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Classic western stories : the most beloved stories / compiled by Cooper Edens.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2009.Description: 140 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0811863255
  • 9780811863254
Other title:
  • Western stories
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Western wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- Clementine / Percy Montoss -- Old Chisholm Trail -- Old Dan Tucker / Dan Emmett -- A song of greatness -- Little sure shot / Alan Axelrod -- The ballad of Davy Crockett / Tom Blackburn, George Burns -- The coyote and the bear -- I ride an old paint -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service -- Home on the range / Brewster Higley and Dan Kelly -- When I was a child on the prairie / Thomas Traherne -- Daniel Boone's last look westward / Humbert Wolfe -- California here I come / Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva, Joseph Meyer -- Buffalo gals -- Oklahoma! / Rodgers and Hammerstein -- I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grand / Johnny Mercer -- Gathering wildflowers -- Tom Mix and the hoard of Montezuma / Wilton West -- Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys / Ed and Patsy Bruce -- Russell and Remington, "cowboy artists" -- Desperado / Don Henley, Glenn Frey -- Deep in the heart of Texas / June Hershey, Don Swander -- The child is introduced to the cosmos at birth -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- What the engines said / Brett Harte -- Ogalalla: Indian love song / Vincent Bryan -- Paul Bunyan and his great blue ox / Wallace Wadsworth -- Happy trails / Dale Evans -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie -- Don't fence me in / Cole Porter -- The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The prince of the pistoleers -- My sweet Wyoming home / Bill Staines -- Little chipmunks and great owls / Joseph Campbell -- The brave man / Wallace Stevens -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West show / Charles P. Graves -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto -- Thank you, masked man-thank you, Clayton Moore / SamDonato -- The cowboy's lament -- Red wing: an Indian fable / Thurland Chattaway -- Git along little dogies -- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral / Cathy Luchetti -- The shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert Service -- America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward -- The five stork birth / Thomas G. Alword Jr. -- Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- Schoolcraft's diary, written on the Missouri, 1830 / Robert Bly -- Battle of the Little Big Horn -- Little house on the prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Hiawatha's fishing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Cat's int he cradle / Harry Chapin -- The central mountain of the world / Black Elk -- Cheyenne Warrior Nation trilogy / Lance Henson -- Back in the saddle again / Gene Autry -- She'll be coming round the mountain -- Rocky Raccoon / John Lennon, Paul McCartney -- John Henry -- The days of '49 -- Rawhide! / Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin -- The Wells and Fargo Line vs. "Old Bill" Miner / Roland Evers-Hoyt -- Red River Valley / James Kerrigan -- Billy the Kid / Alan Axelrod -- Calamity Jane / John Heard -- Pecos Bill meets Paul Bunyan and starts a new ranch / Leigh Peck -- On top of Old Smoky -- Patches of sky / Debora Greger -- What the Lewis and Clark Expedition began / Joseph Campbell -- Magic words -- Ol' Man River / Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Refrain.
Summary: Stories, folktales, and poems with a western setting, including stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Indian legends, and tales of Lewis and Clark, among others.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 808.8035 C614 Available 33111006729020
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For more than a hundred years, the vivid stories of the American West have thrilled and enthralled audiences both young and old, and captured the imaginations of generations. Here are the adventures of outlaws and gunslingers, explorers and settlers, lumberjacks and cowboys. Here are legendsPecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, Calamity Janeand trailblazersLewis and Clark, Daniel Boone. Each will take the reader to the edge of a vast territory, to a time when the wilderness was just outside our doors. Illustrated by such renowned artists as N.C. Wyeth, Winslow Homer, and Frederic Remington, these stirring stories and songs are sure to absorb and entertain, introducing to readers of all ages the spirit and lasting power of the American frontier.

Western wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- Clementine / Percy Montoss -- Old Chisholm Trail -- Old Dan Tucker / Dan Emmett -- A song of greatness -- Little sure shot / Alan Axelrod -- The ballad of Davy Crockett / Tom Blackburn, George Burns -- The coyote and the bear -- I ride an old paint -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service -- Home on the range / Brewster Higley and Dan Kelly -- When I was a child on the prairie / Thomas Traherne -- Daniel Boone's last look westward / Humbert Wolfe -- California here I come / Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva, Joseph Meyer -- Buffalo gals -- Oklahoma! / Rodgers and Hammerstein -- I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grand / Johnny Mercer -- Gathering wildflowers -- Tom Mix and the hoard of Montezuma / Wilton West -- Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys / Ed and Patsy Bruce -- Russell and Remington, "cowboy artists" -- Desperado / Don Henley, Glenn Frey -- Deep in the heart of Texas / June Hershey, Don Swander -- The child is introduced to the cosmos at birth -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- What the engines said / Brett Harte -- Ogalalla: Indian love song / Vincent Bryan -- Paul Bunyan and his great blue ox / Wallace Wadsworth -- Happy trails / Dale Evans -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie -- Don't fence me in / Cole Porter -- The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The prince of the pistoleers -- My sweet Wyoming home / Bill Staines -- Little chipmunks and great owls / Joseph Campbell -- The brave man / Wallace Stevens -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West show / Charles P. Graves -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto -- Thank you, masked man-thank you, Clayton Moore / SamDonato -- The cowboy's lament -- Red wing: an Indian fable / Thurland Chattaway -- Git along little dogies -- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral / Cathy Luchetti -- The shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert Service -- America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward -- The five stork birth / Thomas G. Alword Jr. -- Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- Schoolcraft's diary, written on the Missouri, 1830 / Robert Bly -- Battle of the Little Big Horn -- Little house on the prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Hiawatha's fishing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Cat's int he cradle / Harry Chapin -- The central mountain of the world / Black Elk -- Cheyenne Warrior Nation trilogy / Lance Henson -- Back in the saddle again / Gene Autry -- She'll be coming round the mountain -- Rocky Raccoon / John Lennon, Paul McCartney -- John Henry -- The days of '49 -- Rawhide! / Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin -- The Wells and Fargo Line vs. "Old Bill" Miner / Roland Evers-Hoyt -- Red River Valley / James Kerrigan -- Billy the Kid / Alan Axelrod -- Calamity Jane / John Heard -- Pecos Bill meets Paul Bunyan and starts a new ranch / Leigh Peck -- On top of Old Smoky -- Patches of sky / Debora Greger -- What the Lewis and Clark Expedition began / Joseph Campbell -- Magic words -- Ol' Man River / Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Refrain.

Stories, folktales, and poems with a western setting, including stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Indian legends, and tales of Lewis and Clark, among others.

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