Books with author Mary (Mary C. Johnson) Dillon

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Do you love cool birds of prey like eagles, hawks, owls, vultures and falcons? We do too! Nature Kids shows everything we love about these fascinating creatures. They're big, fast, strong and they are the kings of the sky. This book has loads of interesting facts, and highlights some of the raptors most amazing traits. It's filled with lots of big, close-up pictures, you can explore the raptors most unique features. We even show you specific species and what makes them unique and cool: raptors like the Harpy eagle that hunts and eats monkeys and the Harris Hawk that hunts in packs to overwhelm their prey. Did you know a woman fell off a cliff to her death and was eaten by Griffon vultures? Yup! We have that in there too!

Do you love cool birds of prey like eagles, hawks, owls, vultures and falcons? We do too! Nature Kids shows everything we love about these fascinating creatures. They're big, fast, strong and they are the kings of the sky. This book has loads of interesting facts, and highlights some of the raptors most amazing traits. It's filled with lots of big, close-up pictures, you can explore the raptors most unique features. We even show you specific species and what makes them unique and cool: raptors like the Harpy eagle that hunts and eats monkeys and the Harris Hawk that hunts in packs to overwhelm their prey. Did you know a woman fell off a cliff to her death and was eaten by Griffon vultures? Yup! We have that in there too!

In a world of microwaves, Blackberries, unmanned space travel, McDonalds and everything else in the way of “advantages,” the author wanted to pass on to the children of the 21st century, some true pioneer stories. What follows is based upon events in the years during the beginning of the Civil War in the life of her maternal Great Grandmother, including being orphaned during the Civil War by her father, being left behind when the wagon train went forward, her rescue and subsequent life following her mother’s death shortly afterwards, escaping by train from beatings and cruelty only to be brought back and finally, living a normal and productive life as an adult. The strength and resiliency of a little girl against the odds remains the theme of this otherwise tragic tale.

My story does not claim to be history, but in every important historical detail it is absolutely faithful to the records of the times as I have found them. Every word of the debate in Congress, every word of Marbois, Livingston, Decrés, Napoleon, and his two brothers on the subject of the Louisiana Cession is verbatim from the most authentic accounts. I am indebted for the historical part of my story to Gayarré's "History of Louisiana," to Martin's "History of Louisiana," to James K. Hosmer's "History of the Louisiana Purchase," to Lucien Bonaparte's "Memoirs," to numerous lives of Napoleon, Jefferson, Talleyrand, and others, and particularly to Marbois himself, whose account of the negotiations on the subject of the cession is preserved in his own handwriting in the St. Louis Mercantile Library.