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23) Cowpokes
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Cowpokes wake, eat flapjacks, rope strays, mend fences, and strum guitars.
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This is a collection of writings from the 19th and early 20th centuries about cowboys and cattle drives after the Civil War. The book includes a large selection of full-page monochrome photographs of working cowboys, dating back to the 1880s. Readers can trace the emergence of the cowboy as mythic figure, from his origins as a wild, unsavory character often regarded as a public menace in the frontier towns for his hard drinking and shoot-em-up antics....
29) The cowboys
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Rancher, left without a single cowhand, hires a pack of schoolboys for cattledrive. The boys face rustlers and even murder before the drive is over.
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This high-interest, low vocabulary book teaches the skills of oral reading and reading comprehension. It depicts ranch hands at work and engaged in leisure activities on the ranch. The specified reading level is pre-primer, the specified interest level includes pre-primer through grade 2.