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This is Olcott's biographic account of the Buddha, frequently called Siddhartha, combining experience and wisdom while introducing his life to a Western audience. While brief, Olcott's examination of the holy prophet's life is as vivid and fresh today as it was when it was published. Who was the Buddha, what were his lessons to man, and what is Buddhism?

On April 2, 1855, Texas Ranger Nelson Lee was one of four survivors of a night attack by the Comanches. He escaped death by torture by fascinating his captors with an alarm watch, convincing them he alone had the spiritual powers to make the watch work. This classic tells the tale of Lee's captivity and daring escape.

Before the eyes can see with the clear vision of the Spirit, they must have grown incapable of the tears of wounded pride—unkind criticism—unmerited abuse—unfriendly remarks—slights—sarcasm—the annoyances of everyday life—the failures and disappointments of everyday existence. Take these thoughts with you into the silence, and let the truth sink into your mind, that it may take root, grow, blossom, and bear fruit. Kill out ambition. Kill out desire of life. Kill out desire of comfort. Work as those work who are ambitious. Respect life as those who desire it.

This, the third of Hartmann's books, and the first with a fictional setting, begins with a journey in the Alps. The narrator meets a mysterious dwarf. The dwarf takes him to an Adept who resides in a hidden Rosicrucian colony high in the mountains. This Adept proceeds to expound on the Rosicrucian way, including Alchemy, Elementals and the acquisition of psychic powers. There is a demonstration of the transmutation of silver into gold using a red powder.

In certain respects, Through the Gates of Gold may be regarded as a commentary on Light on the Path. The listener would do well to bear this in mind. Many things in that book will be made clear by the listening of this one, and one will be constantly reminded of that work, which has already become classic literature. Through the Gates of Gold is a work to be kept constantly at hand for reference and study. It will surely rank as one of the standard books of theosophy.

This collection of Judge's letters has inspired many seekers on the path. In clear, compelling language, the author shows that in the search for spirit, the need is not to escape the world, but to help transform it through constant efforts to be compassionate, resolute, and wise in daily life.

I did not, of course, get Apauk’s story of his life in the sequence in which it is here laid down. On consecutive evenings he would relate incidents far apart in time, and only by later questionings would I be able to fill in the gaps. But at last I got together the whole of it, to my own satisfaction, and I hope the listener may get as much pleasure from the story as I did in the hearing of it.

The Well is a story glimpsed through a cosmic keyhole–a magnificent gift of evidence that love can rise above grief and outlast the phenomenon called death.

Schultz weaves together the key events in Sacajawea’s story, from her traumatic childhood and adolescence, being captured and taken away from her home by a raiding party of Minnetaree to her unhappy marriage to the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, through to her life assisting in Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Pacific Northwest.

Black Otter, the son of Lone Bull, a Pikuni, Blackfoot Indian cast out from his tribe for breaking the hunting rules and forced to wander the wilderness in search of redemption, retells his remarkable story to James Willard Schultz and uncovers the harsh life that faced him and his family during their time in the wilderness.

"Big-Foot Wallace” is better known throughout Texas as an Indian-fighter, hunter, and ranger, than any one, perhaps, now living in the State; which is saying a good deal when the great number who have acquired more or less notoriety in that way is taken into consideration. Few men now living, I am confident, have witnessed as many stirring incidents, had more “hair-breadth escapes,” or gone through more of the hardships and perils of a border life. 

Personal Narrative provides fascinating insight into the earliest clashes that were beginning to occur between citizens of the travelers from the east, Native Americans and Mexicans as United States began its great westward expansion. Pattie’s book fully explores the dangers of life as a trapper in the wilderness of the far west, including during one episode after Pattie and a group of French trappers were attacked and only three of them survived.

Tales from one of the original mountaineers in the raw land of the west. W. T. Hamilton—also known as, Wildcat Bill, gives the listener a first-hand account of life outdoors in the Old West. Hamilton relates how a mountain man relied on his wits and specialized knowledge in order survive the inhospitable environments. From trailblazing to trading with Indians, he keeps us on the edge of our seats.