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1) Cowboy Slim
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English
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Untalented at riding, roping, and cracking a whip, Slim the cowboy calms a stampeding herd of cattle with his poetry.
3) Sixteen cows
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English
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Rhyming tale of Cowboy Gene and Cowgirl Sue, whose beloved cows get mixed up when a storm blows down the fence between their ranches.
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English
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Bill was just four years old when he fell from the family wagon near the Pecos River on the western frontier. Accidentally left behind by his family, he was raised by coyotes, and he didn't realize he was human until he was an adult. When he did, Pecos Bill returned to civilization and used the superhuman powers he'd developed during his peculiar upbringing to become the best cowboy in the West.
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Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
10) Cowboys
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Presents, in text and illustrations, an overview of the life and legend of the American cowboy.
11) Lonesome Dove
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
12) Cowboys
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Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
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Briefly describes the clothing cowboys wear; their duties on the ranch, range, and roundup; and their recreation at rodeos.
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2004
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English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, bound to make a life for himself on the great American frontier. In the winter of his life seven decades later, he dictated an account of his experiences in the Wild West of his youth.
Charley Hester's memoir recounts the journeys that took him to Missouri, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska and brought him face-to-face with badman John Wesley...
15) Dallas Cowboys
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Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Profiles the Dallas Cowboys football team and their Super Bowl championships in 1971, 1977, 1992, 1993, and 1995.
16) Cowboys
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F. Watts
Pub. Date
1990
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English
Description
Depicts how cowboys lived in the Old West, describes their methods of raising cattle, and discusses their pastimes.