The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West Was Tamed

The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West Was Tamed
Author: John Frank
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages:
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781606861912

Grizz Brickbottom, toughest cowboy in the West, yearns for a companion and convinces his cattle-rustling cohorts that they need a dog to help with the work.

The Toughest Cowboy

The Toughest Cowboy
Author: John Frank
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-06-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781419326073

Emily Dickinson: Poems and Letters

The Toughest Cowboy, Or, How the Wild West was Tamed

The Toughest Cowboy, Or, How the Wild West was Tamed
Author: John Frank (Poet)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2008
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 9780329659240

It takes some effort, but Grizz Brickbottom convinces his fellow cowboys that they need a canine companion on the trail, but Foofy the miniature poodle is not what any of them expected.

The Last American Man

The Last American Man
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2003-05-27
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0142002836

Finalist for the National Book Award From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings through the portrait of an American Mountain Man. In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.

Wild, Wild West

Wild, Wild West
Author: Pamela Byrne Schiller
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876590430

From "Oh, Suzanna" to "Buffalo Gals," children will sing, dance, and learn with these songs about the legendary Wild West. The CD is accompanied by a book with over 250 activities that teach children about colors, creativity, and cowboys and cowgirls. Each of the eight CD/book combinations will provide hours of learning fun. 128 pages plus CD.

Lend a Hand

Lend a Hand
Author: John Frank
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781620148297

"A picture book collection of poems centered on spontaneous acts of kindness, representing diverse voices and topical themes"--

Bronco Busters

Bronco Busters
Author: Alison Cragin Herzig
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Three rough, tough bronco busters can't tame a little black pony, but a small, quiet cowboy talks to him and bring him water, and then quietly rides away with him.

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300145780

In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.

Nothing Stopped Sophie

Nothing Stopped Sophie
Author: Cheryl Bardoe
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0316394297

The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing stopped Sophie. For six years Sophie Germain used her love of math and her undeniable determination to test equations that would predict patterns of vibrations. She eventually became the first woman to win a grand prize from France's prestigious Academy of Sciences for her formula, which laid the groundwork for much of modern architecture (and can be seen in the book's illustrations). Award-winning author Cheryl Bardoe's inspiring and poetic text is brought to life by acclaimed artist Barbara McClintock's intricate pen-and-ink, watercolor, and collage illustrations in this true story about a woman who let nothing stop her.

The Toughest Cowboy

The Toughest Cowboy
Author: John Frank
Publisher: Aladdin
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780689834622

How do you tame the roughest, toughest pack of cowboys to ever ride the open range?