Cowboys and dudes, old-timers and Indians, bums and bankers -- all are subject of this colorful panorama of Western Americana that stretches from San Diego to Amarillo, from the Tetons to Tucson. Seasoned storyteller Budge Ruffner relates anecdotes ranging from a ranching outfit's first encounter with the "Midget Spanish bayonet," better known as the artichoke, to an old newspaper account claiming that the first raft trip through the Grand Canyon...

Questions about meditation submitted to online forums are answered by the author.

Studies in Smokeis not fiction. The shared event is actual and the resonance real. So is this. This poetry remains faithful to traditional form. It is true to life and to living simply while thinking too much. It is true to the cycle of uneasy, never settled sentiments that prescribe no moral, no message, no mysticism. In plain language and the fitting phrase, this work is authentic to the voices of inanimate shadings, to the shifting shapes that...

"Mrs. Ogg played the harp" tells the touching and funny story of an untested woman minister who ventures to the high country of northern Arizona where she accepts a pulpit in a small church in a country club. She confronts her husbands betrayal, copes with troublesome Christian beliefs, and finds God among catus, conservatives, and a compelling landscape.

The Compiler writes: "My purpose in publishing this book is the hope that individuals may come across these writings as I did 6 years ago, and from them develop a desire to live the way of Divine Love." This book presents excerpts of spirit communications received by James Padgett between 1914 and 1920. In these writings we discover that our souls are the highest of God's Creation and that we are His beloved children, and that the one desire closest...

"A walking journey across Arizona with essays on wildfire, copper mining, border crossing, dirty politics, Native culture, violence, suburban monotony, shrinking water, local cuisine, literary culture and the Grand Canyon. I have sought to write the most comprehensive one-volume portrait of Arizona ever written: a deep narrative map"--