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...This second novel in the series follows young "Montana" to Fort Worth, Texas in 1886, where he hires on at a major cattle ranch and ultimately saves it from foreclosure. A good deal of the story involves his horse "Spirit" and his involvement in the early Texas State Fair races. This 203 page novel is suitable for young readers. Buy at www.callm...

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...ears earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This second nove... ...here he finds all the excitement he can handle working on one of the biggest ranches in the state. It was his interest in race horses that took him... ... cowboy – somethin’ I couldn’t be on our farm. My first real job was at a big ranch in Wyoming. That job was important to me for two reasons. First... ... three years now. He was just a colt when I bought him from my boss at a big ranch up in Wyoming’s Wind River country. Dan’s horse was Spirit’s fat... ...my brother’s got the horse sense in the family. I guess that’s why I left the ranch years ago and took up medicine. I didn’t like seeing animals in... ...s I’ve given thought to closing my office here and moving back to the family ranch. I’d do it in a heartbeat if I thought I’d get any customers out... ...I suspect it wouldn’t work out, so here I stay.” “So, you came from a family ranch, also?” I asked, thinkin’ we might have more in common that I’d... ... northeast of town. It’s been in the family ever since. It’s mostly a cattle ranch, but my brother Clint who runs it breeds horses too. Last I knew... ...xas.” “I probably came through there on my way into town. It sounds like the ranch I worked at up in Wyoming. I’d like to see it sometime,” I said....

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...series and introduces sixteen year old William Dean Ritter, aka "Montana." Two separate adventures take him from his Montana farm to a Wyoming cattle ranch, Dodge City, Kansas and Texas in his pursuit of the dream to become a cowboy. Along the way something unexpected happens - he becomes a man. The book also introduces Montana's famous horse "Spirit." The characters and p...

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...ears earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was about to head out again. This time on an even more diffi... ...ed to catch on after. I got my first real job as a cowhand on a large cattle ranch under the Tetons. The ranch bordered the Snake River, not far ou... ...adn’t been for my boss. I guess he’d taken a liken’ to me. Dan Turner ran the ranch and he loaned me the money to buy a beautiful colt sired by his... ...ught of as a pretty mean bunch. Lately they’d become adept at robbing from ranches while the owners were away. Starting small with tableware and ... ... north to the stage trail, from a night’s mischief involving two barns and a ranch house. Their saddlebags were filled with ill-gotten merchandise ... ...xpectedly inside an old saddlebag that was hanging on a barn post at a small ranch some ten miles behind them. Irish Dan, a man who knew his guns, ... ...p some of the Indian lands in Oklahoma. Might be an opportunity to pick up a ranch of my own someday. Now I don’t want you to feel pushed. If you’d... ...he Beginning 87 off fast and was very flat. That’s where we were. Lots of ranches and farms, but not much to fix your eyes on as we rode. It all... ...the house and barn, yet jumped the corral between them. I wondered where the rancher’d gone, and why he didn't take the horses away from the fire. ...

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...veyed it to his heirs. Kalalawalu—daughter of Kamaikaaloa and Kealohaaukai—and her husband, Douglas Panee, sold the land of Kalialinui to Haleakala Ranch in 1888. Most of Kalialinui, including the land that became the Waikamoi Preserve, has been held by Haleakala Ranch since that time. In the later 1800s and early 1900s, cowboys of the Haleakala Ranch traveled from the...

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...Just sixty miles from ground zero in Nevada there lies Circle T Ranch run by Hetty Thompson the owner, Barney Hatfield the farmhand, and Johnny Culpepper the assistant manager. It was just another ordinary ranch until, that is, the two cows and the rooster hit the nuclear jackpot. (Introd...

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...The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by refusing to marry a church elder and by befriending Gentiles (non-Mormons). In rides Lassiter, the quintessential We...

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...Cattleman J.G. Whittemore, owner of the Flying U ranch in Montana, trusts the task of meeting his sister at the train to only one man, Chip. Chip’s not too keen on women. In his experience they come in only a few types: prissy “sweet young thing”, annoying cowgirl, or old m...

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...An Australian childrens' classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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...Widowed cattle rancher Hetty Thompson had done all right for herself since Big Jim’s death. She had Barney, a loyal if dim-witted ranch hand, and Johnny her assistant manager whom she rescued from a drunken father years before. When the gov...

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...Early explorers were followed by prospectors and miners. Settlers who saw the possibilities for agriculture and ranching in the region were not far behind them. The Ash Meadows area, a true desert oasis, was the home of many people, including early community builder "Dad" Fairbanks and some of dubious reputation, such as the legendary ...

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...banks Outlaw Country The Ash Meadows Clay Camps Life in Clay Camp 7 The Amargosa Valley in the 1930s-1950s Stops on the T&T Railroad The T&T Ranch—The Leeland Water and Land Company Ash Meadows During the 1930s-1950s Lathrop Wells, 1930-1950 Carrara and the Marble Quarry 8 Modern Development of the Amargosa Valley ...

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...An exciting tale of gun play, brave deeds and romance as Jerry Lambert, the Duke tries to protect the ranch of the lovely and charming Vesta Philbrook from thieving neighbors and other evil doers. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)...

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...Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge's neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dir...

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...: a gift he had passed on to me. He worked on one of the Camargois cattle ranches, and his handsome face, dancing blue eyes and dark hair caught t...

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...Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a dangerous place and is challenged by cattle thieves and a corrupt rancher who is after Naab's water rights. The greatest danger Hare faces though, is over Mescal, a half-Navajo shepherdess who is already promised i...

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...s (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch....

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.............. 187 4—Shun prominence as a means of survival ................................................... 188 5—When taking risks, don’t bet the ranch ....................................................... 189 Quotes from George Soros ...................................................................................... 189 NAOMI WOLF .................................

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...ned by Baum’s considerable wit, penchant for puns, and dry social commentary. In this title, Dorothy, her kitten Eureka, Jim, a cab horse, and Zeb, a ranch hand, descend into the earth through a rift opened by an earthquake. There they encounter the “humbug” wizard who once ruled Oz. In their journey back to the earth’s surface, they meet a number of potentially dangerous ...

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...notes in the Audubon Magazine and later as books. In A-Birding on a Bronco, she writes an engaging memoir about her several trips to study birds on a ranch in California in the late 1800's....

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...us adventures, he’d done just that. He was now foreman of one of the biggest ranches in north Texas. But a surprise telegram from Bighorn Lake bro... ... “I’ve been on the trail for over a week now. Started out from a big cattle ranch near Fort Worth, Texas. I’m on my way home to Bighorn Lake, Mon... ...erent. I guess I wanted to be a cowboy. I left and got a job at a big cattle ranch near Jackson Hole. Stayed there a few years and finally left to ... ...some nice folks down there and ended up foreman at one of the biggest cattle ranches in the area. That’s where I was when the telegram came. I’m ho... ...o wasn’t much more than a hotel and saloon, where the cowboys off the old ML Ranch spent their pay. Now I saw a church and a dozen new storefronts ... ...w I saw a church and a dozen new storefronts on Main Street. I figured the ML Ranch still owned most the land around and was likely still the bigge... ...oyer in the area, but I was seeing people on the street that didn’t look like ranch folk. When we passed by a livery, I decided to take a John E. ... ...John E. Richman 20 beginning to wonder if all that and the trouble at our ranch was connected. I guessed Sheriff Burns must have been the one wi... ...aw lawmen act like this. I still didn’t know what the problem was out at our ranch, but I already didn’t like what was going on in town. A few mi...

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...d on Stetson Man. Faded jeans, denim shirt, oversized belt buckle. Probably a rancher. “I met a Julie yesterday,” Kurt said, leaning forward. “Julie ... ...held his gaze. Twenty seconds later Adam nodded, and the image of an affable rancher returned. “Yeah, I suppose you can rent my trailer,” he said. ... ...away from Otto’s prying eyes. He looked back at Julie. “Is there room at your ranch to board a horse for a couple weeks?” She blinked with dismay. ... ...nty-dollar win bet then wandered through the mezzanine. It was a motley crowd—ranchers with big hats and dusty boots, downtown oilmen in fancy suits... ...s hollow, and she clearly wasn’t used to regular meals. A few weeks at Adam’s ranch should add some weight. Give her a fresh outlook on life. The me... ...Where’s Julie now?” he asked. “She’s supposed to show me the way to her dad’s ranch.” “Dunno. I banged on their door earlier this morning, but they ... ...o think about the last four years—the sheer exhaustion of university courses, ranch work and the need to hone her riding skills. She’d been reduced ... ...ng, studying the view as the truck and trailer bounced along the rutted road. Ranches dotted the hills, intermingled with stands of aspen and spruce,... ...sciplined. It was dark when his headlights panned the driveway of the West’s ranch. He eased to a stop. Julie jerked upright, stared for a moment t...

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...ntersection with Mulholland Drive. Just to the right is Ronald Reagan’s old ranch. He used to jump his horses right there. But he sold it to Twentie... ...right there. But he sold it to Twentieth Century Fox as part of their movie ranch. The ranch extends about four miles east to Malibu Canyon Road. Tw... ...ontrol of your slum neighborhood? Or would you prefer to live in a rambling ranch style home in Carmel, an ocean view luxury apartment in Monaco, or...