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Husky: Co-Pilot of the Pilgrim
by Rutherford MontgomeryKent McIntosh has saved enough money to buy a small plane, the Pilgrim. Along with his wolf-dog and co-pilot, Husky, he becomes a brush-hopper, delivering supplies to mining camps. All goes well until the plane goes down in the wilderness and Husky must save both Kent's life and the rest of the dog team.
Herbal Homekeeping
by Sandy MaineIf you're alergic to the abrasive cleaners on the market today, or if you just want to be more environmentally concious, chedk out this book on how to make your own all-natural cleaners for the home, garage, and barn.
The Terhune Omnibus
by Albert Payson Terhune Max J. HerzbergIn this collection of the work of Albert Pason Terhune, the author shares many of his favorite dog stories, as well, as some of the other stories of animal friends he has written over the years.
The Golden Stallion
by Rutherford MontgomeryCharlie was determined to have the palomino for his very own. But Golden Boy was a wild stallion who loved his freedom. And he would fight before giving it up. Catching him wouldn’t be easy! An edition especially edited for younger readers of Rutherford Montgomery's Famous Horse Stories novel "The Capture of the Golden Stallion."
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
by Mary O'NeillThe Colors live Between black and white In a land that we Know best by sight. But knowing best Isn't everything, For colors dance And colors sing, And colors laugh And colors cry- Turn off the light And colors die, And they make you feel Every feeling there is From the grumpiest grump To the fizziest fizz. And you and you and I Know well Each has a taste And each has a smell And each has a wonderful Story to tell....
A Painting of Sand: Poems from Ghost Ranch
by L. Luis LopezThese are lyric and narrative poems inspired by a number of visits and stays at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico. The beauty and the atmosphere of this high desert area during any season of the year has a special quality that inspires writers, artists, and anyone with spiritual interests (in the broad sense of that term). The book is dedicated to Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiu area, the land of Georgia O'Keefe, Thomas Merton, and countless other artists and writers.
Spook the Mustang (Famous Horse Stories)
by Harlan ThompsonSeventeen-year-old David and his parents arrive in California, broke, sick and hopeless, to find Grandy, the family patriarch, missing. This is the exciting, frightening, and heartwarming story of David’s efforts to make Grandy’s ranch workable, help his father recover from a nervous breakdown, calm and train the little black colt he rescued from condors when his mother was killed by lightning, and find Grandy.
The Runner
by Jane Annixter Paul AnnixterThis is the story of a young wild stallion and a teen-age youth who, together and apart, grew to maturity in the high country of Wyoming. When young Clem Mayfield, better known as Shadow, first saw the band of wild horses in a hidden valley, he instinctively named the fleet roan colt The Runner. From his experience in training polo ponies on his uncle’s ranch, Shadow thought The Runner’s speed and agility and stamina might someday be the sensation of track or field--if the wild colt could be tamed. But his dream was not shared by Uncle Nathan, the shrewd New England horse-trader. Nor by Dewey Danvers, the wizened ex-jockey who was Shadow’s confidant. Nor by George Spreycomb, the expert English trainer. Only Poojer, the ranch dog, believed in The Runner as Shadow did, and in his loyal, doggy way he helped achieve a miracle that confounded even Shadow. Paul Annixter, whose Swiftwater and Brought to Cover are wilderness classics, has here collaborated with his wife, Jane, to produce a tense and moving novel of human, horse, and dog. The youth who understood animals better than people, the horse whose instincts and training triggered opposite impulses, and the dog with unswerving but mixed devotion, live a memorable drama that the reader will not soon forget.
Derry's Partner (Famous Dog Stories)
by Hubert EvansDerry, a pedigreed Airedale, lived in the wild open country of the Northwest. Quite different was Derry's partner, Mac--half Newfoundland and half husky. This is the story of these two dogs and their master, Ed Sibley. It recounts their adventures in the wilderness--and the bravery of the dogs against man and beast who tried to do their master harm. Sometimes it was a battle with wolves, again it was a fierce fight with a bear, once it was Derry's partner that succeeded in running down a criminal and saving his master from disgrace. And there is something beyond story in this book. The author knows dogs and writes about them with understanding. No one can read the story of Derry and Mac without learning a great deal about the way to handle a dog--and without loving dogs more than ever as the finest of companions both at play and at work.
Wild Palomino: Stallion of the Prairies (Famous Horse Stories)
by Stephen HoltThe wild Palomino is a magnificent gold and silver stallion roaming the prairie with his band of mares. Des Harmon knows that if he can capture Rocket and bring him home, the great horse will sire enough colts to put the Twin Anchor Ranch back on its feet. There are others, too, who want the Palomino, among them the ruthless El Gato. Des finally captures the horse, but his troubles have only begun for El Gato claims prior ownership of Rocket. Setting out to compete in a rodeo, Des picks up a clue from a talking crow and plays an unexpected part in the search for a lost mine. The rodeo is a wild, exciting affair with Rocket at first proving unmanageable but then coming through magnificently. Until the final thrilling moment when Des returns in triumph to the ranch there is a grand, galloping pace to all his adventures with “the biggest gold horse in the world."
The Golden Stallion
by Theodore J. WaldeckThe clear, cold air of the mountain heights, the sense of space and freedom that is to be found in the peaks of the Sierras and their valleys, the thundering beauty and intelligence of wild horses--all this, and more, is to be found in The Golden Stallion, the first book with a North American background to be written by Theodore Waldeck, famous explorer and author of African and South American jungle stories. Young Bob, brought up by his rancher father to know and love horses, lives for the day when he can have one of his very own. Golden Blaze is the name he gives the beautiful wild horse which is captured for him, and their adventures together, with a surprise ending, form this thrilling story of life in the American West, a story which adds to Mr. Waldeck’s firmly established reputation for taking his readers on stimulating adventures.
Norah's Ark
by Patsey GrayNorah is traveling from Arizona to visit her Grandma in Washington for Christmas when the bus leaves without her because she is carsick. Norah chases the bus along a flooded riverbank, until the river swallows her up. She clings to a board, and wakes up to find herself inside a hunt club very near the sea, with a boy a couple of years younger than she, named Karl, who saved her. Over a period of several days, the two save an Arabian mare, and later her newborn colt; a friendly dog; an unfriendly cat; a duck; a canary in a cage; and a lamb from the roiling river. But when their food runs out, the electricity goes off, and the clubhouse is certain to break loose and be driven out to sea, Norah must get to shore and find help to save her friends.
Trueboy: The Story of a Great Dog (Famous Dog Stories)
by Thomas C. HinkleA dog story in which the animal, losing for a time home and master, learns to live in the wilds. Young Don Hudson claimed TrueBoy as his own. He was a large wolfhound and they needed a large dog to bring down Old Roarer, the lobo wolf. An act of fate separates TrueBoy from Don for quite some time. But they found each other again after some trying times for the great dog. Join him in his fight for survival.
The Duckfooted Hound
by Jim KjelgaardOld Joe was the biggest, fightingest, craftiest coon in the Creeping Hills. No one had ever been able to catch him; not even Precious Sue, a bluetick hound peerless in tracking down coons. But Harky felt that this autumn the hunting would be different. Old Joe was in for trouble. Precious Sue had a pup who looked like a natural-born coon hunter. With his web-footed paws he was as skillful in the water as any coon. And on land, Duckfoot had a nose that beat every other hound. Harky had a few troubles of his own. First there was school. Miss Cathby was nice, but she was a teacher. She called Old Joe a raccoon. And she said he could not live forever because he was mortal. Then there were girls. More specifically, there was Melinda--the bossiest, uppitiest young lady for miles around. And she wanted to hunt. Jim Kjelgaard's story of people and hounds captures all the glory and excitement of coon hunting on a crisp autumn night. Marc Simont has illustrated the story with wit and brilliance.
Lost and Found
by Jacqueline SheehanAfter the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, Rocky moves to Peak's Island, Maine, and takes a job as an Animal Control Warden. She becomes involved with a wounded black Lab and several interesting neighbors and residents, solves a mystery, and finds romance and happiness. As an Animal Warden, Rocky experiences much of what real-life animal care and control professionals go through, from rescuing lost and injured pets and wildlife, to the heartbreak of finding pets abandoned by vacationers at the end of their stay, to resolving common conflicts with wildlife.
Born Free
by Joy AdamsonThere have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when The New York Times hailed it as a “fascinating and remarkable book,” Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us. Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again.
Living Free: The Story of Elsa and Her Cubs
by Joy AdamsonEven more fascinating than the beloved best seller Born Free is this absorbing story of how Elsa, the world-famous lioness, raised her three cubs in the African bush with the help of her devoted friends, Joy and George Adamson. This stirring story of the cubs' first year of life reveals an unusually rewarding relationship between animals and humans that dissolves the barriers between the two worlds. For although the cubs--impish Jespah, jealous Gopa, and timid Little Elsa--romp through these pages with carefree abandon, the adults--the Adamsons and Elsa--must contend with the ever-present menaces of the wild-charging buffaloes, crocodiles lurking in the shallows, marauding elephants, hostile lions, and, most treacherous of all, enraged African poachers out gunning for Elsa's hide. And Elsa herself must juggle three roles: the cubs' vigilant mother, the Adamsons' touchingly affectionate friend, and the primitive mate of a wild lion. Joy Adamson's sensitive appreciation and concern for all living things, and the remarkably intimate view of Elsa's life with her cubs, give the reader a rare sense of participation in life in the wild. As Sir Julian Huxley points out in his introduction, this unique record of an astonishingly personal relationship between humans and animals makes this book scientifically significant, as well as an intensely moving revelation of human experience.
The Golden Stallion to the Rescue: Golden Stallion #3 (Famous Horse Stories)
by Rutherford MontgomeryWhen Charley Carter’s mother tries to make some much-needed money for the family by inviting boys to spend the summer at the Bar L Ranch, Rodney, a boy with a passion for geology, is the only one who comes. As he learns about working on the ranch, he spends long periods of time alone, and more time visiting Golden Boy, the beautiful once-wild stallion who keeps the ranch’s mares together. But soon Charley discovers Rodney has a plan for his rich father, an oil man, to drill for oil in the wild mountain country, and Rodney arranges to buy Golden Boy and move him East. It looks like the Carters will lose their ranch and everything they value. Worse, Golden Boy is being left to die by Rodney’s horse trainer who believes the horse is a killer. Can Charley save his life and bring him home?
Camping: Merit Badge Series
by Boy Scouts of AmericaA guide for completing the camping merit badge for Boy Scouts.