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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Building design tables 1	Geoffrey P. Fox	160 pages ; 20 cm	OL11897197W
Snow Dog	Jim Kjelgaard	The adventure of a dog born in the wilderness, left to fend for himself when a black wolf kills his mother and brothers, and finally won over by the trapper his mother had deserted.	OL1256791W
Jim Beckwourth	Wyatt Blassingame	Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name.	OL1398146W
Northern rover	A. L. Karras	"From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan …	OL16975821W
Mountain men	Andrew Santella	A description of the mountain men, nineteenth-century explorers and fur traders who helped open up the West to United States settlement.	OL18016093W
Mountain men of the frontier	Charles W. Sundling	Discusses some of the explorers and trappers who journeyed west to hunt and trade beaver pelts and other commodities during the early nineteenth century.	OL1805693W
Preacher's bloodbath	William W. Johnstone	When trappers in the Rockies are hunted down, murdered and then mutilated, their hearts carved out of their chests, Preacher must go up against a secret cult as old as the Aztecs to save his friends …	OL18158936W
Jedediah Smith	Sharlene Nelson	Discusses the life and work of Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West and leader of mountain men.	OL1917386W
The revenant	Michael Punke	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 pus…	OL19994445W
The Revenant	Michael Punke	1823: Hugh Glass is among the Rocky Mountain Fur Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and expert tracker. When a scouting mission puts him face to face with a grizzly bear, he is vicious…	OL20494452W
Going Home and Downriver	Richard S. Wheeler	665 pages ; 19 cm	OL20713138W
Blood Feud	Bill Grant	160 pages ; 20 cm	OL22535481W
Crow Killer	Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker	The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one o…	OL27059909W
Jedediah Smith and the mountain men of the American West	John Logan Allen	Chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early nineteenth century.	OL4099825W
James Beckwourth	Susan R. Gregson	A biography profiling the life of James Beckwourth, an African American man whose sense of adventure led the way to westward expansion of the United States. Includes source notes and timeline.	OL5815829W
Jim Bridger the mountain man	Matthew G. Grant	A brief biography of the nineteenth-century trapper, scout, and explorer who helped open the West to settlers.	OL7201436W
Mountain men	Andrew Glass	Describes the lives of the beaver trappers who were the first explorers of the American West beyond the Rocky Mountains, and some of the tall tales that made them legends.	OL73229W
The Prairie	James Fenimore Cooper	Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called…	OL77970W
Lord Grizzly	Frederick Manfred	281 p. ; 22 cm	OL8164340W
The Tenderness of Wolves	Stef Penney	1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene…	OL8755555W