Grass Beyond the Mountains
Title | Grass Beyond the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond Pearson Hobson |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Title | Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond P. Hobson |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1551997142 |
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
Title | The Rancher Takes a Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond P. Hobson |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1400026644 |
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
Title | Where the Rivers Run North PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Morton |
Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1938416716 |
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.
Grass Beyond the Mountains
Title | Grass Beyond the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond P. Hobson |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-10-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1551997150 |
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.
Wild Grass
Title | Wild Grass PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Johnson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307430251 |
In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless façade of Communist Party control, these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China.
Big Bluestem
Title | Big Bluestem PDF eBook |
Author | Annick Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Great Plains |
ISBN |
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.