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When mountain men trapped beaver. / by Glendinning, Richard.(CARDINAL)712630;
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Fur trade; Trappers; Trapping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To the river's end [large print] : a novel of the American frontier / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job--and one of the few to survive ... Five years later, Luke is a seasoned trapper and hunter, a master of his trade. The year is 1833, and the American Fur Company is sending him to the now-famous Rendezvous at Green River ke, it may be his last job for the company. After facing death countless times, he is ready to strike out on his own. But when he encounters a fellow trapper under attack by Indians, his life takes an unexpected turn. A new friendship is forged in blood. And a dangerous new journey begins"--
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; American Fur Company; Trappers; Fur trade; Beaver trapping; Trapping; White people; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 21
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To the river's end / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job -- and one of the few to survive ... Five years later. Luke is a seasoned trapper and hunter, a master of his trade. The year is 1833, and the American Fur Company is sending him to the now-famous Rendezvous at Green River. For Luke, it may be his last job for the company. After facing death countless times, he is ready to strike out on his own. But when he encounters a fellow trapper under attack by Indians, his life takes an unexpected turn. A new friendship is forged in blood. And a dangerous new journey begins ...
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; American Fur Company; Trappers; Fur trade; Beaver trapping; Trapping; White people; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 24
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To the river's end / by Johnstone, William W.,author.(CARDINAL)339749; Johnstone, J. A.,author.(CARDINAL)339750;
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job -- and one of the few to survive ... Five years later. Luke is a seasoned trapper and hunter, a master of his trade. The year is 1833, and the American Fur Company is sending him to the now-famous Rendezvous at Green River. For Luke, it may be his last job for the company. After facing death countless times, he is ready to strike out on his own. But when he encounters a fellow trapper under attack by Indians, his life takes an unexpected turn. A new friendship is forged in blood. And a dangerous new journey begins ...--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; American Fur Company; Trappers; Fur trade; Beaver trapping; Trapping; Survival; White people; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Bringing up beaver [large print] : two orphaned beaver kits, their humans, and our journey back to the wild / by Aberth, John,1963-author.(CARDINAL)392878;
Beaver in the bathtub -- Walking my beaver -- Beaver in the basement -- The mating game -- Stream time -- Second winter -- Back to the wild -- Postscript: the tragedy of trapping -- The Aberth manifesto: six ways to coexist with wild animals."On May 10, 2020, an orphaned beaver kit was found in St. Albans, Vermont, and handed over to John Aberth, a licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. Over the next two years, John raised the kit, whom he nicknamed "BK," and prepared him for release back into the wild. During that time, John and BK developed a special and unique bond, which John documented in a daily diary. That diary became the basis for Bringing Up Beaver, a lively and engaging account of one human's relationship with a wild animal. Bringing Up Beaver is more than just a feel-good story about human encounters with nature. Full of fascinating observations about beaver behavior and biology, Bringing Up Beaver also documents the unique challenges and obstacles to be faced and overcome in rehabbing a wild beaver kit. Populating the story are plenty of other wild creatures that John encounters in the course of his journey with BK, including other beavers-one of whom became BK's mate-as well as hawks, owls, mink, and weasels."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Informational works.; Beavers; Wildlife rehabilitation; Human-animal relationships.; Wildlife rehabilitators;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Animal hideaways / by Ganeri, Anita,1961-(CARDINAL)317174; Verrinder, Halli,illustrator.(CARDINAL)528911;
Plovers -- Meerkats -- Octopuses -- Trap-door spiders -- Beavers -- Sticklebacks -- Woodpeckers -- Moles -- Honeybees -- Polar bears.Explores the hidden homes of a variety of clever animals.
Subjects: Toy and movable books.; Animals; Animals; Toy and movable books; Animal behavior.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Beaverland : how one weird rodent made America / by Philip, Leila,author.(CARDINAL)768338;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: Ktsi Amiskw, the story of Great Beaver -- At the beaver pond -- On the trap line -- Looking for Astor in Astoria -- Man's land -- Wild fur -- Beaversprite -- Lewis Henry Morgan and the great beaver dam -- Kitaiksisskstaki and the story of the beaver bundle -- The underwater people -- Beavers in the White Mountains -- The beaverhood -- Stone walls -- Thinking like a watershed -- Teale's beavers -- Kintsugi -- Epilogue: The story of the book."In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, BEAVERLAND tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment. Before the American empires of steel and coal and oil, before the railroads, there was the empire of fur. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver's profound influence on our nation's early economy and feverish western expansion, itsfirst corporations and multi-millionaires. As Leila's passion for this weird and wonderful rodent widens from her careful observation of its dams in her local pond, she chronicles the many characters she meets in her pursuit of the beaver: fur trappers and fur traders, biologists and fur auctioneers, wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers and beaver enthusiasts. What emerges is a startling portrait of the secretive, largely hidden world of the contemporary fur trade and an immersive ecological and historical investigation of these animals that, once trapped to the point of extinction, have rebounded to become one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Now, beavers offer surprising solutions to some of the most urgent problems caused by climate change. Beautifully written and filled with the many colorful characters-fur trappers and fur traders and fur auctioneers, wildlife managers and biologists, Native American environmentalvigilantes. She meets a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, using drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams. She meets an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the beaver whisperer. BEAVERLAND transports readers into scenes of beavers in their ponds and the scientists and fur trappers in pursuit of them, widening arcs of information to reveal the profound ways in which beavers and the beaver trade shaped history, culture, and our environment"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Beavers; Fur trade; Wildlife conservation;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 20
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Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune / by Cooper, Anderson,author.(CARDINAL)348528; Howe, Katherine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index."From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family's story."--
Subjects: Astor family.; Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848; Astor, Brooke;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Sharing our truths : tapwe / by Beaver, Henry,author.(CARDINAL)816931; Willett, Mindy,1968-author.(CARDINAL)559726; Beaver, Eileen,author.(CARDINAL)816919; Macintosh, Tessa,1952-photographer.(CARDINAL)559725;
Henry and Eileen Beaver live in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. They are both community leaders, parents, and grandparents. When their daughter, Joline, and grandchildren come for a visit, they teach them about their land and culture. Join the children and learn the protocols for building a tipi, trapping a beaver, laying the grandfather stones for a fire, smudging, and harvesting salt from the Salt Plains in Wood Buffalo National Park. In Cree, tapwe means "it is so" or "the truth." In this, the ninth book in This Land is Our Storybook series, Henry writes, "We can tell you what to do with the truths we share in this book, but we hope that reading our story will help you get to know us a little better so that together we can make this nation a place we can all be proud of."
Subjects: Beaver, Henry; Beaver, Eileen; Traditional ecological knowledge; Cree Indians; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The revenant [sound recording] : a novel of revenge / by Punke, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)458974; Graham, Holter,narrator.(CARDINAL)347521;
Read by Holter Graham.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.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Glass, Hugh, approximately 1780-approximately 1833; Rocky Mountain Fur Company; Bear attacks; Wilderness survival; Trappers; Revenge;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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