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  2. Will James (artist) - Wikipedia

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    William Roderick James (June 6, 1892 – September 3, 1942) [1] was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West.He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse, for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, [2] and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children.

  3. Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time - Wikipedia

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    Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time is a children's novel by James Cloyd Bowman about the American folk hero Pecos Bill.Raised by coyotes, the hero has various supernatural powers, including the ability to talk to animals, and becomes a spectacularly successful cowboy. [1]

  4. Black Cowboy, Wild Horses - Wikipedia

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    Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story is a 1998 children's picture book by Julius Lester and illustrator Jerry Pinkney. It is about an ex-slave and Black cowboy , Bob Lemmons, who, by himself, wrangles a herd of wild horses to a corral .

  5. Pecos Bill - Wikipedia

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    Pecos Bill (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs) [1] is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".

  6. Western fiction - Wikipedia

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    Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century.

  7. Smoky the Cowhorse - Wikipedia

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    The story details the life of a horse in the western United States from his birth to his eventual decline. It takes place after the year 1910, during which the West dies away and automobiles are introduced. Smoky is born in the wild but is captured and trained by a cowboy named Clint.

  8. Dime Western - Wikipedia

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    A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...

  9. Shane (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in 1889 Wyoming, when the Wyoming Territory was still open to the Homestead Act of 1862. [1] It is narrated by a homesteader's son, Bob Starrett. The original unclaimed land surrounding the Starretts' homestead had been used by a cattle driver named Luke Fletcher before being claimed by Bob's father, Joe Starrett, along with 12 other homesteaders.

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