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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
2) Urban Cowboy
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A young Texas farmer comes to Houston to work in a refinery and learns about life by hanging out at Gilley's, a roadhouse bar.
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Series
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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...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Presents a discussion of how North American cowboys adapted saddles, ropes, spurs, and other equipment into tools suited for developments in the industry before the twenty-first century utilization of computer chips, DNA evidence, artificial insemination, and imaging devices.
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
8) The rider
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
12) City slickers
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Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Monte Walsh and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of 1892. The advancement of civilization has all but rendered Monte obsolete, but Monte doesn't want to change his ways. But with the corporate buy-ups of Wyoming land, Monte and his friends may be forced to move on.
15) The Virginian
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
After his parents were killed, South (also known as "The Virginian") was raised by a powerful cattle baron to uphold the "code of the West" as a ranch enforcer. But when South begins to investigate the latest string of rustling, he finds his convictions questioned and discovers his mentor may have had ulterior motives for taking him in.
16) Broken trail
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in 1897, a man and his nephew are trying to deliver a herd of horses when they become the reluctant guardians of five abandoned Chinese girls.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Lonesome Dove (widescreen, 1989, 374 min.): A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, 346 min.): This gripping adventure follows three ex-Texas Rangers and chronicles...
Series
Lonesome Dove volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Description
After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north of the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
19) Colorado cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In Colorado as in many parts of the world cowboys and cowgirls are still among us. Discover the lifestye that includes roping, riding and rodeos as well as branding, cow-milking contests and mutton-bustin.
20) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
c1972
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
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