Category Archives: Reading

In 2001, National Geographic Adventure Magazine published a list they called Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time. Oddly, the list contained 106 books. I’d read and enjoyed a handful of them, so I decided to make … Continue reading →

An incident of our journey was an amusing illustration of the vicissitudes of Western life. In passing through Fargo, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, an old townsman of ours always came to see us, but invariably after dark. He had … Continue reading →

“Miss Minnie,” Tol said, “the boy can drive. He can take us to the Fair.” And Miss Minnie said, “Oh, why didn’t we think of that before?” She thought and then added, “But, Mr. Proudfoot, won’t it be too expensive?” … Continue reading →

1. The room for choice is so limitless that to my mind it seems absurd to try to make catalogues which shall be supposed to appeal to all the best thinkers. This is why I have no sympathy whatever with … Continue reading →

His one striking peculiarity was his Partingtonian fashion of loving and using big words for their own sakes, and independent of any bearing they  might have upon the thought he was purposing to convey. He always let his ponderous syllables … Continue reading →