This book will take the reader on a word trip back through the recreational landscape of early America. Along the way, he or she will encounter such colorful characters as Blatz the "Human Fish," "Dinner Pail McNutt," "Big-eared Zip," "Sparrow" (a vaudeville performer who would catch ripe pumpkins with his face) and a fast-talking medicine showman who would "cure" corns right through a country bumpkin's shoes with a secret ingredient - gasoline From the gleaming gold-and-silver stream of the great circus street parades to the pounding of the tambourines of the raucous minstrel shows, the...

This book will help you sink into the days when the Wild West was considerably wilder. Join mountain man, James Clyman, as he earns his "mountain man degree" by studying in classes taught by charging grizzlies, murderous Indians and sub-zero windstorms. Then ride alongside Mary Ringo as she summons every ounce of her inner strength to complete her westward journey after her beloved husband died from a shooting accident. Among her children is fourteen-year-old Johnny, who is destined to cast a black cloud over the family name of Ringo. As you plod alongside the "foot soldiers of Zion," you'll...