Product Description: For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were common in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods, often drawing large crowds and the attention of sporting journals...read more

The celebrated nature writer and essayist shares his observations of the wonders of the natural world in a collection of writings that center on the state of Michigan, discussing such topics as turtles, sasquatch, the intelligence of crows, and more.

Looks at the fifty year period during which the whites broke the Indian nations, and offers profiles to Tecumseh and other leaders who influenced that era

Product Description: Joseph Walker (1798-1876) had probably the longest and most distinguished career of any frontiersman in American history. This first biography of this great frontier hero is based on years of research and many previously unpublished and neglected sources...read more

Product Description: By Bil Gilbert. ISBN 0-8164-0842-9. Amazon reader review: "This book is one of the few available about coatis, that raccoon like, primate like, troop living denizen of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. The book is a story of a family of field workers too. Good read."

Introduces the nine members of the Mustelidae family which includes mink, badger, skunk, wolverine, and otter.

Presents research and theories about communication between animals and between men and animals, concentrating on bees, birds, dogs, apes, and dolphins.