Crowley County Combined Library

A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.

In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...

Honey is busy doing the cowboy thing - breeding and branding cattle, horse training, and taking care of the dudes ... that is, the ranch guests. Sally and Honey take over management of the ranch due to Buds worsening condition and do a good job of booking guests for the summer and keeping the ranch running smoothly. Honey is growing up fast ... and Sally has a big surprise for him.

In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman.

Honey meets his brand new daughter for the first time! Enjoy the antics at the ranch while everyone settles in with the new baby, including Grandpa Bud getting a baby carrier for his four-wheeler, and Honey's sister, Betty, becoming a nanny for the little one. --back cover

Ginny, Sally and Honey's daughter, is growing up quickly and becoming quite the little cowgirl. She helps to take the dudes out on horse rides on her Welsh pony named Pumpkin. Grandpa Bud lets her choose her very own colt, which she names Pumpernickel. --back cover

"Ranching is hard work, and it gets harder for Honey as he becomes foreman. There are cows and horses to feed and calves to be taken care of -- especially during the hard winter. And with Bud's illness everyone has to take on more work. From horse thieves to bears to poachers -- Honey has his hands full. But he keeps in mind the old saying ... things always work out the way they're supposed to. Not to mention the big day -- he and Sally get married!"--...

New Englander Wayne Cameron longed for the wide open spaces. He heard of the daring feat proposed by Western Union to join the two oceans by telegraph wire. He siezed the chance to work for them and to explore the Wild West. Soon the savagery of the Indians, the raging torrents and devastating prairie fires, the stampeding beasts and the bloody fueds betweent the ranchers and the settlers almost sent him packing.

Cowboy and Octopus maintain their friendship despite different opinions about things like beans and knock-knock jokes.