Yuma Public Library

"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...

A very clever yeti eludes the traps of children as he hides in the snow-covered mountains he calls home.

Four brief stories depict experiences of trappers and fur traders in Colorado duing the first half of the nineteenth century.

Young Josiah Paddock flees his past in St. Louis, but his present in the Teton Mountains during winter doesn't look promising until he hooks up with Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man who teaches Josiah how to survive in the land of Blackfeet and Crow, pioneers and sensual women.

"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a...

From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Fast and smart, strong and noble, Red is the only dog Danny wants by his side. Soon, neither boy nor dog can stand to be apart. Together Danny and Red face many dangers in the harsh Wintapi wilderness that they call home. But the greatest test of their courage and friendship will come from an enemy more cunning than any they've known before -- a bear who is the...