Author: Jerry D. Thompson
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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With more than 160 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells stories from the Coahuiltecan Indians and Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and wildcatters who conquered the brush country. Six centuries of exciting and entertaining history thoroughly reasearched.
Author: Elinor Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Author: Paul Greci
Publisher: Imprint
ISBN: 1250183588
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Two siblings fight to survive as they trek across the vast Alaskan wilderness in this riveting thriller. Travis and his younger sister, Jess, are trapped in a daily race to survive—and there is no second place. Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who remain turn on each other, Travis and Jess must cross hundreds of miles in search of civilization. The wild lands around them are filled with ravenous animals, desperate survivors pushed to the edge, and people who’ve learned to shoot first and ask questions never. Travis and Jess will make a few friends and a lot of enemies on their terrifying journey across the ruins of today’s world—and they’ll have to fight for what they believe in as they see how far people will go to survive. The Wild Lands is a pulse-pounding YA thriller full of shocking plot twists. It’s the ultimate survival tale of humanity’s fight against society’s collapse. An Imprint Book “This rugged survival story places a group of teens in a dark, burned-out post-apocalyptic nightmare. Your heart will pound for them as they face terrible dangers and impossible odds. Gripping, vivid, and haunting!” —Emmy Laybourne, international bestselling author of the Monument 14 trilogy “A compelling story that wouldn’t let me stop reading. Greci has created both a frightening landscape and characters you believe in and want to survive it.” —Eric Walters, author of the bestselling Rule of Three series
Author: Sir William Francis Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Patrick D Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561645826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author: Dallas Lore Sharp
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The Lay of the Land is a book for all, who love nature. The author, Dallas Lore Sharp, wrote this collection of essays about flora and fauna on his property in 1908. In addition to the descriptions the book offers diverse illustrations of the world of nature.
Author: B. M. Bower
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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"Lonesome Land" by B. M. Bower is a fun Western romp that tells the tale of a young woman who finds herself in a small town in order to reunite and marry her childhood love. However, in the years since he moved west and became a rancher, he's changed and is no longer the man she remembered. Coupled with the harsh and strange new world that comes with being a homestead wife, this young woman must deal with loneliness and the need she has to find a life of her own.
Author: Theo CARRERAS
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Connie Mason
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843931976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Australia of 1812 is a virgin land waiting to be explored. It is a wild frontier peopled by even wilder men. It is a place where a defenseless woman risks both her virtue and her life. But high-spirited Kate McKenzie is sure she can survive in Australia on her own--until she meets her match in Robin Fletcher. In the arms of the former convict, Kate discovers that a defenseless woman can have the time of her life losing her virtue to the right man. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781533264992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Told with power and distinction, sketches reproducing with vivid reality life in the arid region of Southeastern California. "Not often does a book of such unusual quality or so picturesque a character come before the reader. Mrs. Austin writes as one who is in touch with all the moods of the wild which stretches around her." -The Brooklyn Eagle "The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author's mind, and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to conveying her unusual sense of beauty." -The Nation "There is in it much keen observation, much shrewd suggestion, and no end of delight." -Science "The snatches of description here and there, vivid in color and scent, living pictures of mountain nooks, open ranges and herders' camps, and carrying with them the subtle perfume of earth and woods. The book is a veritable 'call of the wild' and one can hardly read it without feeling a longing for the free and open life it describes." -The Boston Transcript "A work which has given us great delight. There is a smack of Stevenson about the book and as a literary work it is vivid." -The London Spectator "Beauty of style is constant throughout her book. It is a pastoral poem with a good bit of human interest in it." -Los Angeles Express CONTENTS: THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN WATER TRAILS OF THE CERISO THE SCAVENGERS THE POCKET HUNTER SHOSHONE LAND JIMVILLE--A BRET HARTE TOWN MY NEIGHBOR'S FIELD THE MESA TRAIL THE BASKET MAKER THE STREETS OF THE MOUNTAINS WATER BORDERS OTHER WATER BORDERS NURSLINGS OF THE SKY THE LITTLE TOWN OF THE GRAPE VINES
