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|  | | Brief Candle
Brief Candle is a biographical narrative about a college English professor going through male menopause.
Jake Boswell, a Victorian born in America during the Jazz Age, discovers that he is deeply in love with a trailerhouse girl. This comes after thirty years of good behavior and marriage to the same woman. Finally at the top of the academic ladder, Jake finds himself facing two enormous problems, at home a wife who has become a dipsomaniac, and at work an endless wave of young liberated 'retreads' (trailerhouse girls). Lola, once a lovely and charming companion, has become a migraine disaster; but even so, if Heather Roberts had stayed in her trailerhouse with her two kids and her beer--guzzlin | |  | | By-Line: Cleatus Hooter
This is the collected works (newspaper columns and travel stories) of a locally famous Ozarks philosopher and fly-swatter. Cleatus Hooter was a newspaper columnist for the Ozark Headliner in Ozark, Missouri, and the Konawa Leader in Konawa, Oklahoma.
span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">span style="font-size: medium;">This is a collection (the only one of its kind) of the humorous newspaper stories and travel writings of Cleatus Hooter, who spent most of his long life in the Ozarks Mountains of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma. His travels to Fiji, Mexico, and Cornwall, UK, are included./span>/span> | |  | | Cain McGee, Junior G-Man
There never was a better time or place to grow up in than the River Bend of Seminole County, Oklahoma, during the Dust Bowl.
Elmo Hall tells his own story, how he became a published short story writer at the age of eleven and signed on as a correspondent at the Konawa Leader newspaper when he was twelve. At a time when no one he knew had any money, Elmo became a successful salesman of Grit newspapers, Collier's magazines, Garrett Snuff, and Cloverine Salve. From the sale of his mother's delicious turnover pies (his school lunch), he began a number of U. S. Mail Order businesses and became the youngest recipient of the Organizer's Award in the history of the BSA. He was the youngest of eleven children, the first in h | |  | | Eagles and Canaries
Eagles and Canaries is a collection of humorous and insightful stories about trailerhouse people, hillbillies, and men who for women they cannot have.
The men in Eagles and Canaries are under the illusion that all women fall into one of two categories, those who are out for a wild time at the man's expense and those who are looking for a husband first and a good time second. In the end (or near it) these men learn that women are complex beings, far beyond the comprehension of mere human males.
| |  | | Hard to Kill
Hard to Kill is an old-fashioned Western set in the Wind River Country of Wyoming Territory. It is based upon a brief period in the life of John Wesley Hardin, one of the Old West's most famous gunslingers.
Suffering from amnesia, John Wesley Hardin wakes up in an alley with a hole in his head. Just in time he is rescued from certain death by Jennifer Hadley, who is herself being chased by a mob on horseback.
In time, going by the name of Slim, Hardin learns (but keeps to himself) that he is very much at home with handguns; and since a bloody range war is in progress in the Wind River Country and his pretty rescuer is in serious trouble, he resolves to do what he can to stop the man who is responsible for starting the war.
Slim falls in love with the girl and asks her to marry him--as s | |  | | Kilroy, Home from WW2
The Hooligan Navy is a biographical fiction about the Coast Guard of the late 1940's. The story begins on the West Coast and traces the adventures of the author (a radio operator) on the cutters Alert, Bramble, Chautauqua, Escanaba, and Taney. In the last chapters the story shifts to the East Coast and the CGC Storis, an ice-breaker--and a voyage that ends in Juneau, Alaska.
| |  | | Madam President
Madam President is a humorous look at Washington politics in the year 2020. It begins with the startling news that Martha Feldon has become the first woman to occupy the Oval Office legally. Men have failed miserably (1) to make the world safe for democracy, (2) balance the federal budget, and (3) control crime in the streets.
There are two powerful (male) forces opposed to the new female-dominated government: The President's ex-husband ex-U.S.Senator Buckley Masters (and his underground guerilla organization known as Phoenix Five) and the Truckers Union.
Martha, with the backing of the powerful feminist organizations, initiates a program which she calls "Drastic Measures," designed to end male domination in the U.S. forever. | |  | | Oklahoma Pioneer!
Oklahoma Pioneer! is an intimate biography of Horace Greeley Teeman Hall and Mallie Rue Karr, who were married in Indian Territory in 1900 and, in 1907, began sharecropping across the new state of Oklahoma.
This is an intimate biography of my parents and a true story about pioneering in the new state of Oklahoma.
| |  | | Once Upon an Island
This is the amazing story of a three-generations romance thriller that began in the Fiji Islands at the end of WWII and ended there in the 1990's. It is a 'writer's story.
| |  | | Pinky
Pinky is the first book of a trilogy about my World War II experiences (but it was the last of the three to be published, in Jan., 2005)
When I was a few months into my 16th birthday, the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor--and put an end to my dreams of becoming a great basketball player. Suddenly, all I could think about was joining the Navy and teaching those little fellows on the other side of the Pacific a lesson. I was a sophomore in high school (having fallen behind a couple of years because my family was moving about a lot). As soon as I was old enough I enlisted and, after boot camp in Farragut, Idaho, was sent to the South Pacific. I had red hair and was very fair-complected, but my nickname 'Pinky' was pinned on me by | |  | | Pinky
Pinky is the first of four volumes of A MEMOIR OF WORLD WAR II. It is about a boy from an Oklahoma farm who wanted more than anything else to join the Navy and fight the Japs. He has a number of setbacks but in this volume he makes it to an island in the Pacific, New Caledonia, Admiral Halsey's COMSOPAC headquarters.
This is the way it was in the early 1940's: The Japs had hit us hard at Pearl Harbor, and we were going to teach her a lesson. No able-bodied man could tolerate the though of staying at home during this war.
| |  | | Shootout at Greentree
In 1882, John Wesley Hardin drifted into Greentree, Wyoming Territory. In an upstairs hotel room he was shot in the head and left for dead. This is the story of what happened to him while he was suffering from amnesia during a range war.
| |  | | The Hall Tree, An American Family History
The Hall Tree is the true story of the Halls that grew tobacco in South Carolina, cotton in Georgia, corn in Arkansas, and peanuts in Oklahoma.
The branch of the Hall family that began in this country with John (b. 1769) and Mary (b. 1770) of Charleston, South Carolina, migrated to Carroll (Haralson) County, Georgia, before the Civil War. One branch moved to Missouri and later settled in Texas; another moved to Alabama; and three others moved to Madison County, Arkansas. And when Oklahoma became a state in 1907, several branches of these Arkansas Halls sharecropped and settled there.
The Hall Tree is the result of twenty years of research and the combined efforts of a dozen Halls and their in-laws. It contains not only the vit | |  | | The Hooligan Navy
An ex-Navy swab ship's over into the Coast Guard shortly following WWII, thinking he will get a free ride in this shallow-water navy.
This is based upon what happened to the author when he joined the Old Coast Guard in 1947. He learned immediately that almost everything he had learned in the wartime Navy was of no use to him in this small outfit, which behaved more like a bunch of hooligans than a branch of the Armed Forces. During one two-year hitch he served as a radio operator aboard five cutters on both coasts and in Alaska
This is a detailed and accurate account of what life was like aboard an ice-breaker, a buoy tender, an air-sea rescue cutter, and three weather ship assigned to Station Fox midway between San Fra | |  | | The Hungry Hills
The Hungry Hills is a collection of short stories about living hillbillies in the Missouri Ozarks.
A college professor moves his Phi Beta Kappa wife and three anemic kids to the hills of southeastern Christian County, Missouri, to get away from noise and pollution. The Hungry Hills is a semi-autonomous region located on either side of a dogleg of the Ozarks Mountains that run from the hamlet of Bugscuffle on the north down Pine Ridge to the village of Hopeful (at the elbow) to the unincorporated town of Jubilee on the south. the natives of this region are descended from the second and third sons of Tennessee and Kentucky jpioneers, men shorn of birthright and therefore forced to move westwa | |  | | The River Bend
The River Bend is a collection of short tales and anecdotes about growing up in the old River Bend of Seminole, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
This collection of anecdotes/tales/sketches were first published in the Konawa (OK) Leader in the mid-1990's. They describe a time and a place and a way of life that no longer exist; and although money was scarce and life was difficult for the grown-ups, the author remembers his youth as exciting. | |  | | The Splendid Five
The Splendid Five is a story about five wooden subchasers in the Pacific during WW2. It is based upon the experiences of the author.
In the summer of 1944, five 110-ft. U. S. Navy SC's were converted to LCC's at the Naval Supply Base on Ile Nou Island, New Caledonia, and turned over to "MacArthur's Navy." Their mission was to assist in the island invasions from New Guinea to the Philippines. Two of the five survived to end the war at Saipan/Tinian as air/sea rescue ships for the big B-29 air base on Tinian. | |  | | Through the Briar Patch of Early American Literature
The Englishmen (and English women) who showed up on the East Coast of North America wrote down what needed to be written down. It was not poetry or literary prose, but at times it was quite humorous. Here is a humorous account of the sub-literature of the US colonial period.
Here is the first volume of Wesley E. Hall's 'Briar Patch' anthologies. Specifically, it is a humorous (but accurate) account of what was written by the men and women who came to the North American east coast in the Seventeenth Century. Others in this series will include William Faulkner's 'Yoknapatawpha Saga' (a tongue-in-cheek stroll through the briar patch that has sent many a college sophomore to his/her grave), Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' (a jolly horseback ride from Northumbria to Canterbury told in fifth grade level American-English), and the American Romantic Movement (a hilarious | |  | | Yesterday's Child
Yesterday's Child, a three-generations love story, begins in the Fijis in 1945 and ends there yesterday. It is the story of an epic search for a lost love.
Jason Rhodes, convinced that he is the favorite of a lesser god, sets out to achieve two ambitious goals: To become a world famous novelist and to win the hand of the beautiful Stephanie Howorth, a young Mississippi heiress so endowed with attributes, both physical and mental, Aphrodite would have wept at the sight of her.
Jason's first ambition suffered major setbacks early on because he and Stephanie and three other service personnel became marooned on an island in the Fijis. This is just after WW2, when young aristocratic women occasionally gave the time of day to commoners like Jason, |
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Pow Wow
by Susan Smith
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 The Commander and the Chief take on the rogue Deep State: the Gunfight at the UK Corral, missing Redcoats in the Nevada Triangle, and nuclear blackmail! |
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