ranch life

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Dinosaur hunter

In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.
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Meet Josefina, an American girl

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.

Blazer drive

With playoffs ahead and a chance to play a few games in the National Hockey League, Josh hesitates to get involved when he finds more than a dozen dead cattle on his dad's ranch.

Secrets in the hills

a Josefina mystery
In 1826 New Mexico, a mysterious stranger arrives at young Josefina's rancho, sparking her curiosity about the legendary gold and silver buried in the nearby hills and a weeping ghost rumored to haunt the countryside. Includes an informational section on this period in New Mexico's history.

Third-time lucky

Kirstie Scott, devastated when her favorite horse, Lucky, becomes ill, embarks on a journey deep into the Rocky Mountains to find a reclusive but legendary horse doctor, hoping he might be able to help.

Johnny Mohawk

When a guest at the Half-Moon Ranch in Colorado becomes injured while riding a horse named Johnny Mohawk, thirteen-year-old Kirstie must prove the horse's innocence to prevent a costly lawsuit.

Kings of Colorado

2012
A man reflects on his troubled childhood, when, at thirteen years old, he was sentenced to two years at a reformatory ranch in Colorado, where he and the other boys cared for untamed horses.
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Banjo

2019
Danny, a rising rodeo star whose border collie, Banjo, has been wounded by neighbors, and Meg, who has a way with animals, come together to keep Banjo safe, aided by Danny's brother.
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Of mice and men

Two close friends in the Salinas Valley of California dream of the time they will have enough money to buy their own farm.
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Paint the wind

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, eleven-year-old Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters Artemisia, a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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