Ai Machonnee

Joe Helms received a grant while at the University of Maryland. He was on a quest to find lost treasures and artifacts of the Spanish explorers who came up from Mexico to travel through what is Now Texas, Oklahoma, and into Colorado. In the 1890's Joe Helms set out on his quest and found more than he bargained for. The University sent Joe a letter telling him that he no longer held a grant or was employed by them. It was not long afterward that Joe made the biggest discovery of his life and became a rich man. Even though he had every thing that he had ever wanted he was still haunted by not finding out more about the old Spanish Settlement at Devils Canyon.

Don Ulma had heard of the Bell ranch but who hadn’t in this part of the country. By a fluke in being in the wrong place at the wrong time Don had the chance of working on the ranch. Then Don and Cup Madden along with Noaks Oaks made a trip to Montana to purchase Appaloosa horses for the ranch. On the way back the horse herd was stolen and Cup died while Don was saved from being killed because he carried books to read. In recovering the horse herd Don rescued two women who was being evicted from their property by gun man shooting at the house. Notlong after that Don married one of the women and bought the herd of the Flying U from a dieing rancher. Don moved the cattle back to his land holdings in No Mans Land or some folks called it the Cimarron Strip which was a haven for outlaws and rustlers. What it took to hold the Flying U was guns and guts along with savvy on how to make things work for the ranch.

By the end of the Civil War jobs were a thing of luxury if you had one which paid money. The men returning from the war found their lives disrupted, families starving or dead. Then someone decided to drive cattle north to Kansas City or Sedalia Missouri. There was where the markets were for a country which had a need for beef. This is the story of one man who took an old Osage Indian for his word of "All ways help others and they will help you."Teaming up, with a man he found walking and looking for a job, they put together a herd of longhorns and headed north to market. Over the next years they had formed the WH ranch and in doing so had ended up with nineteen orphans from around the area. At times he did not know if he was in the cattle business or raising children. However along the way everyone on the ranch became a big family and the ranch grew through hardships and good times along the way.

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries), Argyri Dermitzaki reconstructs the devotional experiences within the Greek realm of the Venetian Stato da Mar of Western European pilgrims sailing to Jerusalem. The author traces the evolution of the various forms of cultic sites and the perception of them as nodes of a wider network of the pilgrims’ ‘holy topography’. She scrutinises travelogues in conjunction with archaeological, visual and historical evidence and offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites invested with exceptional meaning at the main ports of call of the pilgrims’ galleys in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.

A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.

When Krianne gains consciousness, she finds herself at the Alder Scouts Youth camp. She has lost her memory and has no clue who she was in the past, but she enjoys herself at the camp and makes it her home. One day she starts seeing intriguing objects, symbols and places in her dreams. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is told that she has to save a lucky medallion that was being sought after by Zephiroth, the evil lord. She also realizes that she is no normal human and can use magic. But she has to search for the medallion, lest it goes into the wrong hands. The enigma consumes Krianne because she was the last one who held the medallion, but she doesn t know where it is now as she has forgotten her past completely. The search throws up many challenges and deterring obstacles for Krianne. The race has begun&Whom will the medallion favour?