A big city like St. Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else would he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont, who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen - with Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the battleground...

"The McCloud brothers know the Bitterroot Mountains better than anyone, but they rarely have time for sightseeing. That is, until lovely Roberta Morris asks them to help find her uncle, who went missing while mining for gold. The brothers are happy to oblige. A pretty little lady can't face the Indians all by her lonesome. But she's not alone. Frank Burdette and his gang are hot on her trail...and they know what lies in those mountains."--P. [4] of...

"Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. But across the border Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies another tribe with whiskey, guns and bullets - then directs them to tey out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of death, bloodshed, and captives, and Deaver is delighted to learn that Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving snow, with a handful of survivors,...

Orphan Girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather, cut off from the outside world in a simple cabin in the Swiss mountains. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete to stay with the family of the wealthy Mr. Sesemann and be a playmate for his wheelchair-bound daughter Klara.

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket-maker.

Describes a year in the present-day life of a mountain town that was founded when prospectors searching for gold arrived in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.

Account of a boy's growing up in a large and impoverished family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

As the middle child, Pepper Prescott's rebellious nature helped her survive when her parents disappeared and she and her siblings were sent to different foster homes around the country. Now an independent young woman, Pepper finds herself on the run after witnessing a shooting. Fearing for her life, Pepper flees to the only place she ever considered home and is shocked to find her old lover, Dan Graham, living on the remote mountain ranch. A battle-hardened...