Why Cows Need Cowboys

Why Cows Need Cowboys

by Larry BjornsonMatthew P. Mayo Jean A. Lukesh and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/05/2021

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**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers**


Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story. Here you’ll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. Did you know that in 1821, a Plains Indian girl trekked 1,400 miles to visit Washington, DC? Or that two brave children, eight and ten years old, took part in the Texas Revolution? Tales in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western.


Founded in 1953, Western Writers of America is the nation’s oldest and most distinguished organization of professionals writing about the early frontier and the American West, its past and present. Now in our sixty-eighth year, our more than seven hundred members write fiction and nonfiction, songs, poetry, short stories, plays for stage and screen, and more. The contributors to this anthology, WWA members all, include bestselling authors and winners of numerous prestigious literary awards.


With Why Cows Need Cowboys, we invite you to journey westward with us, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

ISBN:
9781493051069
9781493051069
Category:
History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-05-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Globe Pequot
Chris Enss

Chris Enss is an author, scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television and film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment, but her passion is for telling the stories of the men and women who shaped the history and mythology of the American West. Some of the most famous names in history, not to mention film and popular culture, populate her books. She's written or co-written more than two dozen books for TwoDot. And she's also a licensed private detective.

Rod Miller

Rod Miller was a Sydney auctioneer clearing an estate when he stumbled across an old diary written in code and rhyme. He didn’t throw it away, but launched into years of research to reveal the amazing story of a group of World War II Australian nurses and civilian women who were abandoned by their own government, captured and taken as bargaining chips into the heart of the Japanese Empire.

Rod gathered evidence and surviving witnesses and wrote this enthralling book, Lost Women of Rabaul. His first draft remarkably became the basis of the award-winning ABC-TV miniseries Sisters of War. Rod has now retired from his auctioneering business and lives with his wife and three crazy rescue dogs in Sydney. He continues to research the concealed stories of WWII. Author based in Putney, NSW.

Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, poems, and stories, many drawing on his Abenaki heritage. Mr. Bruchac and his wife, Carol, live in upstate New York.

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