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Everyone has a theory about luck, wanting to attract good luck and keep bad away. When you make your living riding wild horses or, even worse, crazed bulls in a rodeo, you know that good luck isn’t just important — it is essential. If you could ever get a handle on it, maybe you’d figure out how to play things so you came out ahead, at least for a while. A story of loss and recovery and learning to take things as they come.
Examines the impact of administered prices in concentrated industries on the cost of living. Also compares market pricing mechanisms of agricultural industries with administered pricing practices of manufacturing industries.
Some say the end of mankind is near. Some say that financial turmoil is part of the process, along with global warming, warfare and the spread of mass psychosis. Children are fed drugs to keep them calm; nations are invaded by their neighbors; the climate is changing all around us; celebrities become our gods and materialism is the new mantra. But what is the real truth? Is there an answer to all this? If our material lives are making us happier, then why so many self-help books, films and philosophies? It can't be denied that the times are changing. Every day sees new challenges for our species, while we cause mayhem and madness on an unbelievable scale. But there is a ratio to it all, a rh...
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“WE RUN OVER SNAKES” is a fictional novel set in an actual historical time and setting. It is a story of the struggle of military veterans and their families carving homestead farms from dirt, sagebrush and rattlesnakes in rugged Wyoming. The lives of three families become intricately interwoven as they form friendships and partnerships in battling the rigors of scratching out a living on soil that won’t cooperate. Wanting only to be left alone to love their land and their families, the farmers find themselves drowning in politics as they discover the government had misrepresented the capabilities of their homestead land. This is a story of disappointment and hope, of pain and triumph, of fear and faith.
Appendix A: List of soldiers in the War of 1861-5, arranged by towns, 173 p. -- Appendix B: Newspaper clippings, 1861-1865, obituary notices, and etc., 35 p. -- Appendix C: Money raised, etc., 17 p. -- Followed by Addenda and Index.