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Trilogy describing the author's journey to Canada from Wyoming with a dream of owning a cattle ranch. In Grass beyond…
the Mountains, Richmond and his companions conquer the tortuous miles and carve out a space for themselves. Also includes Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Strong language and some violence. 1978The stalking moon: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
By Paul Ingrassia, Theodore V Olsen. 2010
Nineteenth-century American West. Army scout Sam Vetch rescues Sara Carver and her two children from an Apache tribe. Sam marries…
Sara and takes her family to his New Mexico ranch. But Sara's Apache husband tracks her down in an attempt to reclaim her and their sons. 1965Crash course: the American automobile industry's road from glory to disaster
By T. V. Olsen, Paul Ingrassia, T Olsen. 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the history of the American auto industry. Traces its decline to the 1970s when, he asserts,…
shoddy production, self-destructive corporate culture, foreign competition, and union militancy began to exact their toll. Includes anecdotes on management personalities, car dealers, and controversial pay practices. 2010Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg
By Lori Mortensen, Michael Allen Austin. 2013
Wagons west!
By Roy Gerrard. 1996
Back in 1850, many Americans worked hard to make a living from the barren soil. When Buckskin Dan arrives in…
town with tales of rich green land in Oregon, a young girl and her family, along with their neighbors, set out for a long journey to a new home with Buckskin Dan as their guide. For grades 2-4The Spell of the Yukon and Other Poems
By Robert Service. 2012
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun," declared Robert Service as he related the fulfillment of a dying…
prospector's request. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" was based on one of many peculiar tales he heard upon his 1904 arrival in the Canadian frontier town of Whitehorse. Less than a decade after the Klondike gold rush, many natives and transplants remained to tell stories of the boom towns that sprang up with the sudden influx of miners, gamblers, barflies, and other fortune-seekers. Service's compelling verses — populated by One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, and other colorful characters — recapture the era's venturesome spirit and vitality.In this, his best-remembered work, the "common man's poet" and "Canadian Kipling" presents thirty-four verses that celebrate the rugged natural beauty of the frozen North and the warm humanity of its denizens. Verses include "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" ("A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon"), "The Heart of the Sourdough" ("There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon"), and "The Call of the Wild" (Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on"). Generations have fallen under the spell of these poems, which continue to enchant readers of all ages.Real Cowboys
By Jonathan Bean, Kate Hoefler. 2016
In Kate Hoefler’s realistic and poetic picture book debut about the wide open West, the myth of rowdy, rough-riding cowboys…
and cowgirls is remade. A timely and multifaceted portrayal reveals a lifestyle that is as diverse as it contrary to what we've come to expect.