Wolman, David
Summary: Traces the role of three Hawaiian cowboys who became champions at the 1908 Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo, detailing how their careers influenced post-annexation Hawaiian identity, island ranching, and the rodeo culture of Cheyenne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US WolmanDwyer, Helen.
Summary: Discusses Cheyenne culture and history, covering such topics as their origins, traditions, land issues, and contemporary life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 DWYGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "Discover how pigeons were trained for use in World Wars I and II. Learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2024
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Summary: In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELEnss, Chris
Summary: Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur--and he was joined in those ambitions by a local pastor and erstwhile Colonel in the Colorado militia, John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2015
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Summary: Recounts the 1,500 mile trek of a band of Northern Cheyenne from an Oklahoma reservation in 1878 to their home on the Yellowstone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 SANDunn, Jerry Camarillo.
Summary: Describes significant historic towns, cities, and natural wonders of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.8 ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES DUNHahn, Erin
Summary: As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC HAHNesbitt, John D.
Summary: In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harassed by ruffians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESRodgers, Mary
Summary: "The memoirs of Mary Rodgers--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MICRussell, Sheldon
Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSProulx, Annie.
Summary: "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PROJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn't know right from wrong - and didn't much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in a poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways. To...
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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 JOHSummary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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Summary: African American George Fletcher loved horses from an early age. When he unfairly lost the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up to a white man, the outraged audience declared him "people's champion".
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction NelsonBrown, Daniel
Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 797.123 BROJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "From Confederate marauder to rebel gunfighter to repentant preacherman, circuit rider Taylor Callahan's road to perdition has been a hellish ride. Sinners beware. After riding with Missouri bushwhackers, Taylor Callahan vowed to never take another life. He's making good on it in Peaceful Valley. But this little settlement is about to become anything but peaceable. When the marshal takes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BOYGanahl, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CarTech 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009