Books with title The Man Who Moved a Mountain

After five years of legal formalities, Jim Qwilleran has officially inherited his freedom and a fortune, which leaves him with a serious dilemma. What should he do now? Seeking a place of peace and isolation to make up his mind, he heads to the Potato Mountains for the summer. But Qwill lands in the middle of controversy, not solitude. The mountains are a haven for the independent, roughneck descendants of Prohibition-era moon-shiners. The valley is home to developers eager to turn the pristine Potatoes into a giant tourist trap. To make matters more complicated, a Tater, as the mountain folk are called, has been convicted of the murder of millionaire developer J.J. Hawkinfield. Some people swear the wrong man was convicted, and Qwill is inclined to agree when he hears what transpired before the trial. But if Forest Beechum didn't do the dirty deed, who did? With Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum on the case, the killer won't get away with murder.

A murder in the mountains has Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum feeling on edge in this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series.Qwill’s on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller. Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent—and Koko’s antics have him convinced something’s wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill...but he’s determined to find the truth. Even if it means jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire!

A murder in the mountains has Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum feeling on edge in this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series.Qwill’s on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller. Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent—and Koko’s antics have him convinced something’s wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill...but he’s determined to find the truth. Even if it means jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire!

A tribute to an artist unafraid to break with tradition. In her own glowing paintings and lucid text, Deborah Kogan Ray tells the fascinating life story of the Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). He rose from poverty, taught himself to draw, became the promising pupil of a great master, and then defied tradition to become one of the most important and influential artists in the world.Ray's paintings are rich with period and biographical detail. The endpapers show drawings from Hokusai's sketchbooks. Also included is one of his famous Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

After five years of legal formalities in gossip-ridden Pickax, Jim Qwilleran has officially inherited the Klingenschoen fortune. In search of a summer's peace, Qwill and his two Siamese cats head for the Potato Mountains. But Qwill finds controversy - one side of the valley is a haven for the descendants of Prohibition Moonshiners, the other home to developers eager to turn the Potatoes into a giant tourist trap. One of the Taters, as the locals are nicknamed, has been imprisoned for the murder of a millionaire developer, but Qwill is convinced the wrong man is in jail. Koko, Yum Yum and Qwill sniff out treachery amidst the pines...

Seth Benton is a mountain man out of step with civilization. His era is gone, but he lingers. He's trapped with Jedediah Smith, spent many long winters in the mountains trapping beaver and dodging Blackfeet Indians. So, when an old friend, a former mountain man turned rancher asks for Benton's help in tracking rustlers, he comes down from the mountains.Benton tracks the rustlers and catches them. But, the man behind the rustling is unknown to him and his friend. They come up with a plan to catch the man, but before it can be put in place, his friend is gunned down in town. Benton races to the saloon after hearing the shots. The scene went something like this:Benton eyed the man standing at the bar, a pistol still in his hand, looking around slowly as if to dare anyone to challenge his right to do what he’d done. Benton asked him, “Why did you shoot him?” “He was going to beat me, that crazy old fool. Then he reached for his gun and was going to shoot me. I had a right to kill him. It was me or him.” A voice came from the crowd, “That’s right, mister. Old Dodd grabbed Brownie here by the shirt front and was shaking him like he was a salt holder. Then he tried to get his pistol out but Brownie beat him to it.”No one was more surprised by the shot that followed than the man called Brownie. The shot took his leg out from under him and he fell to the floor, screaming with pain and fear. Men scrambled for shelter behind tables and the bartender disappeared behind the bar. Benton moved to one side, kicked the man’s fallen pistol away, then said to the crowd, “Everyone get out of here. You, barkeep, you stay and don’t even think of bringin’ out that scatter gun you got hid down there. I want you to listen to this weasel.” Benton moved over to the groaning man, jerked him to a chair and slammed him down into it. His voice was hoarse, low and guttural when he spoke: “You got no chance at all of livin’, mister, unless you tell me who hired you to kill my friend.” Some men never seem to learn until it is too late. There are some men you can take chances with, can bluff, can stall, and can fool. There are a few who, when they’ve decided on a course and are convinced of the rightness of this course, will brook no interference, will waste no time, and will be merciless to any in their path.Seth Benton was such a man.=============This is a story that you'll enjoy. It's the Old West come alive, with characters straight out of history. This particular story shows just how tough some of these men really were. These men who risked their life trapping in the mountains, fighting heavy snows, blizzards and cold, and Indians who hunted them with the same passion that the mountain men hunted the beaver.A gunslinger in the Wild West was fairly uncommon. A cowboy chasing “cow critters” could be found throughout the Old West. In western books, historical fiction novels, or western novels, the western cowboys are a dime a dozen . (Maybe that’s where the phrase “dime novel” arose.) Cowboy stories were common on the western open range, and those cowboys told a lot of those stories, but cowboy novels were not. A “cowboy western,” was pretty uncommon during the early days of western novels. Usually, the greatest westerns were about some gunslinger in the Old West, or a marshal or sheriff made larger than life, or a mountain man (like this one), or an Indian fighter (such as Buffalo Bill). This is another western fiction novel of the highest caliber, an action packed adventure from Brevia Westerns by Voyle Glover, an author one reader said “reminds me of Louis L’Amour’s books. He was my favorite when it came to westerns.”