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"Sheep were on the move and the tempers of hard-pressed cowmen were on the rise. Drought had hit them hard, losses were high, and being sheeped out would ruin them completely. For reasons of their own, the U. S. Forestry Service wanted trouble stirred up between the beef riders and the mutton punchers. They figured it would force Congress to give them what they were after. And they thought they had their trouble-maker in the escaped killer, Pete McGrath....
3) Grizzly
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Justin McCallister loves life on his aunt and uncle's Montana sheep ranch...until a grizzly bear begins terrorizing the livestock, injuring Justin's collie, Radar, and killing his pet lamb, Blue. Justin decides to take matters into his own hands and sets out to track down the bear. But things become more dangerous than Justin ever could have imagined when he comes face-to-face with the grizzly.
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Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich Nhat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in "climbing out...
11) Colorado heart
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"To Cassie Parker, Colorado is the farthest point on earth from the dusty, troubled life she left behind in Texas. Here she has a birthright--her grandfather's land not far from town--and a chance at a promising new start. And Jake Reece certainly is promising. There's never been a day in Jake's life that he didn't work harder than anyone else, and he's got a thousand head of cattle and the ranch of his wildest dreams to prove it. Yet winter has a...
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Written from the perspective of Bodacious the cat, this is a memoir of Bodacious's life on the farm and everything that entails, early mornings, frosty starts, beautiful sunrises, adventurous rare-breed Zwartbles sheep, hard work, entertaining animals, mouth-watering food, kind people and idyllic country living with its highs and lows. The Shepherd often tells Bodacious her favourite story of how she went out to buy red ribbon to wrap a gift for her...
13) The loner
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The story about a lonely boy who has no home or family. Then people befriend him, give him a name, an identity--everything he has ever longed for, but will it last?
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In the early 1960s Donald McCaig left his job at a hot New York advertising agency and his Greenwich Village apartment for a rustic farm in a remote county in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. This is McCaig's story of farming in contemporary America, a timely tribute to a dying way of life.