Books with author F.M.L. Thompson

Bartie (Bar-tee) Longshore was by far the cutest girl in the whole school. She was red headed weighing around ninety pounds and right at five feet tall with a very pretty smile. Her mother Sarah was the teacher and her father Oscar ran the mercantile in Clarendon Texas. A cowboy named Max Donner just knew she was his girl though Bartie would have nothing to do with him. She had only danced with him one time and that winded up in a fight between Max and Danny Bishop who was from Amarillo, and was the banker’s son.Danny was pistol whipped by Max and two of his friends and had to be taken forty miles home and to a doctor in Amarillo. The sheriff arrested Max and his friends but they broke jail two days later and hadn’t been seen since.Two years and four months later Bartie married Danny and they moved into a small house just a few blocks from the bank in northwest Amarillo. Danny worked for his father in that bank. When Danny was shot and the bank robbed, all hell broke loose and Bartie was arrested and jailed.

Six riders had come up as she and Dan walked out on the porch after eating a wonderful supper. With guns in hand one man hollered, “Yore two weeks is up Camden!”Dan had been shot dead and she lay still in a pool of her own blood. The children, Neil and baby June had saved her life. June staying by her side as Neil saddled a horse and rode four miles bringing back the doctor. Lord that seemed so long ago, but the two years since had pasted very fast.She was well and strong enough to go looking for those six men and kill every one of them and the man that sent them. Her gear was packed, she would want for nothing.

Emmet and Emma Overholt had brought their family of six kids from south Texas, along with grandpa and Grandma Garner, Emma’s ma and pa. They had two very well build covered wagons, pulled by six horses each. Roy the eldest boy and Jennie Sue, his eleven year old sister rode horses and drove fifteen milk cows with seven three month old calves. One contrary bull had to be hit on the rump at least ten times a day to keep him moving.Harmie was ten and walked behind the wagons with a long stick in hand driving nine sows and one boar. Twenty four piglets ran hard keeping up with their mothers.A chicken coop with ninety four hens and seven roasters was stowed under the belly of one of the wagons. Spring was in the air as they slowly moved westward.They stopped around noon to eat a bite of dinner. Emmet called over, “Grandpa, think we can get shelter built before hard winter?”“Best we do Boy, them winter winds blow cold an’ hard down that valley. You knowed that when you homesteaded.”“Yeah but that is one beautiful valley. How long now before we reach it?”“If no trouble, ten days er less. We’re almost home.”“Yeah about ten days was what I’s thinking.”They had trouble, outlaws trying to steal cattle and horses. The Overholt family was used to raiders down in Texas, so this bunch of outlaws got nothing but bullets and rode off licking their wounds, while swearing the ones left alive, after they healed up would be back.The only thing Emmet said was, “Don’t do it and live.”

Shorty came slowly riding into Denver, cradling a young girl in his arms. Behind the saddle sat a young boy no more than a year older than the girl. He rode straight to the doctor’s office and helped them inside.“Where did you find them Marshal? “Around twelve miles west of town. The rest of the family is dead. And two more men and women." "Did you get a name?”“Folks name was Homer an’ Rachel Gilbreath. The boy's Nate, the girl Sally Ann. Doc you watch after um. I’ve got some huntin’ to do.”“Do you have any idea who did this?”“No but I’ll dad burn shor find out. After I go back an’ bury that family that is.”

One of England's grand masters of history provides a clear and persuasive interpretation of the creation of "respectable society" in Victorian Britain. Integrating a vast amount of research previously hidden in obscure or academic journals, he covers not only the economy, social structure, and patterns of authority, but also marriage and the family, childhood, homes and houses, work and play.By 1900 the structure of British society had become more orderly and well-defined than it had been in the 1830s and 1840s, but the result, Thompson shows, was fragmentation into a multiplicity of sections or classes with differing standards and notions of respectability. Each group operated its own social controls, based on what it considered acceptable or unacceptable conduct. This "internalized and diversified" respectability was not the cohesive force its middle-class and evangelical proponents had envisioned. The Victorian experience thus bequeathed structural problems, identity problems, and authority problems to the twentieth century, with which Britain is grappling.

One of England's grand masters of history provides a clear and persuasive interpretation of the creation of "respectable society" in Victorian Britain. Integrating a vast amount of research previously hidden in obscure or academic journals, he covers not only the economy, social structure, and patterns of authority, but also marriage and the family, childhood, homes and houses, work and play. By 1900 the structure of British society had become more orderly and well-defined than it had been in the 1830s and 1840s, but the result, Thompson shows, was fragmentation into a multiplicity of sections or classes with differing standards and notions of respectability. Each group operated its own social controls, based on what it considered acceptable or unacceptable conduct. This "internalized and diversified" respectability was not the cohesive force its middle-class and evangelical proponents had envisioned. The Victorian experience thus bequeathed structural problems, identity problems, and authority problems to the twentieth century, with which Britain is grappling.

✔Funny ✔Girl next door ✔Light-hearted ✔Inspiring ✔Page Turner “That’s right. I was in love with my bully.” Having a best friend who has a cruel older brother is a recipe for disaster. It was double the trouble for Hope whose best friend had twins for older brothers who both loved creating a stir when they were kids. Fast forward to a few years, Hope found herself in a summer where the twins came home from college. She can no longer simply hide in her house since the twins were determined to ask forgiveness from the girl they have been cruel to.Will Hope ever reconcile with her bullies? Or will she be stuck harboring feelings for one of them? With over 12 Million reads on Wattpad, this young adult contemporary romance will take you in for a roller coaster ride.

Covering a brief history of Glacial Lake Missoula and the factors leading to its creation and dam-bursting flood, GigaFlood follows the path of the largest of the Lake Missoula Floods, as its 540 cubic miles of water, 40 cubic miles of ice, 50 cubic miles of rock, sediment and debris tore down the Columbia River Gorge at speeds up to 65 miles per hour, and traces the influx and exit channels in the areas north and south of the Columbia River as it overflowed the Portland/Vancouver area as well as the Clackamas, Tualatin Yamhill and Willamette valleys up to the 400 foot level. With 208 pages, 182 photographs, 52 maps, and 10 illustrations, GigaFlood reveals the many indelible marks left on the landscape such as kolk lakes, gravel bars 200-300 feet high, truncated hillsides, flood channels, and erratics boulders. Many of these subtle features were previously unrecognized though hidden in plain sight. Like a detective story GigaFlood points out the clues in NW Oregon and SW Washington that show the effects of this cataclysm and reveals what those features are and how they were formed. You will see this area with new eyes and it will never be the same again.

Beware: This is a real high school diary. I will not fall madly in love with a charming prince or my future husband. I won't even get pregnant with that guy in Calculus. Hell, I won’t even take Calculus. Diary Girl is my journey through a four year long maze of cutthroat friendships, popularity races, diet pills, and mortal enemies - and somehow I find my way out. This project is a compilation of real diary entries stripped straight from the journals I vigorously wrote during my four years in high school. So, although the names have been changed, I promise that the stories, experiences, and people are all very real. For me, high school was not a single hurdle that I needed to overcome. It was not only an eating disorder or only true loneliness in the midst of a large group of friends. It was some new challenge every day. And now, it’s all yours.

Bartie (Bar-tee) Longshore was by far the cutest girl in the whole school. She was red headed weighing around ninety pounds and right at five feet tall with a very pretty smile. Her mother Sarah was the teacher and her father Oscar ran the mercantile in Clarendon Texas. A cowboy named Max Donner just knew she was his girl though Bartie would have nothing to do with him. She had only danced with him one time and that winded up in a fight between Max and Danny Bishop who was from Amarillo, and was the banker’s son.Danny was pistol whipped by Max and two of his friends and had to be taken forty miles home and to a doctor in Amarillo. The sheriff arrested Max and his friends but they broke jail two days later and hadn’t been seen since.Two years and four months later Bartie married Danny and they moved into a small house just a few blocks from the bank in northwest Amarillo. Danny worked for his father in that bank. When Danny was shot and the bank robbed, all hell broke loose and Bartie was arrested and jailed.