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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...
3) Open range
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
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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.
6) Australia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
1) Bend of the River is set in the Oregon river country, with a wagon train. Wagonmaster Stewart, a man with a secret past he's determined to redeem. 2) The far country of the title is Alaska, where a cold-hearted cattleman, and his sidekick drive a herd of cattle to cash in on the gold rush. 3) Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner escape. 4) English lady brings a prize Hereford bull to the Wild West, where she plans...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
After his parents were killed, South (also known as "The Virginian") was raised by a powerful cattle baron to uphold the "code of the West" as a ranch enforcer. But when South begins to investigate the latest string of rustling, he finds his convictions questioned and discovers his mentor may have had ulterior motives for taking him in.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Raised in the U.S., Claudia (22) is an undocumented immigrant living beyond her means in a twisted version of the American dream. When shes arrested by the FBI for credit card fraud, Claudia is quickly deported to México. Speaking no Spanish and lost in her foreign "homeland," she reluctantly takes refuge at her estranged father's cattle ranch.
13) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
c1972
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
14) The Sacketts
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Louis L'Amour's epic western saga of brothers who blazed a name across the untamed post-Civil War New Mexico frontier.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012)
The far country: A self-minded adventurer who locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson. It is one of the few Westerns, along with North to Alaska, to be set (not filmed) in Alaska.
Night passage: The workers on the railroad haven't been...
17) The Rare Breed
Pub. Date
2003
Description
A cowhand must deliver a Hereford bull to a Scottish cattle baron looking to create a new breed.
18) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
1996
Description
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
19) Comes a horseman
Description
When a young widow is pressured to sell her failing cattle ranch to her unscrupulous ex-lover, she enlists the aid of an antagonistic neighbor in a desperate attempt to restore the ranch's fortunes.
20) Bluey : Season 2
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Follows the adventures of a six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy named Bluey who lives with her parents and her younger sister, Bingo.
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