I‘m enjoying taco salad for supper and a few chapters of Anything for Billy in the backyard on this beautiful evening.
#ReadAndEat #DeweysReadathon
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I‘m enjoying taco salad for supper and a few chapters of Anything for Billy in the backyard on this beautiful evening.
#ReadAndEat #DeweysReadathon
My new at school read, although I‘m pretty sure I‘ll soon be invested enough that I‘ll be taking this book back and forth. It starts out with three men meeting each other on a foggy mountain and deciding to travel together. It‘s a McMurtry novel I‘d never heard of until a former student recommended it to me.
#TeachersOfLitsy #CurrentlyReading
Gotta love the weather in Wisconsin! 🙄
pickTom Clavin has become the go-to author for old west history. This is the story of one of the last outlaw gangs of the Wild West. Focusing on the ill fated attempt to rob two banks at once in the town of Coffeyville, Kansas that resulted in a shootout with a sizable portion of the citizens of that town.
"He began to die when he was twenty-one, but tuberculosis is slow and sly and subtle."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
pickThe Lamar and Hayden Valley areas are known a the American Serengeti. The open plains, the wildlife, the understanding of America as an amazing landscape. If you have seen this, it can be hard to believe that we almost lost it in the late nineteenth century. George Bird Grinnell is one of the men we can thank for saving this precious resource. He recognized that without proper conservation, the American West would be plundered into devastation.
pickThis was definitely a case of the right book at the right time. With so much holiday craziness I only had time to read in little sips, which turned out to be the perfect way to read this story.
In 1898 Alex joins a field study in Yellowstone National Park and shocks the other scientists by being a woman 😱 The story touches on conservation, Native American displacement, feminism, and the nature of science.
#BookedInTime Victorian Era
"Dear Professor,
Dr. Philip Aber of the Smithsonian made a presentation on campus last week in which he discussed your planned field study in Yellowstone National Park."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Starting the tagged book today for December's #BookedInTime Victorian Era @Cuilin @dabbe
pickGood account of the Mormon Trail from out of Nauvoo in 1846 through the Handcart painfulness of 1857 and almost to the Railroad era. He does use some questionable sources but mostly it is well written and tries to be somewhat unbiased.
