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A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided by his plainspoken, sure-saddled voice...

Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.

Cowboy Jim Kane's bank loan is due. So is his next alimony payment. And the Appaloosas he brought in from Mexico have been slapped into quarantine. What Jim needs is some pocket money.

Monte Walsh and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of 1892. The advancement of civilization has all but rendered Monte obsolete, but Monte doesn't want to change his ways. But with the corporate buy-ups of Wyoming land, Monte and his friends may be forced to move on.

"Scarred from his military days and PTSD, Thoroughbred trainer and cowboy Jake Porter has given up on love until his childhood friend Lyndie returns to their Texas hometown and starts tearing down the walls he's built"--

Lily Green dreads catering her ex-husband's wedding, but his best man and friend, cowboy Luke Everett, sees his time with Lily as his chance to tell her of the feelings he's had for her all along.

Tokyo burger flipper No Ogawa is captivated by the wild West of Hollywood movies, which he sees personified in his childhood pen-pal, Canadian girl Kate Beatty. Determined to realize his dreams of a home in the West, he sets out to find Kate and become a bona fide Canadian cowboy. But reality detours his dream.

A black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him in the herd, enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.

The dark-garbed Hopalong Cassidy was a wildly popular matinee idol of the '30s and '40s and one of the most iconic cowboy heroes of all time. Astride his white steed Topper with a black, 10-gallon hat perched on his head Hopalong (so named for a limp caused by a bullet wound) made a striking figure.