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Akron/Family: Meek Warrior
4/5: New York-based Akron/Family returns with a stellar sophomore effort, Meek Warrior, an album that mixes traditional and avant-garde elements.
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JOE MEEK BECOMES A MOUNTAIN MAN
Joe Meek was a very young man when he left his Virginia home for the west. In St. Louis he saw many wonderful sites but what caught his eye most were the mountain men. After sighing on with Bill Sublette's fur company Joe learned just what kind of a man it took to become a mountain man.
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The Meek Shall Inherit the World
While camping we found that paying a little more attention to our surroundings may have prevented turning a fun experience into a nightmare.
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12 Days of Christmas: Day 8
The eight maids a-milking represent the eight beatitudes Jesus spoke in his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's Gospel.
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TV Movie: The Night Stalker (1972)
Newspaper reporter Darren McGavin believes a vampire is on the loose in Las Vegas in ABC-TV's The Night Stalker. Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland and Ralph Meeker co-star.
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Elijah Elliot's Lost Wagon Train
Elijah Elliot promised a wagon train of 1,000 men and women that his route to Oregon would save them time and energy. He actually had never seen the route.
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Jackson Waters EP
Word Records just released the 4-song digital EP "Center of Attention" by modern-rockers Jackson Waters, but already the buzz is enormous.
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Jackson Waters: Come Undone
With "Come Undone," Jackson Waters, the 5-piece modern rock band out of Arkansas, lives up to the expectations set up by their earlier EP, "Center of Attention."
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Jim Bridger and the Fur Trade (Part 2)
After 1840, the demand for beaver pelts was drastically reduced. That was because the silly fashion that had demanded it (top hats), had changed to silk. Now what was Jim Bridger to do with his time?
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The Sagers Go West, part 12
Dr. Whitman has his grist mill running until the Indian Chief Tomahas becomes angry because he can not have his grain milled first and stuffs the hopper with sticks. Elizabeth Sager goes fishing and an Indian boy takes her fish away from her. A half-breed, Tom Hill, makes the boy return the fish. Hill, an educated and English-speaking Indian begins to cause unrest among the Cayuse. Though the Indians seem peaceful, Tomahas is heard saying that the Indians want the whites to leave.
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The Sagers Go West, part 15
The measles continues to plague both whites and Indians. The whites are recovering but the Indians are dying at the rate of five or six a day, both children and adults. Nearly half of the tribe was now gone. The Indians begin plotting Dr. Whitmans’ death. Soon the attack begins.
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The Sagers Go West, part 16
The Whitman Mission is attack by Indians. The Whitmans are killed as well as the two Sager boys. Many white children and adults are held captive on the mission grounds for a month. Both Louise Sager and Helen Mar Meek die due to measles.
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The Sagers Go West, part 8
Captain Shaw leads the wagon train over the treacherous Blue Mountains. After traveling another some three hundred miles they arrive at the Whitman Mission. Mrs. Whitman agrees to take the girls in but refuses the boys until Dr. Whitman declares that he wants them.
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The Sagers Go West, part 9
Captain Shaw leads the wagon train over the treacherous Blue Mountains. After traveling another some three hundred miles they arrive at the Whitman Mission. Mrs. Whitman agrees to take the girls in but refuses the boys until Dr. Whitman declares that he wants them.
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Ender's Game: Book to Movie
Ender's Game by OSC is slated to be made into a movie in the next year. How well will the suspenseful, psychologically intriguing book translate to the silver screen?
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HEART OF THE PLAINS
When Coronado explored that part of the Great American Plains known today as Kansas this wild and rugged land was inhabited by the Wichita, Pawnee, Kansa, and the Osage people. In the years after the 1803 signing of the Louisiana Purchase these Native Americans were joined by missionaries, pioneers, buffalo hunters. Then came the wild days of the cattle drives, outlaws and lawmen.
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 11
The Whitmans build their mission to the Cayuse Indians at Waiilatpu, known as the Place of the Rye Grass. Their daughter is born and drowns in the river. After an epidemic of black measles the Cayuse attack the mission and kill the Whitmans and others.
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, part 9
The Whitman and Spalding missionary party, with the fur caravan, reach the mountain man rendezvous on Green River. They are received with a wild uproarious greeting by such as Joe Meek and hundreds of Indians from various tribes but find that Reverend Samuel Parker, who was to lead them the rest of the way, is missing.
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The Sagers Go West, part 17
The Indians hold the white prisoners captive on the Whitman Mission grounds for some thirty days until they are ransomed by Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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Walking in the Master’s Path: 21st Century Conformity or Liberty and Freedom?
A personal walk in the Master’s Path is based on personal perception of how the Master viewed life and life’s questions. The notion that you are not walking that path if someone prominent or someone personally important to you disagrees with your definitions is, as I have said many times before, borrowing someone else’s magic.
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