Orem Library

How they really lived before the invention of TV and the movies.

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.

Little bunnies spend their day pretending to be cowboys: riding ponies, mending fences, counting cows, scarfing chow, & singing cowboy tunes until bedtime.

Young Rocky puts his reputation as the best dinosaur tamer of all time on the line when he tries to tame Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most ferocious dinosaur in the old West.

"Way out west in Cactus county lived a horse named Calico. She wasn?t very pretty, but she was smart and could run like greased lightning. When villain Stewy Stinker threatens to hold up Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, will Calico the Wonder Horse be able to save the day?"--

Luke, who lives near the ocean, imagines he is Tex, riding the range at Wymont Ranch.

Leticia's grandfather, who was a vaquero as a young man, provides fanciful explanations for how he got his wrinkles, white hair, round belly, and stooped frame.

"Jack is going horseback riding--it's going to be awesome! But then he has to ride the slowest pony. How can he pretend he's a cowboy now?"--Page 4 of cover.

A cowboy and his trusty rhinoceros try to prove themselves at the Double R Ranch, where the Slim, Hardtack, and Rancher Rose doubt Calliope's potential, but Boyd believes in her.