Akron Public Library

"I'm just passing' through," the rider said when they asked him his name. And from then on, in the high country around Parrot City, he was called just that, Mr. Passing' Through, a man who rode a blue roan with a skull and crossbones brand and didn't know to keep to himself. And he wouldn't keep to himself. Because something about a parched and dusty ranch appealed to him, and something about a woman's hair made him think of not being alone, and something...

City girl Reagan Sullivan may know her way around New York City, but nothing back East has prepared her for the land of armadillos and tall Texans. When the gentle rancher Cash Rawlings comes into her life, Reagan finds herself intrigued with the man and his faith.

Twenty-eight wagons packed with families, supplies, and tough-as-nails Texans circle up and fight for their lives against relentless hostile Indian attacks in this action-packed adventure. The hero, Buff Belmet, had to grow up fast after his mother and father are killed in Comanche raids. But aided by Kit Carson he delivers the goods over the trail.

Born in 1831, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel.

Notes on the habitats, biological classification, and identifying characteristics of more than one hundred ferns, trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs accompany instructions on their preparation and uses.

A huge Rottweiler the size of King Kong (according to Hank) threatens the security of Hank the Cowdog's ranch.

In 1871, Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.

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.

$10,000. That's bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas--the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it a gut instinct. Or maybe just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that some very powerful...