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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa	Erica Silverman	Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep.	OL14408W
Pirates at the plate	Aaron Frisch	A young boy plays an imaginary game of baseball in the backyard.	OL15119659W
Cowboy	Bernard Wolf	Describes the life and work of Wallace McRae and his family on their ranch in Rosebud County, Montana, including the spring roundup and branding of cattle, the local rodeo, the gathering and storing …	OL15214752W
Pecos crossing	Elmer Kelton	When their boss, a disreputable cow trader named Larramore, skips out, owning them six months wages, and heads for San Angelo, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, two young, hard-working cowboys and ins…	OL16032847W
Christmas in cowboy country	Janet Dailey	Ski instructor Annie Bennett must spend the holidays helping her parents with their big Colorado ranch, but rugged surveyor Marshall Stone becomes a potent distraction. Annie Bennett reluctantly ret…	OL17647607W
The cowboy	Hildegard Mu˜ller	When Anna pretends to teach her toy dog, Toto, to swim, he is carried too far out by a big wave but a boy in a cowboy hat comes to the rescue.	OL17885553W
Birthday mice!	Bethany Roberts	A little mouse's very lively birthday party has the cowboy theme he hoped for.	OL17926682W
Cowgirl Katie	Fran Manushkin	Katie's dad surprises her with a trip to a ranch where she can ride a real horse.	OL18155933W
Charley Sunday's Texas outfit	Stephen Lodge	Charley Sunday, four leathery cowboys, one insightful Indian, two strong-willed women, a two-gun oddball, a dog and Charley's only grandson make an unlikely team as they concoct a thousand-mile longh…	OL19759250W
Home on the bayou	G. Brian Karas	Because he loves cowboys but can't imagine one living in a swamp, Ned hates the move which he and his mom make to live with Grandpa near a bayou.	OL20481407W
Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men / Pastures of Heaven / To a God U…	John Steinbeck	Five stories by John Steinbeck: The Pastures of Heaven; To a God Unknown; Tortilla Flat; In Dubious Battle; [Of Mice and Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23204W/Of_Mice_and_Men). Here for the fir…	OL23167W
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	The second book in John Steinbeck’s labor trilogy, Of Mice and Men is a touching tale of two migrant laborers in search of work and eventual liberation from their social circumstances. Fiercely devot…	OL23204W
Tyrannosaurus Tex	Betty G. Birney	Tyrannosaurus Tex, a dinosaur cowboy, helps Cookie and Pete put out a prairie fire and scare away some cattle rustlers.	OL2969228W
The little cowboy and the big cowboy	Margaret Hillert	A little cowboy and his father ride horses, round up cattle, mend a fence, practice roping, cook over a campfire, and sleep outdoors in their sleeping bags.	OL3009861W
Cowboy country	Ann Herbert Scott	An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.	OL3520185W
Cowboys	Teri Martini	Briefly describes the clothing cowboys wear; their duties on the ranch, range, and roundup; and their recreation at rodeos.	OL4088213W
A day in the life of a cowboy	Alvin G. Davis	Describes, in text and photographs, the activities and duties of a Texas cowboy on the first day of the spring roundup.	OL4448941W
Calamity Jane	Stephen Krensky	Calamity Jane was always in search of adventure. Nothing scared her—not rattlesnakes or wild horses or even Wild Bill Hickok. Quicksand could not keep her down. As an army scout, Calamity Jane rescue…	OL448320W
Cowboy Roy	Cathy East Dubowski	Roy, a young cowboy, tries hard to learn how to ride his bike without the training wheels.	OL523613W
The Cowboy	Philip Ashton Rollins	Philip Ashton Rollins's remarkable book is perhaps the most accurate and detailed description of the real-life American cowboy ever written. Here he describes the beginnings of ranching in America, a…	OL8448527W