Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: A corrupt political boss tries to sabotage a small Western town by appointing an African-American as the sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BLASummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnstone, William W.
Summary: "Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHBender, Texas Bix
Summary: A look at life through the eyes of a cowboy. Filled with quotes representing the Code of the West: true grit, human kindness, good manners and horse sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 BENWard, Nathan
Summary: "An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIRINGO, CHARLIE SIRJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: W WESSummary: It tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the "land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and lawmen. The eight-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "The term "Wild West" brings to mind certain images: cowboys, settlers, gunfights, and outlaws. But the American West wasn't always as wild as popular images and stories often suggest, and its famous heroes were sometimes its villains (and vice versa). In this informative volume, young readers will learn facts that bust the myths of the Old West, bringing a more realistic and diverse angle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove: Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: In one of a long series of spaghetti westerns, Lee Van Cleef stars as Clayton, a hard-as-nails gunman who is pitted against an equally tough opponent in Saxon (Horst Frank). Clayton turns out to have a softer side when he befriends a young cowboy named Newland (Peter O'Brien) who has been wrongly accused of murder. The good guys and the bad guys are almost interchangeable as the story reaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Video 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN ROUSummary: The tale of Gil Favor, trail boss, and Rowdy Yates, his assistant, as they drive cattle across the old West. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RAWSummary: The tale of Gil Favor, trail boss, and Rowdy Yates, his assistant, as they drive cattle across the old West. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015