The people J Frank Dobie liked to write about during his lifetime were the men and women who came "out of the old rock" --genuine, independent, unpretentious people,specialists of one kind or another, whether that specialty was teaching or horseshoeing--people who were, above all, interesting. There are sixteen such personalities in OUT OF THE OLD ROCK: a cowboy preacher, a wildcatter, a trail driver, a gunman, an ornithologist, a rancher, a homesteader, several teachers and writers, including artist-novelist Tom Lea, historian Walter Prescott Webb, and folk singer-archivist John Lomax. Most of them Dobie knew personally, some intimately, and they come vividly alive through his portraits--in the familiar way in which a common friend may make you surprisingly knowledgeable about somebody you may never actually have met.Compiled by Frank Dobie's wife and lifelong companion, Bertha Dobie, who also provides the Introduction, this is a memorable collection by a memorable man, rich with dobie's own special brand of warm insight and humor.

Out of the Old Rock (Comstock Edition)

J. Frank Dobie

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Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud aka the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, called "The Rock" and known for its harsh conditions. This gripping true crime classic, originally written in 1963 and newly reissued, tells the story of life on The Rock and of fourteen ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners. Most notable perhaps was Frank Morris, whose daring plan of escape was the basis for the memorable 1979 Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz.

Escape from Alcatraz

Politics & Social Sciences

Bruce, J.Campbell

Social Sciences

FINE AS NEW CLEAN AND TIGHT - PAPERBACK. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. COMSTOCK edition. SIXTH PRINTING; JULY 1978. Skid Road tells the story of Seattle "from the bottom up," offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City's first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citizens. With his trademark combination of deep local knowledge, precision, and wit, Murray Morgan traces the city's history from its earliest days as a hacked-from-the-wilderness timber town, touching on local tribes, settlers, the lumber and railroad industries, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, flourishing dens of vice, general strikes, the 1962 World's Fair, and the stuttering growth of the 1970s and '80s. Through it all, Morgan shows us that Seattle's one constant is change and that its penchant for reinvention has always been fueled by creative, if sometimes unorthodox, residents. 1950-1999; 20th Century; Biography &amp; Autobiography; California; General; History; Non-Fiction; Pacific (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington); San Francisco (Calif.); Travel; United States; West; Western U.S.

Skid Road

Travel

Morgan, Murray

United States

One Man's San Francisco

Caen, Herbert Eugene

Complete Tales of Blood and Barbarism on the Barbary Coast! Great Crimes of San Francisco. 7" X 4-1/8" X 1/2", Red Front, Yellow Back. 199 Pages.

Great Crimes of San Francisco

Dickensheet, Dean W.

Sea Routes to the Gold Fields

Lewis, O.

Depicts the life of the Medicine Calf, otherwise known as Jim Beckwourth, a trapper who despised the Blackfeet and who was mistaken for the long-lost son of a Crow chief

Medicine Calf

Literature & Fiction

Hotchkiss, Bill

Contemporary

Baghdad by the Bay

History

CAEN, Herb

Americas

Moontrap

Don Berry

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