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"The foremost living expert on tornado observations. . . [and like] a serious baseball fan, Grazulis enjoys a good tale but really lives for the telling statistic. . . . [Students and researchers]will admire the author's passion for getting the facts right."-J.A. Knox, CHOICE"I strongly urge everyone living in tornado-prone areas to read this book. It might save your life."-CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY BULLETINTornadoes occur in every state in the Union, and each region of the nation has its unique "tornado season." The most intense tornadoes can carry automobiles a half-mile and level a well built home. Some tornadoes have crossed mountains, seemingly unimpeded. Some have lasted more than an hour, scouring the earth with wind speeds of 250 miles per hour. Nor are tornadoes unique to the United States. In Bangladesh, for example, they have killed a thousand people in a single swath.Filled with dramatic accounts of tornado touchdowns, this book addresses the whirlwind of questions surrounding the phenomenon of the tornado. How often does a tornado hit a particular location? How fast are the winds? Do tornadoes really seek out trailer parks? Can they actually defeather a chicken? How many tornadoes hit the United States every year? How big can tornadoes grow?Thomas P. Grazulis, a tornado research meteorologist and founder of the Tornado Project, has been a consultant for television specials, including Cyclone (National Geographic), Target Tornado (The Weather Channel), Forces of Nature (CBS), and others, helping provide answers to these questions for the general public. Here he sets the record straight about tornado risk, the Fujita Scale, and the number of tornadoes occurring annually. He also sheds light on misconceptions and contradictory theories about tornadoes. Recreating the incredible drama so often accompanying interactions between people and tornadoes, The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm provides detailed meteorological and statistical information on these marvels of nature, among the most fascinating scientific puzzles on the planet.THOMAS P. GRAZULIS is Director of the Tornado Project and Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, but their expertise in the everyday medical practices needed to treat the living is less familiar and often misinterpreted. John F. Nunn draws on his own experience as an eminent doctor of medicine and an Egyptologist to reassess the evidence.

Volume 113 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. Here is the gripping story of the last stand of Chief Philip Bowles of the Chickamauga Cherokee Indians of Texas. Mary Whatley Clarke sets this tale against the stormy background of Anglo-Cherokee-Mexican relations in early nineteenth-century Texas. The Chickamauga Cherokees from Running Water on the Tennessee River were continually forced to relocate-first to Missouri, then to Arkansas, and finally to Texas. They managed to make a home of their new Texas residence. Then, as has happened many times before and since in Anglo-Indian relations, settlers began to look with increasing desire at the rich Indian lands. The Chickamauga Cherokee had had enough of relocation, and, on a blistering July day in 1839, Chief Bowles and his warriors made a tragic and bloody final stand on the battlefield defending their new Texas home. Their stand resulted in defeat and the dispersal of the Chickamauga Cherokees to far-flung homes on reservations. Could this history have taken a different course? Perhaps not, for, as Mary Whatley Clarke observes, the Cherokee had become "a red island in a white sea," and it seems inevitable that the Anglo-American would submerge that island.Mary Whatley Clarke is author of John Simpson Chisum: Jinglebob King of the Pecos and The Slaughter Ranches and Their Makers.

"Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I'll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don't look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger."-Annie OakleyAnnie Oakley is a legend: America's greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is far from true. She was neither a swaggering western gal nor a sweet little girl. Annie Oakley was a competitive woman resolved to be the best, and she succeeded. In this comprehensive biography Shirl Kasper sets the record straight, giving us an accurate, honest, and compelling portrait of the woman known as "Little Sure Shot."Now updated with a new afterword, this account illuminates the life and legend of Annie Oakley, including her start as a comedienne, her later life with Frank Butler, and her final years and struggles.

There is especially good documentation of the dealings between the Mandans and Hidatsas and the whites between 1790 to 1806, when several traders visited the Indian villages and recorded their experiences in lively narratives. In this book are presented new, dependable, annotated transcriptions of five of the most important of these documents.

Focusing on the novels of six contemporary American writers, the author analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage and the attraction of their styles to Native and non-Native readers, aiming to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness.

This is an annotated and illustrated edition of the original 1903 text of London's classic novella. Included here are illustrations and notes, an introduction, chronology of events, and basic bibliography. Dyer has written "Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild' for Teachers" to accompany this text.

This work focuses on the African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana and Arizona. Faced with prejudice, discrimination and lynching at the post and in combat, African-American regiments emerged as tough, committed and disciplined units.

A history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans to the present day. This edition includes discussions of important legal events in the last 25 years.

This is an account of those Cherokees who separated themselves from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribe's traditional lifeways, and who settled in Texas. However, they found themselves caught between the Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism.

This is a resource book for educators of American Indians. It aims to improve the academic performance of American Indians through educational approaches that do not force students to choose between the culture of their home and the culture of their school.