Jim Kjelgaard Collection

 

	The Jim Kjelgaard Collection
Jim Kjelgaard won a Boys Club Award, a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, and a Boys’ Life Award. Lisa A. Wroble, in Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, wrote: “Kjelgaard’s books have timeless appeal because his stories focus on the relationship between man and nature and include realistic, believable characters who still resonate with readers today.” All books are available in affordable Kindle and paperback editions.
		Double Challenge / Rescue Dog of the High Pass “Another rousing mystery of the outdoor world.” – Kirkus (starred review) In Double Challenge, young Ted dreams of building a resort for hunters and fishermen. Ted and his father pool their money and purchase a small tract of land, but Ted’s father is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, leaving Ted alone with his faithful dog Tammie, to start the camp and prove his father’s innocence. Rescue Dog of the High Pass is the delightful story of a boy and his dog: fourteen-year-old Franz and his beloved Alpine Mastiff, Casaer. When Franz is expelled from school for day-dreaming he is sent to St. Bernard’s Hospice in the Swiss Alps as a laborer. But the Prior orders Caesar to work or leave the hospice and Franz must convince him of Caesar’s value to the hospice. Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon
		The Duck-footed Hound / We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run In The Duck-footed Hound Harky is a plucky thirteen-year-old boy that would rather fish and hunt racoons than anything else. His nemesis is a wily and uncatchable racoon named Old Joe. Harky’s prospects of treeing Old Joe rise when a new coon hound, which Harky and his dad believe is half hound and half duck because of its webbed paws, appears from nowhere. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run is a rousing tale about Cindy Simpson’s family’s desire to homestead in the Oklahoma Territory. They are competing with hundreds of others crowded along the border hoping for their own land. It will be a race to claim the best land before someone else does. Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon
		Fire-Hunter / The Explorations of Père Marquette “Breathtaking....” – Kirkus (starred review) In the cult classic, Fire-Hunter, Hawk, the Spear-Maker in his prehistoric tribe, is exiled for breaking tribal custom by using a spear-thrower during a wooly rhinoceros hunt. In Hawk’s prehistoric world where saber-tooth tigers and dire wolves hunt men, his exile is a death sentence. Along with Willow, a girl the tribe abandoned after she injured her leg, Hawk begins adapting his knowledge about weapons and hunting so the pair can survive this hostile world alone. The Explorations of Père Marquette is a vivid and charming book about the Jesuit explorer, Jacques Marquette’s adventures in France’s North American territories during the 17th Century. In Marquette’s brief life he served among many Native tribes in what are now the states of Wisconsin and Michigan. But Marquette’s most famous contribution was as an explorer, which is vividly recreated in this marvelous novel. Available only in Canada Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon Canada
		The Spell of the White Sturgeon / Dusky and Other Tales The Spell of the White Sturgeon, set on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in the mid-1850s, is about Ramsay, an eighteen-year-old boy looking for a new life in Three Points, Wisconsin. Ramsay’s promised job disappears and he is forced to work as a laborer on a family farm, but Ramsay’s prospects brighten when he meets a Dutch fisherman…  Dusky and Other Tales collects six stories published in the highly-regarded pulp magazine, Short Stories. “Dusky” is a classic story about a boy and his dog tracking a killer. “The Wild Pack,” told from the perspective of a blue jay, is about two dogs vying for control of the pack. “Reputation” is an Old West gunfighter tale with a refreshing twist. Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon
		Swamp Cat / The Story of Geronimo “A master storyteller at his best.” – Kirkus (starred review) In Swamp Cat Andy Gates is alone on his family’s swampland farm. After importing a colony of muskrats, Andy must overcome a few obstacles: the swamp’s predators find the muskrats as easy prey; and a dishonest neighbor is trapping them. But then the unexpected happens: Andy is befriended by a black cat named Frosty. The Story of Geronimo is a biographical novel about the Chiricahua Apache War Chief, Geronimo. A fast-paced tale that Kirkus called a “compassionate, but objective...and arresting biography of an American of distinguished intelligence, courage, and initiative.” Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon
		Tales of the Macabre / The Black Fawn Tales of the Macabre collects three supernatural horror stories published in Weird Tales. “The Thing from the Barrens,” brings an unimaginable terror from the wind-swept barrens. In “The Fangs of Tsan-Lo,” a dog wreaks a dreadful horror. “Chanu” pulls the reader into a deadly African safari. These dark tales – revised by Robert Bloch – are a delight. In The Black Fawn, Allan, a young orphan, is adjusting to his new home on an elderly couple’s farm. He is certain they will send him away, as all the other families did, and begins rebelling in small ways. When Allan sees a black fawn, his outlook changes and for the first time he may have found a home where he belongs. Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon
		Trading Jeff and His Dog / Hi Jolly! “Absorbing.” – Kirkus (starred review) Trading Jeff and His Dog is the unforgettable story of Jeff Tarrant, a teenage peddler whose life changes when he befriends a stray dog called Pal. Then an orphaned boy turns up too, and Jeff is faced with the dilemma of keeping his solitary life or starting a new family. In Hi Jolly! a young camel-rider, Ali, is running for his life after rescuing a riding camel, called a dalul, from a cruel band of desert nomads. His journey takes him from the Syrian desert all the way to the Southwest United States as a camel rider with the U.S. Army’s Camel Corps. Purchase the Vintage Lists Classics edition at Amazon