Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later became the first president of U.S. Steel and then founder of Bethlehem Steel. His was one of the most spectacular and curious success stories in an era of great industrial giants.
How did Schwab progress from day laborer to titan of industry? Why did Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan select him to manage their multmillion-dollar enterprises? And how did he forfeit their confidence and lose the preseidency of U.S. Steel? Drawing upon previously undiscovered sources, Robert Hessen answers these questions in the first biography of Schwab.
Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives.
Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.
Add a charming touch to wearing apparel, cushion covers, table linen, and other domestic items with 25 easy-to-use designs perfect for crewel embroidery, fabric painting, and other crafts. Includes such familiar floral favorites as pansies, dogwood, morning glories, columbine, and many more.
Today, there are a growing number of titles available for C#. This text strikes an excellent balance between a basic language tutorial with an authoritative presentation of what's new and better in .NET with coverage of the some of the inner details of the platform, including deployment. The author's patient writing style is never dull or overly technical, which will mean this book is a good choice for a wide range of readers approaching C# from a variety of languages including C++, Java, and Visual Basic.
At certain points, the author looks at "intermediate language" (IL) bytecodes that underlie the C# language. This is particularly informative in chapters that look at assemblies and deployment. As a tour of the basics of the C# language, this book distinguishes itself with short, effective examples (many of which use a set of classes modeling cars). Coverage of programming Windows Forms is really good, as is the chapter on getting the older COM and .NET components to interoperate. The focus of this book is mostly on traditional client-side development, though it does cover the latest in Web development with sections on basic ASP.NET and Web services, which round out the book.
The author does a good job at explaining how .NET works while bringing readers of different abilities up to speed with C#. Experts will appreciate the detail on class design, COM, and Web services, while beginners will be able to follow the author's well-organized tour of the basics. In all, this combination of strengths makes C# and the .NET Platform an attractive choice in the growing list of titles on Microsoft's latest programming language. --Richard Dragan
C# 2005 has changed the .NET 2.0 landscape. To name just a few improvements, C# now supports generics, partial types and nullable types when you're coding. And the Framework boasts improved speed, data access, security, and scalability.
This book has been written to help you assimilate all this new information and realize its potential to make your coding life easier. It will keep you ahead of the curve. To make it easy for you to access this information, the book has been loosely grouped into five sections:
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Introducing C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform explains the mechanics of .NET programming and the philosophy that lies behind it
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The C# Programming Language outlines everything you need to know to start using C# 2005 quickly and efficiently. Object lifetimes, exception handling, generics--it's all here
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Programming with .NET Assemblies deals with one of the most important aspects of .NET programming: reusing code. This book shows you how to capture your code in reuseable external assemblies that you can call upon throughout your applications
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Programming with the .NET Libraries guides you through them. Of course you're not expected to write every function yourself. The .NET Framework provides a vast array of .NET Libraries containing functionality that allows you to do everything from opening a file-stream to rendering graphical data to the screen
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Web Applications and XML Web Services concludes the book by taking you away from console-based C# applications and investigating the myriad possibilities that become available when you blend C# 2005 with ASP.NET 2.0 to launch your applications onto the Internet
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C# and the .NET Platform is #1 in Programming Category! At the 13th Annual Waterside Publishing Conference held in Berkeley, a panel of industry experts in conjunction with Books 24x7 and Waterside Productions, selected Andrew Troelsen's book from among thousands of books as the top dog. Apress Publisher, Gary Cornell, was on hand to accept the prestigious
2003 Referenceware Excellence Award on Andrew's behalf. Congratulations Andrew!
Jolt Product Excellence Finalist! Software Development Magazine announced its finalists for the 12th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. Andrew Troelsen's, C# and the .NET Platform, is a finalist in the "Books" category.
C# is the native language for Microsoft's .NET platform. In this book, Andrew Troelsen shows you how to use C# for developing virtually every possible kind of .NET application. From Windows-based to Web-based applications, it's all here. There are detailed discussions of every aspect of .NET development and useful examples with no toy code(tm).
Relentlessly practical and complete, C# and the .NET Platform starts with a brief overview of the C# language and then quickly moves to key technical and architectural issues for .NET developers. Not only is there extensive coverage of the .NET framework, but Troelsen also shows you what you need to know(tm) about such necessary but subtle areas as the proper use of threads. You will see how to use C# for GUI applications with a complete discussion of Windows Forms and GDI+. There are equally useful discussions of how to use C# and .NET for Web development, Web Services, and data access using ADO.NET. Since traditional COM applications aren't going away anytime soon, Troelsen includes complete coverage of the subtle issues involved with .NET / COM interoperability.
Written in the same five-star style as his previous book, this is the comprehensive book on C# and .
Customer Reviews:
For serious .NET Developers.......2007-03-28
This book should seriously exist in your shelf if you consider yourself a .NET programmer. The book explains the nitty-gritty of the C# language and consuming the .NET framework using C#. The chapter on delegates and events is thorough but I do have to admit that the chapter on Threading (Chapter 14) is somewhat lacking, but I'm guessing that Apress probably has a book for that (no points taken, Threading is another subject matter worthy of serious study). So why this book? If you really need to know what delegates are, if you need to know about generics or anonymous functions, this is the book to have. It makes a solid crash course for .NET 1.1 developers understandable while at the same time it lends itself to be a solid reference material.
Comprehensive, But a Little Frustrating.......2006-12-22
On the whole, I've been very happy with this book -- it covers a great deal of ground. But it doesn't really teach -- at best, it glosses.
Of course, this might just be the nature of trying to cover such a vast technological landscape in a single book, but then again, I've read many a tech book of just this length, and come away with a much deeper understanding of things than I feel like I this one offers.
The chapter on interfaces, events and delegates is a particularly frustrating one: the author writes extensively about each of these concepts, and provides working examples of each, in various flavors, but never explains *why* anyone might prefer to use one of these paradigms over, say, regular ol' vanilla method invocation. Sure, all these things work, but why might someone use one approach over another? Which one, or ones, are more preferable in practice? On the whole, these kinds of whys don't really get treated; we get the concepts, a few examples, and we move on, without much explanation beyond the how-tos.
If you've picked up this particular book, you've probably got some experience under your belt. While it's a good book and I'm glad I have it (and would recommend it), if you're thinking of picking it up, be prepared to deal with a fair amount of frustration at what's missing.
Do your own examples.......2006-10-31
A few people criticised simple examples that go with the book.
Do your own examples for each chapter and that will teach you anything. Just reading the book and understanding it is not enough.
I believe that a good programming book is the one that:
1. presents it all
2. presents it as simply as possible.
This book does it all.
Great book in advanced topics.......2006-10-29
This book is a good guide for someone who is looking for overall information on C# advanced topics and who wants to get advanced knowledge of C#.
Good, thorough book on C#/.NET 2.o foundations.......2006-10-20
Overall, this book is a good, wide-ranging text on C# and the .NET 2.0 platform. However, it can be a little long-winded and hard to read.
The book is divided into five sections: Introducing C# and the .NET Platform, The C# Programming Language, Programming with .NET Assemblies, Programming with the .NET Libraries, and Web Applications and XML Web Services. Given the range of the book, it is clear that not every topic in .NET 2.0/C#, but what is there is a very good representation of the most fundamental parts of the platform. After reading the book, you will not know everything in the platform, but you should have a good idea to where in the MSDN documentation to look to find what you need.
Part 1 is some fluff about the .NET platform and the tools you can use to do .NET development. Part 2 is a good exposition of the C# language covering object-oriented programming, exception handling, collections, delegates, and generics. Part 3 on assemblies is so-so since much of the same material is treated much more succinctly in MSDN, though the chapters on processes and multithreading are good. Part 4 is a good quick run through some of the fundamental classes in the .NET libraries. Given the massive size of the .NET libraries, you can't expect to find everything here, but you will get a good lay of the land so you can find what you need. Part 5 treats web development, and the information again is a reference on the fundamentals of a huge development space. As I don't do web development, I can't really comment on how good it is.
My main complaint about this book is that it could be perhaps 70% of its length without losing any information. The book is title "Pro C#" and yet simple topics like certain aspects of object-oriented programming and using generics seem to try to include something for the beginner, making the exposition drag on much longer than necessary for a "pro" to understand what is going on. As a pro with C++, Java and a couple of other languages, I found myself getting impatient with the exposition quite often. Fortunately, in the end you do get the information you need. The editing could be a bit better and some of the tortured locutions used by Mr. Troelsen need to be cut, but these are minor distractions.
Overall, you can't go wrong by getting this book and once you've digested it, you should have a very good foundation for doing .NET development.
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This is the incredible true story of how a $40 a week baker became a multi-millionaire owner of a Super Bowl NFL team and an unprecidented philanthropist.
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Believe in yourself.......2005-02-01
In one word - inspirational. Alex Spanos, an immigrant's son, lives the American dream. The 2004 Forbes 400 places Spanos at number 260 with an estimated net worth of $1,100,000,000. This book, written a few years ago, is the story of Spanos' life through August 2001.
When Spanos describes his childhood and youth under his parents' roof, he is very respectful of his parents, but he does not pull any punches when describing his unsuccessful efforts to gain the respect of his father - both as a young man and later in life. In fact, Spanos is not shy about sharing any of his efforts that do not achieve the result he initially intended. He strives to make his "failures" in life learning experiences and thus not really failures.
Spanos shares the story of his life, from his father's bakery to the owner's suite of the San Diego Chargers. Throughout the book Spanos sprinkles his understanding as to why he has been financially successful. Generously, the last chapter of the book is devoted to what Spanos believes are the fundamentals of success. It doesn't get any easier.
Five stars and a bag of chips.
Truly and Inspiration.......2005-01-27
From poor baker to multi-millionaire--and all on his own merit--Alex Spanos lays out the blueprint for rags-to-riches success. He was a man who learned to seek out and seize the opportunities to make truly great things happen. Far from a 300 page brag-fest, Spanos comes off as humbled by his successes, and more than willing to share the lessons learned from his failures.
I bought this book after hearing Mr. Spanos speak on the radio because he was so full of life and contageous energy. I decided I absolutely had to read about his life and find out what made this guy tick. I'm glad I did. His enthusiasm for business and life in general comes through on every page. This is a must-read for anyone who aspires to greatness but still feels intimidated by their present circumstanes.
A truly inspiring story..........2003-07-06
If you ever feel that you life or career are not where you want them to be, then pick up a copy of "Sharing the Wealth" by Alex Spanos for inspiration! As the charismatic billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers, Alex's life story reads like a how-to book for calculated risk and the pursuing of one's dreams.
Alex's real story starts when he's 27-years-old. He's working as a baker for his father, making $40 a week, working 15 hours a day, and his wife is about to deliver their second child. He doesn't have the money to pay the hospital bills, so he asks his father for a raise. The answer is no. Without looking back, Alex Spanos quits his job with no prospects and no idea of how he's going to support his family.
Within a week, he's got a great idea for a business - selling sandwiches to immigrant workers in the community's surrounding fields. He soon finds that overcoming his fear and making that initial step to quit his dead-end job was the hardest part of his journey. Six months later, his business is making $500,000 a year, and Alex is well on his way to financial freedom. In the coming decades, he would become the preeminent builder of apartments in America, the owner of a NFL franchise, and live a life most people only dare to dream.
Along the way, Alex reveals many of his secrets to success: a wife that wholeheartedly supports him, the principle that cash is king, and the self-confidence that whatever has to be done, he'll do. Through every page, the infectious enthusiasm of Alex Spanos springs to life, uplifting those around him and those who celebrate his success and happiness. With this book, he passes on his life lessons for the benefit of posterity and creates a personal bond with his reader - leaving us wishing and hoping that someday soon the Chargers will win the Super Bowl...!
Britt Gillette
Author of "Conquest of Paradise: An End-Times Nano-Thriller"
A truly inspiring story..........2003-07-06
If you ever feel that you life or career are not where you want them to be, then pick up a copy of "Sharing the Wealth" by Alex Spanos for inspiration! As the charismatic billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers, Alex's life story reads like a how-to book for calculated risk and the pursuing of one's dreams.
Alex's real story starts when he's 27-years-old. He's working as a baker for his father, making $40 a week, working 15 hours a day, and his wife is about to deliver their second child. He doesn't have the money to pay the hospital bills, so he asks his father for a raise. The answer is no. Without looking back, Alex Spanos quits his job with no prospects and no idea of how he's going to support his family.
Within a week, he's got a great idea for a business - selling sandwiches to immigrant workers in the community's surrounding fields. He soon finds that overcoming his fear and making that initial step to quit his dead-end job was the hardest part of his journey. Six months later, his business is making $500,000 a year, and Alex is well on his way to financial freedom. In the coming decades, he would become the preeminent builder of apartments in America, the owner of a NFL franchise, and live a life most people only dare to dream.
Along the way, Alex reveals many of his secrets to success: a wife that wholeheartedly supports him, the principle that cash is king, and the self-confidence that whatever has to be done, he'll do. Through every page, the infectious enthusiasm of Alex Spanos springs to life, uplifting those around him and those who celebrate his success and happiness. With this book, he passes on his life lessons for the benefit of posterity and creates a personal bond with his reader - leaving us wishing and hoping that someday soon the Chargers will win the Super Bowl...!
Britt Gillette
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A Wealth of Knowledge and Inspiration.......2003-06-02
This is not a "get rich quick" or "how to make a million in 5 minutes" book. This book takes the reader on a journey during which (s)he experiences the life of Alex Spanos. The book is well written and perfectly paced. After reading the book you will believe that you could achieve your goals if only you dare try. The book contains so many acecdotes and stories of inspiration that when you have finished reading it you will feel as though you have actually met Alex. The only negative is the amaturish, self-indulgent forward written by Rush Limbaugh. Once you've gotten past the forward, the excellence in reading begins. Read and prepare to be inspired.
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From the True Perspective of a Native American.......2007-01-05
This book is a little difficult to read and understand at times due to the archaic language, but is definitely a worthy read. It tells the story you never learned in your history class in school. From the beginning legend of how the Native Americans became estranged from their White Brothers who were banished across the seas to the Paiute Elder telling everyone to rejoice in the return of the White Brothers is fascinating yet heartbreaking. We all know it didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans. In reading Sarah's story, which is written from the heart, it is easy to see how the Native Americans were exploited, treated as less than human and moved around like pawns to suit the white man's interest. I have the utmost respect for Sarah and her courage to speak up for her people. I also have the greatest respect for those who have followed, speaking her truths. Wake up people, we are on the wrong track. Bless you Sarah Winnemucca for your wonderful book and your attempts to make things right!
"Paiute Princess" Writes Her Own Page In History.......2001-08-06
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was the daughter of Northern Paiute Chief Winnemucca. Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann,Sarah Winnemucca provides more than a brief glance into the lives of the Northern Paiutes living on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation during the late 1800s. Winnemucca gives her voice to the plight of her people as they struggle to survive the effects of government Indian policy in the Western United States.
Sarah Winnemucca's autobiography enables the reader to examine how the US reservation system, assimilation policy and the BIA failed to provide adequately for the Paiute people. The author provides the reader with an opportunity to experience the feelings of hope and despair of the Paiute people during the late 1870s and 1880s. Her examples of the corruption by white settlers and Indian agents provides reasonable and believable evidence of what life was like for Sarah Winnemucca and her Paiute family.
Sarah Winnemucca's memories are bitter-sweet. She relates her actions to help not only her own people but the US army during the Indian wars of that era, including the Bannock War. Marrying US Army soldier Lewis Hopkins in the early 1880s, her story also includes events during their marriage. An advocat for her people, Sarah traveled to Washington, D. C. to speak with the President, and she traveled coast-to-coast publicly speaking about the plight of her people as well as her life as a young Paiute woman. Her daring escapades as an Army scout and participant in several Indian wars further illustrate her strength as a Native woman.
This book, written in Sarah Winnemucca's voice, is both a powerful and moving example of the active role some women played in the history of the west. I found her memories to reflect a side of history often overlooked by other authors, and I highly recommend her work.
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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
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Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel, scientists and engineers everywhere are using it--instead of FORTRAN--to solve problems. And why not? Excel is installed on millions of computers, features a rich set of built-in analyses tools, and includes an integrated Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language. No wonder it's today's computing tool of choice.
Chances are you already use Excel to perform some fairly routine calculations. Now the Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook shows you how to leverage Excel to perform more complex calculations, too, calculations that once fell in the domain of specialized tools. It does so by putting a smorgasbord of data analysis techniques right at your fingertips. The book shows how to perform these useful tasks and others:
- Use Excel and VBA in general
- Import data from a variety of sources
- Analyze data
- Perform calculations
- Visualize the results for interpretation and presentation
- Use Excel to solve specific science and engineering problems
Wherever possible, the Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook draws on real-world examples from a range of scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and physics. This way, you'll be better prepared to solve the problems you face in your everyday scientific or engineering tasks.
High on practicality and low on theory, this quick, look-up reference provides instant solutions, or "recipes," to problems both basic and advanced. And like other books in O'Reilly's popular Cookbook format, each recipe also includes a discussion on how and why it works. As a result, you can take comfort in knowing that complete, practical answers are a mere page-flip away.
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PROBLEM SOLUTION DISCUSSION.......2007-05-09
1.1 This Book
Problem
The entire book is written in this silly format.
Solution
If this sort of thing bothers you, buy something else
Discussion
This cloying and tiresome gimmick gets repeated throughout the entire book. Every time I pick it up, I feel like I'm listening to Donald Rumsfeld. There seems to be lots of good information about using Excel in scientific and engineering contexts, but the writing style is just too much for some of us. Whatever happened to straightforward narrative?
Excel Cookbook Half Baked.......2007-05-09
It appears to be a good book but the writers style lacks substance. I could have written this book! I am not an expert on Excel but I have used it since the mid to late 1980's so I know a few things. The section on VBA was weak. I expected more but got less. Most Excel books are concentrated on Business Applications and I was hopeful to find one that actually had something to do with Engineering but it was too weak. No good examples, just pictures of spreadsheets and no formulas. Cut and pasting function names is lame!
an alternative point of view.......2007-01-03
Be wary of using other programmer's work unless it has passed the
sort of critical tests as available on the NIST site.
A number of techniques in EXCEL are not useful for various
problems in the sciences. There are also problems inherent
in digital computation, regardless of language or platform,
which can result in serious errors. If you are doing serious
work, you should make the investment in the hardware and
software which can pass rigorous examination.
COOKING WITH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING!!.......2006-08-20
Do you have scientific or engineering calculations to perform? If you do, then this book is for you! Author David M Bourg, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you how to leverage Excel as a capable computing tool to solve a variety of both routine and complex problems.
Bourg, begins by covering a variety of fundamental topics, including navigating Excel's interface, entering data and formulas, and formatting cells. Then, the author covers a variety of fundamental VBA programming topics, including VBA syntax, using the VBA editor, and integrating VBA code with Excel spreadsheets. Next, he shows you how to import data into Excel from a variety of sources, including text files, databases, and the Web. The author then shows you how to visualize data in Excel. He continues by showing you how to perform standard statistical calculations in Excel, such as computing summary statistics, calculating confidence intervals, and performing analysis of variance, among other calculations. Then, the author shows you how to conduct various time series analysis tasks, including forecasting and Fourier transforms in Excel. Next, he introduces you to many of Excel's useful math functions. The author continues the discussion of data analysis, specifically focusing on curve fitting and regression analysis. Then, the author shows you how to leverage Excel to solve linear and nonlinear equations, as well as linear and nonlinear systems. Next, he shows you how to perform various numerical integration calculations, such as computing areas and moments of areas, among others. The author then shows you how to solve initial value and boundary value problems using standard numerical techniques such as the Runge-Kutta and shooting methods. He continues by showing you how to leverage Excel to help solve problems involving partial differential equations. Then, the author shows you how to perform optimization analysis using Excel's built-in optimization tools. Finally, he introduces you to some of Excel's extensive financial analysis capabilities.
This most excellent book aims to present Excel as a cradle to the grave computing environment for scientific and engineering computations. More importantly, this book shows you how to use Excel and VBA in general, how to import data from a variety of sources, analyze data, perform calculations, and finally visualize the results for interpretation and presentation.
Excellent all-purpose collection of analytical recipes.......2006-07-30
Bourg's book is an excellent collection of analytical recipes suitable for undergraduates, graduate and postdocs in all scientific disciplines. Engineers will find good treatment of important topics such as optimization and numerical integration. Statistical anlysis is also covered, although no theoritical background is provided, and in this format, none should be expected, as the author indicates. An excellent and useful book.
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When twenty-two-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with barrooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives, and shootouts at the Bucket of Blood saloon. Dix, a ranch-boy with no formal education but whose father and uncle were writers, became the town's unofficial historian.
Edited and introduced by award-winning poet and nature writer Peter Wild, this is Dix Van Dyke's account of how the twentieth century arrived in a California frontier town. Located a hundred miles outside Los Angeles and just east of Barstow in the Mojave Desert, Daggett attracted a rich assortment of settlers lured by the wealth of nearby silver mines or the promise of cheap farmland conjured up by dubious irrigation schemes. With wit, humor, and a writer's eye for the telling detail, Dix describes the delicate beauty of the desert and the human hopes that often ended in folly there.
Among the citizenry: • Mother Preston, a madam of sumptuous proportions and valorous spirit, capable of locking the head of an unruly client in the crook of an immense arm and pummeling his face with her windmilling fist.
• Death Valley Scotty, who claimed to have a fabulously rich gold mine at a secret location north of Daggett. Only decades later was it discovered that Scotty's wealth came from an eccentric Chicago millionaire.
• Bill Frakes, who tried unsuccessfully to breed "coyote-killing sheep," and who prowled the wild riverbottoms tracking real and imagined malefactors.
Dix also reveals the Van Dyke ranch as an unlikely crossroads for intellectuals, some of them famous. Conservationist JohnMuir's visits included one memorable argument with Dix's Uncle John. Muir admirers may be surprised at the tangle of family relationships begun when daughter Helen married Daggett resident Buel Funk -- a story never told in print before.
Customer Reviews:
Insider point of view on an Old California town........2004-07-31
As a California historian, columnist for the OLD CALIFORNIA GAZETTE and author of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MISCELLANY, I found this book to have a wonderful insider's point of view on Daggett's history and culture. This is the kind of book that readers--who have an interest in local and regional history--will find interesting and infomative for it recounts the events and personallities in Daggett as written in the local newspaper by an "Old-timer" resident, hence an insider's knowledege is shared and if not for this book... who would ever know?
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