Jim Kjelgaard: 39 books

Kjelgaard's subject is the little-known Camel Corps that did so much to open up our great Southwest. In particular, it is the thrilling tale of Hadji Ali (Americanized into Hi Jolly), the fugitive young Syrian camel driver who sought refuge in America with his loyal companion, Ben Akbar, the magnificent...

Nature has been called "The effect whose cause is God." IN the world of man, Ulysses stumbled and bumbled constantly, but in the world of the forest where he surprisingly became winter caretaker and lone occupant of an isolated hunters' lodge, he attained dignity, wisdom and assurance as...

Really three plots in one: the story of a raccoon, a superstitious tale of a "duck-footed" hound, and the story of 13-year-old Harky, his father, and the girl Melinda. The best of the book is about the coon's life and the nature background.

The fascinating story of a polar bear and her search for her two cubs, this is also a story of the snowbound Arctic and of the surprising number of birds and animals that live in its inhospitable wastes.  Kalak was a polar bear whose ferocity and cunning had convinced the Eskimos that she...

He was Sean, a champion, the biggest, handsomest son of Big Red, the famous Irish setter. Bursting with hunting instincts, he fretted under his pampered kennel life, and longed for the wilds. Then suddenly his life changed. He found himself on his own in the Wintapi wilderness, lost, his human protectors...

Woods runners, rivermen, long hunters, scouts, fur traders and others who dressed in buckskin made the paths that opened the Americas through successive barriers of forest, prairie and mountain. Three centuries of exploration opened America from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Pacific.

Some day, John Belden told himself, he would be a forest ranger. His chance came unexpectedly as a one-year substitute in the Alleghany back country. It is the story of a nineteen-year-old boy’s finding himself and learning that success is not just heroics, but constantly doing your best.

Young game warden Tom Rainse had two prized possessions; a pinto pony, and Smoky, the dog with a bloodhound's "nose for trouble." When the pinto was stolen, Tom put Smoky on the trail, only to find that it led them straight into a baffling wilderness mystery. 

A big, smart, and slaughterous mountain lion is a challenge for two experienced lion hunters, a boy much interested in hunting and dogs, and a pack of hounds including an experienced leader and an excellent young hound. Lion Hound is a tense and gripping tale of hunting and wilderness life....

This is a gripping tale of the fastest dog of them all. Tawny gave promise of being a great racing greyhound but, instead, he found his freedom in the heat and danger of the desert. His speed and courage helped him in a terrible struggle for survival. He could cope with the most feared of desert dwellers...

Set in the days of saber-tooth tigers and wooly mammoths, Hawk, the chief spear-maker of his tribe is abandoned by his people and courageously meets the savage wilderness with new ideas and weapons.

Tom Rainse had been away from his native mountains for five years. But he was home only a day when he acquired a dog that was half bloodhound, and a horse that was half broken. He also found himself in the midst of a mystery that rapidly developed into a wilderness feud, with no holds barred.

This is the story of the trapper, Link Stevens, and his fearless snow dog, Chiri. It began when the trapper and his dog set out to rescue a naturalist stranded in the perilous Caribou mountains - the impenetrable storm-blasted heights from which no man has ever retumed. Forced to live by Stone Age...

Young Jase Mason's ambition was to be a wildlife photographer. To find out whether or not he had real ability, he spent a summer in the wilderness with his dog and his cameras. His dog is an Airedale Terrier.