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1) The Red Pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
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Series
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
Description
Seven days in Utopia follows the story of Luke Chisolm, a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utipia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford. But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life, love, and faith force Luke to question not only his past...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
7) Flicka
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Katy dreams of filling her father's shoes by taking over their ranch, while her father wants better for her. When she finds and tries to tame a wild horse, she learns how alike she and this stallion truly are.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
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Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
9) Giant
Description
Blick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
11) McLintock!
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In this westernized version of The taming of the shrew, John Wayne stars as cattle baron George McLintock and Maureen O'Hara assumes the role of his estranged wife. In an effort to get on with his life, McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook, welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple and serene lifestyle comes to halt as an unexpected turn...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A family ranch...A horse whisperer...A fight to save a dream...Set against the vistas of the Rocky Mountains, Heartland follows fifteen-year-old horse whisperer Amy, her older sister Lou and her grandfather Jack through the highs and lows of life on a family-owned horse ranch.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Cowboys: a documentary portrait" is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "bit outfit" ranches - some of which are over a million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Narrated through first-hand accounts...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
It continues to be a sprawling multi-generational saga about a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times. Against the glorious backdrop and stunning vistas of the foothills of Alberta, Heartland continues to tell stories about people who Canadians from across the country have grown to love and welcome into their homes.
18) Colorado cowboys
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In Colorado as in many parts of the world cowboys and cowgirls are still among us. Discover the lifestye that includes roping, riding and rodeos as well as branding, cow-milking contests and mutton-bustin.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Amy and Ty find it a challenge to balance their professional schedules with the realities of raising a newborn, especially as Ty's work pulls him away from home from time to time. Nevertheless, Amy is determined to return to her roots, working her magic with horses others have given up on. In addition, she takes on even more responsibility as a coach when Georgie is offered an exciting opportunity, pushing her riding skills to the limit.