cowboys

Describes the cowboy culture of North America from its beginnings in fifteenth-century New Spain to the American West.

Although Avery cannot eat the right grub, is allergic to horses, and gets rope burns from lassos, he learns at camp that he is uniquely qualified in the most important cowboy quality.

Ernestine O'Reilly comes from Ireland to Texas as a mail-order bride, but when she meets the man she is supposed to marry, she ends up deciding to be a cowboy instead.

A pictorial essay on cowboys, focusing on the annual round-up at the Eby Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico.

The coyote asks a cowboy named Tornado Slim to deliver a letter to the sheriff of Fire Gulch City, and as Slim embarks on his journey, wearing the special hat given to him by the coyote, disaster strikes.

Photographs and text provide information about the lives of working cowboys from around the world, discussing clothing, roping and lassoing, saddles, and other aspects of the profession, and discussing famous cowboys and how cowboys have influenced film and music.

When two best friends compete in a mock rodeo at school, they learn that winning is not everything.

An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how the cowboy life has changed.

Recounts events of an 1877 cattle drive from southern Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska, through the letters and journals of two boys and an older member of the crew.

An alphabet book featuring words that are related to cowboys and their way of life, such as Appaloosa and tumbleweed.