Reading Essentials: 322 books

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. 

How could more than a thousand elk disappear on a migration from summer to winter feeding grounds? Did they got lost and starve, were they killed by natural law or human enemies, or did they just find their way to some unknown spot? In a search for possible answers, the Conservation Department sent...

Jim Kjelgaard wrote here another spell-binder. This time in a swampland mystery he communicates his empathy for small creatures in the story of little Frosty - a kitten as compelling as the animals immortalized by Ernest Seton Thompson. Abandoned in the swamp of Dog Tooth Valley by vicious ne'er-do-well,...

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 a red fox, of a boy and a dog who hunted him, and of the wilderness where it happened. Because of the odd-shaped white patch on his chest that gave him his name, and the freak six toes on his front feet, Star was a marked fox from his youngest days. And because of his growing...

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.

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...

A fascinating readable history about the reasons why the Mormons migrated to the West and how they settled Utah.

Soon after Bud Sloan had been sent to live at Bennett's Farm, he came upon a black fawn in the nearby woods, and from that moment the metamorphosis began that turned a frightened city-bred orphan into a dedicated farmer...

Kin's father was a gunsmith in the Carolina Blue Ridge, and Kin knew more about hunters and Indians than he did about the war with England. But British and Tory raiders taught Kin and his father that freedom was worth fighting for!