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2) The drifter
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Cowboy Pete Peterson is looking for work and finds it working on ranches, but doesn't stay long.
4) The loner
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[2017]
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"Meet Will Claxton, the loner, as he works his way across the West looking for long-term work, preferably north in the summer and farther south in the winter, where it's warmer. Along the way, he runs into trouble and could end up with the nickname "jailbird." In his own words, "I didn't know where I was going, but had begun to think that working on the dude ranch in the winter, branding calves in the spring, and packing salt during the summer might...
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2007
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Warren Parker resides on the eastern plains of Colorado, not so very far from where his great grandfather homesteaded in 1887. He grew up on theses plains and carries in his heart the majesty and beauty of all they represent. This book is a recollection of his early days on those plains, but it's message is one that runs true to this day and forever. Many of the stories come from his own experiences while others are the fruit of those folk with whom...
7) The wagon
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[2018].
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Cowboys out on a 'wagon' herding cattle and working through branding season in the backcountry of the West.
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[1970]
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Celebrated nature writer Hal Borland's memoir of change, from his boyhood in pioneer country in Colorado to his manhood, hurtling into a new age Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland's father, the editor of a local...
17) Deadly currents
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The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small townś economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasnt́ the rapids that killed him, he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals. Mandyś world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that...
18) Top hands
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"They were all good hands, the kind of cowboys--or buckaroos--that could work on any cow outfit. They didn't all arrive together, they just sorta drifted in, one at a time. Tom hired them on in January to help with the calving, even though it was early, There wasn't much riding to do, just go through the cattle each day looking for something that might be wrong. The cows weren't supposed to start calving until the middle of February. The ranch already...