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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. 2010Shoshoni pony
By Wayne Cornell, Carol Lynn MacGregor, Dick Lee. 2003
Horses changed the way Native Americans lived and worked. This is the story of how the Shoshoni Indians, who lived…
in the area that would later become Idaho, became the first in the Northwest to get horses and why these amimals were so important to Shoshoni and their culture. For grades 5-8Aurora crossing: A Novel of the Nez Perces
By Karl H. Schlesier. 2008
Idaho, 1877. Eighteen-year-old John Seton, whose father was white, lives among his late mother's people, the Nez Perces. When nontreaty…
bands are pressured by the U.S. government to move onto a reservation, they flee north. On the journey, Seton struggles to safeguard the horses, elude soldiers--and survive. Some violence. 2008Meurtres avec malveillance (GF ;v 107eUne enquête de DreadfulWater)
By Thomas King. 2022
La vie n'est pas de tout repos pour Thumps DreadfulWater. Alors qu'il peine à accepter tant son diabète que le…
cancer de Claire, voilà que la productrice d'une populaire émission d'affaires criminelles, Nina Maslow, débarque à Chinook et insiste pour que Thumps l'aide à réactiver un vieux dossierFools Crow
By James Welch. 1986
The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native…
American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welch's stunningly evocative portrait of his people's bygone way of life.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.