Books published by publisher William S. Konecky Associates

Grant was sick and broke when he began work on his Memoirs. Driven by financial worries and a desire to provide for his wife, he wrote diligently during a year of deteriorating health. He vowed he would finish the work before he died. One week after its completion, he lay dead at the age of 63. Publication of the Memoirs came at a time when the public was being treated to a spate of wartime reminiscences, many of them defensive in nature, seeking to refight battles or attack old enemies. Grant's penetrating and stately work reveals a nobility of spirit and an innate grasp of the important fact, which he rarely displayed in private life. He writes in his preface that he took up the task "with a sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or the Confederate side."

Third in series, preceded by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and The Marvelous Land of Oz; and followed by Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road to Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, and others. Dorothy is shipwrecked on the coast of Ev and befriends a mechanical man, Tiktok. When she learns the Queen of Ev and all her children have been captured by the evil Nome King, she decides to rescue them.

The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. For Wallace Stegner it is "the best" of the six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the Mountain Men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present." The first three books of the six in the chronological sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) -- The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land-are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 and ending with the death of Boone Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s.