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Language
English
Description
Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all, with the few circulating copies from the small print run commanding top dollar from rare book collectors. Now, at last, it is being published nationally...
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
With more than 150 poems and forty striking photographs, Poetry of the American West chronicles the imagery of the region's long and diverse cultural heritage. Featuring verse by more than seventy poets and spanning a period of more than five hundred years, this is the first anthology to include the wide range of voices from a land where cultural collisions are part of the territory.
Covering the traditional and the exploratory, the ancient and the...
Author
Publisher
Wordsong
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There's a ranch in Texas hiring a crew to drive three thousand miles up the Chisholm Trail to Abilene. ... This collection of twenty-two poems captures the hard life and good times of cowboys on a cattle drive"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The third edition of Masters celebrates the poetry of Bruce Kiskaddon (1878-1950). Kiskaddon worked for ten years as a cowboy, starting in 1898 in southeastern Colorado's Picketwire area. He published short stories and nearly 500 poems. His poems are among the most admired and the most recited in the "classic" cowboy poetry canon.
15) Circling Back
Author
Publisher
Peregrine Smith Books
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Includes bibliography
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk away...