Pekan The Shadow

Chronicles the battle of wits between a young man living in the Rocky Mountains of the West and Pekan the Shadow, a member of the weasel family.

Chronicles the battle of wits between a young man living in the Rocky Mountains of the West and Pekan the Shadow, a member of the weasel family.

Pekan the Shadow is a wildlife story set in the Rocky Mountains of the West. It is the story of Terry Carter, a fourteen-year-old boy who believes any wild creature, even a killer like the fisher, is entitled to live his life the only way he knows -- by hunting. Pekan, the fisher, belongs to the weasel tribe, a brownish black animal weighing twelve pounds or more. Terry must find a way to keep Pekan from raiding his father's trap line.

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Told on winter nights around bunkhouse stoves the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and his mighty blue ox Babe, have become part of the American myths known as tall tales. Read how Paul Bunyan digs out Puget Sound, Babe drinks the Grand Coulee river dry, and other tales that have made Paul Bunyan and Babe famous.

Children of all ages will enjoy these tales of Paul Bunyan, mythical giant lumberjack of the North Woods. Exciting and rollicking stories--seventeen in all. A perpetual best-seller the country over, this book has sold more than one million copies.

Far back in the wildest of the mountain country hides Yellow Eyes, the great mountain lion. Beautiful and cruel, like all big cats, Yellow Eyes and his mate, are tawny shadows lurking in the forest. In Rutherford Montgomery's stories animals are animals, not beasts playing the parts of human beings.

A young bobcat struggles against hunters, a flash flood, an avalanche, and the laws of nature in his efforts to survive, find a mate, and provide for a family.