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Western Movies Inspired By Books

August 1, 2022
We can thank the age of dime novels and western books for some of our favorite westerns today!  This brings up the age-old question- which is better: books or movies? Check them out and you tell us! Lonesome Dove After reading this 1,000-page novel with each page full of adventure, you’d realize why Lonesome Dove quickly...

Books We Love: Along Came A Cowgirl

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June 15, 2022
In Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Women of the Rodeo and Wild West Shows, New York Times best-selling author Chris Enss introduces readers to the world of the early rodeo—and to the stories of the women whose names resounded in rodeo arenas across the nation in the early twentieth century.  These cowgirls dared...

Books We Love: Dudes Rush In

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November 14, 2021
Phoebe McFarland’s friends are taken aback when she announced she’d be leaving her comfortable job in northern California to work at a dude ranch in Arizona.  It was 1952.  Phoebe had lost her husband in the war and was feeling despondent, displaced, and disinterested in much of anything.  She believed the change would do her...

Books We Love: The Secret Life Of Bees

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September 11, 2021
The Secret Life of Bees by Moira Butterfield is part science, part history, part folklore, and all fun. Butterfield covers all aspects of bees, providing readers with important facts about the colorful insects including their habits, hives, and talent for making honey. Readers of all ages will be captivated by the endless wonders of this seemingly small...

Books We Love: 100 Horses In History: True Stories Of Horses Who Shaped Our World

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August 21, 2021
Award-winning author Gayle Stewart pays tribute to equine heroes, film stars, rodeo performers, and athletes in her informative and exceptionally entertaining book 100 Horses in History: True Stories of Horses Who Shaped Our World.  The ways in which horses have contributed to mankind are significant and diverse. Stewart’s book includes more than eighty chapters on animals that...

Books We Love: Why Cows Need Cowboys And Other Seldom-Told Tales From The American West

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July 9, 2021
Western Writers of America’s first nonfiction anthology entitled Why Cows Need Cowboys and Other Seldom-Told Tales from the American West features twenty seldom-told tales that will delight book lovers from seven to seventy.  In this entertaining volume, readers meet extraordinary characters, like a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times, riders for the Pony Express in...

Books We Love: The Songbird's Sting

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July 2, 2021
Entertainer Elizabeth Anne Graystone had boarded a stage leaving Prescott, Arizona, when the sound of gunfire erupted around her.  She peered out of the coach in time to see the gunman leaving town on horseback.  He notices Elizabeth and tips his hat.   In that moment, there was no question they’d meet again.  The other...

Books We Love: The Girl Who Dared To Defy: Jane Street And The Rebel Maids Of Denver

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June 11, 2021
Spur Award winning author Jane Botkin’s new book about savvy union organizer Jane Street, is proof that she is a talented biographer.  Not only has she captured the grit and fierceness of the defiant leader who sought to end the oppression of domestic workers, but she’s created an invaluable resource about a serious and robust...

Books We Love: It's Been 20 Years Fergus

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May 19, 2021
Spur Award winning author and illustrator Jean Abernethy has been making readers laugh for two decades with her creation, Fergus the Horse.   What the Dilbert cartoon strip is to engineers, the Fergus cartoon strip is to horse owners and riders.  The charmingly imperfect “everyman’s equine” unites everyone with an eye for a horse and...
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