Lyman Cutler tells his grandson Joe a story about his days as a young cowboy when he came across a cliff dwelling containing abandoned pottery and an Indian mummy. When Joe and his friend Denny search for the pottery and mummy, they discover old relics including documents, photographs, and the skull of a man. This story of archaeology and preservation of natural places will thrill young explorers as they follow Joe and Denny s adventure throughout southern Colorado. The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes,...
Lyman Cutler tells his grandson Joe a story about his days as a young cowboy when he came across a cliff dwelling containing abandoned pottery and an ...
Jay has lived in a once well-populated mining town in Colorado s Rocky Mountains for all of his fifteen years. Orphaned when he was very young, he spends most of his time working at his grandmother s store or as a cattlehand in Payrock Canyon with his friend Doc. Toward the end of the summer, all sorts of strange things start to happen in Payrock: Bighorn sheep are dying mysteriously, black beavers turn brown, cattle are running themselves off of cliffs, and young twins strand themselves on a dangerous precipice. The town curmudgeon claims it has something to do with a wandering stranger who...
Jay has lived in a once well-populated mining town in Colorado s Rocky Mountains for all of his fifteen years. Orphaned when he was very young, he spe...
Phil and Buzz are teenaged cousins who join Buzz s naturalist parents and little sister, Kitsy, on a summer-long research trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It is the height of the 1950s uranium boom in the Southwest, and the boys sneakily get hold of a Geiger counter to hunt for the element, not realizing that mining is illegal in the national park. Still, the Geiger counter helps to solve a mystery that has plagued the campers all summer long: the constant presence throughout their adventures of a strange character they call "The Dinosaur." Along the way, the boys are introduced to...
Phil and Buzz are teenaged cousins who join Buzz s naturalist parents and little sister, Kitsy, on a summer-long research trip to the North Rim of the...
Art Mills and his family have recently moved to southwestern Colorado. When Art isn t working in the family s Dew Drop Inn, he s out exploring the national forest that surrounds them. A favorite spot is Eagle Mountain, where the abandoned Fittleson s Folly mine a good spot for snipe hunting is located. When the secretive logger Mr. Maynard threatens Art, his sister Liz, and their friends to stay away, the kids can t help but wonder what Mr. Maynard is up to. And then once the forest fires start, Art knows someone is up to no good . . . The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness...
Art Mills and his family have recently moved to southwestern Colorado. When Art isn t working in the family s Dew Drop Inn, he s out exploring the nat...
