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Why cows need cowboys : and other seldom-told tales from the American West / edited by Nancy Plain, and Rachelle "Rocky" Gibbons.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2021]Description: 142 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781493051076
  • 1493051075
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 978.02 W629 Available 33111011042245
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 978.02 W629 Available 33111010953996
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**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers**

Welcome to Western Writers of America's first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story. Here you'll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. Did you know that in 1821, a Plains Indian girl trekked 1,400 miles to visit Washington, DC? Or that two brave children, eight and ten years old, took part in the Texas Revolution? Tales in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western.

Founded in 1953, Western Writers of America is the nation's oldest and most distinguished organization of professionals writing about the early frontier and the American West, its past and present. Now in our sixty-eighth year, our more than seven hundred members write fiction and nonfiction, songs, poetry, short stories, plays for stage and screen, and more. The contributors to this anthology, WWA members all, include bestselling authors and winners of numerous prestigious literary awards.

With Why Cows Need Cowboys , we invite you to journey westward with us, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

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.

"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.

Ages 13-15 TwoDot.

Grades 7-9 TwoDot.

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