Bøker av Stephen L Wood

Ever lost your power? Of course you have, and you will several more times in your life time, along with your water, heat, refrigeration, toilets, gas, and the very utilities most take for granted until there gone.Two terms to remember, OFF-GRID: You develop all your own power, septic, water, and heating systems. ON-GRID: You are supplied with all utilities, but at a very high cost.If you own your home, rent your home or have an apartment, for less than two fast food meals, this little book will make your next outage much easier to cope with and may even save your life. Learn what you need to make your next outage easy to cope with.If you’re thinking of getting away from the crowded cities where you see the air you breathe, taste the water you drink, wear ear plugs to sleep, spend three hours a day to and from your job, where the corporation billionaires has brainwashed you, making only survival pay, and your fed up with this so-called life? Then you really need this little book.In 1971 my wife and I bought in a very remote area in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The property was 26 miles from a town, 12 miles from any electric line, marginal roads in the summer, snow in the winter, no phone service. We have survived for 47 years but we learned, OOOO BOY, did we learn! Now you can benefit from our dumb mistakes, our good choices, and will save you thousands if thinking of building off-grid.The truth of what’s it is really like to live off-grid? I wrote this at the request from the many I have helped to develop inexpensive solar systems, to complete solar systems for off-grid living. You will learn solar systems, water, septic, heating systems, how and where to build your home, buying your land, and a host of other information. No grafts or charts, just the facts. Until the 1950’s most people had gone through the depression, WW2, and still had the means and knowledge to live without all the utilities supplied today. Because the power grid was marginal, they kept all the necessary backups needed to cope with the outages. Today we have grown complacent.Today, largely due to the space age, it is not only much easier to build and live off-grid but much less expensive to do so. It is estimated that in the next ten years over 55% of the work force will work from their home. Your job can be done from your living room, due to satellite technology, in an environment that you now can only dream of. We see solar panels on roofs in the cities, huge wind and solar fields, personal systems on acreages, farms, ranches, and urban areas. It’s here now but only a few realize it as an easy way to escape the urban life.Land in remote areas can still be bought at an affordable price, but as people like yourself want to get off the gerbil wheel, it too is becoming a sought-after commodity. This little book will not only give you good advice on building, but what to look for in off-grid land, and more importantly, what not to look for.As you will learn, most every utility built for off-grid living can be applied to on-grid as well.  Now in our late 70’s and over 47 years living off grid, going through the dark ages of off-grid living, I believe my advice is well worth reading, whether you use it is your decision, but “What If”I have been brutally honest in my advice, but it is all the truth.

I have no idea if you will appreciate this book, but I will guarantee that after reading Colt Barelman's biography, you will never look at anyone wearing a cowboy hat in the same light as you had. This biography is not of a famous person, a politician, or a scoundrel, it's about a man that followed his passion from his youth to now, it's about the 90% of us that work and raise our families and help to make this nation the best place on the planet Earth to live.In the over sixty hours of taping interviews with Colt, I never heard him use a slang or curse word. Like the first Americans, he has a deep respect for God, the outdoors, and all living things. "I was born to be a cowboy and unless I am not setting on a horse or working cattle, I just can't stand it."Colt Barelman is what young boys dream about, music writers write about, legends of the west were written about, and yes, he is what we all want to be a part of when doing a line dance, square dancing, or just putting on that felt cowboy hat, cowboy boots, western shirt, and blue jeans to go out, even for just a little while, you are a cowboy.Colts phenomenal memory of areas, names, jobs, and people are without a doubt one of the strong points of his life's story. He describes the areas so accurately that you can almost feel that you are there. When telling of an event or job, whether it is moving a herd of five-thousand cattle or branding, he names every cowboy working that job, and describes the area vividly, making you feel as though you are there helping There are several ranches and many colored pictures mentioned in this story. Sunlight Ranch, owner Robert Earl Holding (deceased), Billionaire Owner of Sun Valley Ski Resort. At the time of his death, he was considered to be among the largest landowners in America with some 400,000 acres across the west. He owned the Grand America hotel in Salt Lake City, as well as the ski resorts Snowbasin in Utah and Sun Valley. His ranch was among the largest in America and the largest in Northern Wyoming and Southern Montana. One of the eight Colt was employed with.This was by far the most difficult genre that I have ever written. As you can see by my book picture, I look like a typical cowboy and I have indeed lived that life, as most anyone that has a horse, small pasture, and wants to be a part of this fantasy life envisions. Was I a cowboy? Not even close! That's what made writing Colts life so difficult for me, I had to get my concept of being a cowboy from my head and listen to Colt, when that happened and I understood what it means to be a real cowboy, only then could I write his life.I sincerely hope you enjoy reading Colts Biography as much as I enjoyed writing it. THANK YOU

Inspired by true events, as told to author Stephen L. Wood by elders in both First American and white communities, White Arrow: Half-Breed is a passionate novel about the prejudice First Americans have endured from both their white neighbors and the US government, particularly during white expansion into the American West. To tell White Arrow's story, Wood chose a main character with both white and First American heritage. This perspective, plus his years of formal school study, gives White Arrow's protagonist the advantage of understanding the ways of many people-and the ability to change history from a track of bitter hate to one of cooperation and respect.

Beginning with the American pioneers' westward expansion and ending with humans exploring the moon, Stephen L. Wood's Pioneers with Eminence Optimization: 35 Stories with Impact offers stirring true stories of people who journeyed into the unknown, not knowing if they would or could ever see loved ones and familiar places again.Wood researched each story, and several draw from diaries written by people involved in the actual events. Of note, Pioneers with Eminence Optimization focuses on the roll women played in the westward expansion of the United States, leaving the reader saying, "I didn't know that!" or "Wow, really?"In these stories, we find one hundred years of pioneers who made an impact on this great nation, and still do today.