Joseph Wharton


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This first book-length biography of Joseph Wharton traces his family background, his business enterprises, and his contribution to the nineteenth-century age of industrial enterprise.




The Wahoo Bobcat


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A nine-year-old boy and a wild bobcat establish a strange friendship that endures through seasons of drought, forest fire and flood, and through the resolute hunting of the cat by men and dogs in the Florida swamp.




Wilderness Champion


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Does a hound's loyalty belong to the wolf that raised him and taught him survival in the wild or to the master who provided him with food, protection, and understanding?




Olde Penn


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Persimmon Jim


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The story of a possum farmers called "Persimmon Jim". Whenever a chicken was found missing, Persimmon Jim was blamed. Most of the farmers in this chicken-raising community believed Jim had to be caught and destroyed, but how to catch him was the problem as he was good at avoiding capture.




The York Road, Old and New


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The Phantom Deer


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The story of a man, a boy and a Key deer--one of the miniature deer whose habitat is disappearing.







Fiscal Report


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