Friday, January 09, 2009

oral cancer. My personal journey

We were heading for the Outer Banks this afternoon but only got about an hour down the road when I started to feel weak. We decided that it was best if we came home. What a bummer! So here I am, staring at the walls again.
I just finished reading an excellent book titled American Buffalo, by Steven Rinella. Steven is a hunter as well as a very capable writer. He was selected , by lottery to hunt buffalo in Alaska. The book alternates chapters. One chapter may start out talking about preperations for his hunt. The next chapter talks about the history of the buffalo from prehistoric times until the present, and then back to another stage of his hunt. He got some of his history from the book Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman in the late eighteen hundreds. He made this book sound fascinating. It was published in it's present form in the nineteen sixties. Fortunately our town library had the book and I began reading it just a short time ago. I have always bee intrigued with what it must have been like back in the days of the western migration with indians, buffalo, wagon trains, etc. This book promises to be a good read in that regard.

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