<p>Ancestral roots in the Irish potato famine and a keen interest in California history led Author Harry Casey to create the story of two brothers who escape the starvation and British domination of Ireland for America in 1847. Jeremiah Cleary, responsible, hard-working, too often his brother's keeper, and Matthew Cleary, happy-go-lucky, womanizer, drinker and dreamer, suffer the prejudice and rough docks of Boston before heading west. Jeremiah's dream is to own his own land, but Matthew's ambition is to get rich quick in the California gold fields. This is also the story of Jeremiah's young Irish bride, who copes with a new life in a wild, lonesome valley far from the green fields of County Cork, and of her rebel sister who defies the British oppressors in Ireland, but finds her strength of character sorely tested in California. This novel covers fifty years and weaves a tale of two great loves, of droughts and floods, a Civil War battle, Irish land evictions, renegade banditos, squatters and steely-eyed bankers threatening Jeremiah's ranch. Casey, a horseman and cattleman as well as a journalist, writes realistically about this part of the early west. Readers sit with the driver in the seat of a freight wagon, smell the dust of a cattle drive, hear the calves bawling at the brandings, dance at the fiestas, and feel the excitement of a raw, new land. However, this is not a western in the traditional sense, but rather a family saga set in the early west. It was meticulously researched in Ireland as well as California, its historical setting comes alive, and the characters make their way into the hearts of the readers.</p>

Land of the Eagle

Casey, Harry

Scribe Publishing

This sequel to Land of the Eagle continues the saga of the dynamic Cleary family as it is joined by the pioneer newspaper family of a small California town. Millie Godfrey, daughter of the struggling country editor, and Spud Cleary, son the popular, wealthy rancher, fall in love and set in motion events that combine for an exciting, robust combination of pioneer journalism and ranch life. This is a novel that mixes the smell of printer's ink with the dust of a cattle drive. It covers forty years, taking members of the two families from the gold fields of the Yukon to the streets of San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake, from a battlefield in France to an influenza hospital of 1919, from the Irish civil war to the civic struggles of a pioneer town. Casey writes with the authenticity of a newspaper editor for 43 years and a horseman and cattleman whose own roots reach deeply into the town, the hills and valleys in which this story is set. Woven through the pages is the love story of Millie and Spud, suddenly challenged by powerful forces. As the feisty editor struggles to save his weekly newspaper and his editorial integrity, and as the fight for Irish freedom reaches all the way into a small California valley, the Cleary family is beset by a tragedy that serves as a catalyst to bring this novel to an unforgettable climax.

Pen and Plow

<p>Across the deserts of the American southwest are one of the largest concentrations of geoglyphs outside of Peru's Nazca Lines. These ancient Native American works of earthen art can be up to hundreds of feet long, and yet are often invisible until viewed from above. Before drones, GPS, or GoogleMaps, photographer Harry Casey began a unique archaeology project. Armed with nothing more than topographic maps, 35mm film cameras, and his beloved Piper J3 Cub aircraft, Casey spent thirty-five years documenting the region's geoglyphs before natural erosion and human intervention could destroy these fragile sites. Here, for the first time, is a visual record of these beautiful and mysterious, little-known features.</p>

Geoglyphs of the Desert Southwest: Earthen Art as Viewed from Above

Arts & Photography

Morgan, Anne

History & Criticism

Sunbelt Publications

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Land of the Eagle

Pen and Plow

Geoglyphs of the Desert Southwest: Earthen Art as Viewed from Above