James Arthur Kjelgaard: 3 books

The Best Works of James Arthur Kjelgaard   Rescue Dog of the High Pass Swamp Cat The Black Fawn The Lost Wagon We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run  

Why would a farmer exchange his plowed fields for a wilderness? Why would a husband and father take his family from civilization into an untamed land? In the middle of the last century, thousands of Americans pushed westward into the unknown--and Joe Tower, who had never been fifty miles from his...

Franz Halle felt he was worthless because he could not manage book learning, but his schoolmaster and the village pastor knew that the boy had a priceless knowledge all his own. The kindly priest secured work for Franz at near-by St. Bernard Hospice, helping a gentle giant of a man who made it possible...