Berthoud Community Library District

After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...

An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...

In Colorado as in many parts of the world cowboys and cowgirls are still among us. Discover the lifestye that includes roping, riding and rodeos as well as branding, cow-milking contests and mutton-bustin.

"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...

Clint Eastwood is a 19th century adventurer who rescues Shirley MacLaine, a nun, from a group of would-be rapists. The nun decides to tag along with Eastwood who's joining a band of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French occupation of Mexico. On his way to overtaking the enemy's garrison, a romance develops and he discovers the nun is really a prostitute!

A young Texas farmer comes to Houston to work in a refinery and learns about life by hanging out at Gilley's, a roadhouse bar.

34 episodes on 4 DVDs. Welcome to the Ponderosa where Pa, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright bring order and family values to the wild west. Plus: 3 classic episodes of Wagon Train.

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.

Lonesome Dove (widescreen, 1989, 374 min.): A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana. Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, 346 min.): This gripping adventure follows three ex-Texas Rangers and chronicles...

A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.