Bear Publications: 106 books

Empire Builders concerns a young superintendent of a line running from Denver into the Rocky Mountains. Stuart Ford is an ambitious fellow, who hatches a plan to extend the line to eventually connect Chicago and the West Coast. His chief competitor is the Transcontinental with its eye on hauling freight...

These tales of the little creatures of the Wide Green Meadows have given endless delight to generations of children. In this collection Peter Rabbit hears the story of how old Mr. Squirrel became thrifty; how it happens Johnny Chuck sleeps all winter; how Drummer the Woodpecker came by his...

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...

The Friendship Village series best exemplifies Zona Gale's lighter touch with village life. While her Midwestern stories convey an awareness of the foibles of small-town life, they are more celebratory of the sometimes primitive democratic and community-oriented values of small-town life. Always delightful...

A Fool in Love is the story of an exciting duel between a railway monarch who is celebrated as a hard fighter, and a young civil engineer, over a strip of track that means the right of way for two competing lines, forms the theme of this novel. The love comes into the story by means of a pretty girl,...

"Firebrand" Trevison is about a ranch owner who runs afoul of a land grabber, both of whom are in love with the same girl, the daughter of a railroad owner. Something's got to give! Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–9 February 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific...

The Rainbow Trail is Zane Grey's sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. Originally published under the title The Rainbow Trail in 1915, it was re-edited and re-released in recent years as The Desert Crucible with the original manuscript that Grey submitted to publishers. The novel takes place...

Riders of the Purple Sage Series consists of two of Zane Grey's finest novels: Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail. Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant...

The Border Legion is a 1916 western novel by Zane Grey. It tells the story of a cold-hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1924 and again in 1930. The movie "The...

The Last Trail by Zane Grey is a good example of American literature written in the early part of the last century. Traditions and family values play a large part in daily life. This book distinguishes between two types of frontiersmen, the pioneers and the border men. The first being settlers that...

The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book is the complete collection of short stories by the same names. The book has 28 animal stories, notably tales of the 'Coon, the 'Possum, and the Old Black Crow, who live in the Hollow Tree in the Deep Woods. The book contains 113 illustrations, rejuvenated, by J....

When Francis Lynde writes a story with railroad life for a background, you may count on a bit of reading that is well worth your while. When you find added to this background a foreground made up of a youthful official who is personally conducting a party of tourists across our western country, and...

This is the first six novels in the Hopalong Cassidy series. 1. "Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves...

Jack in the Rockies follows Jack Danvers and his guide, philosopher, and friend, Hugh Johnson, the old frontiersman from Bismarck, Dakota, where they board the up-river steamboat for Fort Bruton. They take a pack-train from the famous old fort, the lore of the hunter and the pioneer vividly revealed...