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The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small townś economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasnt́ the rapids that killed him, he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals. Mandyś world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that...
5) The spiritual nature of animals: a country vet explores the wisdom, compassion, and souls of animals
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2017.
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Karlene Stanges spiritual journey began as she drove her pickup loaded with medical supplies to attend to animals throughout southwestern Colorado, where the Animas River carves the landscape. As an ambulatory veterinarian, she has experienced the challenges, sorrows, and joys of working with creatures great and small and feels a powerful kinship with these beautiful beings, a bond that goes beyond flesh and fur and feathers. The Spiritual Nature...
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[1970]
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Celebrated nature writer Hal Borland's memoir of change, from his boyhood in pioneer country in Colorado to his manhood, hurtling into a new age Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland's father, the editor of a local...
13) The drifter
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Cowboy Pete Peterson is looking for work and finds it working on ranches, but doesn't stay long.
14) Top hands
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"They were all good hands, the kind of cowboys--or buckaroos--that could work on any cow outfit. They didn't all arrive together, they just sorta drifted in, one at a time. Tom hired them on in January to help with the calving, even though it was early, There wasn't much riding to do, just go through the cattle each day looking for something that might be wrong. The cows weren't supposed to start calving until the middle of February. The ranch already...
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In 1885 the last Frenchman shows up at Summitville, Colorado. He is looking for a fabulous treasure of gold left behind by earlier relatives and countrymen. During the search he falls in love and subsequently this costs him his life. His acquaintances, Leon Montroy, Asa Poor and Jim White (Blanco) continue the search. This is the conclusion of the Citadel Mountain (Treasure Mountain) series.
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c2012
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"The Payton family bore the brunt of their era's meaner twists: the Comstock Laws, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and World War II. None of it kept the seventh of eight Payton kids from relishing his early years in Colorado's Grand Valley. Wayne made a specialty of surviving calamity and forged himself a Crockett caliber boyhood. His explorations broadened when wartime brough family solvency in the form of shipyard jobs at San Francisco Bay...
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