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A dinosaur named Ruth

how Ruth Mason discovered fossils in her own backyard
2021
"When prairie girl Ruth Mason finds strange rocks on her family land, she devotes her life to uncovering their source, leading to the discovery of thousands of dinosaur fossils"--Provided by publisher.

Wild Horse Annie

friend of the mustangs
2019
As recently as 1971, wild mustangs were legally hunted on US public land. This finally changed, thanks to one determined woman and help from a brigade of children across the country.
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Dust devils

1997
Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of an Indian-hating rancher, learns to make his own decisions and become his own man while attempting to recover a prize Arabian colt stolen from him by a local rustler known as Hawkeye.

Appaloosa

2005
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, accustomed to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, encounter a formidable enemy when they arrive in Appaloosa, a town controlled by renegade rancher Randall Bragg.

Little Britches

father and I were ranchers
1991
The author describes his family's move to Colorado from New Hampshire in 1906 when he was eight and their trials and triumphs in ranching.

Prairie

1986
They dared to dream of a bold new land where men and women of passion held destiny in their hands.

Where the long grass blows

1988
Canavan drifts into a shooting war between the big ranchers and, in order to protect a woman and a small ranch, he decides to stay.

Richard King

courageous Texas cattleman
2013
Examines the life of Richard King, including his childhood on the river, his days as a steamboat captain, his creation of the King Ranch, and how he developed modern cattle ranching.

The horse lover

a cowboy's quest to save the wild mustangs
Memoir of Alan Day about how he purchased an old ranch in South Dakota and turned it into a sanctuary for wild horses.

Life in the saddle

writings and photographs
1995
Collection of essays from America's foremost western writers about horses and life on the ranges of the American West.

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