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- Indian Summer
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An Indian Summer: The 1957 Milwaukee Braves, Champions of Baseball
Thad Mumau
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ASIN: 0786430117
Release Date: 2007-02-22 |
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This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. The Braves boasted a lineup packed with power and a pitching staff anchored by three aces. Four future Hall of Famers led the team to the National League pennant, and a fidgety right-hander pitched the Braves past the mighty Yankees in the World Series. Covering the Braves' magical season in remarkable detail, the author chronicles the winning streaks and the tough stretches, comments on the key transactions and costly injuries, and recalls the unforgettable players (such as Bob "Hurricane" Hazle) and the events (the Shoe Polish Incident) that have since become part of baseball lore.
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Expensive and a little dull!.......2007-10-05
Statistical lists, articles from newspapers and interviews with players would have spiced up this lifeless literary work. Players stats are thrown into the text haphazardly and at times the reader finds himself going into "flashback". There is an absence of "drama" in the writing also, even the chapter on the World Series' games is pretty bland, ("the Yankees went down one,two,three in the sixth", is a prime example. This book should've included separate stat pages so the reader could cast an eye on them at various stages through the book. It would have been better for one whole chapter to handle the players biographies rather than have them scattered throughout the book with only a few lines or paragraphs for each. Whole box scores of crucial or memorable games printed here and there would have been a nice touch as would actual action photographs taken by the Milwaukee papers of the time.
This is a competently written book and if you are after just the "nuts and bolts" of a teams glory season then you won't find a problem. However,i was expecting more for my money. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were one of baseball's finest teams and their story should've been told with a little more insight and in a less confusing manner. It's the kind of writing you see in a baseball magazine rather than a well-intended baseball book. A shame because this could have been a terrific book!
Bland, lazily done, and disappointing.......2007-08-14
Counting shipping, this book set me back $41.82 ... and after reading it, I'd say its worth is best described by moving the decimal point one column to the left.
The author claims to have spent 30 years as a sportswriter, yet he did not do a single interview for this book - nor, it would seem, did he even bother to set foot in Milwaukee (where many people still remember the Braves bittersweetly). All the information in the book is culled from other books, from New York Times excerpts (not even a mention of the Milwaukee Journal or Sentinel) and various websites. Not one former Milwaukee Brave is quoted directly, and there is no mention whatsoever of the Milwaukee/County Stadium environment during those heady days. Nor is there any attempt to put the Milwaukee phenomenon - which, next to the Giants and Dodgers moving, was baseball's most important development during the 1950s - in perspective, or even try to create a tableau that can help people sense what it was like being there.
Most of this book is a very bland, matter-of-fact and often meaningless day-by-day narrative of the Braves' 1957 season, and by the third or fourth chapter I found myself skimming completely over this material. The only things that save this book from a 1-star rating are occasional detours into some of the players' talents and personalities, which provided some - but hardly enough - of the insights for which I paid $41 for this book in the first place. Alas, these were far too few and far between - and again, there is not a single in-person interview.
I finished this book knowing scarcely anything about the 1957 Milwaukee Braves, and their players, that I didn't know before. This book's only value is as reference material in case one is researching that season and wants to look up what happened on a specific date. Otherwise, it's a complete waste of money, and I'd like very much to get my $41 back.
Tim's Baseball Book Critic's Corner.......2007-05-14
This book was extremely well-written and very informative. I highly recommend thi sbook to any Braves fan or, for that matter, any baseball fan in general.
Indian Summer.......2007-04-27
An Indian Summer is a must read for baseball fans interested in the game during the 50's and early 60's. And especially if you are a Braves' fan. The Braves' 1957 season is portrayed in detail and a reader can basically re-live the pitch by pitch of the Braves-Yankees World Series. Mr. Mumau gives a bio on all the major players for the Braves that season to include Spahn, Burdett, Buhl, Aaron, Mathews, and Logan and describes the dynasty that the Braves had between 1956 and 1960. Unfortunately, like the modern day Braves, this team only had one World Series Championship to their credit. This reader highly recommends.
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It is our national pastime, a sport as American as apple pie. Yet until now no one has told the story of the Native American who first played it, just 7 years after Wounded Knee and half a century before Jackie Robinson broke the league's color barrier. His name was Louis Francis Sockalexis, grandson of a Penobscot chief. The story goes that he developed his amazing arm throwing rocks across a lake near his home in Old Town, Maine. In 1897, he was signed by the team then known as the Cleveland Spiders and was considered one of the finest 'natural athletes' ever seen in the game until alcohol-and perhaps the mix of fame and racist hatred from some fans-took its toll. Years later, after his near anonymous death, the team would change its name to the Cleveland Indians in his honor. McDonald's vivid writing brings to life the raucous stadiums from the turn of the century, filled with rowdy fans, hard-drinking players, and corrupt team owners with ties to organized crime.
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What Might Have Been & What Was.......2006-10-22
The name of Louis Sockalexis in Cleveland (OH) pro baseball lore is usually associated with the tale that the team was named after the star player in recognition for being the first Native American in MLB.
It is about as accurate as Cooperstown, N.Y., being the birthplace of the game. The nickname was selected by a panel of Cleveland sportwriters in 1915.
Author Brian McDonald packs a wealth of information on Sockalexis, pro baseball and the era in which he lived and played hard, both on and off the field.
Sockalexis, 25, was a sensation at the plate and in the field during his 1897 rookie season with the Cleveland Spiders. The club was sometimes referred to as the Indians in stories filed by sportswriters. But the excesses that can grip star athletes is not new; Sockalexis pursued the late-night haunts where his celebrity opened doors, but ultimately shut the ones that should have mattered most.
If there ever was an athlete who needed a "role model" (guard) off the field, it was Sockalexis. He had baggage when he entered pro baseball, being expelled from the University of Notre Dame after ripping up a brothel when the madam made a racial slur to him.
But as the game within the game is still played today, the Spiders looked the other way as long as Sockalexis played like a star. It didn't last long, though. Later in his rookie season, he severely injured his leg while jumping out of a second-story window of a brothel.
He hung on for two more seasons in Cleveland before being released, but stayed in the game by playing & umpiring in the minor leagues. He died at the age of 42.
The history has been embellished for so many years and McDonald does an outstanding job in placing the life and times of Sockalexis in its proper context.
Great book, sad story.......2004-07-31
This book is more than a baseball story; it's a bit of insight into American culture at the turn of the last century as well. It is also an extremely fast read. The story flows smoothly and doesn't drag. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the career of Louis Sockalexis. Blessed with tremendous athletic ability, this Native American rises quickly to the top of the game, only to fall more rapidly. Here is a guy who by most accounts could have been one of the all-time greats of the game, but was used by owners, friends and hangers-on, until he was all-used up and cast aside. Certainly, much of his demise was his own doing; but some of it was the time period, the structure of the baseball business, the racism of the day. Regardless, it's a tale worth reading, as one can draw certain parallels to today's athlete - coddled, manipulated and directionless.
Louis Sockalexis - an American tragedy.......2003-09-05
Louis Sockalexis, as a great ballplayer, was the Roberto Clemente of his time. By all accounts, while in his very short prime, he made plays that defied description; he outran balls that could not possibly have been caught; he hit anything he wanted to hit. But his race (he was a Native American), his prediliction for drink, and a public that both adored yet patronized him all contributed to his demise and to a short and tragic career. Sockalexis, in some ways, may have been the first overindulged college ballplayer. Common nowadays, back then - probably due to his race - Sockalexis was given incredible leeway by Notre Dame specifically because of his sports ability. Eventually dismissed, he was allowed to continue his excesses simply because, as good as he was, he made a great drawing card for the team he wound up playing for - Cleveland. This book says as much about America and the way the country idolized, and idealized its non-white heroes as it does about Sockalexis. It also says much about what such idols had to deal with and how easy it was - and still is - to get caught up, and destroyed by fame and the price of it. A good historical perspective on how major sports, even then, could corrupt (and allow one to corrupt himself) somebody who might have been one of the best, ever.
An All Too Familiar Story.......2003-09-03
I had heard of Louis Sockalexis and knew he was from Old Town, Maine, but that was all. Author Brian McDonald has researched the baseball life of this Penobscot Indian, and provided us with a neglected subject in baseball's history. Sockalexis was on his way to having a superior season with the Cleveland National League team in 1897 while enduring the derisive taunts from fans throughout the league because he was an Indian. Sockalexis turned those taunts to cheers with his batting and fielding skills, while others attended games just to see this much heralded Indian play ball. It certainly wasn't known at the time, but the apex of Sockalexis's career was on the team's first visit to New York's Polo Grounds when he hit a home run onto 8th Avenue off the "Hoosier Thunderbolt" Amos Rusie.
As has been the case with numerous athletes throughout history, the love of alcohol and the night life brought this budding star's career to an abrupt end. While jumping out of a second story brothel window Louis suffered a broken ankle and his running ability was never the same. He managed to hang on through the seasons of 1898-1899, but was only a shadow of his former self. He had vowed to give up his drinking and take his baseball seriously, but it was not to be. The Cleveland team was known as the Spiders, and was changed during this time to Indians. Whether it was because Sockalexis was on the team in open to conjecture. In 1900 the National League dropped its four weakest franchises, Cleveland among them, which finished the 1899 season with the worst record of any team in baseball history, 20 wins and 134 losses. Sockalexis died from heart failure on Christmas Eve of 1913. We are also introduced to Indians' owner Frank Robison and manager Patsy Tebeau who endured the tribulations of managing his alcoholic star.
Interesting stories are also told of the St. Louis Browns' colorful owner Chris Von der Ahe who ended up selling his team to Cleveland owner Frank Robison at a sheriff's auction. Owning two teams was known as "syndicate baseball."
The author begins each chapter with interesting tidbits that were taking place in America during the years of 1897-1899. One was the two day postponement of the execution of a Choctaw Indian who was to be shot by firing squad so he could be in the lineup of the governor's favorite team.
The book is a worthy addition to a baseball library. His story, however, is an all too familiar one of wasted talent.
A Must Read-McDonald hits a GRAND SLAM!.......2003-07-08
This book is a must read for baseball fans and history fans alike.
McDonald tells the story of this unsung hero while interweaving facts about the struggles of Native Americans in general during the 1890's in this country. The author does both Sockalexis and baseball fans a great service by telling the story of this phenomenal talent. Sockalexis performed head a shoulders above the others players while facing adversity at every turn. It is difficult to believe that a player of Sockalexis' caliber is not touted along with Babe Ruth, and the like- such a disservice to the game.One can't help but wonder what type of impact Sockalexis would have had on the game if he had played baseball during a different time period in this country.
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Soul Sounds, Mourning the tears of truth.......2000-03-15
True, a rare type of new age book. No lies in this, just truth. Also very informative, interesting and heartwarming. I reccomend it to anyone seeking truth.
My favorite book by Mary Summer Rain.......1997-08-20
Alot of staight-from-the-shoulder answers for the everyday person interested in the new millenium and also spiritual depth
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- "Goddam, But Playing Baseball Is Fun"
- Could Not Put It Down
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Summer of '49 (P.S.)
David Halberstam
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With the airwaves saturated with so much sporting choice, it's hard to imagine how, not that long ago, baseball so completely dominated the landscape and captured imaginations. Given the 1949 season that veteran journalist David Halberstam meticulously recreates, maybe it's not so hard after all. It was a season of great public and personal drama for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, with the conflict finally resolving itself in a Yankee pennant following a head-to-head showdown on the final day of the season. Each team was led by a star of the highest magnitude: Joe DiMaggio spurred the Yankees despite missing half the season with a foot injury; Ted Williams virtually carried the Sox on his back, missing an unprecedented third Triple Crown by mere decimal points on his batting average. Halberstam focuses much of his narrative on the trials of these two individual sporting giants, adding fine supporting performances by Yogi Berra, Ellis Kinder, Dom DiMaggio, even restaurateur Toots Shoor. Both on and off the field, Halberstam beautifully captures the ethos of a more innocent game that no longer exists, played by heroes far more driven by their pride than by their salaries.
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With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.
The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League, and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash, headstrong hitting phenomenon named Ted Williams led their respective teams in a classic pennant duel of almost mythic proportions—one that would be decided in an explosive head-to-head confrontation on the last day of the season.
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Error Notification.......2007-08-23
I did notice two errors in the photo section. Main one was a picture of Tommy Henrich scoring after a home run off Don Newcombe. The caption below brings attention to Newcombe walking off the field after the hit. The error is the player walking off is not Newcombe, but 1B Gil Hodges. How do I know that? I knew all the Dodger numbers in those days and the player walking off is # 14 - Hodges. Newcombe was # 36 and not in the picture. The picture above this one transcribes two names, Hodges and Duke Snider I think. Minor stuff. Great book
Rattle Your Saber(metrics)?.......2007-08-17
Don't get a statistic wrong; don't you dare make a mistake. Okay, Bill James correctly points out some mistakes that Mr. Halberstam makes in this book. None of the mistakes are important to the story, nor do any of them detract from the book in any way. I can't hold that criticism against this book.
This is an excellent baseball book. David Halberstam masterfully brings to life a baseball season and pennant race that otherwise I could never enjoy. He makes you part of the history of the era in the US, as well as in the game of baseball. He introduces you to all the important players in the game and some of the other assorted characters around the game. It is a well written book, easy to read and enjoy by any baseball fan!
"Goddam, But Playing Baseball Is Fun".......2007-08-05
"Old-time baseball players and fans love to denigrate the modern ballplayer. "Baseball today is not what it should be," one old-timer once wrote. "The players do not try to learn all the fine points of the game as in the days of old, but simply try to get by. They content themselves if they get a couple of hits every day or play an errorless game... It's positively a shame, and they are getting big money for it, too."
Bill Joyce, 1916 Ballplayer
'The Golden Age of Baseball' began when players returned from the war until 1958, when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants decided to continue their rivalry in California. That time saw many of the most memorable and significant events in the game's history: in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier; that same year, the second Yankee Dynasty began with its first of ten pennants and eight championships in a twelve-year span; in 1951, Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" to win the pennant for the Giants; in 1954, Willie Mays made his spectacular World Series catch; in 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.
For those of us who are Boston Red Sox or New York Yankee fans, one of the biggest baseball rivalries in history, 'Summer of '49' explains much of the history and romance of these two teams. David Halberstam brings to us the glories, the rivalaries, the drinking, the social and personal stories of the players on both sides. The subject is the pennant race of 1949 between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox which wasn't decided until the last game of the season. Is there really any value to another book telling us what a legend Joe DiMaggio was, or what a great hitter Ted Williams was, or what a great team the Yankees were? Yes,indeedy.1949 was the perfect year, because it marked a turning point in the history of American sport, which is one reason why David Halberstam wrote this book. Baseball was the number one sport, but professional basketball and football were beginning to gain acceptance. Television was just beginning to make its mark. The impact of black ballplayers was only beginning to be felt.
David Halberstam brings us the day to day spotliughts of the Red Sox and Yankees for an entire year, from the end of the 1948 season through 1949. During the summer of '49, the two teams had one of the classic pennant races of all time. The Sox struggled at the beginning, while the Yankees, took a commanding early lead. But Boston chipped away at the lead until the final day of the season, when the two teams met to decide the pennant. Sound familiar? David Halberstam reveals the characters and gives us a glimpse of baseball during The Golden Age. He interviewed almost every living member of those teams and several people on the outside--fans, broadcasters, baseball executives, writers, relatives of players--over a hundred in all. The one interview he couldn't get, was from the most important member of the Yankees: Joe DiMaggio.
Each team was made up of twenty-five men, plus perhaps ten or twelve others who played a little. We are introduced to every one of them, the drinkers, womanizers, country boys, city boys, the marginal players for whom 1949 will be their only season of glory. We feel a part of the team, traveling with them between games. And at the end of the book, he tells us what has become of them.
In the conclusion, David Halberstam tells us how enjoyable it was to write this book, to interview his idols, to do research that many would consider fun. "I was the envy of my male friends who shared my enthusiasm for baseball in those years. Caught up in the more mundane tasks in journalism or Wall Street or the law, they would gladly have traded jobs with me."
"But probably the best reasons for Halberstam to choose 1949 were, first, that it was a terrific, dramatic pennant race between two hated rivals; and, second, perhaps most importantly, as he explains in the author's note, Halberstam was fifteen years old that summer and a devoted Yankee fan. The men he describes in his book were his heroes, and he lived and died with the fortunes of his favorite players." David Martinez
David Halberstam is gone now. However, his writing will live on, and those of us who loved his writing will remember him well.
What Summer of '49 does for me is to renew my love for baseball, and in particular, my love for the Boston Red Sox. Ted Williams, after reluctantly leaving the batting practice cage, once said, "Goddam, but this is fun. I could do this all day--and they pay me for it."
Highly Recommended. prisrob 8-05-07
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Could Not Put It Down.......2007-05-27
I always wondered how you could make writing about baseball a page turner when watching the game can be extremely dull. David Halberstam does it brilliantly in this book about a pennant rice between two arch enemies that occured nearly sixty years ago. The mix of baseball events and storytelling makes this a great book for everyone, not just baseball, Red Sox, or Yankee fans.
Wonderful book about baseball.......2007-04-24
Hearing of the author's untimely death today got me thinking about this book, which I read years and years ago but still remember fondly as one of the best baseball books I've ever come across.
Halberstam does a very fine job of bringing to life the feel of the post-war years and of making the reader understand how baseball was a big piece of the social fabric that brought a sense of normalcy back to American life after the end of the war. I also recommend his book about the 1964 World Series, "October 1964".
The author will be missed. A sad day....
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quite a view..........2005-12-04
I read "Soul Sounds" cover to cover in the course of a week and I can honestly say that at times I cried, I laughed, I smiled, I got angry. This book is about Mary's personal journey through life to the end of 1991 and it was amazing that she shared something so personal with the world. It gave me a new understanding into this phenomenal woman - so for that I say thank you Mary Summer Rain for sharing that part of your journey with us. If you like to read biographies or personal journeys through life...then pick up a copy of "Soul Sounds" you wont be disappointed and you just might learn something new.
Absolutely five stars.
About The Book and Author.......2005-02-04
Mary Summer Rain never wanted Soul Sounds published. But her advisors did. It's a very personal, very private journal that puts her experiences with No-Eyes in an entirely different light and allows the reader to enter the guarded realm of her family life, her background, and even her extraordinary experiences with the Starborn.
"In the spring of 1991 I thought it might be wise to write down the events of my life. I wanted to have a personal record to review when I became very old and too forgetful of mind to remember. This was to be the recording of my private soul sounds that nobody else would ever hear. But it was not to be. I've been advised, by reasons spoken and unspoken, to have this very private diary published. This idea was not sanctioned by me until the very last possible moment because I'd thought no one else was going to be reading my words, and I'd written as honestly and outspokenly as I could throughout the journal pages. I'd recorded my personal thoughts, memories and even confessions. In essence, this journal does indeed turn me inside out in respect to revealing my true thoughts and inner self to the public. But, as always, I abide by how I am guided; whether I will end up being chastised, ridiculed, embarrassed or exposed because of the publication of this book is not important anymore. So then, dear friends, I give you my total inner being. I now bring my private soul sounds to your ears, I give you..." - Mary Summer Rain
Mary opens herslf to us...............2001-04-13
In this book she shares her day by day triumphs,sorrows.She speaks of special starborn interaction.The book starts with Mary's memmory prior to incarnating into the physical.Then she reflects upon early childhood,adolecenc,and her married life with children.She brings you up to date.....and then goes by a day to day basis life "as Summer Rain knows it".I can only speak for myself here,but I cried ,laughed,empathised,sympathised,ect..I truly honor her for opening herself up to the general public.That took guts.I highly recomend any of Mary's books.This one was wonderful.Just like her!!!!!!
spirit song.......1999-12-30
very good book looking forward to reading more of her book
A real gift of love.......1999-06-25
The openness with wich Mary Summer Rain shares her life with the reader is extremely touching. She understands to remind us in a simple yet powerful way, where the real values lie. I love her clear and honest style. Thank you for all your wonderful books.
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Sand Dollar Summer
Kimberly K. Jones
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Twelve-year-old Lise watches her safe world fall apart when her strong, self-reliant mom is injured in a car accident. To recuperate, Mom takes Lise and her bright little brother to live in a rattletrap house on the beach in Maine for the summer. Although her mother grew up there, this is Lise's first experience with the ocean. She's terrified by what may be lurking in the cold depths and confused by the ways that Maine is changing her mother.
As secrets from the past start spilling out, even the solid earth may not keep Lise safe anymore. Lise will have to learn to go with the flow -- or risk falling apart -- in this tender, funny, and wise novel...the story of one family's unforgettable summer.
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HATE IT.......2007-09-22
I do not like this book at all. It is quite boring and is stupid. Free is a stupid name for a young boy. It is stupid how her Mom is "strong" when she really is a dumb person.
A real page turner!.......2007-07-31
I'm 12 years old and I love to read. This book was a great book! I couldn't put it down! I reccomend this book for kids 10 and up. There are some places in the book that would put a child under the age of 10 into confusion. There are a lot of life lessons in this book. But there are also some times where they swear or where something very sad or diffucult to understand will happen. Amazing writing and sentances that will just make you gasp!!! I loved it and i deffiantly reccomend you to read it! Its a real page turner!!
Ahhhhhh.......2007-07-10
This is one of those books you'll go "ahhhh" to after setting it down. If you model your thinking as you do a read aloud with your kids, this one would be great. It would also be a great lit circle book. My only warning is that an adult says the "s" word twice....so be prepared to have your kids handle that maturely. Loved it!!!
Best read for kids or adults!.......2007-02-17
Seriously, this author writes better than the majority of popular adult fiction writers I have read lately. This is a real pager turner, very believable characters and engrossing. Can't wait for another from the author!
Wonderful.......2007-01-22
I've read about 40 children's books in the last three months as part of a library-related project. This book stands out as the very best children's book I have read recently and one that I'd highly recommend to all children in grades 5-8. Some of it is predictable, but you won't care since you are enjoying this book so much and you care about the characters. The story is well written and a wonderful debut book for this author. I look forward to reading more of her work.
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- Potatatomi Indian Summer
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Potawatomi Indian summer
E. William Oldenburg
Manufacturer: Eerdmans
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Memorable Book.......2006-01-15
I read this book when I was in 6th grade and have never forgotten it. I am now purchasing it for my son who is in 6th grade. It takes place in Grand Haven, MI and is a story where modern day kids accidently travel back in time and live with Potawatomi Indians. Its highly entertaining, full of action and adventure.
Potatatomi Indian Summer.......2003-01-13
A beautiful story for the young and old of the Potawatomi Indians as these children adventure into the indian past. Story of games,fishing,dancing,and much more of the Potawatomi Indian ways and tales.The setting of this book is along west side of Lake Michigan in Grand Haven,MI, which is very rich in Indian lore. This book would make a beautiful cottage,home reading and schools library for anybody that is fascinated with Indian story and tales.
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With accuracy, zest, and insight, _ Indian Summer_ portrays the nearly lost and unspeakably beautiful world of the Choinumne Yokuts and the valley in which they lived.
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RARE HISTORICAL COMMENTARY.......2000-09-30
As a fifth generation native of California, I had never heard of such a case where a white child lived with any of the local tribes prior to decimation and influence of outside influences. The true nature of these early natives is thus revealed with great credibility. This remarkable experience of the young Mayfield was almost lost when he revealed his story in 1928 for the first time just prior to his death at age 85. Still, it was not until 1993 that this story was published in it's pure and beautiful essence for the modern reader to enjoy and appreciate.
An Inside Look at the Indians of the San Joaquin Valley.......2000-01-09
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was only six years old when his family first laid eyes on the grand beauty of the primal San Joaquin Valley in Central California. The year was 1850 and California had just been admitted to the Union as a free state. The Mayfield family settled near Sycamore Creek, east of what is now Bakersfield. The Choinume Yocuts Indians inhabited the region and Thomas Jefferson Mayfield later recalled that the Indians were kind and compassionate to these visitors in their land. On many occasions they showed great care for their welfare.
The Indians provided meat and food stuff during desperate times, without ever being asked. After the brief illness and death of his mother, the Indian women asked Mr. Mayfield if they could watch over little Thomas during his many absences. He knew his son would be in better company with them than the white settlers and gladly agreed to the arrangement. For ten years he grew up knowing security and peace with the Choinumne Indians. He learned their ways and their language, their games and hunting techniques.
Conflict was in store for this peaceful tribe; the Monache Indians of the upper foothills and the settlers became overtly hostile. The Yocuts were the ones caught in the middle. Not only did Thomas Jefferson watch the landscape change, but he also watched his beloved guardians decimated by civilization.
This is Thomas Jefferson Mayfield's spoken testimony to historian Frank Latta of those precious ten years. The book is pleasantly laid out in a sequence that is easy to follow. The large print also makes this publication a joy to read.
Customer Reviews:
very enlightening.......2001-01-03
Mary Summer Rain has written a very enlightening book on her personal life. To me, that takes courage; to lay yourself bare like that. Nowhere in this book did I find any hate.
BITTERSWEET.......2000-10-19
...MARY SUMMER RAIN, IS THE MOST VALUABLE SOURCE, I HAVE FOUND,FOR INNER PEACE, AND FINDING A SENSE OF PURPOSE, IN THIS SENSELESSWORLD.
GIVE ME A BETTER ROLE MODEL!.......2000-08-21
It is totally beyond my comprehension how or why ANYONE could want this woman as a source of spiritual enlightment, information, or admiration after reading this book! I was so totally disgusted, shocked and angry. Her justification of guns and giving hate back at unkind people made my mouth fly open! Where is LOVE? Where is compassion? Where is insight? AND, where is "what goes around comes around". I think Mary Summer Rain is a disgrace as any kind of teacher or role model in any type of spiritual capacity. She, and her entire family, came off as angry, bitter, mean spirited lowlife's to me.
I believe the devoted readers took this hard........2000-01-19
This book was a shocker!An absolute must read.I can say with complete honesty,this book rocked my world.Mary brings to light some personal issues that blew me away(because I never expected it)I felt bad(not intention of authoress)because to me this was a friend going through some real tragedy,and I had no way of offering suppport ect...This book taught me so much,ecspeically after reflecting on it.I learned How just because someone is a completed soul or enlightened person doesnt mean life is grand.They have personal problems too.These people ARE your people next door! Just like Summer Rain always said.It took this book to make me understand what she was trying to convey.And I believe there are still many people out there that think they are not SIRITUAL or capable of becoming enlightened beause they have personal problems,or financial.Somehow we have the misdirected mindset that when we are spiritual evrything goes our way.not!This book should reach out to people on a quest for truth,who may be having a problems.(thats not to suggest misery loves company)Just,your not alone....and spiritual people suffer too.they realy are no differant then you.
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