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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier: Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas rangers—partners and friends—who have shared hardship and danger without ever quite understanding each other. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women. Call is driven and demanding, a natural authority figure with...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The lives of 91-year-old Ira Levinson, young cowboy Luke, and Wake Forest College senior Sophia Danko converge in an extraordinary and unexpected way as Ira clings to his wife Ruth's words and his memories and Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans.
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A true-to-life narrative of the escapades and challenges of the frontier's legendary event: the cowboy cattle drive.
The Log of a Cowboy brings to life an important, yet short-lived, piece of the American Old West. It's here that the cowboy earned his reputation and admiration, and it's through protagonist Tommy Moore that we learn of some of the challenges of the legendary cattle drive. Run-ins with Indian tribes, cattle hustlers, shoot-'em-ups,...
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English
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"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
5) Rebel spurs
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Concealing his real name, a former Confederate scout rides into Tubacca, Arizona, to get a job on the ranch owned by the father he thought was dead. But misfortune dogs Drew Rennie as he fails to make contact with his father, is robbed of the proof of his identity, and faces arrest for horse stealing.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
295p.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to give back to the community, Denver police officer Paula Lewis volunteers at the Christmas House to help local children, where she is drawn to local rancher Zach Bennett, as they work together to help a young boy.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Language
English
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Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
8) Real cowboys
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
1st paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
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A black cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.
10) Blind tiger
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realitieswith cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
15) Argentina
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
[Updated ed.]
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large Print edition
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jesse McKettrick runs his family business, the Triple M Ranch, located in Indian Rock. Cheyenne Bridges grew up in Indian Rock and left its painful memories behind to become a self-made woman. It is now her job to convince Jesse to sell his land. Jesse isn't interested in her proposition, but he does have interest in the tempting Cheyenne.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Dinnissen leads a charmed life. He's the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the final step in his role as heir -- and Canada's future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he's unsure how to tell his parents, his beloved country,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's...
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in the electrifying new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes--these...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
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