Yesterday, October 3, Lou had her blood work and two CT Scans done at Hendrick Hospital in Abilene. It was a tough day because she couldn't drink anything but clear fluids. She finished about 2 and celebrated by a big meal at Red Lobster. We did some shopping at HEB and came home. Today she is still lacking energy, but doesn't hurt as much as she has been.
I read a book waiting for her yesterday. Finished HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN by Johnny Boggs, who will be our author at the CP Public Library Meet the Author event Oct. 17. I read his book THE BIG FIFTY, a history of a Sharp's buffalo hunting rifle in a novel about buffalo hunting on the Llano Estacado that started with a Kansas boy being attacked with his father by Comanches. The boy was captured and lived with the Indians for a couple of years. He escapes and joins a buffalo hunting crew. The history covers the Adobe Walls fight and ends down at Fort Griffin, so I knew the terrain. It was a great story. HANNAH is set at Fort Davis and I need to find out where some of the passes are. Limpia creek I am familiar with. It ends with a horse race on a six mile track that starts and ends in Fort Davis. The protagonist is an educated son of a Greek fisherman who reads Homer in the Greek while he is breaking mustangs to sell to the army at Ft. Davis. His adventures require him to steal his horses back from Apaches and from white rustlers all while he is befriending Hannah who runs an orphanage that the bad guys are trying to repossess. As far as I could tell, Petros didn't get any sleep for two weeks in the story.
Another book that I thought was great and posted my review in Amazon.com is THE LONG JOURNEY HOME by Don Coldsmith. My review said it should be made into a great movie. It is a great historical novel centered on the career of Jim Thorpe, the legendary Indian athlete from Prague, OK where I lived for 3 years. It should be a movie because it covers a young Lakota Indian who tries to move into the white man's world and whose adventures takes him to the Olympics in Sweden to coach Thorpe and later to visit the Olymics in Germany when Hitler ignored Jesse Owens, the black star. The Indian was given the American name John Buffalo, tries unsuccessfully to break into the coaching business after a too successful football career at Carlisle, joins the Army in WWI, catches flu and falls in love with his Army nurse, finally joins the 101 Ranch Western Show and travels all over the world with that operation. It would make a great movie. Has an interesting love story throughout. I loaned it to our local cowboy, Tim Byerly, and he appreciated the horse stories. The characters include Pickett the black cowboy who bulldogged steers by biting their lip, meetings with famous coaches including Naismith, who invented basketball, stories of legendary football games and a whole lot more.
I named Chuck Etheridge's book incorrectly. It is BORDER CANTO TRILOGY: BOOK ONE. My daughter borrowed it for her husband, Keith, to read. I still think it is a great novel.
Charles
I read a book waiting for her yesterday. Finished HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN by Johnny Boggs, who will be our author at the CP Public Library Meet the Author event Oct. 17. I read his book THE BIG FIFTY, a history of a Sharp's buffalo hunting rifle in a novel about buffalo hunting on the Llano Estacado that started with a Kansas boy being attacked with his father by Comanches. The boy was captured and lived with the Indians for a couple of years. He escapes and joins a buffalo hunting crew. The history covers the Adobe Walls fight and ends down at Fort Griffin, so I knew the terrain. It was a great story. HANNAH is set at Fort Davis and I need to find out where some of the passes are. Limpia creek I am familiar with. It ends with a horse race on a six mile track that starts and ends in Fort Davis. The protagonist is an educated son of a Greek fisherman who reads Homer in the Greek while he is breaking mustangs to sell to the army at Ft. Davis. His adventures require him to steal his horses back from Apaches and from white rustlers all while he is befriending Hannah who runs an orphanage that the bad guys are trying to repossess. As far as I could tell, Petros didn't get any sleep for two weeks in the story.
Another book that I thought was great and posted my review in Amazon.com is THE LONG JOURNEY HOME by Don Coldsmith. My review said it should be made into a great movie. It is a great historical novel centered on the career of Jim Thorpe, the legendary Indian athlete from Prague, OK where I lived for 3 years. It should be a movie because it covers a young Lakota Indian who tries to move into the white man's world and whose adventures takes him to the Olympics in Sweden to coach Thorpe and later to visit the Olymics in Germany when Hitler ignored Jesse Owens, the black star. The Indian was given the American name John Buffalo, tries unsuccessfully to break into the coaching business after a too successful football career at Carlisle, joins the Army in WWI, catches flu and falls in love with his Army nurse, finally joins the 101 Ranch Western Show and travels all over the world with that operation. It would make a great movie. Has an interesting love story throughout. I loaned it to our local cowboy, Tim Byerly, and he appreciated the horse stories. The characters include Pickett the black cowboy who bulldogged steers by biting their lip, meetings with famous coaches including Naismith, who invented basketball, stories of legendary football games and a whole lot more.
I named Chuck Etheridge's book incorrectly. It is BORDER CANTO TRILOGY: BOOK ONE. My daughter borrowed it for her husband, Keith, to read. I still think it is a great novel.
Charles
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