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42) A Texas Cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
[Time-Life Books]
Pub. Date
[1980] c1885
Language
English
Description
"A Texas Cowboy" was one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy. Its author, Charles A. Siringo, was born in Dodge City, Kansas and at the age of 15 started working on local ranches as a cowboy and participated over the course of his ranching career in many cattle drives. A highly influential work that romanticized the life of a cowboy and the Old West, Siringo's book tells an autobiographical account of riding the famous Chisholm Trail and...
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 6
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Callie and Travis need sheep for the town Christmas pageant. Travis is playing the shepherd in the Nativity scene, and what's a shepherd without his flock? Unfortunately, Fentress is low on sheep--but not on goats. When Callie and Travis decide to borrow two goats from their neighbor, they don't know what they're in for. As it turns out, the main trouble with goats is that they'll eat just about anything. This will be one Christmas pageant Fentress...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another, throwing cattle thieves, desperadoes, border ruffians, and other dangerous criminals into jail or, if that's how they wanted it, six feet under. They would stop at nothing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Callie's little brother Travis brings home an abandoned baby squirrel and names him Fluffy, Mother isn't so sure that Fluffy will make a good family pet, and neither is Thud, the cat. Can Fluffy find a home in the Tate household?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buck Duane's father was a gunfighter who died by the gun and, in accepting a drunken bully's challenge, Duane himself was forced into the life of an outlaw. He roamed the dark trails of southwestern Texas, living in outlaw camps, until he met the one woman who could help him overcome his past - a girl named Jennie Lee.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his...
53) A Texas Ranger
Author
Series
The Lakeside classics volume 90
Publisher
Lakeside Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
56) Counting sheep
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 2
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior".
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 5
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
Author
Series
Publisher
Sword of the Lord Publishers
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Arty, is still struggling with bitterness over the death of his father, develops into a real cowboy. His mother reluctantly allows him to get his first gun when Marshal Bodie agrees to teach him how to handle it safely. Then a cattle-killing black cougar, named Phantom, returns to the territory; and Arty faces a situation that tests him as he's never been tested before.