Ruby Sisson Library

The magnificent Colorado River, vast and unyielding, lets no man tame its fierce soul. But Isaac Beard, a man of courage and strength, dares to defy the mighty forces of nature to build a dynasty for his sons and their children in this sweeping hi.

Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land. Three hard, tough men staked their claims on its potent shores; Jake Stonecipher, pioneer merchant, seeking his fortune, yet finding a war. Will Burke, a mountain man as savage as the wilderness itself. And Francisco...

Midway through performing surgery on a gunshot victim, Dr. Olivia Simon learns that the victim is Annie O'Neill, the woman with whom Olivia's husband is in love.

There are four endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River: the bonytail chub, the Colorado squawfish, the humpback chub, and the razorback sucker. Habitat management is one of five elements of the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin which is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, and water...

An overview of the Amazon River, its physical features, plants and wildlife, history, economics, towns and cities, vanishing Indians, and environmental threats.

An overview of the Mississippi River, its physical features, plants and wildlife, history, explorers, role as a transportation route, and future.

Provides an overview of the geography of the Rhine River and examines such topics as transportation, industry, pollution, and myths and legends related to it.