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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love -- both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing...
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Series
Calder brand volume 3
Language
English
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"Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can near the only family he has left. Not only does the Calder clan embrace him, but patriarch Webb Calder helps Logan secure a prime piece of ranching property. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide...
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Language
English
Description
Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives.
This...
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Publisher
S. Campbell
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of all great storytellers, Stu Campbell shares with us his delightful stories of western life-stories he's acquired from decades of ranching in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and elsewhere. The text is complemented with artwork by R. Loren Schmidt, who is a "Cowboy Artist" in the true sense of the word.
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Series
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
℗♭2010
Language
English
Description
"In memoir, poetry, and prose, describes the adventures of Frank Maynard, an open range cowboy whose ten-year career coincided with the peak of the Great Plains trail-drive era. Folklore scholars credit Maynard with adapting Irish ballad 'The Unfortunate Rake' from its American version to the well known 'The Cowboy's Lament'"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Adventures of a young cowboy volume 4
Publisher
Stu Campbell
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Cowboy and humorist Stu Campbell has done it again in this fourth book of short stories of cowboy humor and perspective. Perfect for a quick shot of cowboy hilarity anytime.
Author
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Bob's book covers a wide spectrum of cowboy life-- a span of sixty-four years-- and his blend of humorous and historical accounts makes for fast, enjoyable reading.From one hilarious episode to another, the reader gets the feeling of what it was like, "Growing up to cowboy" -- Back cover.
12) One man's West
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Language
English
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Came a day when I wanted to get married and needed a stake. To my youthful optimism, geared as it was to the 'thirty-a-month-and- found' wages paid cowboys the vast affluence of five dollars a day in the gold mines seemed to offer the quickest solution.
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Publisher
Range Conservation Foundation & RANGE magazine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This book contains many of Harry Webb's stories and letters about the high desert country where he was a cowboy, rancher, bronc-buster, trapper and horseman. Also includes reproductions of paintings and portraits of the West by J.N. Swanson.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book examines how (and why) rodeo has provided diverse communities ways in which they can prove themselves as real Americans, real men, and real heroes, often through the enactment of ever-shifting concepts like authenticity, tradition, and heritage. The author analyzes how the space of the rodeo arena has exposed fractures in the narrative of the cowboy over the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the experiences of non-normative cowboys...