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1925. Illustrated by the author. Will James has been declared to be the most readable and the most genuine interpreter of the cowboy. Contents: Cowboys, North and South; Bucking Horses and Bucking-Horse Riders; A Cowpuncher Speaks; Cattle Rustlers; Winter Months in a Cow Camp; The Makings of a Cow-Horse; The Longhorns; and Pinon and the Wild Ones. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing..
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Loping through a book by Will James is the next best thing to being there.

Born in a covered wagon near Great Falls, Montana, and an orphan at the age of three, James was adopted by a French Canadian trapper and prospector With no formal schooling or lessons in drawing, "he was a cowboy until a bucking horse threw him into writing," as Time magazine once said of him. He looked more like an Irish scholar than a cowpuncher, but he wrote as he talked...in a natural, easy-going way.

This book contains 15 memorable stories..
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TRUE GRIT
Allie Earp always said the West was no place for sissies And that held especially true for a woman married to one of the wild Earp brothers She had no fear of cussing a blue streak if someone crossed her, patching up a bullet wound, or defending her home against rustlers. Every day was a new adventure--from the rough streets of Deadwood to the infamous OK Corral in Tombstone. But through it all one thing remained constant: her deep and abiding love for one of the most formidable lawmen of the West..
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