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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...
24) City slickers
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Comedy about three men friends who are going through mid-life crises. They decide that the answer to their malaise is a fantasy vacation out West where they can play cowboy on a cattle drive.
25) Leaving Cheyenne
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As the world enters a new century, three teenagers forge a future for themselves on the wild Texas grasslands: Gideon Fry, torn between going his way and following his father's footsteps; Johnny McCloud, whose restless spirit finds its solace traversing an open range; and Molly Taylor, the woman they both love. Rugged, bold and volatile, the three of them come of age in this tender and intimate novel of the heart.
27) Lonnie Gentry
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267 pages ; 23 cm
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"Life has not been easy for young cowboy Lonnie Gentry. Lonnie and his mother live alone, working hard, raising cattle and horses on their remote Colorado mountain ranch. Now the thirteen-year-old must travel over perilous mountains to return money stolen by his mother's outlaw boyfriend to a deputy U.S. marshal. On Lonnie's journey, he's joined by young Casey Stoveville, daughter of a sheriff killed by the outlaws. The unlikely pair is attacked by...
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xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
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This book surveys the life and work of black cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. It includes previously published articles and new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections--"Cowboys on the Range," "Performing Cowboys," and "Outriders of the Black Cowboys"--The thirteen chapters illuminate the great...
29) Cowboy camp
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Although Avery cannot eat the right grub, is allergic to horses, and gets rope burns from lassos, he learns at camp that he is uniquely qualified in the most important cowboy quality.
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Cowboy heaven volume 2
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Shy computer specialist, dog lover, and amateur chef Tina Hayes has a thing for firefighters, but when she travels to the Circle Bar K ranchon family business, the ranch's cowboys have no trouble persuading her to stay on as their cook. Especially not when she learns that brooding Wyatt McCabe, a man who makes her heart gallop like no one else can, is also a former firefighter.
31) Vaquero
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Español
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An introduction to what cowboys do, what their day is like, what they wear, what tools they use, and how people can become a cowboy.
32) Creed's honor
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Follows Connor Creed who, promising to carry on his Uncle's legacy, struggles with identity issues when his estranged identical twin brother returns.
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Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that...
34) The gullywasher
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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Leticia's grandfather, who was a vaquero as a young man, provides fanciful explanations for how he got his wrinkles, white hair, round belly, and stooped frame.
36) Lonesome Dove
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858 pages ; 21 cm
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Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
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Great West and Indian volume 34
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xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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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,...
39) Six bits a day
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
40) Last promise
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For British heiress Mary Ann Hardwicke, the Wild West is the perfect place to make her own life and escape the stifling privilege of an arranged marriage. Hard at work proving her independence, it's little wonder she has no time for handsome cowboy Luke McBride. No matter that he somehow understands the freedom she so badly needs -- how could she trust such a wild spirit, much less find a way to love him? Like the broncs he busts, Luke doesn't see...
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