All books using the keywords: Doug Edmonson

This soft cover, black and white version of the book, "Gopher Teammates Forever" is the story of University of Minnesota Track and Field and Cross-country teams from 1963 to 1970, explored through the eyes of a middling middle distance runner, Doug Edmonson, who was both a competitor and an observer of three Big Ten championships for the Golden Gopher teams of that era. Doug provides photos, meet results and personal insights about his teammates. While Doug wrote this primarily to his grandchildren, readers will find a fascinating story about Gopher teams of that era. Profits for the book will be donated to the Minnesota track program to try and keep it alive at the University of Minn ...

This soft cover, color version of the book, "Gopher Teammates Forever" is the story of the University of Minnesota Track and Field and Cross-country teams from 1963 to 1970 is explored through the eyes of a middling middle-distance runner, Doug Edmonson, who was both a competitor and an observer of three Big Ten championships for the Golden Gopher teams of that era. Doug provides photos, meet results and personal insights about his teammates. While Doug wrote this primarily to his grandchildren, readers will find a fascinating story about Gopher teams of that era. Profits for the book will be donated to the Minnesota track program to try and keep it alive at the University of Minnesota.

A collection of old-time, turn=of=the-century photos and newspaper articles about pioneer days in Oklahoma, from 1895 to 1920, written by Pearl McConnell Edmonson for various rural Oklahoma newspapers. The book tells the story of her teen and adult journey as a 15-year-old school teacher, assistant school superintendent, county courthouse, and Oklahoma State senate secretary in the early 1900's.at a time when women were supposed to be homemakers, seen but not heard.

Esther "Pearl" McConnell was born in Kansas but moved with her family to Oklahoma in the early Land Rush days. She had a keen interest in writing and desire to improve herself. She was a remarkable women in the early 1900's of Oklahoma statehood, working as a school teacher, assistant school superintendent and as secretary to the Senate Pro Tem in the Oklahoma State Senate. Pearl’s wrote hundreds of articles for Oklahoma newspapers about the early Oklahoma pioneers which give us that rich flavor of the hardships and joys of a little girl and young woman growing up in the Oklahoma Territory in a tumultuous and rowdy time in one of our last frontiers. These stories are a true treasur ...