Orem Library

"Chet Byrnes has built a ranching empire from the ground up. And he's defended it with his sweat, blood and a ragtag band of ranch-hand fighters. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet's life, just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive that heads straight into the eye of a sprawling, violent storm. Chet, and his men--and his seductive new woman--end up on a wild ride through Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, where authorities...

Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic color to Little Britches. So do wonderfully told adventures, which equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Newly republished...

A father and his sons learn to live together after their mother leaves. The story is set against the prairies of northern Canada and is full of humor as well as humanity.

Hank the Cowdog investigates reports of a phantom dog on the ranch.

Former bounty hunter Jim Ryans returns to run the ranch he inherited upon his father's death only to find himself falsely accused of murder and forced to become a fugitive.

Hank the cowdog gets into more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to his problems.

After his two brothers are murdered, Pasque Pendragon goes to live at his uncle's Wyoming ranch, and winds up tracking down a man who had proposed a bizarre shootout.

In her folksy, wonderfully engaging voice, Drummond shares how she learned to cope with the isolation and peculiarities of an Oklahoman ranch life, from chasing beavers out of the pond and saddling horses, to cooking for a man who believes the sun rises and sets in a steak and baked potato. Includes delicious recipes such as cowboy calzones, pioneer woman's ribeye steaks, cheese grits, fresh blackberry cobbler, pico de gallo, and Iny's prune cake....

Hank the cowdog must investigate a report from the resident rooster that the sky is going to fall, and while skeptical, he finds evidence that makes him take the threat seriously.

In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.