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The Horse Show at Midnight; And, an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems $15.95 In a career approaching thirty years in duration, Henry Taylor has established himself as one of the most accomplished poets of our time. Taylor’s widely acclaimed third collection of verse, The Flying Change (LSU Press), received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Now his first two full-length collections, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, published in 1966 and 1975, respe… |
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Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse $14.82 American History. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied nonsteam vessels—flatboats, keelboats, and rafts—on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763 to 1861…. |
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Cajun Racing: From the Bush Tracks to the Triple Crown $16.67 Cajun Racing: From the Bush Tracks to the Triple Crown, longtime turf writer Ed McNamara tells the story of a remarkably resilient people with a passion for racing and an unmatched touch with quarter horses and Thoroughbreds. In Cajun country, there’s a lot of character and a lot of characters, as superstar jockey Kent Desormeaux likes to say. You’ll meet trainer Pierre LeBlanc, a wheeler-dealer w… |
