George Bird Grinnell: 51 books

The chapters in this book appeared first as part of a series of articles under the same title contributed to Forest and Stream several years ago. At the time they aroused much interest and there was a demand that they should be put into book form.

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social organization,...

The Project Gutenberg's Ebook Of Jack In The Rockies by George Bird Grinnell.

The third volume of the Club's Acorn series, Trail and Camp Fire, follows suit with its predecessors featuring hunting stories and adventure in North America as well as Africa. Along with the hunting stories, this volume also includes expanded text on the natural history of North American game and...

Conservationist George Bird Grinnell helped tame the western U.S., establishing a number of national parks as tourism hubs. He brings this knowledge to bear in the "Jack" series of outdoor adventure stories for younger readers. In Jack the Young Trapper, Jack Danvers is recruited for a fur-trapping expedition in the treacherous territory of the Rockies.

Tells of the far West in the days of the buffalo and wild Indian. The ranch was in a great basin surrounded by the Rocky Mountains. Other books in the series are Jack Among The Indians, Jack In The Rockies, Jack The Young Canoeman, Jack The Young Trapper, Jack The Young Explorer, and Jack The Young...

George Bird Grinnell was an important figure in the early conservation movement and played a key role in establishing a number of national parks in the U.S. His love of nature shines through in the "Jack" series of action-adventure novels geared for younger audiences, including this volume, in which intrepid adventurer Jack Danvers participates in a pioneer pack train.

The story of Jack, from the East, who goes to a ranch to learn how to be a cowboy. Part of the "Jack" series by George Grinnell.

First published in 1901 at the height of Grinnell's career, the work of a man who both relished the thrill of the hunt yet cherished wildlife and natural lands.

When Buffalo Ran tells the story of a young, mid nineteenth century Plains Indian, named Wikis. As Wikis grows, he encounters many wild buffalo and enemy tribes. Along the way, he is guided by his uncle, a mentor and tutor, who teaches him all the necessary skills to become an Indian Brave. After...

Written for younger men, but thoroughly enjoyable by all, this tale tells of a young man who rides a Chinook canoe down a river.

Tales, myths, legends, and religious folklore of the Blackfoot people.

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were used as beasts of burden to carry small packs and drag light loads. The stories here...

Three centuries ago half a dozen tiny hamlets, peopled by white men, were scattered along the western shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. These little settlements owed allegiance to different nations of Europe, each of which had thrust out a hand to grasp some share of the wealth which might lie in the...