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Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover

10 best books like Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover (Ralph Moody): No Life for a Lady, Stalking the Healthful Herbs, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, Marven of the Great North Woods, To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Tucky Jo and Little Heart, Laddie: A True Blue Story, The Great Little Madison, Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

No Life for a Lady
AuthorAgnes Morley Cleaveland
ISBN0803258682
I picked this book up in Wall Drug Store in South Dakota while on vacation. The author was born in 1874 in New Mexico before it was a state. Her memoir tells of life growing up on a cattle ranch back in the days of true cowboys. She tells what it was really like to live and work on a cattle ranch back then, when going...
Stalking the Healthful Herbs
AuthorEuell Gibbons
ISBN0911469060
This is an older book without ID sketches or other features that could be really helpful and it's not an end-all guide to medicinal wild plants at all. Indeed, Gibbons got a lot of his information simply from reading through many old books (often going back many centuries) and compiling what those authors...
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
AuthorAlan Burgess
ISBN0553028545
I read this book when I was about ten years old. My grandmother was a missionary in India andshe used to give me 'improving' books to read - this being one of them. Luckily my grandmother had extremely good taste in literature and every 'improving' book she gave me was also immensely readable as this one...
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
AuthorRichard Halliburton
ISBN1885211538
When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career, traveling to far away places. This vivid book, one of many he wrote, tells what happened, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. "One of the most fascinating...
Marven of the Great North Woods
AuthorKathryn Lasky
This is a wonderful picture book. It is a bit long, so I'd recommend for ages 5 and up. But it succeeds in a tough genre for children's books - period non-fiction.

It's a story of a 10-year-old, Marven, who is sent away from his family during the flu epidemic of 1918. He leaves Duluth and goes to a logging...
To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
President Theodore Roosevelt is known as "the man with a plan," the "rough rider." His figure stands tall in American history; his legacy stretching him to larger-than-life proportions.

But before his rise to fame, he was just "Teedie," a boy with ambitious dreams to change the world, and...
Tucky Jo and Little Heart
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN1481415840
Friendship, loyalty, and kindness stand the test of time in this heartwarming World War II–era picture book based on a true story from the beloved author-illustrator of Pink and Say and The Keeping Quilt.

Tucky Jo was known as the “kid from Kentucky” when he enlisted in the army at age...
Laddie: A True Blue Story
AuthorGene Stratton-Porter
ISBN0253204585
My favorite quote in the book:

"Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbor, believe me, my highest aspiration is to be a clean, thrifty housekeeper, a bountiful cook, a faithful wife, a sympathetic mother. That is life work for any woman, and to be a good woman is the greatest...
The Great Little Madison
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116216
In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government,...
Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History
AuthorRichard M. Hannula
ISBN1885767544
"Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls" (Jer. 6:16).

Christianity is a faith in love with history. God took on human flesh and dwelt among us. The Spirit carried that divine work over the...
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet
AuthorLaurence Anholt
ISBN0764138553
Julie is a happy little girl who lives in Paris, but she wishes she could walk in a country garden. Julie is pleased when her mother decides to take her to visit the most wonderful garden in the world, owned by a great friend of the family.

They arrive at their destination, and for this little girl...
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
AuthorLuetta Reimer
ISBN0866515097
Ah but we're missing the subtitle! The full title is: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians.

My parents are in that group of retired folk that go into public schools and read stories to children - of course, it helps that mom was a teacher for something...
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
AuthorJames Rumford
To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
AuthorKenneth Koch
ISBN0060955090
The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry

When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout...
Birds: A Guide to Familiar American Birds
AuthorHerbert S. Zim
ISBN0307240533
This guide will help you identify -- quickly and easily -- the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you:
-- What to look for
-- Where and when to look
-- How to attract birdsRange maps show at a glance where each bird is found, and handy tables at the back of the book contain a wealth of additional...
Trees
AuthorAllen J. Coombes

What I like about this tree guide: the page layouts, the photos, and the illustrations. (Every tree has a color drawing of a man figure standing next to a tree which is half-leaved, half barren, to show scale and branch structure.)

What's irritating: Some trees are identified by their common...
The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America's Philosopher of Freedom
AuthorAndrew M. Allison
ISBN0880800062
The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America s Philosopher of Freedom

Jefferson is the central figure in American history, and... he may yet prove to be the central figure in modern history. So stated noted historian Henry Steele Commager. And as the English novelist Samuel Butler...
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine
AuthorJeanne Bendick
ISBN1883937752
We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, his botanical wisdom and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages...
Benjamin Franklin
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380390
Read aloud to my children. They collectively gave it 3.5 stars.

Ellie (6 y.o): I loved it, and I thought the bathtub was really funny. That one little part when he went on a boat was the part I did not like. It was too violent.

Connor (7 y.o.): The reason I didn't I didn't like it was because...
Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0805094482
Strongheart may have been a movie star, but he wasn't always famous. He started out as a police dog who could sniff out criminals and march like a soldier, but he didn't know how to have fun. Larry Trimble was a Hollywood director who wanted to put Strongheart in his movies—not just as a pet but as the lead...
Farmer George Plants a Nation
AuthorPeggy Thomas
ISBN1620910292
This picture book for older readers focuses on George Washington as farmer, inventor, and scientist. Infused with excerpts from George’s letters and diaries, the narrative makes a convincing case for Washington’s place as the nation’s First Farmer. He invented a combination plow-tiller-harrow,...
Reaching for the Moon
AuthorBuzz Aldrin
ISBN1595195823
I've read, extensively this past week, everything I could find about Buzz Aldrin while helping my 10 year old research his Famous American report. And then we got our hands on this beautiful autobiographical book. Written for children, it's simple and straightforward in its delivery, yet it's more...
Onions in the Stew
AuthorBetty MacDonald
ISBN1888173300
The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with this collection of tales about life on the fringe of the Western wilderness. Writing in the 1950s, Betty MacDonald, sophisticated and urbane, captivated readers with her observations about raising a family...
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
AuthorE. Charles Vivian
ISBN0808588567
This is an awesome version of Robin Hood! The illos are great, including some of the classics by Pyle, some glitzy old hollywood images and some old medieval manuscript type images. The text is from the turn of the century, and so has this really classic, heroic flavor to it that you just don't get with modern...
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