Rachel Dickinson

In this portrait of a man obsessed, "Dickinson presents a clear picture of the strange and fascinating lives of modern falconers" (Ted Floyd, editor, Birding).
Falconer Steve Chindgren is a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the sport that has ruled his life. This portrait of him and the world he inhabits conveys a sense of falconry's allure: the unpredictable nature of the hunt and the soaring exhilaration...

The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West. They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad...

Introduces readers to the settling of the American frontier with over 25 building projects and activities supported by facts, anecdotes, trivia and information about further reading. Provides detailed step-by-step instructions plus diagrams and templates for each project.