Battle For The Bar Q

Mitch Evans is riding to his brother's small ranch after receiving a telegram saying there was trouble brewing. But Cal Morgan, a ranch hand for the Bar-Q, has been forced by his ruthless foreman, Latham Parry, to ambush Mitch before he can get to his brother's ranch, the Bar-B. Both men shoot each other - Mitch in the shoulder and Cal in the leg. So begins an unlikely friendship that will endure pain and hardship as well as love. All in the name of the Bar-Q.

After receiving a telegram warning him of trouble brewing, Mitch Evans rides as fast as he can to his brother's small ranch. But Cal Morgan, a ranch hand, has been forced by his ruthless foreman Latham Parry to ambush Mitch before he can get to the Bar-Q. Both men shoot and wound each other - yet from this inauspicious beginning springs an unlikely friendship...

Ranging from studies on sport and national education and pulp fiction to infanticide, psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.

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The countryside between Mobile and New Orleans teems with memorials, but few historic spots occasion pause for reflection like the Old Biloxi Cemetery. Burials go back to the eighteenth-century French settlement, when Biloxi was the planned capital of the Louisiana territory. Secrets abound in the old cemetery--not exactly buried, since many prominent inhabitants sealed unsolved mysteries with their final remains in the aboveground tombs developed here. Author John Cuevas explores the fascinating history of the cemetery, including the massive restoration of the iconic resting place of his ancestor Juan de Cuevas, great-grandfather to more than nine thousand Gulf Coast families.

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