Horse Tradin' Review

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Whoever said that Green's stories were hokey must be young, and not appreciative of bootstrap operations. Ben Green was a self-made man, sizing up opportunities as an enterprising youngster. He shows determination, he demonstrates decision-making skills, and he always plays within the framework, ever flavored with a fine-tuned sense of humor. In short, he's the sort who made this country great, and what we are woefully short of in today's crop of youngsters. I know; I'm a retired middle school teacher. I'd recommend this book to any of my former students, except most of them don't like to read.

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Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both.

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Slavery: A World History Review

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A great book, scholarly but easy to read. Originally published in two volumes, the first half deals with slavery from ancient times to the Renaissance, the second half concentrates on the African slave trade, and also covers some of the modern uses of forced labor, gulags and other types of near-slavery. I particularly appreciated reading about slavery in earliest history, a topic that is rarely covered. The comprehensive nature of this book keeps slavery in perspective, but doesn't shy away from the worst abuses when people are classed as property.

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Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in others, human bondage for profit has never been eradicated completely.In Slavery: A World History renowned author Milton Meltzer traces slavery from its origins in prehistoric hunting societies; through the boom in slave trading that reached its peak in the United States with a pre-Civil War slave population of 4,000,000; through the forced labor under the Nazi regime and in the Soviet gulags; and finally to its widespread practice in many countries today, such as the debt bondage that miners endure in Brazil or the prostitution into which women are sold in Thailand. In this detailed, compassionate account, readers will learn how slavery arose, what forms it takes, what roles slaves have performed in their societies, what everyday existence is like for those enchained, and what can be done to end the degrading practice of slavery.

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Channel Surfing: Riding the Waves of Channels to Profitable Trading Review

Channel Surfing: Riding the Waves of Channels to Profitable Trading
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This book has some excellent information in it, and I would not hesitate to recommend it for intermediate-level traders. With one caveat: It ultimately encourages you to trade everything that moves.
The channels soon turn into webs, and as we know, the nature of a web is that everything ends up connected to everything else. If you connect every high and every low in sight, price is sure to bounce off something. Unfortunately, you won't know what, where, or when until after the fact. If you try to prognosticate, you'll end up over-trading, and best case, nibbled to death by commissions or spreads, and tight stops.
I've been trading full-time for 6 years now. I've tried a lot of strategies. The best all-time performer by far is to trade with an obvious trend until it reverses enough to break the pattern or starts drifting sideways. I use trend lines, support and resistance, and simple channels. With the addition of money management, that's it and that's all.
It's been my experience that when you try to get too fancy, you shoot yourself in the foot.


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Drummer in the Dark (Marcus Glenwood Series #2) Review

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T. Davis Bunn keeps getting better. Wow! I thought he'd found his niche with "The Great Divide" (his legal thriller), but this book of political and financial intrigue raises the standard even higher. I'm not a big stocks and funds enthusiast, but Bunn manages to create a suspenseful and well-researched plot that hooked me early on. He works in a credible idea of dealing with Third World debt that I particularly found interesting. Beyond his obvious knowledge of the subject, Bunn creates believable characters and writes with a narrative flair that I personally love. His story is complex and maybe too intertwined for some to delve into, but I couldn't get enough.
As the title of this review suggests, I did lose sleep finishing this book. But the title is stolen from Bunn's own writing. "Jackie's eyelids felt coated with shards from the hourglass of lost sleep." It's writing such as this, passionate and imaginative, that make the political and financial arena come alive. Jackie and Wynn, the two protaganists, are complex characters whom I came to care for. Although the spiritual lessons are muted and few, Bunn works in heartfelt and very real spiritual thoughts without seeming preachy.
With a recent batch of superlative novels by Christian authors("When Heaven Weeps" by Ted Dekker and "The List" by Robert Whitlow, to name a few), I must include "Drummer in the Dark" as one of my favorites.

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Young Fredle Review

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A gem of tale. I loved the story but I'm afraid that many kids will find it a bit slow.
I'm a dad who likes to read with his kids, so I'm always on the look out for good books. I'm a big fan of Cynthia Voigt. She is an accomplished author who has written many books and won many awards. "Dicey's Song," published in 1982, won the Newbery medal. "Young Fredle" (rhymes with metal) is a modern fable about discovering the wider world. Fredle, a kitchen mouse, lives according to foraging routines and unquestioned rules of survival. A mouse that is sick, for example, is pushed out onto the pantry floor and, from there, the mouse is "went." I don't want to give away too much of the story (partly because there is not much plot), but Fredle finds himself pushed out and he does not become "went." Instead, a strange, scary and wonderful world opens before him.
Why do I say that some kids will find it slow? I went back and looked at kids' reviews of some of Voigt's earlier work. One of my favorites, "Homecoming" gets slammed for its slow pace and simple dialogue. I think Voigt's poignant and richly descriptive style is, frankly, lost on many readers who crave action. That is their loss. "Young Fredle," likewise, may come across as frustrating, especially in regard to Fredle's bit-by-bit comprehension of the wider world. For patient readers, however, a wonderful and heartening ending awaits. I fully expect many readers to give this book three stars, or less, and call it boring. But some of you are going to fall in love with it. Cheers.

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Electronic Exchanges: The Global Transformation from Pits to Bits (Elsevier and Iit Stuart Center for Financial Markets Press) Review

Electronic Exchanges: The Global Transformation from Pits to Bits (Elsevier and Iit Stuart Center for Financial Markets Press)
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Pits to Bits gives a very thorough and clear picture of the exchange world over the past 100+ years and today. This is a dynamic and passionate world. The book gets a bit long-winded at times, but all in all, the book is both educational and enjoyable. Kudos to authors Gorham and Singh.

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Anyone reading the business section of a newspaper lately knows that the financial exchanges--stock, bonds, FX, commodities, and so forth--are undergoing tremendous transformations. Fund managers, market makers, traders, exchange professionals, marekt data providers and analyzers, investors--anyone involved with the financial exchanges needs to understand the major forces pushing this transformation in order to position themselves and their institutions to the best advantage.In this book, veteran exchange expert Michael Gorham joins his twenty-five years of experience with CME and CBOT to the technical expertise of Nidhi Singh of Goldman Sachs to write a book that tells the story of this dramatic transformation. They chronicle the shift:--from floors to screens--from private clubs to public companies, and--from local and national to global competition.They analyze each of these shifts, identify the drivers behind them and look forward to the implications arising out of them for exchange business in the future. They also explore several key trends:--an increase in product innovation--the integration of markets from all over the world onto a single screen,--the rise of the modular exchange--the outsourcing of various exchange functions, and--the difficulty of transcending geography for regulatory purposes.So join Gorham and Singh in learning the story of this fundamental transformation. As old ways of working are being destroyed, entirely new types of jobs are being created, and new ways of working with exchanges. This book will help you chart the way forward to financial success.*Only book to analyze the major changes in exchanges that points the way forward for finance professionals in terms of new jobs and new ways of making money for users of exchange services*Michael Gorham spent 18 years with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and then five years with the Chicago Board of Trade*Users of exchange services include banks, pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy companies, insurance companies, general corporate treasury departments, and individual investors

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The Voyageur Review

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Grace Lee Nute's The Voyageur depicts significant figures in American and Canadian history who have received little attention. Indeed, Nute has written what many consider the classic exploration of the subject in this book that dates back to 1935. The book is divided into nine specific categories on such subjects as the voyageur's canoe, his journey, his songs, his life as explorer etc. Each section is compact, well-researched and fascinating.
The section on voyaging is especially astounding when we consider these men would carry hundreds of pounds on their back when reaching a portage or place where they had to carry their canoes and accessories overland to the next river or lake for their voyage. It is astonishing for me to think, as a resident of the Lake Superior region, what it would have been like to traverse that great lake 300 years ago, to pass through the rapids at Sault Sainte Marie when there were no locks, to sleep under your canoe, to winter inland above the Great Lakes in the dead of winter when the temperature was forty degrees below zero. Nute's book is a true tale of human courage, endurance, and determination, and she makes it clear the voyageur deserves much of the credit for many of the discoveries and explorations which are credited to other men, who never would have reached those places of discovery without their voyageurs' help.
My only criticism of the book is that most of Nute's research is based in the early eighteen hundreds, and I would have preferred to hear more about voyageurs from the earlier years of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. She does explore how important the voyageurs were even long after the United States was founded, in helping John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trade Company, and their roles in early American events, especially the War of 1812. The book is a must read for anyone who lives in the Great Lakes Region or is interested in the early exploration and settlement of North America.
- Tyler R. Tichelaar, author of Iron Pioneers and The Queen City, available on Amazon

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William Clark: Indian Diplomat Review

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William Clark, one half of the famous Lewis and Clark duo who crossed the continent to the Pacific, became one of the most important figures in antebellum America as an Indian agent, Missouri Territorial Governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. His life provides a prism into the racial tensions prevalent in his day. More importantly, he is the central figure in Indian-white relations for nearly three decades and signed more treaties with Indian nations than any other American.

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For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. government's most important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clark's tenure as Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis.

Jay H. Buckley shows that Clark had immense influence on Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi region specifically and on federal Indian policy generally. As an agent of American expansion, Clark actively promoted the government factory system and the St. Louis fur trade and favored trade and friendship over military conflict. Clark was responsible for one-tenth of all Indian treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate. His first treaty in 1808 began Indian removal from what became Missouri Territory. His last treaty in 1836 completed the process, divesting Indians of the northwestern corner of Missouri. Although he sympathized with the Indians' fate and felt compassion for Native peoples, Clark was ultimately responsible for dispossessing more Indians than perhaps any other American.

Drawing on treaty documents and Clark's voluminous papers, Buckley analyzes apparent contradictions in Clark's relationship with Indians, fellow bureaucrats, and frontier entrepreneurs. He examines the choices Clark and his contemporaries made in formulating and implementing Indian policies and explores how Clark's paternalism as a slaveholder influenced his approach to dealing with Indians. Buckley also reveals the ambiguities and cross-purposes of Clark's policy making and his responses to such hostilities as the Black Hawk War.

William Clark: Indian Diplomat is the complex story of a sometimes sentimental, yet always pragmatic, imperialist. Buckley gives us a flawed but human hero who, in the realm of Indian affairs, had few equals among American diplomats.


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Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends Review

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In Conquering the Divide the authors state, "economics is an important but often overlooked component of stock market analysis". In this spirit, this book is an excellent primer for those looking to incorporate economic data into their analysis. The book equips the reader with plenty of knowledge concerning the makeup and use of many popular economic indicators. More importantly, the authors demonstrate how to technically manipulate the economic datum making these indicators more responsive and reliable. Armed with this information, the authors then suggest systems and rules which may be easily applied to gauge the health and state of the stock market. For those looking to apply technical analysis to more than just price data and for those looking to compliment their own analysis with an economic overlay, I would recommend this book as an excellent resource.

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Many writers focus on economy time series, but James B. Cornehlsen and Michael J. Carr are the first to outline a comprehensive, rigorously tested, easy to understand model. In Conquering The Divide, the authors provide documentation of their model's validity. Using statistical verification, Cornehlsen and Carr don't dumb down the economy; they lay out its signals and indicators. Here, they offer a plan for risk assessment that shows you how to maximize returns, forecast inflation, and get out before big declines.

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Chasing the Same Signals: How Black-Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai (Wiley Trading) Review

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Author's credibility suffers when you read that
Long Island is in Connecticut (p. 40), and is a city (on p. 48, it is listed with Milwaukee, Des Moines and Santa Fe)
University of Southern California is part of UCLA (p. 55), and employs "microstructure professors" - as does "the Wharton School of Finance" (p. 97)
"Volatility [is] the measure of the average change in stock prices" (p. 15)
"A linear combination of two stocks, such as buying Yahoo! and shorting eBay, will reduce the volatility by 50%" (p. 85)
"Conventional wisdom suggests markets are efficient, random walks" (p. 1)
"Investment strategies that are confirmed with understanding these intraday correlations are known as "statistical arbitrage" (or high-frequency) traders" (p. ?)
Etc., etc. (I won't quote a non-sequitur, but these do come up regularly, and impress me a lot more). How am I suppposed to trust the author's competence and judgement where I can't check his assertions? I cannot, so the book has limited (although definitely non-zero) value.

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Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis?
Chasing the Same Signals is a unique chronicle of the black-box industry's rise to prominence and their influence on the market place. This is not a story about what signals they chase, but rather a story on how they chase and compete for the same signals


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Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Review

Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
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I read Steven Deyle's book, Carry Me Back, on the recommendation of a review by Benjamin Schwarz in the June 2005 edition of the Atlantic Monthly. Schwarz praised Carry Me Back as "a fine book - by far the best work to date on the subject." Schwarz also pointed out that Deyle "takes a broad view" of the domestic slave trade and "he approaches the subject with nuance." I found the book persuasively argued and a pleasure to read. Although my doctorate is in political science, I am a history teacher and I strongly recommend Carry Me Back to any student of US history.

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The Trust: A Secret Society Novel Review

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Reviewed by Avni Gupta (age 17) for Reader Views (4/11)
When I received "The Trust," I was a little apprehensive about reading it at the beginning, because of the fact that I had heard that sequels are never as good as the originals (and really though, it is very true with some of the books I've read and movies that I have seen). As soon as I began to read this book, I was hooked into it, just like I was with the first book in this series. The trials that Nick, Patch, Phoebe, Lauren, and Thad had to go through in this book so that they could leave the Society were riveting, and I definitely was unable to ever put the book down!

This book began with Alejandro's funeral, during which, Nick's grandfather has a stroke. When Nick and Phoebe get to the hospital to see Nick's grandfather, he gives them some exciting news; there is a way for them to get out of the Society! Nick and Phoebe are overjoyed and they rush to tell the others that there is a way out! Of course, the way out is harder than it seems. First they must solve a riddle that was told to them by a man who wasn't too aware of the things that he was saying, and then they have to be able to convince the elders in the society itself to let them go. Will they ever be able to get free from the clutches of the society that holds them so tightly in its grasp?
This book was so much fun to read! After I began, I couldn't put it down, which was slightly bad because I began it before school one day, and therefore was almost late to school because I was so keen on finishing it (which, in case you're wondering, I did end up doing right before I got to school). The way that the necklace, the amulet of Isis, was tied into the storyline, through all three generations of the Bells and the people close to them was really interesting to me as was *spoiler alert* the fact that Patch and Nick were brothers. That came out of nowhere! I was so surprised, which is rather hard for an author to do to me, seeing as I've read so many books, that many a times I can predict how the book is going to end. All in all, "The Trust" was really amazing and I honestly think that anyone will be able to pick up this series and start reading them and end up loving them!

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Who can you trust when everything is secrets and lies?

It's a new semester at the Chadwick School, and even with the ankh tattoos that brand them, Phoebe, Nick, Lauren, and Patch are hoping for a fresh start. Each day, however, they are reminded of their membership as new Conscripts in the Society. The secret group that promised to help them achieve their every dream has instead turned their lives into a nightmare.

Exclusive membership lost its luster as the Society revealed its agenda to them and two of their classmates were found dead. Now they can't help but wonder: Who's next? While they search for the elusive truth about the Society, the Conscripts are forced to face their darkest fear-that they truly can't get out.

Will Nick and Phoebe's new relationship endure this strain? Can Patch and Nick's longtime friendship survive the truth that will come to light? The deceptions of the group's leaders, once trusted friends, and family will test these four as they fight to leave the Society behind.

The Trust, Tom Dolby's sequel to secret society, is an alluring glimpse behind the facade of a life of entitlement, where secrets aren't merely fun-they're deadly.


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The Ultimate Trading Guide Review

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It's not easy for me to review this book. If I were a beginner I don't think i'd go very far with it. To the more experienced trader, he will surely find something to suite his whatever style of trading, but never leading you to the point of re-thinking a trading system... unless you were losing money already!
The book tries too hard to show all there is about trading, but never going deep enough to explain things in detail, hence the fact that it's not for the beginner...
I found some interesting stuff on it, particularly on patterns, but when you get to the end of it, it leaves you with this feeling that something is lacking.
But don't let my words put you off; it's a 'good enough' one if you already know your way around in Technical Analisys and are looking for something more to spice up your creativity to apply to your own trading system.

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How to Spot Short-Term Trends, Trading Systems That Work, Money Management Techniques, and Patterns for ProfitBecome the ultimate trader!The Ultimate Trading Guide is your chance to get what every trader wants, but few have: the know-how to develop and correctly use a logic-based, reliable, and profitable methodology for successful buying and selling-now. In this complete tutorial, one of today's most respected analysts and his partners provide you with all you need to know to develop an original, computerized system that works for you."Can you make money trading the markets with a system? You bet, and this is the book that shows how it's done, based on decades of research and actual trading."-Larry Williams, Author, Day Trade Futures Online and Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading"Traders at all levels of experience will find a treasure chest of knowledge and guidance in The Ultimate Trading Guide. Advice from these expert authors, gained over decades of trading, research, and study of markets and systems, is virtually priceless. This book receives my highest recommendation."-Edward D. Dobson, President, Traders Press, Inc."John Hill, George Pruitt, and Lundy Hill are the acknowledged masters in the design and development of mechanical trading systems. So it's no surprise The Ultimate Trading Guide gets my highest recommendation for those interested in the mechanized trading of stocks and futures." -Gary Smith, Author, How I Trade for a Living"A well-written and thoroughly enjoyable book. It is filled with refreshingly new ways of looking at the market, combined with valuable perceptions that can only come from John Hill's years of experience and the ability to see the big picture. My congratulations to John for his tenacity in delivering Futures Truth." -Perry Kaufman, Author, Trading Systems and Methods, President, Strategic Market Systems

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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America Review

White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America This is a fascinating and very readable book about a unique aspect of both Scots and American Indian history.Very well documented,it makes the case that Scots Highlanders and Native American were more similar both in lifestyle and history than many readers might assume.

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In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents.In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common.Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed.White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.

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Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales Review

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I thought this book was really interesting! It provides the stories of lost gold mines, buried outlaw loot, old Spanish mining efforts, and more. Includes lots of pictures.
For the serious treasure hunter, this book may provide a place to start looking for sources, but it doesn't contain any detailed maps or secrets.
Nonetheless, I would strongly recommend this book to people with an interest in lost treasure or with an interest in the history of Oklahoma. (I found out from this book that I grew up about 20 miles from a lost gold mine area!)

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"Son, there's more treasure buried right here In Oklahoma than in the rest of the whole Southwest." Those words from an old-timer launched Steve Wilson on a yearslong quest for the stones of Oklahoma's treasures. This book is the result.

It is a book of stories-some true, some legendary- about fabulous caches of lost treasure: outlaw loot buried in the heat of pursuit, hoards of Spanish gold dud silver secreted for a later day, Frenchmen's gold ingots hidden amid massive cryptic symbols, Indian treasure concealed in caves, and lost mines- gold and silver and platinum.

It tells about the earliest treasure seekers of the region and those who are still hunting today. Along the way it describes shootouts and massacres, trails whose routes are preserved in the countless legends of gold hidden alongside them, Mexicans' smelters, and mines hidden and sought over the centuries.

Among the chapters:

'The Secrets Spanish Fort Tells,"
"Quests for Red River's Silver Mines,"
"Oklahoma's Forgotten Treasure Trail,'"
"Ghosts of Devil's Canyon and Their Gold,"
"Jesse James's Two-Million-Dollar Treasure,"
"The Last Cave with the Iron Door,"
and, perhaps most intriguing of all, "The Mystery of Cascorillo-A Lost" City."

This is a book about quests over trails dim before the turn of the century. It is about early peoples, Mound Builders, Vikings, conquistadors, explorers, outlaw, gold seekers. The author has spent years tracking down the stories and hours listening to the old-timers' tales of their searches.

Wilson has provided maps, both detailed modem ones and photographs of early treasure maps and has richly illustrated the book with pictures of the sites that gave rise to the tales. .

For armchair travelers, never-say-die treasure hunters, historians, and chroniclers and aficionados of western lore, this is an absorbing and delightful book. And who knows? The reader may find gold!


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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography Review

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
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Overall, a first-rate biography, both from a military and from psychological and spiritual sense.
Though it indeed lacks maps, the knowledgeable student of the War for Southern Independence will find those included to be sufficient. The work is not, as some have intimated in these reviews, unfair or essentially negative in its presentation of the man, Forrest.
On the contary, Forrest fans will find it delightfully free of the anti-Forrest rancor which politically correct historical revisionsists are so famous for. Hurst understands that the so-called "distasteful activities" were 100% legal at the time, and presents them without undue bias. Forrest is in no way presented as any more racist than his contemporaries, and shown as he was, significantly more compassionate toward African Ameicans than many in these reviews would suggest (Did they even read the book? -- one wonders).
His celebrated ruthlessness in a fight is balanced by a historically well-established backwoods chivalry which markedly contrasts this uneducated but brilliant man (6 mo. total formal schooling), with some of his contemporaries such as the war-criminal-by-his-own-admission, Sherman. The admiration which he earned from his troops is also well-documented, though he accurately is depicted in this work as having shot both deserters and cowards in battle.
Forrest's amazing ability to size up situations at a glance, to see the unseen part of the field, and to comprehend distances and the geometry of operational and tactical logistics is well- covered.

Several longstanding misconceptions are properly laid to rest in this work, among them, that Forrest founded the Kuklos Klan - He did not. He was asked and accepted to be its first Grand Wizard (a title developed in his honor, since he was well-known as the "wizard of the saddle"). Forrest's subsequent Congressional testimony against the Klan is detailed, as is his (successful) effort to disband the Klan (the present-day Ku Klux Klan is dominated by midwesterners and northerners, is the third such organisation in history, and is descended from the first Klan in name only).
Forrest's signal bravery and inimitable style comes through in this work better than in any other I have read. He stands up off the pages, whether in his manner of chasing away other beaus in competition for his bride (yes, there is even romance in this story), in his regrettable knife-killing of a subordinate who shot him in a violent dispute over lost cannon (No damn man kills me and lives!), or in his pragmatic treatment of the slaves he unflinchingly bought and sold. He was a poor scrabbler, an ambitious climber, but an exemplary fighter of unique integrity and fearless grit.
The Fort Pillow battle is well-documented, presenting a dispassionate and careful discussion of the facts as ascertained from study of the collected records of all involved; as well as both the Yankee propaganda against him, and his own "Keep up the Skeer" propaganda. The dispassionate discussion sheds new light on this shattering defeat which resulted in such heavy losses for the all-black regiments involved. This controversial engagement is very well-treated by Hurst.
Forrest was a one-of-a-kind man from a very different time, and an unrecognizable place to modern Americans -- even westerners. That is borne out in this very exciting book. This work is not to be read by those seeking a cartoon caricature of this towering man among men -- the finest cavalryman yet produced by the English-speaking world.
JEFF WHITE
Major, United States Army MS, DMSM

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The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership Review

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
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Everyone serves. Some more than others. It is impossible to not serve either yourself, someone else or something else. The Servant - written by James C. Hunter, simply illustrates this fundamental of successful living in an easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down allegory about leadership through servanthood. These 187 pages are super-saturated with wisdom that can be absorbed by a grade-schooler. In fact, most of us have already learned the principles contained in this book, from our schoolteachers, our religious faith, our family and our friends. We need not to be taught so much as to be reminded.
Simeon, a monk whose chief role is to teach through servant leadership, achieves this task (as supporting protagonist) by gaining authority through altruism. Although told through the experiences of a fictitious "once-successful" businessman, John Daily, the story is about each one of our own natural inclinations, natures and choices. A cast of other supporting characters designed to symbolize a wide demographic variety proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the only villain in this story is self.
If you're interested in reading this book or giving it as a gift to either your staff, peers, family or friend, it will make an impression. If you're interested in improving relationships, this book is a must-read. You could spend a great deal more than $14.95(US) to get this kind of direction from other sources.
Donald Davis Business Development Manager Franklynn Industries, Inc.

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In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.To John's surprise, the monk leading the seminar is a former business executive and Wall Street legend. Taking John under his wing, the monk guides him to a realization that is simple yet profound: The true foundation of leadership is not power, but authority, which is built upon relationships, love, service, and sacrifice.Along with John, you will learn that the principles in this book are neither new nor complex. They don't demand special talents; they are simply based on strengthening the bonds of respect, responsibility, and caring with the people around you. Perhaps this is why The Servant has touched readers from all walks of life—because its message can be applied by anyone, anywhere—at home or at work.If you are tired of books that lecture instead of teach; if you are searching for ways to improve your leadership skills; if you want to understand the timeless virtues that lead to lasting and meaningful success, then this book is one you cannot afford to miss.

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