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2) Sidewinders
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Sidewinders volume 1
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English
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Meet Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, two amiable drifters and old pals. Veterans of cowboying, cattle drives, drunken brawls, and a couple of shoot-outs, Scratch and Bo are mostly honest and don't go looking for trouble--it's usually there when they wake up in the morning. Now, in remote Arizona Territory, they're caught up in a battle between two stagecoach lines. The owner of one, a beautiful widow, has gotten both Scratch and Bo hot and bothered--each...
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In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense...
4) Shane
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A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefers classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him....
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Time warp trio volume 3
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English
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The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and indians.
6) Cowboys
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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How they really lived before the invention of TV and the movies.
7) Sixteen cows
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English
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Rhyming tale of Cowboy Gene and Cowboy Sue, whose beloved cows get mixed up when a storm blows down the fence between their ranches.
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Border trilogy volume 1
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English
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Young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, sets off with two companions across the border of Mexico.
11) Panhandle
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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Two young cowboys looking for adventure and gold in the Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s find their friendship tested when they fall for the same woman.
12) Texas true
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Tylers of Texas volume 1
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English
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The cowboy who claimed her heart before taking off on a tour of duty planned never to return. But Beau Tyler is back, and Natalie Haskell feels defenseless against the powerful pull of the brawny soldier. Especially when she finds herself suddenly widowed and needing the shelter of his strong arms.
13) Lonigan
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In his newest collection of frontier short fiction, L'Amour celebrates the tough breed of men who work the cattle drives. Men like Danny Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Hard-riding adventure from America's favorite storyteller.
14) A reason to die
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When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
15) Cowboy bunnies
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997.
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English
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Little bunnies spend their day pretending to be cowboys: riding ponies, mending fences, counting cows, scarfing chow, & singing cowboy tunes until bedtime.
16) The backslider
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Frank Windham is just a Mormon cowboy--hard-working, trying to be honest, convinced he is going to hell for incurable lust, and convinced that he deserves to. He has an ultra-pious mother, a brother who is more than just a little touched in the head, and a comfortable Lutheran girl friend who knows she has been saved. Set in southern Utah's canyon country in the 1950's.
17) Real cowboys
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Cowboys are strong and tough. Cowboys ride fast horses and travel far and wide. But as they move through canyons and across prairies, quietly doing their work, cowboys are many more things, too. And these are the things that make them real cowboys.
18) Of mice and men
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"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of lonelinss and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
19) Birthday mice
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Clarion
Pub. Date
c2002.
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English
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A little mouse's lively birthday party has the cowboy theme he hoped for.
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[Lonesome Dove series] volume 2
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English
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The final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena--once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Their long chase leads them across...
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