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Why Cows Need Cowboys

Author : Nancy Plain

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 153 pages

File Size : 27,54 MB

Release : 2021-05-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1493051067

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**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers** Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story. Here you’ll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. Did you know that in 1821, a Plains Indian girl trekked 1,400 miles to visit Washington, DC? Or that two brave children, eight and ten years old, took part in the Texas Revolution? Tales in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western. Founded in 1953, Western Writers of America is the nation’s oldest and most distinguished organization of professionals writing about the early frontier and the American West, its past and present. Now in our sixty-eighth year, our more than seven hundred members write fiction and nonfiction, songs, poetry, short stories, plays for stage and screen, and more. The contributors to this anthology, WWA members all, include bestselling authors and winners of numerous prestigious literary awards. With Why Cows Need Cowboys, we invite you to journey westward with us, and we hope you enjoy the ride.



Cattle Kids

Author : Cat Urbigkit

Publisher : Boyds Mills Press

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 47,16 MB

Release : 2007-09-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781590785089

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American Farm Bureau Foundation for Education Recommended Book Cowboys aren't necessarily boys, and they aren't necessarily grown-ups, either. In this lively photo essay, young readers will meet girls and boys who live a unique way of life on their families' cattle ranches. Cowgirls and cowboys take part in many aspects of livestock operations, from calving and branding to haying and rounding up the herd. With a colorful and informative text, illustrated with action-packed photographs, Cat Urbigkit's book follows cattle kids through a year of ranching on the western range.



Mad Cowboy

Author : Howard F. Lyman

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 46,64 MB

Release : 2001-07-07

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 0743219058

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Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries. Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry on our well-being. It not only led to Oprah's declaration that she'd never eat a burger again, it sent shock waves through a concerned and vulnerable public. A fourth-generation Montana rancher, Lyman investigated the use of chemicals in agriculture after developing a spinal tumor that nearly paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts through the propaganda of beef and dairy interests—and the government agencies that protect them—to expose an animal-based diet as the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this country. He warns that the livestock industry is repeating the mistakes that led to Mad Cow disease in England while simultaneously causing serious damage to the environment. Persuasive, straightforward, and full of the down-home good humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is both an inspirational story of personal transformation and a convincing call to action for a plant-based diet—for the good of the planet and the health of us all.



Real Cowboys

Author : Kate Hoefler

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 12,86 MB

Release : 2016-10-04

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1328686108

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In Kate Hoefler’s realistic and poetic picture book debut about the wide open West, the myth of rowdy, rough-riding cowboys and cowgirls is remade. A timely and multifaceted portrayal reveals a lifestyle that is as diverse as it contrary to what we've come to expect.



Lazy B

Author : Sandra Day O'Connor

Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 27,80 MB

Release : 2003-04-08

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0812966732

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The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most powerful women in America. “A charming memoir about growing up as sturdy cowboys and cowgirls in a time now past.”—USA Today In this illuminating and unusual book, Sandra Day O’Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, self-reliance, and survival, and how the land, people, and values of the Lazy B shaped them. This fascinating glimpse of life in the Southwest in the last century recounts an important time in American history, and provides an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America.



Cowboys

Author : William Dale Jennings

Publisher : In the Hands of a Child

Page : 46 pages

File Size : 30,95 MB

Release :

Category : Cowboys

ISBN :

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Red Meat Republic

Author : Joshua Specht

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 49,36 MB

Release : 2020-10-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0691209189

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"By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--



A Day in the Life of a Cowhand

Author : Diana Herweck

Publisher : Teacher Created Materials

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 41,81 MB

Release : 2011-12-30

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781433336492

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Introduces the work of a cowhand, and follows typical ranch workers from rising before three in the morning to prepare for the day through rounding up and caring for the cattle to caring for their horses and settling down for the night.



The Day the Cowboys Quit

Author : Elmer Kelton

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 15,45 MB

Release : 2008-02-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780765360557

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When legislation is introduced to stop ranch workers from owning cattle, the cowboys rally together and strike.



The Last Cowboys

Author : John Branch

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,94 MB

Release : 2019-06-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 039335699X

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"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.