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1) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe
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The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is the bedrock on which the history of the cow country of America is founded. J. Frank Dobie was a tale spinner who appreciated the proper place of legend and folklore in history. In The Longhorns, he...
3) The drifter
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Cowboy Pete Peterson is looking for work and finds it working on ranches, but doesn't stay long.
4) The cowboys
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[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Drawings, rare photographs, personal anecdotes, and other forms of memorabilia convey the true nature of the American cowboy and his work
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 4
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2015
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Cowboy and humorist Stu Campbell has done it again in this fourth book of short stories of cowboy humor and perspective. Perfect for a quick shot of cowboy hilarity anytime.
10) Twin Sombreros
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Brazos Keene is a cowboy with an honorable streak. When he stumbles into an unjust situation he just can't walk away. A man has been killed and the dead man's twin sisters are being forced off their ranch. Brazos decides to help them find the killers and get their ranch back.
11) The wagon
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[2018].
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Cowboys out on a 'wagon' herding cattle and working through branding season in the backcountry of the West.
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c1999
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In the tradition of all great storytellers, Stu Campbell shares with us his delightful stories of western life-stories he's acquired from decades of ranching in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and elsewhere. The text is complemented with artwork by R. Loren Schmidt, who is a "Cowboy Artist" in the true sense of the word.
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 1
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[2013]
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Meet our young cowboy friend as he work his summer ranch job, then follow his journey alone with his horse and pregnant burro across a couple hundred miles to get home before school starts. The journey is adventurous, and the folks he meets along the way are all good folks...well, almost.
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 6
Pub. Date
2017
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"Cowboy and humorist Stu Campbell has finally come out with another book of short stories of cowboy humor and perspective. Not that he hasn't been busy writing-this may be only his sixth book of humorous short stories, but he's written a total of nineteen books on cowboy life. And he teams up again with R. Loren Schmidt, whose illustrations grace the pages of this book." from back cover
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Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives.
This...
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Although the American cowboy has long been a favorite subject for novelists, filmmakers, and illustrators, too often the picture they paint bears little relation to reality. Philip Ashton Rollins, who lived in the West on and off between 1892 and 1924, set out to create a more accurate portrait of this enduring icon. Based on what he himself witnessed, this fascinating study discusses what exactly makes a cowboy, as well as cowboy weaponry, clothing,...
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2009
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"If I had not spent my year in North Dakota, I would never have become President of the United States," declared Theodore Roosevelt. The future statesman took his first steps toward the highest office in the land in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, where he began his transformation from aristocrat to democrat. Roosevelt left his home in the East as Theodore, but he returned as "Teddy," a rugged outdoorsman and soon-to-be hero of the Rough Riders....
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --