As Capt. Lorenzo Sitgreaves set out in 1851 to explore the southern portion of the Four Corners region (won in the recent war with Mexico); his party included Dr. Samuel Woodhouse; a thirty-year-old physician and naturalist who kept a journal of their travels from New York to California. Woodhouse recorded three weeks in San Antonio; made daily entries across the Trans-Pecos; and; after a hiatus in Santa Fe; resumed his journal on the march to Zuñi Pueblo. Midway into their three weeks at Zuñi; he nearly died from a rattlesnake bite and was scarcely recovered when the explorers again started west. The largest part of Woodhouse’s journal concerns Captain Sitgreaves’ reconnaissance for a wagon road westward from Zuñi to the Colorado River of the West. It also records a perilous; starving descent of that untamed river to the Yuma Crossing. The doctor’s entries grew with scientific curiosity and increasing concern for finding water and meetinghostile natives. His extensive notes on plants and animals were part of the first effort to describe and map what is now northern Arizona. His diaries also provide the first detailed description of the Walapai and Mohave peoples the explorers encountered. Sam Woodhouse’s private journal is published here for the first time. Although the basic facts of the Sitgreaves expedition have long been known; the journal adds much detail and great depth to the story; allowing the editors to draw credible conclusions about natural science and Southwestern exploration in the mid-nineteenth century. The color plates reproduce some of the earliest chromolithography done in the United States.
#525436 in Books 2002-05-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.22 x 1.01 x 6.36l; 1.16 #File Name: 0895261448276 pagesCurrent EventsReligionCatholic ChurchGoodbye; Good MenMichael S. Rose
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A MUST Read!By C. JohnWhat a fantastic book that should be required reading not only for every Catholic; but every American. Why? Because what happened in the Catholic seminaries is what is happening to all of America. I don't doubt that this horrible "infection" is still happening in the seminaries; in our schools; in the military and private business. Mr. Rose's style was engaging and I could not put the book down! I read it in less than 24 hours and I have purchased other copies for friends and family and lent out my copy. My priest saw me reading the book and commented that the book was an "oldie but a goodie" and then he said "don't let it shake your faith". I told him that if anything; it made my faith stronger. I can not recommned this book strongly enough. Kudos to Michael Rose for this excellent expose!11 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Goodbye; Good Men: Amazing look at the failing of the bishops.By bfweberGoodbye; Good Men is a sobering; eye-opening; edifying analysis of the failing of bishops; vocation offices and seminaries the last sixty years which have promulgated the gay subculture within the institution and exponentially stoked the priest sex scandal.While one might think the book focuses primarily on the sex scandal and the gay subculture the primary thrust of the book has to be about the liberal; anti-church dissenters that have invaded the church hierarchy; dioceses; seminaries and liberal laity which have metastasized themselves in local parishes and educational and liturgical programs.While Michael Rose work acknowledges the present priest shortage in the US; the data clearly shows; beyond a doubt; it is all man-made; contrived; by the wicked and diabolical within the church. These corrupt bishops; priest; seminary rectors; clip-haired; feminazi-nuns and progressive laity exacerbated the pedophile/ephebophilia sexual abuse; injuring thousands of children by fomenting their homosexual subculture. Additionally; their aberrant ideology created four times as many victims by turning away good; pious; orthodox men away from a priestly vocation that would not embrace their homo-heresy agenda; causing deep psychological scars upon these men. Their agenda of reshaping of the church to include; woman ordination; married priest; contraception; abortion; rejection of chastity and celibacy and a plethora of liturgical abuses is contrary to 2000 plus years of church tradition and the teachings of Christ.Time to purge our church; dioceses; seminaries; chanceries; educational institutions; and parishes of these abhorrent individuals.Goodbye Good Men is a well written; researched book!20 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Interesting and InstructiveBy Josef KGOODBYE; GOOD MEN provides an interesting background to the sex abuse scandals that have plagued the Catholic church in the past fifteen years and a different perspective on the vocations crisis in the United States (the fall in the number of priests that the U.S. is producing). The main argument of the book is that liberal priests and nuns in the United States used their positions of power for decades to block and discourage orthodox candidates from entering the Catholic priesthood; thus creating an artificial lack of new priests graduating from US seminaries.It is surprising to discover; as the book documents; that several conservative seminaries in the US did not experience the much publicized "vocations crisis" at all; and in virtually all of the seminaries where the "vocations crisis" has occurred (which is most of the U.S. seminaries) there was a notable pattern of exclusion directed at candidates who were orthodox in their Catholic faith. The author describes how many liberal priests and nuns after Vatican II considered it a foregone conclusion that the Catholic Church would soon put an end to the celibate priesthood; allowing non-celibate men and also women to become priests; and that these 'radical' priests and nuns attempted to block or exclude orthodox candidates who believed in the celibate priesthood and other traditional concepts of Catholic faith.GOODBYE; GOOD MEN paints a grim and discouraging picture of a great institution nearly overcome by internal rot (an image sharply underlined by the unbelievably pervasive sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church); but it is worth reading to the end as the last two or three chapters provide a more positive take-away and significant hope for the future of Catholicism.An understated; but fascinating; aspect of this book are the many stories of extraordinary perseverance that it contains about orthodox priests who have overcome the attempts of liberal priests and nuns to block orthodox candidates from graduating at U.S. seminaries. This is a rather strange picture when one is accustomed to thinking of Catholic priests and nuns as inherently 'orthodox'; but the story rings true and provides great insight into the state of the Catholic Church in the United States today and the nature of the Catholic Church as an institution.(I would probably give this book four stars for overall quality; but I bump it up a notch both for the bravery of the author in tackling an extremely controversial subject and because many of the negative reviews seem to be of the axe-to-grind variety and completely unfair.)
