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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. They drive the trappers off, only to find that she's not Crow, but white. Caroline has been...
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 8
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnstone Justice. Made in America.
An ordinary boy with extraordinary dreams. A man whose legend spreads across the frontier. Ride the epic saga of an American hero and the battles that forged his soul in these classic tales in the legendary Preacher series.
In 1812, a boy filled with wanderlust and courage runs away from home, westward, into a vast, dangerous land. Along the way he learns the rule of the frontier: do whatever...
An ordinary boy with extraordinary dreams. A man whose legend spreads across the frontier. Ride the epic saga of an American hero and the battles that forged his soul in these classic tales in the legendary Preacher series.
In 1812, a boy filled with wanderlust and courage runs away from home, westward, into a vast, dangerous land. Along the way he learns the rule of the frontier: do whatever...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Standard version; Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"Soured by civilization, Jeremiah Johnson set out in the mid-1800s to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him. Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly."--Container.
6) Born to hang
Author
Series
Jeremiah Halstead volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeremiah Halstead knew it would be hard to uphold the law in a buckwild boomtown like Silver Cloud, Montana. He also knew it would be easy to make some dangerous enemies. But he never counted on a foe as flat-out evil as Ed Zimmerman. This cold, conniving cutthroat may be awaiting trial, but the outlaw bounty he placed on Halstead's head is still in effect. Warrants have been issued for Halstead's arrest -- and even his once-close friends are looking...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simons & Schuster ed.
Language
English
Description
1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you. Not only a groundbreaking work of American history by critically acclaimed author Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous is also a dramatic story of innovation and survival. Here is your chance to live in the very heart of the American wilderness with legendary trappers and mountain men like Jim Bridger,...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Booklist praises Kent Conwell for action-packed Westerns that fans of prairie adventures devour voraciously. Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers-and heaven help them when his righteous anger delivers them to their maker.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Dakota Territory, 1867. The ODriscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Toms lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Description
Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers-and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts and Skills is the essential illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. How to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment are all covered in step-by-step detail-through illustrations by the author himself. Learn how to make and use hunting tools and utensils, wild game traps, mountainman clothing,...
15) Preacher's purge
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Series
Language
English
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"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the discoveries and adventures of famous trappers and mountain men in American history including Jedediah Smith, Lewis and Clark, and John Jacob Astor and his fur-trading empire.
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