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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. 1978Trail to Fort Smith: a Ralph Compton novel
By Ralph Compton, Dusty Richards. 2004
Saddle partners Hamp and Clint will never make it to Fort Smith at this rate. First Clint kills a card…
shark and Hamp has to marry a girl to get Clint sprung from jail. Then Clint shoots a rancher. Strong language. 2004The dry divide
By Ralph Moody. 1994
In this sequel to Shaking the Nickel Bush (DB 54466), Ralph Moody is twenty in 1919 when he lands in…
Nebraska without any money. Three months later he owns eight teams of horses and falls in love. 1963Shakespeare: his work and his world
By Michael Rosen, Robert R. Ingpen. 2001
Explains the universal appeal of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright, poet, and master writer of the English language. Uses quotations from…
his work to discuss some of his dramas and the extraordinary and dangerous times in which he lived. Includes a time line. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001The nutmeg of consolation (Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser. #14)
By Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Obrian. 1991
When a typhoon wrecks the "Diane," and its captain, Jack Aubrey; its surgeon, Stephen Maturin; and its crew plot their…
survival on an island in the Dutch East Indies. At first they are hoodwinked by a band of pirates. Eventually they take command of "The Nutmeg of Consolation," a small ship with which they outwit a much larger French enemy vessel and proceed to Australia. There they become involved in assorted battles that they have little to do with the seaThe letter of Marque (Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser. #12)
By Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Obrian. 1990
When Captain Jack Aubrey is dismissed from the Royal Navy, his friend, Stephen Maturin, gives him command of the private…
warship "Surprise," a letter of marque. As Maturin's marital problems and Aubrey's disgrace bring the buddies even closer, Aubrey captures the frigate "Diane" in a skirmish against Napoleon and is wounded in the process. The question now is whether this feat is enough to bring about his reinstatementThe undying West: a chronicle of Montana's Camas Prairie
By Carlene Cross. 1999
Reed Anthony, Cowman
By Andy Adams. 2012