A Forgotten Horseman

Author : Lee E. Downing
Publisher : Lee Downiung
ISBN 13 : 9781599758800
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Horseman written by Lee E. Downing and published by Lee Downiung. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was sixteen, I held my dad's hands while on my knees pleading to God for him not to die. Dad, dad, dad, I cried out, as he lay there on his back with his hands and fingers in firm position grasping the reins of a five gait mare.He was in a place of contentment as he spoke, Whoa mare, that's a girl and made those familiar clicking sounds I often heard when I was a little boy watching him ride the horses everyday in the summer. Then in a calm moment, with his hands gently relaxed in mine, his face revealed a soft smile and he took his last breath and his last ride. My father, Thomas Downing was a horse trainer, one of the forgotten horsemen who was raised in the Saddlebred kingdom of North Middletown Kentucky. He had a natural, uncanny and remarkable gift of relating to horses, proven by the trust and confidence exhibited by the horses toward him. Although my dad was a man of few words, his true voice, a voice that spoke volumes, was spoken within his work and accomplishments with the horses he trained. He often preferred to spend time with the horses over most people and it was that bond which enabled him to train the horses so effectively. This book is about a summer weekend I spent as a ten year old boy helping my father at a horse show and the invaluable lessons of life I learned from my dad and his fellow forgotten horsemen, who a contemporary of theirs called them, Great Men with Great Horses. It was over this weekend I would learn more about my father, horses, and life than I ever thought imaginabl

Author : Shelley Emling
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773053086
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Hero written by Shelley Emling and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them. A Forgotten Hero chronicles Folke’s life and extraordinary journey, from his family history and early years to saving thousands of lives during WWII and his untimely assassination in 1948. A straightforward and compelling narrative, A Forgotten Hero sheds light on this important and heroic historical figure.

Author : Geoffrey Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731991
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Man written by Geoffrey Elliott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life story, have been virtually lost to the mists of time. Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together Lodwick's eventful life, from his youth in Ireland, to his wartime experiences in the SOE and Special Boat Service, his subsequent literary career and his untimely death in a car crash in Spain at the age of just 43. Initially acclaimed by Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess, soon after his death Lodwick's novels fell out of fashion and they have largely remained out-of-print since. Elliott makes the case for a revival in the fortunes of this singular English novelist, in a biography which sheds new light on the early twentieth century literary scene, the surrealist art world and the real-life experiences of World War II.

Author : Gaston Vuillier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Isles written by Gaston Vuillier and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387051905
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Son of the Gods; And, A Horseman in the Sky written by Ambrose Bierce and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Robert Sewell
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120601253
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) written by Robert Sewell and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tsuneichi Miyamoto
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 161172502X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Japanese written by Tsuneichi Miyamoto and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

Author : John Martin Woolsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Mythology and Translation of a Lost and Forgotten Language written by John Martin Woolsey and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Brand
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untamed, The Night Horseman, The Seventh Man & Dan Barry's Daughter written by Max Brand and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Dan Barry novels, Max Brand tells the stirring story of the West, with a bigger-than-life character Whistling Dan Barry and his two rather strange companions, a wild and beautiful black stallion named Satan, and a ferocious wolf-dog called Black Bart. One of the most interesting characters in Western fiction, Whistling Dan is a hero of the west. He can fight several man and still win, he is the best gun fighter there is and he can shoot silver dollars in the air. With somewhat supernatural abilities he can control a mighty wild stallion and a vicious wolf-dog. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Brand also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films.

Author : Connal Parr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192509268
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Myth written by Connal Parr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been notably active in political life - it uniquely examines tensions going on within. Through its exploration of class division and drama from the early twentieth century to the present, the book restores the progressive and Labour credentials of the community's recent past along with its literary repercussions, both of which appear in recent decades to have diminished. Drawing on over sixty interviews, unpublished scripts, as well as rarely-consulted archival material, it shows - contrary to a good deal of clichéd polemic and safe scholarly assessment - that Ulster Protestants have historically and continually demonstrated a vigorous creative pulse as well as a tendency towards Left wing and class politics. St. John Ervine, Thomas Carnduff, John Hewitt, Sam Thompson, Stewart Parker, Graham Reid, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Christina Reid, and Gary Mitchell profoundly challenge as well as reflect their communities. Illuminating a diverse and conflicted culture stretching beyond Orange Order parades, the weaving together of the lives and work of each of the writers highlights mutual themes and insights on their identity, as if part of some grander tapestry of alternative twentieth-century Protestant culture. Ulster Protestantism's consistent delivery of such dissenting voices counters its monolithic and reactionary reputation.