Nine-year-old Susannah Winston is sent to stay with her Uncle Dennis, an officer with the Mounties - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police - in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has many adventures on the prairie. Made into the blockbuster Hollywood film starring Shirley Temple!

Who would have guessed that Colt Brennan was an anthropologist? While tracking Bigfoot in an attempt to prove the new theory of evolution, Colt and his guide, an old prospector, are robbed by a gang of cutthroats. One of them carelessly divulges the location of their hideout, the Valley of Sasquatch. What an auspicious clue. Following Yukon Jack's gang into British Columbia, the trackers join forces with Sergeant Preston Steele of the Northwest Mounted Police who is also pursuing the robbers. A local urchin who is infatuated with Steele tags along, presenting herself to them when they are too deep in the frontier to turn back. But Susannah is enough of a tomboy to meet the challenge; which includes some surprising revelations about Bigfoot.

Robert Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a

The story of author/playwright Merrill Denison and his feminist mother Flora MacDonald leads to the creation of today's Bon Echo Park.

First published in 1956, this book contains a list of children's books suitable for children from infancy until the early teens.

This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

From the paleolithic to high-tech oil drilling, the enduring saga of crime and punishment is told by these talented story-spinners in these tales of detection, mystery, and adventure.

Provides author biographies, publication data and plot summaries for some 500 fictional works featuring the Mounties, and plot summaries, casts, and credits for about 225 films. Also includes comic books, comic strips, TV and radio shows, operas, stage dramas, and musicals. Some bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR