Presents the history and development of the mail service that delivered mail almost two thousand miles across the United States in less than ten days on horseback during the nineteenth century.
This book is a biography of Olive Oatman, who was held captive by the Apaches and Mohaves and who learned that her captors had deeply spiritual beliefs that forever altered the way she thought of the earth and its proper uses.
Introduces the physical characteristics and habits of the giant panda describing its role in the ecology of its natural environment in China and its past and present relationship to its human neighbors.