Akron Public Library

A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.

A lovely girl, who has been reared among Mormons, learns to love a young New Englander. The Mormon religion, however, demands that the girl shall become the second wife of one of the Mormons -- Well, that's the problem of this great story.

Cocoa the horse herds the cows with Cowgirl Kate, helps her practice her roping skills, and wishes he could wear boots instead of horseshoes.

This book invites the reader to learn about cowboys and their exciting lives in the Old West.

Three cowboys, having tried their best to make their camp festive for Christmas, receive a surprising visit from Santa.

In 1871, Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.

When Tilden fails to reboard the train on time, he is stranded in Montana, and he meets a group of cowboys who tell him about a wild black stallion. He becomes determined to catch the horse in order to impress Rita, the daughter of a rancher.

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...

Opposites attract...but can they fall in love? Jake McGuire has worked hard to earn his success. The only threat to his peace is the last woman he should ever want. He knows Ida Merridan by reputation only, but the stories he's heard are enough for him to keep her at arm's length. Twice divorced and independently wealthy, Ida did nothing to deserve her bad reputation-except choose the wrong husbands. Live and learn in a small town, but after everything...

Collection of over one hundred commentaries and poems from Baxter Black an irregular commentator on National Public Radio, syndicated columnist, best-selling cowboy poet, and former large animal veterinarian.