TY - BOOK AU - Plain,Nancy AU - Gibbons,Rachelle ED - Western Writers of America, TI - Why cows need cowboys: and other seldom-told tales from the American West SN - 9781493051076 PY - 2021///] CY - Guilford, Connecticut PB - TwoDot KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - West (U.S.) KW - Juvenile literature KW - Indians of North America KW - Social life and customs KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why Cows Need Cowboys / Larry Bjornson -- The Last Drop: From Death to Life at Madison Buffalo Jump / Matthew P. Mayo -- Eagle of Delight: The Plains Indian Girl in the White House / Jean A. Lukesh -- Enrique Esparza Remembered the Alamo / William Groneman III -- Katie Jennings and John Jenkins: Young Heroes for Texas Independence / Easy Jackson -- Lotta Crabtree, Child Star of the Gold Rush / Chris Enss -- Boys on the Trail: Surviving on Bark and Burnt Rawhide / Candy Moulton -- Pony Trail Tales / Quackgrass Sally -- Grasshoppers for Supper / Candace Simar -- Howdy, Pilgrim: Quakers in Wild West Texas / S.J. Dahlstrom -- Coal for Supper /Nancy Oswald -- Stagecoach Mar y Fields: Tough and Tender Woman of the West / Vonn McKee -- Solomon D. Butcher, Camera-Toting Pioneer / Nancy Plain -- Theodore Roosevelt and the River Pirates / Bill Markley -- John Muir: Roaming and Writing on the Range of Light / Ginger Wadsworth -- A Boy, Bloomers, and Baseball in the West: Smoky Joe Wood and the Bloomer Girls / Johnny D. Boggs -- Earl Bascom and His Bronc-Bustin' Brothers: Fathers of Modern Rodeo / Rod Miller -- Unbreakable Navajos / Joseph Bruchac -- Fire and Tragedy: Joe Thurston and the Granite Mountain Hotshots / Rachelle "Rocky" Gibbons -- Holidays on the Frontier / Sherry Monahan; Ages 13-15; TwoDot; Grades 7-9; TwoDot N2 - "From tales of early baseball in the old west to the young men who fought for Texas Independence, these short stories by experts in their fields bring together a different view of the American West-the tales of the young men and women who were part of the story. Authors included in the anthology: Larry Bjornson; Johnny D. Boggs; Joseph Bruchac; S.J. Dahlstrom; Chris Enss; Rocky Gibbons; William Groneman; Frank Keating; Jean A. Lukesh; Bill Markley; Matthew Mayo; Rod Miller; Micki Milom; Sherry Monahan; Candy Moulton; Nancy Oswald; Nancy Plain; Vicky Rose; Quackgrass Sally; Candace Simar; Ginger Wadsworth"-- Provided by publisher ER -