter at Loch Ness and visited Stonehenge before it was roped off.Two additional narratives complete the set-a hitchhiking trip across the United States in 1969 and a car trip to California in 1970, both written at the time with the youthful enthusiasm of a budding writer.

During the 1800s Americans developed the foundation for commerce and future economic growth. Steamboats were what drove American commerce in the 1800s and into the early 1900s until the 1950s when steamboats were no longer profitable. Boats in the inland rivers transported everything: lumber, oil for lamps, coal, cotton, and every type of farm animal and crop. Steamboats carried mail, and at a time before radio, TV, and movies, they provided entertainment. In the 1950s John Knoepfle set about interviewing some seventy workers who had spent their lives on steamboats, packets and towboats. They were captains, pilots, boat owners, show boaters, night watchmen, mates, roustabouts, lock masters, packet cooks, among others. As told in their own words, this is the true story of steamboating. This is an important and authentic part of American history.

"Love is a funny thing shaped like a lizard.It climbs down your throat and grabs at your gizzard!" - Dr. Jerry Gibson, AuthorThis powerful little book moves from tragedy to comedy while passionately teaching and mentoring Christian love. Dr. Gibson is simply awesome in his ability to explain Bible passages. "Why are we all brothers and sisters? - God's - 'Our Father.'" Having studied and taught Greek, and Hebrew, he is truly a Biblical Scholar. He's humble and unique; he's baptized and mentored a long impressive list of contemporary Christians. With gleeful spirit and humorous intellect, Dr. Gibson's writing emanates Jesus' love. And Love is like a Lizard will touch zillions of hearts. - Victor W. Pearn, PublisherGalatians 6: 8 ". . . But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit."This verse is intended to encourage each reader to prepare your heart as you read this book. Jerry Gibson lives to please the Holy Spirit. He is genuine. He is whole-hearted. He is all in. He is headed for everlasting life. This book will tenderly, gently, escort you into a deeper faith walk. Do you have a hunger for the Word of God? Get ready to witness how one man thrived by trusting in the power of the Holy Spirit to live obediently to the Word. Your heart will be touched, your life will be enhanced and your courage will be reignited. Blessings! - Bill McCartney

Cowboy UpAs the dark clouds of World War II were looming on the horizon, an American original named Kenny Sailors was capturing the attention of the country and leading the University of Wyoming basketball program on an astonishing run to the NCAA championship.Sailors, pioneer of the modern jump shot, took New York's Madison Square Garden by storm while leading the Cowboys to a national championship. Before the confetti was cleaned up, the All-American was off to war. The Wyoming treasure would return to campus in Laramie and later became one of the NBA's early stars.Cowboy Up weaves the brilliant tapestry of Wyoming's rich hoops history -- from the program's original championship team of the 1930s to high-soaring Flynn Robinson and the dazzling Fennis Dembo -- around Sailors' remarkable story.If you love basketball history, then you need to get acquainted with Sailors and the golden age of the Cowboys.

Over the years, I have reviewed and edited many types of writing, as well as written many articles for papers and magazines. Creating a Story Line and maintaining a continuing sense of continuity throughout can be a difficult dilemma. However, some authors don't seem to understand or comprehend that...they just can't seem to smell the coffee!!Bud Grounds can smell the Coffee ! Bud Grounds has enough material to fill several books if he would choose to do so. His writing is informative, yet, interesting, thought provoking. From the beginning of the editing process, his Romantic side could be seen and his writing style is fresh, alive, here-and-now, real life stuff. From the first page, where he admits his trepidation at writing, to the last Romantic paragraph about Sara, the real love of his life, we see him chat about the joys and sorrows of both the Civilian life and the Military life in a plethora of situations, all of which, for those not having ever been in the Military, are both informative and true to the real events of his life.....some of them rather Romantic, some disturbing, some just dumb! His dilemmas with the numerous Civilian jobs he had are occasionally funny, often cute, but always filled with interest. His chatter about his children invoke the typical Grandfather. But the conversations about Sara are always fresher, clearer and you can almost see her!As you engorge yourself in its pages, let your mind travel with Bud as he journeys about - enjoy the trip with him; see and hear what he saw and heard......I did. And I had a good trip!......Hope yours is just as fun and informative as mine.Get a drink, something to munch on, sit back, and.....ENJOY !! Dr.David Abe

The Bridge of Isfahan is a love story, set in Iran during the postwar 1940s, a time of burgeoning hopes and dangerous conflicts -- not the least among them the cold war.Shirene is the green-eyed granddaughter of the empress of Persia. Jamshid is the blue-eyed son of working class parents and an organizer for the socialist Tudeh Party.Shirene lives in the palatial Dove Tower near the ancient city of Isfahan, once the capital of Persia. She owns land and has feudal power over the local villagers. Jamshid has come to Isfahan to organize the local textile workers and to agitate against Shirene.They fall passionately in love with each other.Expect surprises. The Bridge of Isfahan is also a feminist fantasy. On her mother's side, Shirene belongs to the matriarchal Baktiari Tribe -- women make the important decisions, and daughters are taught to throw knives and lassos and to ride stallions. Shirene must negotiate her way through perilous situations. In this she gets help from her formidable nurse, Haidah, and from her mother, Muluk, a deposed queen and devoted reader of the columns of the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. Expect surprises.This book presents a dazzling array of aristocrats, scholars, generals, Mullahs, middlemen, factory workers, peasants, public officials, revolutionaries and reformers -- not to mention foreign visitors and, of course, the Baktiari. Each of these individuals, including the two lovers, has strong opinions about the destiny of their country. On their honeymoon journey across Iran, Shirene and Jamshid spend much of their time arguing politics, religion, and art.Expect surprises.The Bridge of Isfahan is the story of a spiritual journey. Shirene is searching for her place in this Iran that she has returned to after being an art student in Paris and working in a hospital in Nice. Where does she belong? Where does Iran belong? To find the answers to these questions, she looks to Persian history and art, and immerses herself in the words of Persia's great poets and the wisdom of the Koran. And so, too, the reader. This perhaps is the deepest and most rewarding surprise of all.This book carries the reader -- as deeply as the author was able -- into the Iran she knew and loved. The Bridge of Isfahan is truly a bridge.And a love story.###

In the 1950s the University of Wyoming, already making national headlines with an NCAA basketball champion ship under its belt and a strong football program, made one of the great hires in the athletic department's history when Glenn "Bud" Daniel was named baseball coach. Daniel, who finished his playing career at Wyoming after serving in World War II, started recruiting nationally and playing one of the nation's most difficult schedules. It all paid off in 1956 when the 'Pokes played their way into the College World Series. Some great players called Cowboy Field home over the years-from Bob Jingling to Art Howe to Greg Brock to Jeff Huson-but the proud program was uncer emoniously dropped by the university in 1996. Lost Cowboys documents the proud history of Wyoming baseball from the early days of Milward Simpson to the glory days of Daniel to the final outs in Laramie.

Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island. Nonfiction by an author who has traveled to Greece during three different phases of her lifetime and has written about the small island Ikaria, it's inhabitants, it's distinctly remarkable beauty, and it's cultural life, and about how her love affair with the island has deeply affected her own life. Anita Sullivan's first book received the Western States Creative Nonfiction Award. Ikaria was written with the same excellence and should be well received.