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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
"Why are humans and other mammals covered in hair, and why are there so many different types of it? Vivid photographs paired with a duo of quirky, illustrated hair guides serve to illuminate the fascinating facts about mammal hair: why it exists, what it's good for, and more. Readers will learn about different types of animal coats, such as fur and down, and explore the many different forms guard hairs take, such as the quills on a porcupine."--Amazon....
Author
Series
Jake Ransom, man of the mountains volume 1
Luke Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Jake Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Luke Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Jake Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Full screen version; Walt Disney signature collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cruella DeVille dognaps all of the Dalmatian puppies in London, brave animal heroes launch a daring plan to save all puppies from Cruella's clutches!
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Led by the vicious war chief Tall...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1800's Russell joined an expedition headed through the Rocky Mountains. Along the way he acquired the skills necessary for survival in the mountains, and kept a journal that forms the basis of this vigorously authentic book.
10) Coats
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whose striped coat is this? A tiger's striped coat, of course! Little ones will love to see the close-up photography and try to guess which animal the soft, slick, warm, or spotted coat belongs to. Animals featured: alpaca, tiger, otter, bear, cheetah, and sloth.
11) Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
12) Fur and feathers
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes how the fur and feathers of various animals differ in shape, pattern, and function.
13) 101 Dalmatians
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen version ; second-disc platinum edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get ahold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an animal communication system to help find all the puppies....
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"An American saga of danger, daring, passion and betrayal. A wet-behind-the-ears youngster when he came west with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Zach Hannah will become a legend of courage, skill and honesty among other mountain men. To the Crow Indians he is a trusted friend and ally. To the Blackfoot he is their most hated foe. And to former friend Sean Devlin, who lusts after Zach's beloved wife Morning Sky, he is a rival to be destroyed. The...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Revolutionary War is over and the fledgling United States is struggling to survive. With the turn of a new century, settlers are poised to continue their westward move through the dark and bloody killing grounds of Kentucky. In their path stand the British military's might and an even more menacing foe-the brave and brilliant Shawnee war leader, Tecumseh. Now the War of 1812 is about to break out, and the future of the new republic rests in the...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
153 pages
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700's, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyaguer and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1792, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, a squirrel, eager for adventure, stows away in the canoe of a group of voyageurs, unaware of what they are traveling so far to trade. Includes pronunciation guide, historical notes, and a recipe.
19) High country
Author
Series
High country trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier. In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah was a mere...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 442 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier where global powers battled for control. From the seventeenth century right on up to the Gilded Age, the developed world's appetite for fur made the new continent, with its wealth of fur-bearing wildlife, a...
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