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 Selected Early Creative Works: A
Tribute
Donald M. Ferguson
This new book titled: "Selected Early Creative Works: A Tribute", is
dedicated to the memory and life of world class, international, and
prolific American Artist, Mr. Robert Bruce Ferguson. His artistic
vision, imagination, & art talent was the very best of his
generation. He had his own unique painting style in impressionism, and
abstract expressionism. Nine of his, oil on canvas, paintings are
located from the front cover and throughout the text of the book. The
paintings are all printed in full color. These paintings were
all painted by the subject artist in the years from 1965 through 1987.
They have never been seen by the public until now. If you have not
heard of the artist, or have not seen his art, you must get your hands
on this historic book. This unusual and valuable book of art and
essays, needs to be placed in the art section of every library, in every
art gallery, and in every art museum in North America, and Europe.
Now the book will be available to every individual who has an
appreciation and interest in art, art history, philosophy, biography,
& education in general who would like to personally enhance his or
her knowledge, their own book collection, and it makes a great gift
book. This easy to read book also includes six essays with a wide range
of subjects that you can select from. These creative essays were written by the author in 1959 and
through the early 1960's. The art and the essays published in
this exceptional book have not been arranged in any special order. Fine
art and good essays are food for the soul. The book will be first
released in paperback only with a page size of 8 1/2" x 11". The fine
art, color reproduction, printed on the outside front cover of the book
is an untitled, oil on canvas, painting completed by the artist in
1965. The book will be released and available for purchase in 2010.
|  Prairie Republic, The Political Culture of Dakota Territory 1879-1889
Jon K. Lauck
University of Oklahoma Press
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota’s formative decade.
What?
In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably naïve or hopelessly outdated. Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality.
Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood.
Prairie Republic corrects an overemphasis on class conflict and economic determinism, factors posited decades ago by such historians as Howard R. Lamar. Instead, Lauck finds South Dakota’s political founders to be agents of Protestant Christianity and of civic republicanism—an age-old ideology that entrusted the polity to independent, landowning citizens who placed the common interest above private interest. Focusing on the political culture widely shared among settlers attracted to the Great Dakota Boom of the 1880s, Lauck shows how they embraced civic virtue, broad political participation, and agrarian ideals. Family was central in their lives, as were common-school education, work, and Christian community.
In rescuing the story of Dakota’s settlers from historical obscurity, Prairie Republic dissents from the recent darker portrayal of western history and expands our view and understanding of the American democratic tradition.
Historian and attorney Jon K. Lauck is Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator John Thune of South Dakota and the author of Daschle vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race and American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly.
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|  The Secret retiree: Drugs and Death
Rupert Nelson
iUniverse 2009
Clifford, a rather she and inexperienced young man, volunteers himself for missionary service in Thailand. In so doing, he escapes a restricted life in the American Midwest. Although a loner, ans finding himself in a culture very different from his own, he learns to accept, and ins in turn, accepted by a wide strata of Thai society; ranging from Hill Tribe people to a police general. his involvement in providing information on drug movements to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Thai police, places him in dangerous situations, and even attempts on his life, which continues even after his retirement.
|  That's How I Remember it
CDR Jim Roth, USN (Ret) '55
Pine Hill Press 2009
Jim writes about the joyous, simple things, and the greatness of the common Estelline men and women who helped the city at track’s end make it through difficult and happy times alike. He fondly remembers toothless Farmer Jack, one of his childhood heroes, who prayed at mealtimes and boisterously sand about quaffing cold beer as he maneuvered his tractor up and down the hot, dusty fields south west of Estelline.
You’ll find your name in this collection of remembrances, perhaps not in name, but in memory.
Chuck Cecil
|  Return to Cherokee
Harvey Mendez ‘56
SynergEbooks 2009
Five years after pharmacist Al Madison is killed in THE CHEROKEE MURDERS, Ludwig Kruger, great-great grandson of Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria, buys his pharmacy in Cherokee, Arkansas. Triangles run rampant as Sheriff Duke zeroes in on the killers until Ludwig, Rolf, and Viktoriya finally clash.
To order this book, contact ShynergEbooks at http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_returntocherokee.html for more information.
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A Farmboy’s Journey
Vol 1: From Cows to Combat
Darrell B. Seals
In this book Darrell Searls recounts experiences of growing up on the Northern Great Plains during the 1093’s, when America was gripped in a treacherous double vise of drought and depression. Follow his journey through childhood and youth to his ultimate initiation into manhood in the foxholes of World War II’s infamous Battle of the Bulge.
For more info on the author or to order his book, contact Darrell Searls at darellbs@aol.com
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