Jack Hare is an Easterner who has come west for his health. In Salt Lake City he is mistaken by Dene's outlaw gang for a spy and must flee the town to escape them. He is found suffering from exhaustion and exposure in rough country by the wealthy Mormon rancher August Naab. As he is nursed back to health at Naab's ranch, Hare becomes aware that Naab's holdings are being threatened by both Dene's rustlers and an unscrupulous Gentile land-grabber named...

After a long train ride from Connecticut, Hope Farman was on the last leg of her journey to her Uncle Nate's Rancho del Encanto. Bouncing along in the buckboard driven by Jim Crossley, one of her uncle's hired hands, Hope is full of questions about the place where she plans to spend the summer. But anticipation turns to fear as they find themselves in the path of stampeding cattle. Jim's attempt to get them to safety seems to working until Hope is...

A collection of frontier stories. No man's man -- The nester and the Piute -- Desert death song -- Heritage of hate -- Hattan's castle -- Big man -- Showdown on the Tumbling T -- Waltz him around again, shadow -- Rowdy rides to glory -- The ghost maker -- Down the Pogonip Trail -- The romance of Piute Bill -- That triggernometry tenderfoot -- The sixth shotgun -- Barney takes a hand -- Rain on the halfmoon-- When a Texan takes over -- Big medicine...

As one of the premier plant collectors in North America during the late nineteenth century, the work of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838-1911) was, and remains, outstanding. Far from emerging from nowhere, his illustrious career grew over the span of a decade from his earlier work in horticulture. This book first considers those years, including Pringle's contributions to three scientific efforts of national scope--the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition,...

"Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's ... reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialization, and the civil right struggles. The [facets] of Grace Notes, the ... reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love, the troubling rapids of recent history in On the Bus with...

This documentary collection examines Native North American culture, past and present, and its attempt to halt assimilation and retain native cultural traditions. Through historical and contemporary photographs, paintings, artwork, archive footage, reenactments, and interviews, the culture and history of America's aboriginal people is showcased across 36 features. Witness the struggles and hardships, the practices and traditions, the art and beauty...