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Downriver [large print] : a Barnaby Skye novel / by Wheeler, Richard S.,author.(CARDINAL)346064;

"Barnaby Skye, seaman-deserter from the Royal Navy, Rocky Mountain trapper, and frontiersman extraordinaire, brings his Crow Indian wife, Many Quill Woman (whom Skye calls "Victoria"), to the trappers' rendezvous on the Popo Agie River of Wyoming in the summer of 1838. There, he learns that the beaver-trapping business is dying out. When he is offered a chance to become a post trader in Victoria's homeland, he makes the journey to St. Louis to present himself as a candidate for the job to the mighty managers of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The 2,000-mile voyage down the Missouri River steamboat Otter is a lesson in survival to Skye and Victoria. The river offers dangers at every turnbut the real danger lies in another passenger on the paddlewheel steamer, the Creole fur brigade leader Alexandre Bonfils. This nefarious man, with influential relatives in St. Louis, is a rival for the job Skye is seeking and is determined to be the only candidate by the time the Otter reaches the city. Adding to Skye's problems is his rescue of a Cheyenne woman, Lame Deer, who needs to get to St. Louis to find her missing husbanda white man who has deserted her and their two children to marry into a prominent St. Louis family." --

Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Western fiction.; Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character); Paddle steamers; Indian women; Trappers;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The revenant : a novel of revenge / by Punke, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)458974;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262).In this story of survival, Hugh Glass is an expert trapper and frontiersman. After being viciously mauled by a massive grizzly bear and abandoned and left for dead by his fellow trappers, Hugh is pushed to survive by one thing--revenge.The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. 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 bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. The Company's captain dispatches two of his men to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies, and to give him the respect of a proper burial. When the two men abandon him instead, taking his only means of protecting himself -- including his precious gun and hatchet -- with them, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier, negotiating predators both human and not, the threat of starvation, and the agony of his horrific wounds. (Based on a true story.)

Subjects: Survival fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Western fiction.; Glass, Hugh, approximately 1780-approximately 1833; Rocky Mountain Fur Company.; Wilderness survival; Trappers; Revenge; Fur traders;

Available copies: 54 / Total copies: 61

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One stormy Christmas / by Butler, M. Christina,author.(CARDINAL)756197; Macnaughton, Tina,illustrator.(CARDINAL)304444; Little Tiger Press,editor,producer.(CARDINAL)591293;

In this newest installment of the Little Hedgehog and Friends series, a big winter storm, just before Christmas, has forced Little Hedgehog and the other animals to stay in their houses. When the weather finally clears, they all decide to get together to have a party-but where are the beavers? The group discovers that a large boulder has rolled in front of the beavers' door, trapping their friends inside. Can Little Hedgehog and his friends work together to help the beavers so that they can all spend Christmas together?

Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Picture books.; Beavers; Forest animals; Friendship; Hedgehogs; Rabbits; Storms; Friendships.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune / by Cooper, Anderson,author.(CARDINAL)348528; Howe, Katherine,1977-author.(CARDINAL)616505;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.New York, 1784 -- Astoria, 1810 -- Massacre Opera House, 1849 -- 850 Fifth Avenue, 1908 -- Waldorf-Astoria, 1928 -- Hever Castle, 1916 -- Rokeby, 1875 -- Halifax, April 15, 1912 -- Blackwell's Island, 1910 -- Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966 -- Ferncliff, 1952 -- The last Astor, 2013 -- Epilogue."The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society -- Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it -- and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother -- who had herself married into the family for money -- the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Astor, Brooke; Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848; Astor family.; Upper class;

Available copies: 68 / Total copies: 79

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Astor [large print] : the rise and fall of an American fortune / by Cooper, Anderson,author.(CARDINAL)348528; Howe, Katherine,1977-author.(CARDINAL)616505;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-447).Astor family tree -- Introduction -- New York, 1784 -- Astoria, 1810 -- Massacre Opera House, 1849 -- 840 Fifthe Avenue, 1908 -- Waldorf-Astoria, 1928 -- Hever Castle, 1916 -- Rokeby, 1875 -- Halifax, April 15, 1912 -- Blackwell's Island, 1910 -- Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966 -- Ferncliff, 1952 -- The Last Astor, 2013 -- Epilogue."The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society -- Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it -- and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother -- who had herself married into the family for money -- the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself" --

Subjects: Biographies.; Large print books.; Astor, Brooke; Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848; Astor family.; Upper class;

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15

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Mountainman crafts and skills : a fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival / by Montgomery, David R.(CARDINAL)323747;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.

Subjects: Handicraft; Trappers; Wilderness survival;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Mountainman crafts and skills : a fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival / by Montgomery, David R.(CARDINAL)323747;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Handicraft; Trappers; Wilderness survival;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The phantom setter, and other stories / by Murphy, Robert,1902-1971.(CARDINAL)128855;

FLIGHT TO THE BARRENSGONE AWAYHAWK OF VENGEANCELONG DUELTHE KILLER OF HOURGLASS LAKETHE LAZY BEAVERTHE MAN WHO COULDN'T KILLTHE MYSTERY OF THE ICECAPTHE PURSUIT OF PETER BELLISETHE SWAMPTHE WARMHEARTED POLAR BEARTHE WASTES OF FEARTHERE WAS A BIGGER ONETRAP ROBBERYOU'VE GOT TO LEARN

Subjects: Fiction.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The way we never were [sound recording] : American families and the nostalgia trap / by Coontz, Stephanie,author.(CARDINAL)186386; Toren, Suzanne,narrator.(CARDINAL)530690;

Read by Suzanne Toren.Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and sexual assault was more common in the 1970s than today. Acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. Now more relevant than ever, this book is a potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an America that never really existed.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Families; Nostalgia.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Jim Bridger : trailblazer of the American West / by Enzler, Jerry A.,1951-author.(CARDINAL)860004;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.To find a home, 1804-1821 -- Keelboating upriver, 1822 -- The bloody Missouri, 1822-1823 -- Mike Fink and Hugh Glass, 1823 -- Bridger discovers Great Salt Lake, 1824-1825 -- Bridger braves Bad Pass, 1825 -- Pilot for the brigades, 1826-1830 -- Partner in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 1830-1832 -- Eagle Ribs and the Blackfeet, 1832 -- The race to rendezvous, 1833-1834 -- Bridger's family, 1834-1835 -- The siege, 1836-1837 -- Knight of the Rockies, 1837-1838 -- Seventeen years without bread, 1839-1841 -- Fort Bridger, 1841-1843 -- The Oregon Trail, 1843-1844 -- Coyoterra and the Gulf of California, 1844-1846 -- "Old Bridger is death on us," 1847-1849 -- Mary Ann, Chipeta, Virginia, and Mary Josephine, 1847-1848 -- The Gold Rush and the mapmakers, 1848-1849 -- Bridger Pass, 1850 -- Horse Creek Treaty, 1851 -- Mormons take Fort Bridger, 1852-1853 -- Guiding Gore, Warren, and Hayden, 1854-1856 -- Chief guide for the Utah War, 1857-1858 -- The search for Yellowstone, 1859-1860 -- America's guide and storyteller, 1861-1863 -- Blazing the Bridger Trail, 1864 -- The Powder River Campaign, 1865 -- Red Cloud fights back, 1866 -- Hundred in the hand, 1866 -- "The Crows would not permit Bridger to be endangered," 1867-1868 -- So much farther, 1868-1881 -- Epilogue."Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time--and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he 'discovered' the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River's Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the 'King of the Mountain Men.' This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881.; Frontier and pioneer life; Scouts (Reconnaissance); Trappers; Pioneers;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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