ranch life

Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.

When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.

Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.

Theodore Roosevelt chronicles his experiences on a North Dakota cattle ranch during the late nineteenth century, which includes his first-hand accounts of wrangling bighorn sheep, chasing horse thieves, encountering Native Americans, bronco busting, and more. Features black-and-white illustrations by Frederic Remington.

Observing that Billy, the son of a cowboy at the Star Ranch, has lots of friends, Pal the pony hopes to find a friend of his own.

Examines various aspects of the cattle drives that took place in Western North America during the nineteenth century.

While battling a "blinded" blizzard to get cough syrup for Baby Mollie, fearless Hank charms Miss Beulah the Collie Dog. ..

When Hank the Cowdog hears reports that coyotes are planning to go after the chickens, he manages to resist the temptation to join them and instead thwarts their attack, earning Sally May's forgiveness, and persuading Loper to stop feeding him Cheapo brand dog food.