ranchers

Describes the lives of people involved with farming and ranching in the American West during the 1800s.

Veryl Goodnight's ancestors hand-raised two baby buffalo to bring back the species from the brink of extinction. Veryl and her husband Roger commit themselves to saving just one. When they bring a baby buffalo, separated from his herd, into their Santa Fe home they expect him to stay just a short time and then rejoin his own kind. But Charlie, who is surrounded by people and dogs, has no idea he's a buffalo and his bond with Roger is unbeliveably strong. When they finally re-introduce him to a herd and it results in a terrible accident, Veryl and Roger have to ask themselves how far they are willing to go for a buffalo that grows bigger each day.

Profiles the life of a penniless steamboat pilot who moved to Texas where he fought against nature and outlaws as he built a cattle empire that still endures.

A former homicide detective starts work on a Montana ranch when dinosaur bones are discovered on the property, but the excavation attracts both crowds and a murderer.

Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son Scott, believing the young man had committed suicide, but when he arrives he begins to suspect Scott was murdered and he is driven by grief, anger, and love to try and understand his son's death.

A young mare who loves to run free is captured by ranchers and, after making a startling discovery, becomes determined to return to her herd.

A picture-book biography of Florida rancher Iris Wall, describing her childhood in Indiantown in southern Florida, where she learned at her father's side how to cow-hunt and care for cracker cattle and to break and ride cracker horses, a tradition she has carried out through her long life and handed down to her own daughters.

Discusses the significance of the early cattle ranchers to the development of the Wild West.