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By: Sean O'Neill
Red Chair Press, 2020. Informational. 32 pgs.
"Fools gold and buckaroos in the Old West. The American West was at once an unexplored frontier--and the ancient home of thousands of American Natives. Explore the Old West with 50 fun and amazing facts about Cowboys and Indians and the horses they rode."-- Provided by publisher.

By: Simon Puttock
Egmont USA, 2011. Picture Book
 A kindly toad helps a "lonesome and lost" young coyote find his mother.

By: Lisa Moser
Random House, 2013. Picture Book
 A cowboy and his trusty rhinocerous try to prove themselves at the Double R Ranch, where the Slim, Hardtack, and Rancher Rose doubt Calliope's potential, but Boyd believes in her.

By: Maripat Perkins
Peachtree Publishers, 2015. Picture Book. 
Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift that her Aunt Sal sent.

By: Mifflin Lowe
Bushel & Peck Books, 2020. Informational. 64 pgs.
"I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant percentage of America's cowboys were African American, Latino, and Native American. Many cowboys were even ... cowgirls." -- excerpt from author's note page 7.

By: Cathy East Dubowski
Grosset & Dunlap, 2000. Easy Reader.
Roy, a young cowboy, tries hard to learn how to ride his bike without the training wheels.

By: Jan Thomas
Beach Lane Books, 2012. Picture Book.
Brave Cowboy tries to sing his young calf pals to sleep on a dark, dark night, with humorous results.





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