Berthoud Community Library District

Sam and his Wild West Show entertain the townsfolk and catch two bank robbers before moving on to the next town.

Chip Chippendale met Reese Balleen after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. When Chip laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the friends took different trails. But when Reese's home is burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he's faced with ruin--and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son. Now a target of the most vicious renegade on the high plains, Reese turns...

After being forced from his meager family farm in Texas in 1871, thirteen-year-old Ben Curtis witnesses some of the excitement and cruelty of the Old West--on a cattle drive, in a frontier town, and on a buffalo hunt.

"The fires of America's fascination with the Wild West are stoked in this new compilation of the best and most exciting cowboy stories out there. For some of these writers, the West was a place of dreams, for others, of nightmares, but for us, they represent the freedom and delight of a lawless land. Boasting a diverse set of authors and perspectives, this collection of stories ensures every reader will get a nuanced and full sense of what the life...

"Fall is an important time of year on a ranch, mostly because it means that winter is coming soon! And, on Hank's ranch, that means that the cake house is about to be filled with bags of feed to get the cattle through the long, frozen days ahead. Unfortunately, this particular feed-delivery is accompanied by a town mutt named Roy who gets Hank into big trouble with some local yellow jacket wasps. Once the cake house is full, Slim puts Hank in charge...

Alone on the range, cowboy Slim Jim Watkins meets a Pony Express rider returning a mail order bride and finds himself a pardner with whom he can share conversation.

"Ben Travis, owner of the Triple X, was dead on his own front porch, and his nephew, Hugh Travis, started west to investigate. In his pocket he carried a letter from Charles Waller, his friend and attorney - a mysterious letter which spoke of danger and a deadly feud. Tucson offered Hugh a suspicious welcome, for it was a frontier town clamped in the vice of a range war. On one side were the independent cattlemen, and on the other the Caldwell clan...

A down-on-his-luck former rodeo champion, Luck is working in the remoate Nevada desert with fellow cowboy Al Bean when Teddie Arizona, a gorgeous siren with the henchmen of her "husband" F. Rank Pantaker in hot pursuit, arrives.

"Red Clark had heard Juilos County was "bad, plumb bad," so he had come to nose around and get himself a job. Chock-jam-packed full of bad men, this border country was -- or so he had heard. He hadn't seen any that looked bad; plenty that needed haircuts or sobering up, including the potbellied, red-nosed sheriff himself. Disgusted with what he is seeing, he befriends Zee Hill, a journeymen printer who wants the chance to get out a real paper -- one...

Follows the adventures of a brave but foolhardy bronco-buster as he meets his match in the horse called "Strawberry Roan." Based on an old Western folksong.