rocky mountains

Provides an introduction to the Rockies, a mountain range that stretches three thousand miles from New Mexico to Canada, discussing their formation, geography and climates, plants and animals, people, and culture.

After Ruby, the owner of a neighboring lodge, gets sick, Meg and Thomas decide to help her and watch after her ten-year-old son, Tyler, who releases ranch horses that Thomas gets lost trying to find.

Simple text describes the Rocky Mountains and the animals and people that live there.

Invites the reader to "climb" the Rocky Mountains by perusing the book. Depicts scenery and animal life that can be seen at different altitudes of this mountain range.

Unhappy vacation-mates Becky, Meg, and Alison are distracted from their bickering by a phantom horse and soon find themselves forced to pull together when a friend gets trapped in an abandoned mine shaft.

Stranded for six months in the Rocky Mountains following an airplane crash, a fifteen-year-old boy is taken in by an old hermit who teaches him the ways of the wilderness.

The Carson family's peaceful way of life in the shelter of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, is marred by violence when a group of Nazis escape from nearby Camp Trinidad during World War II, and demand that widower Jack Carson, his sons, and daughter provide them with food, weapons, and help getting to the Mexican border.

Young Jane Ray begins her new job at the Urban Wildlife Rescue Center, becomes involved with the controversy over euthanizing crows to stop the spread of the West Nile virus, and decides to venture over the Rocky Mountains in search of a vaccine.