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Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, addled by the thin air, Obmascik decides to keep his head in the clouds and...
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Colorado really was the Wild West with foundations that go back to gambling dens, saloons, brothels, and shady characters along with hardworking miners, ranchers and town people. Colorado wasn't for the faint of heart, and the backbone that ran through it was a four-letter word. Gold. This is a lively history that looks at the wicked side of progress on the frontier.
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Mark Rashid becomes the student when a nondescript horse named Buck steps into his life. Odd behavior from this hores forces Mark, a world-famour horse trainer known for working with horses in a non-confrontational manner to reevaluate everything he understands about horses. What he finds challenges him to become a better trainer and better person.
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Meet the last open range cowboy and the last nomadic Native American. Better yet, be present for their first handshake in the pages of Lakota Cowboy. Their stories become entwined in an unlikely friendship, but cannot change the inexorable march of history. You’ll witness that march from the back of a horse as they trot across the Little Bighorn, into the Canadian wilderness, past Wounded Knee Creek, to finally arrive in a homestead world of badlands...
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Life is filled with memories and ill remembered events, and to reawaken, relive, and record them for others is a daunting task that few embark upon. Echoes from the Mountains is an engaging, honest, and humorous portrayal of the challenges, opportunities, and complex issues involved in managing and protecting Colorado wildlife in a career of more than three decades in the Southern Rockies and balancing the often competing interests of people who find...