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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. He shares the pleasures and perils of ranching out West, at the dawn of the 20th century"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Caxton Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This is the first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman in Colorado's history. Anna Marie Bassett was the first white child born in the notorious outlaw region of Colorado known as Brown's Park. She knew outlaws such as Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and became lifelong friends with Elza Lay."--Provided by publiaher.
10) Little Britches
Author
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1962
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his childhood with his family on a Colorado farm.
Author
Publisher
High Plains Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the life and times of Ann Myrtle Bassett (1878-1956) and Brown's Park, located at the intersection of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Considered a rustler by some, "Queen Ann" Bassett participated in the cattle trade and the Indian Wars. She was a friend to pioneers, outlaws, and Ute Indians"--
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Young "Little Britches" life is radically changed when his ailing father dies. Then his mother reveals a terrible secret and the family is forced to flee their Colorado ranch to an uncertain future. Fortified with the Yankee ingenuity his father taught him, at age eleven Ralph takes on his new role an Man of the Family. His mother deplores her inability to give her children everything materially, and instead gives them much to build their lives and...
Author
Publisher
Books In Motion
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...
Publisher
Hanna Ranch Documentary, LLC
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Hanna Ranch is a feature documentary about visionary cattleman Kirk Hanna and his personal struggle to protect a once prominent way of life in Colorado. Born into a life on the family ranch, Hanna became a leader in the environmental ranching movement that set out to protect the West from the relentless encroachment of development and misuse. Featured in the book Fast Food Nation and dubbed the "eco-cowboy," he was an early adopter of Holistic Resource...
Author
Series
Little Britches volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven.--From publisher description.
20) A wild West history of frontier Colorado: pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the Gold Rush to the coming of the railroad, the mid-1800s saw prospectors, desperados and opportunists flock to Colorado. The peaceful frontier quickly transformed into dangerous, lawless territory, where Coloradoans settled their own matters, usually with pistols.
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