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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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Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
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[2015]
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True Grit: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations...
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[2012]
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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.
Return to Lonesome Dove: 'Captain' Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch. He decides to drive wild Mustangs north with the help of Isom and Gideon. Call leaves the drive for Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians.
Streets of Laredo:...
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Fort Apache: a cavalry officer's by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
The searchers: a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
Rio Bravo: a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
The cowboys: a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold...
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