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When the ranch falls on hard times, Slim the cowboy decides to hit the road in search of a new job and inadvertently takes Hank and Drover with him.

A powerful collection of stories, memoirs, songs, poems, paintings, and photographs, The West: A Treasury of Art and Literature provides a panoramic overview and a glorious celebration of the American region that most reflects our hopes, inspires our vision, and stirs our imagination. Amidst the stories of Native Americans, explorers, conquerors, mountain men, cowboys, prospectors, railroad men, settlers, outlaws, and lawmen there is a sense of actions...

The Compton Cowboys are a group who grew up in the city where Kendrick Lamar and Serena Williams were raised; a city portrayed in the media as ground zero for gang violence. But in 1988, with the creation of the Compton Junior Posse, a youth program set on a horse ranch in the middle of Compton, these men and women found a safe space. In this young readers' edition, kids will witness how the Cowboys' lives were shaped by harsh realities. The Cowboys...

Through these delightful tales, the author tells the story of a fading life style - a life of hard work, lots of love and genuine fun on the Western Slope, a life these cowboys or their parents and grandparents brought from Europe, the East, or the Midwest. Theirs is a life shown in their faces portrayed by the extraordinary photographs of Lois Harlamert.

A woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her...

Born into slavery in 1854, Nat Love grew up to become the most famous African-American cowboy in the Old West. A contemporary (and acquaitance) of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, Nat was widely known as an expert roper and driver, a crack shot and a realy Wild West character. In 1907, he published his autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," on which this book is based. -- Jacket flap...