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Bigger than Hip Hop helps answer the question "where are all the
young adults, and why won't they come to church?" This book uses
ethnography to get a clearer insight into this phenomenon and gives
practical advice for how to minister and engage the Hip Hop
generation. By using 7 key questions, readers are invited into a
deeper understanding of the mind and needs of the Hip Hop
generation.
Ronnie Campbell is 14 years old. His mother died a few months ago,
his father was killed by the Indians. He is alone in the Ruby
Mountains, a three day ride to anyone. You can see his life unfold,
including riding for the Pony Express at 16 years old. The gold he
found plays the key role in this story. Buckland Station and Fort
Churchill State Parks in Nevada are the main settings for this tale
of hard riding and many adventures in Ronnie Capmbell Series, The
Pony Express Rider.
At the start of the 20th century railroads were the main life line
for communities to get their products out to the world. This is the
true story of how one man changed a large portion of Southern
Indiana from a back woods area to a thriving mineral extraction
economy. John R. Walsh was a Chicago banker that financed a small
belt line railroad and quarry in Bedford, Ind. The loan went sour
and he was hung with the assets when the borrowers went broke. This
story reports his efforts to save his investment loan capital, and
in the process made limestone a nation wide recognized building
product. Other railroads of the time were reluctant to adequately
serve the quarries and mills, so John R. Walsh bought a defunct
rail line and made it into a 'State of the Art' railroad to move
his products to market. To get enough traffic on his railroad to
make it profitable, he opened up several coal mines in Western
Indiana., so his line would have more to haul. Railroads were
expensive to build, and Walsh borrowed more from his bank than the
banking laws allowed. In addition the large railroads in the
Chicago area did not want another road entering Chicago. As John
was building his railroad into Chicago, he was brought into federal
court on banking law violations and found guilty. This book is a
diary of the overall events that caused him to get into the
railroad business, how he built the road, day to day chit-chat
about what happened on a 1900 railroad, and the trial that put him
in jail.
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