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Cowboys, Gold Diggers and Railroad Builders Books

Picture Books - Grades 3-5 - Grades 6 and Up - Nonfiction

Picture Books (Preschool – Grade 2)

Armadillo Rodeo
Jan Brett
E BRETT 1995

Big Bad Bunny
Alan Durant
E DURANT 2001

Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story
Julius Lester
E LESTER 1998

Bubba the Cowboy Prince
Helen Ketteman
E KETTEMAN 1997

Casey’s New Hat
Tricia Gardella
E GARDELLA 1997

Chang’s Paper Pony
Eleanor Coerr (Beg Reader)
E COERR 1988  Also in Talking Book.

Cinderdog and the Wicked Stepcat
Joan Holub
E HOLUB 2001

Clickety Clack
Rob and Amy Spence
E SPENCE 1999

The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea
Tony Johnston
E JOHNSTON 1992

Cowboy Bunnies
Christine Loomis
E LOOMIS 1997

Cowboy Kid
Max Eilenberg
E EILENBER 2000

The Dirty Cowboy
Amy Timberlake
E TIMBERLA 2003

The Golly Sisters Ride Again
Betsy Byars
YARS 1994 Also in Talking Book.

Gullywasher Gulch
Marianne Mitchell
E MITCHELL 2002

The Klondike Cat
Julie Lawson
E LAWSON 2002

Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy
Barbara Larmon Failing
E FAILING 2003

Mailing May
Michael O Tunnell
E TUNNELL 1997

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Trinka Hakes Noble
E NOBLE 1987

Ordinary Audrey
Peter Harris
E HARRIS 2001

Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale
Steven Kellogg
J 398.2209 KELLOGG 1986

Puss in Cowboy Boots
Jan Huling
398.2452 HULING 2000

Rhyolite: the True Story of a Ghost Town
Diane Siebert
J 811.54 SIEBERT 2003

Sam’s Wild West Show
Nancy Antle
(Beg Reader) E ANTLE 1995

Saturday Night Jamboree
Lee Wardlaw
E WARDLAW 2000

Sing, Sophie!
Dayle Ann Dodds
E DODDS 1997

Sixteen Cows
Lisa Wheeler
E WHEELER 2002

Tall in the Saddle
Anne Carter and David McPhail
E CARTER 1999

True Heart
Marissa Moss
E MOSS 1999

I Want to Be a Cowgirl
Jeanne Willis
E WILLIS 2002

Way Out West—With a Baby!
Mike Brownlow
E BROWNLOW 2002

Why Cowgirls are Such Sweet Talkers
Laurie L Knowlton
E KNOWLTON 2000

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Karen Cushman
J CUSHMAN 1996    Also in Talking Book.

Bandit’s Moon
Sid Fleischman
J FLEISCHM 1998

Gold Rush Fever: a Story of the Klondike, 1898
J GREENWOO 2001

The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
Jon Scieszka
(Time Warp Trio) J SCIESZK 1992

Jo and the Bandit
Willo Davis Roberts
J ROBERTS 1992

The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy
Walter D Myers
J MYERS 1999

Mystery at Chilkoot Pass
Barbara Steiner
(American Girl History Mysteries) J HISTORY 2002.

The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
John Erickson
J ERICKSON 1988

Silver Dollar Girl
Katherine Ayres
J AYRES 2000

Call of the Wild.
Jack London
J LONDON 1994

Destination Gold!
Julie Lawson
YA LAWSON 2000

Jason’s Gold
Will Hobbs
YA HOBBS 1999

Bill Pickett: Rodeo Riding Cowboy
Andrea Pinkney
JB PICKETT PINKNEY 1996

Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Won the West
JB STETSON CARLSON 1998

Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley
JB OAKLEY MACY 2001

Calamity Jane: Frontier Original
JB CALAMITY SANFORD 1996

California Gold Rush Cooking
Lisa G Schroeder
J 641.5979 SCHROEDE 2001

Children of the Gold Rush
Claire Murphy and Jane Haigh
J 971 .91 MURPHY 1999

Cowboy
David Murdoch
J 978 MURDOCH 1993

Cowboy Cooking
Mary Gunderson
J 641 .5978 GUNDERSO 2000

Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush
J 979 .404 GOLD-FEV 1999

Gold Rush Dogs
Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane Haigh
636 .7009 MURPHY 2001

Gold Rush! The Young Prospector’s Guide to Striking It Rich
J 622 .3422 KLEIN 1998

Hats Are for Watering Horses: Why the Cowboys Dressed That Way
J 391 .0463 CHRISTI 1993

Home on the Range: Cowboy Poetry
Paul Janeczo
J 811 .008 HOME-ON 1997

In the Days of the Vaqueros, America’s First True Cowboys
 J 636 .213 FREEDMAN 2001

Plays of the Wild West
Volume I: Grades K-3, Volume II: Grades 4-6
J 812 .54 MCCULLOU 1997

Shooting for the Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley
Stephen Krensky
JB OAKLEY KRENSKY 2001

Westward Ho! An Activity Guide to the Wild West
 J 978 .02 CARLSON 1996

Wild West Shows: Rough Riders and Sure Shots
Judy Alter
J 791 .84 ALTER 1997

Yippee-Yay! A Book about Cowboys and Cowgirls
 J 978 GIBBONS 1998

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