Books with author James Campbell Lewis

Excerpt from Black Beaver, the Trapper: The Only Book Ever Written by a Trapper; Twenty-Two Years With Black Beaver; Lewis and Clark a Hundred Years Later; From the Amazon to the Mackenzie RiversAt the age of four years I began to pick up arms against small birds and animals. At the age of five I began to trap around my father's corn - shocks. When I reached my sixth year my father bought me a dog and he was my constant companion for many years. At the age of five years I began to make Bows and arrows, and cross guns, likewise sling shots. My first experience was with by bros, George and Lee in killing a woodchuck. And from this time my adventures began to multiply. All kinds of small animals fell before my accurate aim.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Critics Are Raving About Children's Comic, Stick Ninja Quest Part 1 Japan!"Stick Ninja is awesome! My kids absolutely love the story and the amazing graphics make for a first class children's comic. 5 Stars!" ~ Michael Morris"Instant classic! Now this is a children's fantasy comic book! My kids are excited for the game release and so am I! Well done Mr. Campbell." ~ Martin Rivera"This is going to be a hit! The story line is awesome and the images are cool. This is a comic book for kids that has it all!" ~ Brent Tinsley, Ghost Writer and CriticAbout Stick Ninja Quest Part 1 JapanThe struggle to protect the ancient ninja scroll of Knowledge and Power has always been a task for the strongest and pure of heart, and one such ninja exists, Katsuo the Stick Ninja. For many years Stick Ninja has been the protector and keeper of the ancient scroll. He has learned its ways and vowed to use its power to help the needy and defend the weak. What Stick Ninja does not know is that an evil force is being conjured to find the scroll and take it from its keeper. The struggle to protect the scroll may cost Stick Ninja more than he knows. With his Dragon Princess kidnapped, and the scroll's location compromised, he must find Akemi, the Dragon Princess, and still protect the scroll from Evil. The Stick Ninja quest begins...Visit the Stick Ninja website to download the free game here stickninjaquest.com

Life’s simple pleasures can be found everywhere in this nostalgic, down-to-earth children’s story (the first book of a series) about a small-town boy and his adventures. The Siler City Gang “There are Lights on in the Louisburg Place” is a tale about a boy, Eddie, his wild imagination and the way he makes sense of his world. Twelve years of age seems to be an exciting time to be a boy in Siler City! Eddie finds himself smack in the middle of trying to solve a mystery about the house across the street. He enlists the help of his best friend and the town’s notorious tattle-tale to unravel the unknown that keeps him up at night.

Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.

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Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization -- a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44° below zero -- all the while cultivating their hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate. Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.

Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at forty-four degrees below zero -- all the while cultivating the hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate.

Uncover the ridiculously funny life of teachers (and some things that have nothing to do with teachers but are still splendidly funny) according to James Campbell, comedian extraordinaire. Ever wondered what teachers do when they're not in the classroom? Are they undercover detectives, champion roller-blade dancers or do they spend their evenings playing with their 576 cats? This face-achingly funny book will also teach you why you should carry an emergency banana with you at all times, how to fart in class silently without anyone knowing it was you and how to catapult yourself to school by building a medieval style catapult in your back garden! Whether you love or loathe your teachers, want to become one when you grow up or don't give two figs about your teacher but simply love a HILARIOUS read, this book is for you. Prepare to roll around the floor laughing with the snot-inducingly brilliant The Funny Life of Teachers . But be warned - this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between. Whichever way you read it, look no further for fantastic real-life teacher facts, incredibly funny illustrations, imaginary stories and an impossibly silly read!

"Born too late for the height of the fur trade, the author still made a living and a life on his own terms." -Reader Review"This man of the woods is amazing." -Reader Review"An almost unbelievable story ... incredible adventures." -Reader Review"It is a true experience of the life and labors of the Author." -George Edward Lewis "The President of Mexico; and the Governor of Alaska together with several hundreds between, equally as popular have urged me to write my history. I am sorry I cannot write this with my own fingers but I have a substitute in my old back-woods chum--The (Montana) Kidd. Who by the way--neither writes very flourishing, because he like myself has done the most of his writing with his six-shooter; because you know this a more expressive way of talking and a more impressive way of writing."I shall confine myself to simple speech, such as I have used in all lands. From Gotch my bronco to Arctic my dog. It has served me since I was six summers old. It served me amid the bells of Peru and then afar amid the Agate Eyed squaws of the Kuskokwim; and this ought to be a good excuse." - J.C. LEWIS "Black Beaver"James Campbell Lewis (1879-1961), known as "Black Beaver" traveled as no other man ever traveled in Alaska, four times in as many years he crossed the entire country by dog-team in a diagonal way from Dawson to Point Barrow and from Gnome to the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Being able to speak several Indian dialects, he was able converse with Siwash, Mucklock, Malimouth and other types getting the most valuable kind of information.The books covers 22 years of the author's life of surviving off the land from Alaska, Washington, Canada, Michigan, Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, California, and Arizona, not to mention Australia, South America, and Central America. As the author states, "I have fought buffalo flies in Michigan, Bed Bugs in Wisconsin, Lice in Wyoming, Rattlesnakes in Colorado, Coyotes in North Dakota, Rats in Australia, Spiders in South America."In relating how he came to be known as "Black Beaver," the author writes: "When white man seemed to fail fate overcame me in the form of an Indian. This Indian was the famous Shopnegon. We trapped together on the Indian river following down into lower Michigan we also trapped the dead stream, Ausable, Tobacco and into the Houghton lake country here Shopnegon christened me as Black Beaver for I had actually trapped one. This was the only Black Beaver Shopnegon had ever seen and the only one I ever saw." Some fur-bearers weren't as easily harvested as his namesake beaver had been, and sometimes they took a physical toll on him. As Black Beaver relates, "I removed the trap and just then the Grizzly rolled over and quick as a wink hit me a spat in the face that knocked me two or three summersaults broke in my left cheek and knocked out four teeth and cut my tongue half off ... I climbed him like a monkey on a cheese. This was foolish and dangerous ..." In addition to trapping, prospecting, and gold mining, the author also spent time working as a cowboy on the Great Plains, hiring himself out to herd cattle and horses. Other ranchers hired him to rid ranches of mountain lion, bears, and wolves. You likely have never read a book written by a trapper like this. Usually some smooth gent makes up an adventure and puts them in other mouths--but this is not true of this book. It is a true experience of the life and labors of the Author. ContentsI. BLACK BEAVER THE TRAPPER.II. Westward BoundIII. Back to the Upper Peninsula of MichiganIV. The Roving TrapperV. Back Among the RockiesVI. Off for New Fields of Adventure--Going to Faraway AlaskaVII. Into the UnknownVIII. Bits of Information--Characteristics of Black Beaver

A groundbreaking history of African American journeys back to Africa over the course of three centuries, a book whose enormous accomplishment reveals to us that without understanding the long-evolving place of Africa in the African American imagination, our understanding of American history is woefully incomplete. In the four centuries after Columbus' voyage to the New World, some twelve million Africans were loaded into the holds of European ships and carried to the Americas as slaves. For most, the "middle passage" across the Atlantic was truly a voyage of no return. But beginning in the eighteenth century, a small number of African Americans found their way back to their ancestral continent. The roster includes many of the central figures in African American intellectual and political life, including Martin Delany, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Eslanda Robeson, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou, to name only a few. As James T. Campbell shows in this marvelous book, these journeys illuminate not only the enduring importance of Africa in African American life but also the changing contours of African American life in the United States. Middle Passages recounts more than two hundred years of black American encounters with Africa, from the arrival of the first liberated slaves in what would become Liberia to the photojournalism and heritage tourism of the twenty-first century. Together, the stories recounted here-of journeys celebrated and obscure, journeys replete with irony and tragedy but also hope and inspiration-chart the history of African Americans' ever-changing relationship with Africa and, by extension, their complex, often painful, relationship with the United States. As the book makes wonderfully clear, to ask "What is Africa to Me?," the question famously posed by Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, is also to ask, "What is America to me?" and, perhaps, "What am I to America?"