Grey, Zane
Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COWErickson, John R.
Summary: "It's the day before Christmas, and Loper and Sally May have left Slim to manage the ranch while they go off to visit relatives for the holidays. But, just when it begins to look like another boring bachelor Christmas with Slim, guess who shows up on Slim's front porch with a plate of baked goodies for Hank? Miss Viola! At least, Hank assumes that the cookies are for him. Then, when a storm...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books, Inc. 2012