Roping the Wind
Roping the Wind

Author: A. Robert Hill

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-01-20

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 059517230X

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A story of love, war and an incessant driving force of a territory that is trying to make itself ready for statehood, regardless of the consequences to local inhabitants. Descendants of early Spanish settlers, the Native Americans, already on the land, are forced to face the invasion of eastern immigration—taking their land where they once lived peaceably with each other. The Civil War brought southern sympathizers seeking gold from the Rocky Mountains that would aid their cause. The commingling of the different races rent deceit, hatred, terror and also love among these early pioneers, all of whom were seeking a better way of life—but disregarding the lives of early Spanish and Native Americans.

Roping the Wind
Roping the Wind

Author: Lyman Hafen

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Straight-from-life reminiscences of Hafen's youth growing up on a southwestern ranch. Throughout these personal essays, Hafen addresses important issues of land use and management currently affecting the West.

Roping
Roping

Author: Bernard S. Mason

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1473386535

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This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on roping, being a practical and informative guide to the art of tying rope. It includes information on the various different methods and techniques of roping, the required materials and tools, different applications of rope, and much more. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the timeless practice of roping, this volume would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this volume include: “Rope, Knots and Nets”, “Ropes and Roping”, “Rope Spinning – The Flat Spins”, “Rope Spinning – The Vertical Spins”, “Trick Knots with a Lariat”, “Lariat Throwing”, and “Roping Exhibitions and Contests”. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on rope.

Valley of Dreams (Wild West Wind Book #1)
Valley of Dreams (Wild West Wind Book #1)

Author: Lauraine Snelling

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1441233970

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Exciting New Series by Beloved Author Lauraine Snelling Cassie Lockwood's mother died when she was little, so Cassie traveled with her father's Wild West Show and became an amazingly skillful trick rider, likened by some to the famous Annie Oakley. When her father died, she continued to work with the show, having nowhere else to go. Now Cassie has discovered that "Uncle" Jason, the show's manager, has driven the show into debt, and he's absconded with what little money was left. Devastated, Cassie decides to try to find the hidden valley where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. She has only one clue. She needs to find three huge stones that look like fingers raised in a giant hand. With Chief, a Sioux Indian who's been with the show for twenty years, and Micah, the head wrangler, she leaves both the show and a bundle of heartache behind and begins a wild and daring adventure.

Cottonwood Wind
Cottonwood Wind

Author: Teresa van Bryce

Publisher: Teresa van Bryce

Published: 2021-08-29

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1999087232

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When Vancouver journalist Johanna Ross learns of her grandfather’s death, she’s devastated. But her devastation turns to confusion when she discovers he’s left his Alberta horse ranch to her in his will. Although she spent summers at the Double R as a girl, Johanna hasn’t visited for over twenty years or been on a horse since that time. On the heels of a less-than-ideal proposal of marriage from her boyfriend, Johanna travels to Alberta to arrange for the dispersal of her inheritance. As she sorts through her grandfather’s finances and belongings, she rediscovers her childhood love of the ranch and its residents, and becomes torn between her west coast life and her grandfather’s wish for her to keep the Double R. Her father wants her to sell the ranch and share in the proceeds, her boyfriend wants her to marry him and move to Toronto, the ranch hand and his wife want to keep the only home they’ve known for forty years, and the hostile horse trainer with the nice face wants nothing more than to have Johanna out of his sight. But what does Johanna want? A Heartland meets The Horse Whisperer story of one woman’s search for her own map and compass.