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Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher.

The last days of the Civil War.

Across the West, bad men know his name.

He darted through the orange orchard searching for slugs for his breakfast, and between whiles he rocked on the branches and rang over his message of encouragement to men.

Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and steal some of the trees.

An old-fashioned novel that describes the struggles and achievements of spirited Kate, the youngest daughter of a rich Indiana farmer.

A story of friendship between sister and their Japanese American school mate.

Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood, Laddie is a double tale -- the classic poor-boy/rich-girl romance and the story of a child of nature and her idyllic childhood.

A study of a swamp area in north-eastern Indiana.

Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull.

Mountain man Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but circumstance has plunged him into bloodbaths time and time again. Now Angus McDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge.

Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.

As the Civil War draws to a close, Captain Jack Brant and his Union troops unleash hell on ranch owner Richard King.

Smoke Jensen is spending his days herding cows and enjoying his wife's legendary meals.But trouble is always around the bend.

Matt Jensen, reared by legendary mountain hero Smoke, is the last of a proud breed.