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1) Cowboys
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
How they really lived before the invention of TV and the movies.
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and...
3) Lonigan
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Sidewinders
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing - and the challenge - she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals - and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kitteryand finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or remaining silent. But the danger from outside...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The time is 1883,the place is the Texas Panhandle. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay liveable wages. Those very same ranchers want to take away the cowboys' right to own cattle because this ownership, the ranchers believe, would lead to thieving. So, in 1883, the dictum is set: If you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow. When rumors of such legislation travel from wagon to wagon, the...
Author
Series
Sidewinders volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after Wild Bill Hickok made his mark on Deadwood, Scratch Morton and Bo Creel make theirs. Their job is guarding gold shipments from the mining camps-shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Devils of Deadwood who plunge pitchforks into their victims' bodies. With Thanksgiving approaching, Scratch just wants to carve a turkey with a handsome widow woman at his side. Course, when the U.S. Army comes to the rescue, all hell...
10) Once a rancher
Author
Series
Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Slater Carson might be a filmmaker by trade, but he's still a cowboy at heart--and he knows the value of a hard day's work under the hot Wyoming sun. So when he sees troubled teen Ryder heading down a dangerous path, he offers the boy a job on the ranch he shares with his two younger brothers. And since Ryder's guardian is the gorgeous new Mustang Creek resort manager, Grace Emery, Slater figures it can't hurt to keep a closer eye on her, as well...
Author
Series
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
Lefty: Haven't you read about the dangers of drinking? Dusty: I have. And it led me to give up reading. Like the News from Lake Wobegon and Guy Noir, Private Eye, The Lives of the Cowboys sketch has become a signature part of A Prairie Home Companion. Each week, radio listeners can't wait to hear Lefty's latest poem and Dusty's latest rant. In six complete sketches drawn from the radio show, the two pardners cope with hangovers and citrusy aftershave,...
14) Cowboy Small
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The tale of a little cowboy's adventures.
15) Last buckaroo
Author
Publisher
Gibbs-Smith
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A 20th Century cowboy and the scrapes he gets into. He is Tap McCoy who narrates his many fights and binges, his rodeos and various jobs, one of which is gunfighter for tourists.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A parody of the western novel featuring a hero who drifts into town to become both sheriff and outlaw. All the elements of the genre are present, from train robbery and runaway stagecoach, to cattle stampede. By the author of The Public Burning.
Author
Publisher
Distractions Ink
Language
English
Formats
Description
Youthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure-an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience-in the form of a man. A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in the mountains, wholly disinterested in people and their trivial affairs. And somehow, young Vaden managed to be ever in his way-either by accident or because...
18) For the brand
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Crippled by a bad-tempered stallion he had been attempting to break, Willis Lander, once the Bar T ranch's finest bronc buster, seeks refuge tending a remote line shack, far from the ranch, until the Bar T is sold to Laurella Hendershot, a Texas rancher seeking to build a new life for herself in Wyoming.
19) Cowboy Slim
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Untalented at riding, roping, and cracking a whip, Slim the cowboy calms a stampeding herd of cattle with his poetry.
20) The backslider
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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