Books with title Sword of the Wilderness

The Shades of the Wilderness, published in 1916, is the seventh novel in Joseph Alexander Altsheler's Civil War series. The books follow the lives of two cousins as they fight in the Civil War, Dick Mason with the Union Army and Harry Kenton with the Confederate Army. Joseph Alexander Altsheler was an American reporter and author best known for his popular historical fiction for children and young adults. Altsheler wrote books that formed different series on historical events such as The French and Indian War, The Civil War, and World War I.

Sunshine, a Quarter Horse, chose Jon, a young cowboy just out of the eighth grade, to be her special person. This story is written from Sunshine’s point of view. She has plenty to say about “getting started” as a riding horse and looking for adventure. Jon is sixteen and Sunshine is three as start their first job as Wrangler and Pack Trip horse on the beautiful Triple H Ranch near Augusta, Montana. Sunshine meets the mules, the guest horses, and the Pack Trip Guests. She learns the “ropes” from her new friend, Hambone, a big blond mule. Buckwheat, a white mule with menace on her mind, keeps Sunshine on her toes, (one toe per foot!) Sunshine and Jon meet wildlife, wild water, and landslides during their first pack trip in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the largest wilderness area in the lower 48 states. Join Sunshine, Jon, the kids on the pack trip, horses, mules and the crew of the Triple H Ranch on an adventure in Montana. This book will appeal to readers from third grade through middle school. “Sunshine of the Wilderness” includes a “picture glossary”. Readers will be able to visualize the adventures when looking at the photographs of landscapes, wildlife, flowers, pack saddles, camp boxes and hobbles as well as many other pieces of equipment, situations, and structures found along the trail. The first focus of this book is to bring the reader into an adventure in Montana. The second focus of this book is to help readers with learning difficulties work their way through an exciting story by using the picture glossary to learn unfamiliar words.

On the run after the uprising at the Academy, Blake and Kay have ended up with the criminals and the crazies in the place of childhood nightmares, the Wilderness. Here, in a ghost city, they find a bloodthirsty captain training a ruthless Resistance who are everything Blake has hoped for, except for one thing: they're a bunch of kids. Blake thinks he can use the Resistance's plans to get close enough to kill his father, The Leader, ending his brutal and bloody treatment of the underclass. Simple. But what Blake discovers about his father and the devastating methods of the Resistance is anything by simple. Who is controlling the country? And who can he really trust?

This is our place and we'll fight to save it! A summer spent in the place Noah and his friends call the Wilderness, is a summer spent making dens, sleeping under the stars, and toasting marshmallows over an open fire. It's freedom. Until one day their Wilderness is sold and set for development and their dens torn down to make way for houses. For Noah and his friends this means war and they'll do anything to stop the Wilderness being destroyed. From the author of Seal Island, this exciting new adventure celebrates the outdoors and the freedom to explore it - and with the exclusive, fun tips and ideas in the back of the book, you can make the best of wild spaces too!