Author: Richmond Pearson HobsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Grass Beyond the Mountains
Author: Richmond Pearson HobsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Author: Richmond P. HobsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551997142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.
The Rancher Takes a Wife
Author: Richmond P. HobsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1400026644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Continue on the adventure with The Rancher Takes a Wife, the conclusion to Richmond Hobson's western frontier trilogy! The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Told with wit and wisdom, Hobson recounts a wild true adventure story in the last book of his collection of survival tales. These dramatic tales are described with the humor and vivid detail that have made Hobson's books perennial favorites.
Where the Rivers Run North
Author: Sam MortonPublisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1938416716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TRAVELERS had crossed the Oregon Trail during the gold rush of 1849. Even the most backwoods warrior understood what that meant: disease, death, and conflict with the whites. As a result of the Treaty of 1851, some Indians were convinced that the country to the north—called Absaraka—might be a better option for a home range. At the very least, it held the promise of less trouble from the whites. The danger from other tribes was another matter.
Snow Mountain Passage
Author: James D. HoustonPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030742782X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.
Grass Beyond the Mountains
Author: Richmond P. HobsonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551997150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.
Big Bluestem
Author: Annick SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
On one of North America's last remaining expanses of grassland the Nature Conservancy has begun what is perhaps the boldest ecological experiment ever attempted. They are not simply conserving the natural beauty of this place, where eight-foot-tall grasses roll for miles under limitless prairie skies; they are studying it and shaping it anew, bringing back the bison once hunted here by native Plains horsemen, and seeding with fire to liberate the natural biodiversity of a land never broken by the plow. On the stage that is the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve many dramas have unfolded. Indians, white settlers, ranchers, oil barons, scientists, and politicians have all taken roles alongside Nature's players - geologic phenomena, weather, the intricately interwoven lives of plants and animals. In Big Bluestem, Annick Smith traces the fascinating story of this land that, like the grasses, endures, and should endure, in its glory forever.
A Tale of The Ragged Mountains
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 656133213X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
In "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains", Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of Augustus Bedloe, who, during a walk in the Ragged Mountains, experiences a series of supernatural events and a visible temporal overlap, culminating in an intriguing revelation about his own identity and destiny.
Greasy Grass
Author: Johnny D. BoggsPublisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1504787986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876. More than forty first-person narratives are used-Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women-to paint a panorama of the battle itself. Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little Bighorn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.
Beyond the Stony Mountains
Author: Daniel B. BotkinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195162431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Traces the journey of Lewis and Clark from St. Louis to the Pacific coast, introducing the reader to the natural wonders recorded by the two explorers, and describing the same sites today, providing important insights into changes to the landscape.