Books with author a guthrie

A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love.

New children's series set in Virginia and Florida. Get ready for chills and thrills for the kiddies. Planted Pines is the first book in the Phantom Chillers series, set in a little town in Florida. Two young brothers, Brantly and Brysen, move to a new area and find out there's a secret in the planted pines on the back of their property. They're never allowed to play in there and wonder why. They meet two friends, DJ and Alex, and together they set out to discover what the secret is. Will they uncover the answer or perish trying?

Jack loves books. Books, however, are something that is scarce in his 1930s backwoods community, especially since his pa does not approve of reading. Jack daydreams about escaping from his home, riding the river until he discovers a place he could actually belong, but it isn't until the summer of 1940 that he discovers a startling secret that the river holds and decides to launch off an odyssey of his own, an odyssey that will change his life.

Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film co-written and directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock. Contrary to popular belief, while Arlo Guthrie wrote the lyrics and music for the narrative song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," he neither wrote nor co-wrote the screenplay for the film Alice's Restaurant, which was instead co-written by Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn.[3]

Chuck Bobcat writes a list of all the dreams that he wants to come true, and then he sets out to do everything written on his Adventure List. His friends Loop Rabbit and Dooley Bear also join in on the fun. Whether it's swimming with dolphins, riding a hot air balloon or visiting the penguins at the South Pole, Chuck's determined to live his dream life. Along the way, Chuck Bobcat and his friends discover that they can accomplish their biggest and smallest dreams when they set goals and take action. Chuck's story is presented with bright and colorful illustrations that children really love.

The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. For Wallace Stegner it is "the best" of the six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the Mountain Men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present." The first three books of the six in the chronological sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) -- The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land-are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 and ending with the death of Boone Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s.