Frank Carlson Library

Humorous rhyming answers to fourteen questions about what it's like to be a cowboy.

ANIMAL STORIES. A little buckaroo is celebrating his birthday in this delightful addition to the Holiday Mice Green Light Readers collection. Simple text, fun rhymes, charming illustrations, and a lot mischief make it easy for beginning readers to enjoy the party preparations, the arrival of the guests, the opening of the presents, and someone's wish to be a cowboy come true!. Ages 5+

A pictorial essay on cowboys, focusing on the annual round-up at the Eby Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico. 3-6

Discusses the life of the cowboy on the range and on the trail, from the frontier days in the West to the present.

Describes the cowboy's possessions and why each possession was valued by him including bandannas, boots, hat, shirt and vest, pants and chapparreras, and gloves.

The fabled hero of cattle country tames a tornado and turns it into an obedient breeze.

Laurie, an Oklahoma farm gal is courted by boisterous cowboy Curley and by menacing, obsessive farm hand Jud Frye. Fearing that Jud will do something terrible to Curley, Laurie accepts Jud's invitation to the box social. But Curley rescues Laurie from Jud's unwanted advances, and wins her hand. On the eve of their wedding, Laurie and Curley are menaced by Jud. During a fight with Curley, Jud falls on his own knife and is killed. The local deputy insists...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center chronicle 45 tunes and ballads of the old West.