Julesburg Public Library

"Since there are plenty of places from Ohio to Idaho for farmers to work the land, it doesn't seem right to Jefferson Parker, the pre-eminent rancher in the up-and-coming town of Brooks, that he has to watch while they buy parcels of land much better suited for grazing cattle. He's determined to consolidate his ranch and his power to influence the railroads to build a line to Brooks and the federal government to grant Wyoming statehood--by buying...

Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...

A biography of the Texas cowboy who was one of the first permanent settlers of the Texas Panhandle.

Discusses the life of the cowboy on the range and on the trail, from the frontier days of the West to the present. Discusses the life of the cowboy on the range and on the trail, from the frontier days in the West to the present.

Colket collection.

"Cowboys: a documentary portrait" is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "bit outfit" ranches - some of which are over a million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Narrated through first-hand accounts...