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Rockies In Bloom - Wildflowers helps you to become acquainted with the wonderful world of wildflowers and get started on developing skills to identify different species found in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Wildflowers do much more than make the Rockies, the "land of flowers." They also support a myriad of native wildlife, and provide habitat for bees and other pollinators that are responsible for the very food we eat. Rockies In Bloom - Wi...

The Goodnight-Loving Trail ran from Young County, Texas, southwest to Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River, up the Pecos to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and on north to Colorado and Cheyenne Wyoming. In the spring and early summer of 1866 Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove their first herd of longhorn cattle over the Butterfield Overland Mail route from near Fort Belknap via the Middle Concho River to Horsehead Crossing. Thus began one of ...

This publication, China Clipper - Floatplanes Of Pan Am, is the only book to document all the 4-engine Clippers operated by Pan American and BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp). It entertains the reader with photos, illustrations, history and published personal experiences surrounding the giant Sikorsky S-42, Boeing B-314 and Martin M-130 flying boats that opened the airways to long distance passenger travel.

Jack London's book, "The Call of the Wild" is an adventure novel published in 1903. The setting is in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California. Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively primitive and wild where he is forced to figh...

Uncle Remus is a fictional character and narrator of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris in 1881. He wrote stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States plantations. They are written in a dialect which was his interpretation of Deep South African-American language of the time. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a character prone to tricks and troublemaking...

In this fully illustrated book by Anna Sewell, Black Beauty is a first person (first horse) autobiographical recollection as related by a high-society equine. Follow his personal beginning, of carefree days as a young colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling two-wheel cabs in big and dangerous London, to a happy and well-deserved retirement in the English countryside.

Swiss orphan girl, Heidi, is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. She meets Peter, a boy who herds goats on the beautiful mountains. Eventually Heidi is sent to Frankfurt to live in wealthy Mr. Sesemann's big house. She befriends invalid Clara. Heidi returns to the mountains and soon Clara is brought there too. With the fresh mountain air, good food and beautiful surroundings, Clara learns to walk again. Heidi is a delightful classic...

Cynthia Ann Parker is the most famous Indian captive in American history. In 1833, her family moved to Texas and built Fort Parker. Comanche warriors attacked the fort in 1836 and took young Cynthia Ann captive. She spent the next twenty-four years with the Indians, eventually marrying the warrior Peta Nocona, with whom she had two sons and a daughter. In 1860 Texas Rangers and federal soldiers abducted her, with her infant daughter, in an att...

Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells. And marigolds all in a row. Mary Lennox finds a secret garden in Yorkshire England. Her invalid cosin Colin regains his health while experiencing the cultivation of the garden with Mary, Dickon, Ben Weatherstaff and servants at the manor house.

Alice In Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. This 110 book arrangement by Larry W Jones is fully illustrated and enjoyable for all ages.

Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. Peter lives in a rabbit hole and grows up to fall in love with Little Miss Fuzzytail while surviving foxes and owls in the Green Pasture and Old Briar Patch.

Life on the Mississippi is a 471 page autobiographical of Mark Twain's adventures during his training as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River. The fully illustrated book includes historical content about the Mississippi River, from Hernando de Soto's encounter with the river in 1542 and onward. The book focuses on Mark Twain's apprenticeship to steamboat pilot Horace Bixby. Enjoy the adventures of Mark Twain, a steamboat captain's life...

This 149 page book, "Songs Of the Seas" Shanties, Music, History, chronicles the practice of using simple chants to coordinate shipboard tasks beginning in the the 1700s among English and French sailors. In 1800s, these simple chants were called "sing-outs". The shanty "Cheer'ly Man" is considered to be the first widely established sailors' work song. The popularity of shanty songs peaked in the 1870s. Some of the most popular shanties of the ...

The Wind in the Willows, book of linked animal tales by British writer Kenneth Grahame that began as a series of bedtime stories for his son and was published in 1908. The beautifully written work, with its evocative descriptions of the countryside interspersed with exciting adventures, became a classic of English children's literature. The tales relate the adventures of several animal friends and neighbours in the English countryside-primaril...

Treasure Island tells of Jim Hawkin's boyhood adventure on a quest for buried treasure. The tale revolves around Billy Bones, Black Dog, Captain Flint, Long John Silver, Captain Smollett, Ben Gunn, the ship Hispaniola, pieces of eight, and, of course, a treasure island. A classic tale of a boy coming-of-age, Treasure Island in an endearing and enduring book to read for all ages.

Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler's account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches "Great American Horse Drive". Eight hundred half-wild horses were driven sixty two miles in two days, from their winter pastures in far northwest Colorado to the Big Gulch Ranch, west of Craig. Follow the five day adventure from arrival to the exciting "Gate-to-Gate" horse drive on Saturday and Sunday. Read the thrilling account of t...

All children are flowers in the garden of God's love. To the understanding heart a child is like a flower and a flower is like a child. Flowers were created to make the world beautiful. Children were meant to play amid the flowers with a natural love of them. This book shows the kinship of children and flowers. Kids as flowers and flowers as kids, an allegory in its finest sense. Enjoy this book as kids of all ages.

All children are flowers in the garden of God's love. To the understanding heart a child is like a flower and a flower is like a child. Flowers were created to make the world beautiful. Children were meant to play amid the flowers with a natural love of them. This book shows the kinship of children and flowers. Kids as flowers and flowers as kids, an allegory in its finest sense. Enjoy this book as kids of all ages.

To all children who find friends in the Forest or on the Plain. When God made the world, He planted the flowers and the grass and the trees to make things beautiful to look upon. When He made the animals we believe that he intended them to be the friends of man. We love them all dearly. In this volume we have tried to make friends and playmates of all of the animals. We feel that you are going to be happy to know the "Kids Animal Pals Volume 1...

To all children who find friends in the Forest or on the Plain. When God made the world, He planted the flowers and the grass and the trees to make things beautiful to look upon. When He made the animals we believe that he intended them to be the friends of man. We love them all dearly. In this volume we have tried to make friends and playmates of all of the animals. We feel that you are going to be happy to know the "Kids Animal Pals Volume 2.