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.
From "Oh, Suzanna" to "Buffalo Gals," children will sing, dance, and learn with these songs about the legendary Wild West. The CD is accompanied by a book with over 250 activities that teach children about colors, creativity, and cowboys and cowgirls. Each of the eight CD/book combinations will provide hours of learning fun. 128 pages plus CD.
Here’s a book as big and beautiful as the West itself, dedicated to the larger-than-life figure who symbolizes the American spirit. Whether the straight-shooting hero from a John Wayne movie or the lawless gunslinger spreading mayhem, the cowboy lassos the imagination and just won’t let go. On these magnificently illustrated pages unfold cowboy life and legend, cowboys around the world, the cowboy’s ranching roots, modern-day cowboys, cowboy food and fun, and the cowboy in film and popular culture. Quotations from Western poems, songs, and novels offer contemporary perspectives, as do the old-time posters and nostalgic advertisements. An astounding variety of photos show it all. There’s also absorbing background on black cowboys, vaqueros, women who rode the range, and rodeos. Known as the "Cowboy Professor,” Richard W. Slatta, Ph.D, has earned numerous honors and awards. The International Who’s Who of Intellectuals lists him as one of the Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century as well as one of the Outstanding Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century. The American Library Association gave an "Outstanding Reference" award to his book, The Cowboy Encyclopedia. Slatta’s Cowboys of the Americas received the Western Heritage Award for Nonfiction Literature, National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His many books include Sim�n Bol�var's Quest for Glory, co-authored with Jane Lucas De Grummond; The Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore and Popular Culture; and Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers.
Gaston, the green-nosed alligator from Louisiana, embarks on a new adventure, drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and learns about the oil business in the process.
Feisty middle-grader Mary Margaret rides the range in this latest adventure. Mary Margaret can’t wait to go the Lazy K dude ranch. She’ll finally get a pair cowboy boots, and get to ride a real horse! But things don’t go exactly as planned. She can’t get her horse to cooperate, and Kansas, the riding instructor, won’t let her out of the kiddie corral until she does. Kansas is one of the coolest people that Mary Margaret has ever seen, and she’s determined to win her over. But when her determination goes too far, Mary Margaret has to find a way out of trouble, and back into the saddle.