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Live through this
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Debra Gwartney |
"Live Through This"--as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff 's "Beautiful Boy"--follows Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their… |
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Wild West days
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King, David C. |
Discusses what life was like for the people who settled the West between 1870 and 1900, follows a year in the life of a fictional family of that time, and presents projects and activities, such as de… |
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Working the land
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Sandra Schackel |
Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took… |
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Growing up Western
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Clarus Backes |
Seven well-known Western writers describe their experiences growing up in the West in the early part of the twentieth century. |
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Riding on a range
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G. Lawson Drinkard |
Provides information about what life is like for cowboys today, as well as in the past, introduces cowboy lingo and poetry, and gives ideas for how to experience some aspects of cowboy life. |
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Ankle high and knee deep
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Gail L. Fiorini-Jenner |
"Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of gr… |
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Tony and the cows
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Baker, Will |
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The Negro cowboys
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Philip Durham |
Relates the little known history of the Negro cowboys who played an integral part in the building of the American West. |
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A remarkable curiosity
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Amos J. Cummings |
"In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and journalist for the New York Sun newspaper, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. For some … |
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Reminiscences of a soldier's wife
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Ellen McGowan Biddle |
Life of a military wife in Western outposts after the Civil War, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska. Includes many observations and anecdotes regarding Native Americans |
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The Cowboy
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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… |
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