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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. 1978Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg
By Lori Mortensen, Michael Allen Austin. 2013
Shoshoni 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. 2008The 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. 1963Wagons 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 2-4Les cahiers noirs de l'aliéniste: 2, Le sang des prairies (GF (Alire (Firme)))
By Jacques Côté. 2010
"Fort Edmonton, 5 mai 1885.Trois mois après avoir joint les rangs du 65e bataillon de Montréal, le capitaine Georges Villeneuve,…
assisté du lieutenant Bruno Lafontaine et du docteur Paré, entend la déposition sous serment de François Lépine, un interprète métis qui a survécu au massacre de Lac-à-la-Grenouille." -- 4e de couvThe 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.Fools 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.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.This classic tome belongs on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in Great Lakes freighters and vessels…
and in the origin and functioning of the Great Lakes shipping trade. The material in this book, published circa 1909, is priceless. It includes information of historical value you will find nowhere else, especially if you're interested in the origin and development of the classic Great Lakes ore boat, the packet freighter, the side-wheel excursion and "night boat" passenger steamers, and other vessels of the lake shipping trade from its origins in the 19th century through the first decade of the 20th century. (Goodreads)