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Surveying the Great Divide: The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, ...

Surveying the Great Divide: The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, ...

Jay Sherwood

First in new photobook series geared to surveying buffs from prolific author and historian, Jay Sherwood.
The Landscape of Ernest Lamarque: Artist, Surveyor and ...

The Landscape of Ernest Lamarque: Artist, Surveyor and ...

Jay Sherwood

Utilizing unpublished artwork, photographs and written accounts, author Jay Sherwood tells the story of Lamarque's varied, unusual and interesting life.
Chautauqua Serenade: Violinist Ruth Bowers on Tour, 1910-1912

Chautauqua Serenade: Violinist Ruth Bowers on Tour, 1910-1912

Jay Sherwood

Using this material from his family archives, along with newspaper articles from the 1900s and research files from the chautauqua collection at the University of Iowa, author-historian Jay Sherwood pieces together the unique life of his ...
Furrows in the Sky: The Adventures of Gerry Andrews

Furrows in the Sky: The Adventures of Gerry Andrews

Jay Sherwood

In Furrows in the Sky, historian Jay Sherwood tells the story of this man's remarkable life, based on his personal correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and diaries, interviews with people who knew him, and published articles by and about ...
Echoes of the Past

Echoes of the Past

Kathleen Sherwood

Kathleen Sherwood. kathleen sherwood echoes of the past Can Sydney silence the Echoes of the Past and hear the promise of her future? Tate Publishing & Enterprises Echoes of the Past Copyright © 2009 by Kathleen Sherwood.
Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.
The Egg and Other Stories

The Egg and Other Stories

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson. I. WANT. TO. KNOW. WHY. WE GOT up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with the true instinct of Kentucky boys had found our ...
Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Frank Cyril Swannell

Swannell photographed First Peoples, settlers, various methods of transportation and the daily life of a surveying crew. Of about 1500 photographs he took between 1920 and 1928, Jay Sherwood has selected the best for this book.
On the Wings of the Eagle: A Story of Love, War and Faith

On the Wings of the Eagle: A Story of Love, War and Faith

Kathleen Sherwood

Sherwood has woven actual war stories, shared with her by friends and family, into her tale, which give this book a powerful, thought-provoking foundation.
Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Jay Sherwood

SURVEYING SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA makes a significant contribution to the history of our province and is a well-crafted conclusion to this important series.
Poor White (Unabridged)

Poor White (Unabridged)

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson. harshly. For a time Clara did not answer her father's question. She wanted to scream, to strike him in the face with her fist as she had struck theman in the shed. Then her mind struggled to take hold of the new situation.
Windy McPherson's Son (Unabridged)

Windy McPherson's Son (Unabridged)

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson. had written p—try and at one time had studied for the ministry, and in Chicago, under Jack Prince, he had developed into a money maker and led the life of a talented, rather unscrupulous man of the world. Hekept a ...
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The ...

Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The ...

Sherwood Anderson

They transformed the tone of American storytelling, inspiring writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, and Mailer, and defining a tradition of midwestern fiction that includes Charles Baxter, editor of this volume.
Ootsa Lake Odyssey: George and Else Seel: a Pioneer Life on ...

Ootsa Lake Odyssey: George and Else Seel: a Pioneer Life on ...

Jay Sherwood

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the western shore of Ootsa Lake.
Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Jay Sherwood

Return to Northern British Columbia includes a photo gallery of unpublished Skook Davidson photographs found in Swannell's photo albums.
One-Minute Devotions for Dads

One-Minute Devotions for Dads

Jay Payleitner

Enter Jay Payleitner, exit terror. Father of five and bestselling author of 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad (over 75,000 sold), Jay knows how regular guys think because he is one.
Anchorboy

Anchorboy

Jay Onrait

Top Ten Things You’ll Learn When You Read This Book: 10) Jay was beaten up by an MMA fighter on live television 9) Interviewing Will Ferrell can be a harrowing experience 8) Jay once ruined a perfectly good pair of underwear on Christmas ...
Anchorboy

Anchorboy

Jay Onrait

Top Ten Things You’ll Learn When You Read This Book: 10) Jay was beaten up by an MMA fighter on live television 9) Interviewing Will Ferrell can be a harrowing experience 8) Jay once ruined a perfectly good pair of underwear on Christmas ...
The descendants of Henry Dominick, Senior

The descendants of Henry Dominick, Senior

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She married Jay Gary Webb (July 27, 1891 -Oct. 29, 1969) in Sept. 1923. Bonnie and Jay are buried in Harmony Cemetery in Richland, Georgia. Jay Gary Webb was previously married to Annie Lee Gordy. The parents of Jay Gary Webb are ...
Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War

Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War

Harriet Hyman Alonso

"In this book, Harriet Hyman Alonso unravels Sherwood's inner struggle and portrays his political journey.
From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia's Religious Heritage

From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia's Religious Heritage

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Indeed, his biographer Jarrett Burch argues that during this period Sherwood was nothing less than “the primary force . . . in Georgia Baptist life.” Burch points to Sherwood's use of “altar calls” in the late 1820s, which helped bring in sixteen ...
Disrupt Yourself

Disrupt Yourself

Jay Samit

'As Jay teaches in this book . . . disruption can propel you toward new opportunities, new creative challenges and prosperity' Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn 'Jay Samit offers sage advice for launching products, building businesses and ...
Charles Ives Reconsidered

Charles Ives Reconsidered

Gayle Sherwood Magee

Gayle Sherwood Magee. 1. the. Discovery. In the sweet by and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore. —from “In the sweet By and By” Outside, the thick August air clung to the thousands of visitors crowding the Chicago Midway. Excited ...
Neighbors North and South: Literary Culture, Political ...

Neighbors North and South: Literary Culture, Political ...

Amy Lynn Spellacy

Howard Mumford Jones and Walter B. Rideout (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969), 464. 63 Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson Selected Letters, ed. Charles E. Modlin (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984), 250.
Adiel Sherwood: Baptist Antebellum Pioneer in Georgia

Adiel Sherwood: Baptist Antebellum Pioneer in Georgia

Jarrett Burch

"Adiel Sherwood (1791-1879) helped establish some of the first antebellum efforts in education, temperance, and mission outreach in Georgia, especially among Georgia Baptists.
Sherwood Anderson: An American Career

Sherwood Anderson: An American Career

John Earl Bassett

Sherwood Anderson: An American Career is the first critical introduction to this important Midwestern and American writer in over a quarter century.
Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters: For Eleanor, a ...

Sherwood Anderson's Secret Love Letters: For Eleanor, a ...

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Found by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson only at Sherwood Anderson's death in 1941 and then preserved intact by this grieving widow who had married Anderson in 1933, the carefully hidden letters of 1932 recording their intense and seemingly ...
Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...

Jay Sherwood

Surveying Northern British Columbia sets out to recognize--and celebrate--Frank Swannell as British Columbia's most famous pioneer surveyor and his important place within the history of British Columbia.
The James McMurry Dunn family of Texas and Kentucky; the ...

The James McMurry Dunn family of Texas and Kentucky; the ...

William Edward Dunn (1888-)

With her husband, Marvin B. Sherwood, she lived the last years of her life in Crystal City, Texas, near their daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Sherwood Williams (Mrs. Lloyd Williams). She died on December l9, l955, following a massive thrombosis,  ...

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