Hello Booksharians.
Happy New Year.
Today I submitted my first scan of the year.
And another book I had submitted on December 28 I noticed was released and is
also ready for proofreading.
Not sure if that second book had expired or if the volunteer just opted not to
continue. No comments were showing.
In each of these I try my best to get the book in good shape, and change the
font format and do what is needed for the page numbers and headings. Volunteer
comments provide more details, and I always provide my email and am available
for any questions.
Thanks.
Rik James
Here are the 2 book titles.
Soap Suds Row by Jennifer Lawrence (Dec. 28, 2016)
Wide Skies by Gary Holthaus (January 10, 2017)
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Wide skies: Finding a Home in the West
AUTHOR: Gary H. Holthaus
Copyright © 1997 The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved
ISBN 0-8165-1673-1
FROM THE BOOK'S BACK COVER
“Gary Holthaus tells stories from his life of work and service in the West and
Alaska that are so cool and calm that you almost have to look twice. That’s
when it gets good.
“Here’s a subtle, personal, deeply experienced, and finely crafted book of
actual life in the big western space.”
GARY SNYDER
Author of Mountains and Rivers Without End and The Practice of the Wild.
“Like many other Americans, judging from the amount of predawn traffic, I am on
the move, scurrying through the dark like a coyote, nose down in pursuit of
something--my work, an ephemeral desire that has no name, a life, an end of
restlessness, a true place in the world.”
This book is a view not from the media, not from , think tanks or legislators
or policy makers, but from westerners themselves who tell us about the
circumstances of their lives. Their West is indisputably the real West.
Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives Of Army Laundresses, 1802-1876
Copyright 2016 © Jennifer J. Lawrence
ISBN 9781937147105
Publisher: High Plains Press
FROM THE BOOK'S BACK COVER:
The untold true story of the spirited laundresses of the U.S. Army
Women have always followed the troops, but military laundresses were the first
to be carried on the rolls of the U.S. Army. They traveled and lived alongside
the soldiers during two of the most important conflicts in United States
history: the Civil War and the war on the western frontier.
A few laundresses made names for themselves. Laundresses who “got written up in
records, diaries, and newspapers were often involved in colorful or unfortunate
circumstances. No, they were not all “loose women.” Some were; however, most
were simply brave, adventurous, and unorthodox women.
They marched with the army for hundreds of miles, carrying their babies and
tugging small children behind them. Among the first non-native women on lonely
frontier outposts, they waited in frightened huddles in camps and forts for
their soldier-husbands to return from dangerous campaigns.
Susie King Taylor, born a slave, taught both black children and soldiers to
read and write between washing piles of laundry. A Mexican-American War
laundress was eulogized as able to “whip any man, fair fight or foul; shoot a
pistol better than anyone; and outplay or out-cheat any gambler.” A well-known
laundress from the Indian Wars period, Mrs. Nash, kept a secret that remained
undiscovered until her death. Little note was made of laundresses who worked
hard day after day, like Maggie Flood, wh faced special family challenges on
the frontier.
