Will James
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
NC 1440L
Language
English
Description
Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the open range, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He can beat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can't imagine anything else. But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on two legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can't beat this enemy the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
James told a first person story of cowboy life in the upper Great Plains and the West. He described the differences in cowboys, their rigging, their terminology, and their habits in the different areas of the country.
Eight stories in unrefined western speech about the not always exciting or romantic life of American cowboys.
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English
Description
Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives as he moves toward his remote objective-becoming...
10) Big-enough
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Language
English
Description
This is the story of a cowboy and a cow horse, born on the same day, who together grow big enough for most anything.