A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a perefrine falcon called Frightfull interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who recscues her and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.

When his friend Sally, who has traveled to the silver-mining town of Goth, Colorado, to open a restaurant with a friend, is caught in the crossfire during a robbery, Smoke Jenson, fueled by revenge and armed with a gun and a badge, hunts down a gang of outlaws, only to be caught in a deadly trap.

Harlan Waugh, a lone mountain man, hunts in the Rocky Mountains of the early 1830's. Two Crow Indian boys in need of a family cross his path. Harlen adopts them and teaches them the ways of beaver trapping and buffalo hunting. In their travels, they befall one cruelty after another, until the mountain man can't stand it anymore. (From back cover).

It's 1935, and Laurel Jackson fears the life she's always known is about to become a memory. The government is purchasing property to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and nearly all the families in Cades Cove have decided to sell. Laurel is determined to save the land her family has lived on for a hundred years. Andrew Brady, the son of a wealthy Virginia congressman, arrives in the Cove to convince the remaining landowners to sell....

Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smokes arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and...

"After surviving a brilliantly plotted murder attempt, the richest man in San Francisco is looking to hire the best protection money can buy. Enter Matt Jensen, who, for the princely sum of $5000, agrees to escort millionaire John Gillespie and his very fetching daughter on a railway journey from Frisco to Chicago. There's just one catch: the world's deadliest killers are coming along for the ride. In Provo, Utah, a knife-wielding assassin leads Jensen...

"After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden family and now knows he was duped. But when he's wounded...