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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...
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Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
1936
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302 p. ; 20 cm.
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From the best-selling novelist of the American West, comes a novel of romance, danger, and life along the trail.
After his first successful venture of moving 2,500 cattle along the infamous Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite couldn't resist the allure of a second drive. To prepare for his greatest and most dangerous prospect yet, Brite begins purchasing cattle at every possible opportunity he gets and searching for an able crew to aid him in the arduous...
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"They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That's a different story--especially when those cowboys are trail-hardened cattlemen like Casey Tubbs and Levi Doolin. When these longtime buddies learn that their bosses are getting out of the beef business, they figure it's probably time to retire anyway. Nothing left to do now but deliver the last two-thousand cows to Abilene and collect their pay. There's just one problem. Their...
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After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as his crew mate, Mac sets off on a route overrun with kill-crazy rustlers and bloodthirsty Comanche. When the owner's son is kidnapped, the courageous cook...
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Chuckwagon trail novels volume 3
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"Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didnt commit, Dewey Mac McKenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west, as a chuckwagon cook. Though he's never even boiled an egg, McKenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, McKenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too, with a side of hot lead." Framed for a murder he didn't commit,...
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The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
9) Red River
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Criterion collection volume 709
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 blu-rays (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
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Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matt Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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American legends collection volume 4
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2014.
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243 pages
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A Florida rancher recounts his experiences during a life-risking cattle drive in Florida that is shaped by a gang of desperadoes who pillage and set fire to his family ranch before taking a young woman hostage.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Lorena, Gus's woman and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade. The drive is a risk, sure, but it's a part of the American Dream, a chance to carve a new life out of the last remaining wilderness.
13) Cowboy
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Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hotel desk clerk and would-be cowboy Harris wrangles his way onto a cattle drive to his girlfriend's hometown of Guadalupe after her father forbids the lovelorn Harris from seeing his daughter.
14) The cowboys
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
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314 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Dewey 'Mac' Mackenzie is no ordinary chuckwagon cook. He's a marked man on the run who works cattle drives to stay one step ahead of his enemies. If these hired killers catch up to him, he'll be slinging guns instead of hash--with a side order of revenge that's best served cold"--
16) Lonesome Dove
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Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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2 Blu-rays (373 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers who crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
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3 blu-rays (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Cowboys. When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
The Green Berets. A rugged Unites States...
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Library of America volume 331
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xvi, 1094 pages ; 21 cm.
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"In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly...
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