The Industrialist and the Mountaineer Wolfgang Heimpel climber not of great mountains

climber not of great mountains but of house-sized boulders so difficult to surmount that even demanding alpine climbs seem easy

this program is highly instructive

No Experience Necessary is Chef Van Aken's joyride of a memoir

Twain feared that Christian Science would spread so rapidly that it would control Congress by the 1930's

Bradley Hoch is the first to establish the probable route Lincoln followed on his way from Illinois to Washington

The Industrialist and the Mountaineer Wolfgang Heimpel climber not of great mountainsIn 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis's book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn of the century Appalachia. The Eastham Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate