Another day Another adventure Herman Hummingbird starts his day as he usually does. However, today, he has a rather harrowing experience. Herman gets up early and begins his search for food. He has some idea where he is going but is always curious and ends up discovering new places and plants almost every day. Today is no exception. But, Herman becomes fascinated with and is drawn to a set of wind chimes on the deck of the house of the old man. The house is located in the beautiful red rock country of Sedona, Arizona. Normally attracted to various red flowers or feeders, his curiosity this...

From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first non-Native people to traverse the range from east to west. That crossing, made long and brutal by bewildering terrain and deep snow, is widely and rightly considered a milestone in the exploration of intermontane North America.
Following Walker s death in 1876, an alluring...

It is 1984, and Brad Morton is a twenty-three-year-old college student who is still devastated by his brother's suicide. For four years, he has done his best to not think of Byron or his untimely death. All he needs to graduate from Brown University is to complete a thesis on Paradise Lost. But first, he needs to find out why his brother died.

After he dies from Rhode Island to Berkeley, California, Brad heads to Byron's former apartment building, where he retrieves a small cardboard box that belonged to his brother. The box contains a journal, several photographs, and a lm reel...