Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West: A Photo Documentary of the 1900-1905 Show Tours

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Occasionally, some notably historic piece of Americana--artifacts, photographs, or written materia--turns up from forgotten storage. Such is the case with the 155 pristine negatives printed in Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West. They were taken while the show was on tour between 1900 and 1905 by cowboy/amateur photographer Harry Bock. This is truly a photo documentary without parallel and offers western, historical, and tent show buffs a visual look back in time with exceptional detail and clarity. These images of the hand-carved wagons, tents, midway crowds, Indians, cowboys, cowgirls, equipment, and buffalo are accompanied by the carefully researched story of the adventure-filled life of Major Gordon W. Lillie/Pawnee Bill--buffalo hunter, plains scout, White Chief of the Pawnees, Wild West showman, land boomer, oilman, banker, conservationist. The photographer, "Buckskin Harry" Bock, another frontier pioneer and cowboy/carpenter, worked many years for Pawnee Bill until becoming a Baptist missionary to the Pawnee Indians. Together their lives provide a fascinating background to accompany this visual close-up look at a period in life that is gone forever--the Wild West show of the early 1900s--the forerunner of our modern rodeo. Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West belongs in all museum and collectors' libraries.

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show

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Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's wild, wild West
Promising Start, Disappointing Finish
When the Legend becomes fact, print the legend

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
Louis S. Warren
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ASIN: 0375412166
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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William Cody (1846—1917), a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was the most famous American of his age. A child of the frontier Great Plains, Cody was renowned as a Pony Express rider, prospector, trapper, Civil War soldier, professional buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, cavalry scout, horseman, dime-novel hero, and actor. But Buffalo Bill’s greatest success was as impresario of the Wild West show, the traveling company of cowboys, Indians, Mexican vaqueros, and others, numbering in the hundreds, with which he toured North America and Europe for more than three decades. As Louis S. Warren reveals, the show company came to represent America itself, its dazzling mix of races sprung from a frontier past, welded into a thrilling performance, and making their way through the world via the modern technologies of railroad, portable electrical generator, telephones, and brilliantly colored publicity–an entrancing vision of the frontier-born, newly mechanized, polyglot United States in the Gilded Age.

Biographers have long disputed whether Cody was a hero or a charlatan. As Warren shows, the question already preoccupied critics and spectators during Cody’s own lifetime. In fact, the savvy entertainer encouraged the dispute by mingling fictional exploits with his not inconsiderable achievements to construct the persona of an ideal frontiersman, a figure who was more controversial than has been commonly understood. At the same time, his show provided a means for rural westerners, including cowboys, cowgirls, and especially Lakota Sioux Indians, to claim a new future for themselves by reenacting a version of the past.

The most comprehensive critical biography of William Cody in more than forty years, Buffalo Bill’s America places America’s most renowned showman in the context of his cultural worlds in the Far West, in the East, and in Europe. A rich and revealing biography and social history of an American cultural icon.

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Great!.......2006-12-08

Great book from a great professor. Reading this was like sitting in Dr. Warren's class again. He can totally make history come alive and this book is no exception.

Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show.......2006-11-06

I was quite pleased witht the speed of delivery on this book and it's excellent condtion. It was all I could have hoped for. 5 Stars!

Don Gilmore

Buffalo Bill's wild, wild West.......2006-03-16

William Cody was the most famous American of his times, renowned as a Pony Express rider, soldier, buffalo hunter and overall hero - but his creation of the Wild West show, a traveling company of cowboys and Indians which toured North American and Europe for over thirty years, solidified his importance and his name. BUFFALO BILL'S AMERICA: WILLIAM CODY AND THE WILD WEST SHOW provides the most detailed critical biography of Cody to appear in over forty years, considering his showmanship, his achievements, and the controversies which swirled around his life, both during time and into modern times. Chapters use source material references and quotes but maintain a lively style which lends to appeal by leisure audiences as well as students of American history.

Promising Start, Disappointing Finish.......2006-01-14

The Historians of today, especially those who have a different perspective of America instead of the "Good versus Evil" themes that folks like I grew up with like to shatter legends and myths.

Not that a bit of reality is wrong. For example it is good to know what a virulent racist Nathan Bedford Forrest was, or how wrong it was to label the entire Abraham Lincoln Battalion as a bunch of "Commie Rats" (although with the release of much of the Moscow archives, it can be verified that up to almost 90% of them were either Communist Party or Young Communist League members - not the 40-60% as stated in past histories).

It is however suspect when a Davey Crockett, long believed to have died swinging "Old Betsy" at the advancing Mexican soldiers at the Alamo, died, shot down as a captured prisoner, by Santa Anna's orders; or that the gallant Custer was a reckless fool.

Which leads me to Dr. Warren's interesting biography of Buffalo Bill. Having got it as a holiday present I was at first enthralled by the depth and detail of this work which covered practically every aspect of this simple yet complex American hero.

Then Dr. Warren had to spoil it all.

First, he cast doubts on whether or not William Cody ever rode with the Pony Express. He cites available records, but admits Cody did ride for the Express parent company - Russell, Majors and Waddell.

Secondly, he then claims Cody rode with Jennison's Jayhawkers instead of working as a Scout for the Union Army. In other words, Cody was involved in some of the ugliest savagery on the frontier as Unionists retaliated for the depravations of Quantrill, the James-Younger boys, Bloody Bill Anderson, and other Confederates. Yet, if that was the case, and with rosters of the 7th Kansas being available, why haven't Civil War historians made light of this in the past? Warren seems to imply that Cody was one of the 7th Kansas boys who faced down Bedford Forrest at Tupelo and Brice's Crossroads, but where is the evidence? (note: I do stand corrected as I have found another source on Cody's experiences in the 7th, and indeed they did fight Forrest in Tennessee and Mississippi, but were recalled to Missouri in time to help stop Sterling Price in the fall of 1864, a campaign where Cody and Bill Hickok fought practically side by side)

Third, Warren also seems to claim that there was an almost unfriendly rivalry between George Custer and William Cody, and that outside of the celebrated Buffalo hunt with the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, the two men rarely met or studiously avoided each other. Why? Because Libbie Custer only named Wild Bill Hickok as a Custer intimate, not Buffalo Bill. Furthermore, Warren also describes the Custer marriage as being as troubled as that of the Codys. He has even suggested that Libbie Custer had an affair with another (unnamed) cavalry officer - that's news to me as I'm sure it is to others who have read extensively of the Custers and their marriage. Custer jealous of Bill Cody? Hmmm. And why would Bill Cody present Custer as an all-hero in his future shows if he didn't feel a regard for the late soldier's heroism on the American Frontier?

He then describes Cody as being benevolent and more open-minded towards Native Americans, yet almost a cruel overseer to those Indians who rode and worked with the Wild West Shows - try suggesting that to Sitting Bull. Oops, you can't because he's long dead. But then again, so is Buffalo Bill Cody.

What is even more troublesome is Warren's wanting to put a societal spin to the life and times of Buffalo Bill. He pictures America of the late 19th Century as being a nation split between the "haves and have-nots" with another Civil War looming in the distance. He brings up the Haymarket Square Riots, and calls Albert Parsons, the former Confederate Soldier turned Radical leader the William Cody of the Confederacy, yet offers no evidence to prove this. For me, that was a major disappointment, because I would have liked to have seen where a young Confederate hero, having risked his life for the reactionary South, could change so drastically to push for the violent overthrow of bourgeois America. He also brings in the Johnson County War as if to suggest that Cody could easily play both sides down the middle - lionized by the proletariat Cowboy and loved by the intolerant landowners.

In the end, with little or no commentary about those final, almost destitute years of Cody's life - including that poignant final year when after riding in a Wild West Show he had virtually no say in, with his kidneys shutting down, and being in constant pain, helped by his "son" Johnny Baker, Cody went home to die. Warren surprisingly makes little comment about this sad history, which is even more surprising when one sees how much he placed detail on irrelevances or suggested things that never have been proven before.

Maybe it is because I like my biographies to be straightforward -and my Western History to be not simplistic but not mired down in complex issues either that this once promising work turned me off towards the end. That, and another unfortunate debunking of another real American hero. After all, Mr. Cody isn't around to say whether or not he exaggerated his life and\or career, or to refute or not some of Dr. Warren's more damaging charges.

When the Legend becomes fact, print the legend.......2005-10-21

An entertaining combination of history and biography Louis Warren's book manages to capture the elusive spirit of William Cody aka Buffalo Bill. Bill was a combination of hero, poser and entertainer as he frequently told tall tales linking him to the archetypical western hero Wild Bill Hickock. He dressed like Wild Bill, claimed to be his cousin (although the two weren't related Cody did meet Wild Bill at a young age and did travel with him later). Cody would variously claim that he was the youngest pony express rider (he neve rode for the pony express), was a spy during the Civil War (he wasn't) and was at many of Wild Bill's most famous exploits (he wasn't). It's ironic then that Bill Cody felt the need to embelish an already heroic career as a tracker and guide during the infamous Indian Wars. Cody lived during an uncertain time in the west and his role as a "white" Indian scout made people more comfortable that he was one of "us" who could fight and befriend one of "them" (i.e., the Indians whatever group they belonged to) unlike Wild Bill or other well known scouts who had reputations for violence and/or consorting (meaning marrying an Native American Indian)with the "enemy". Warren provides a fair balanced account of these troubled prejudiced times and what those on the frontier did to survive.

Why did Bill Cody feel the need to tell tall tales about his career when he wasn't the charlatan that many trackers and guides were? Cody had that need to be larger than life and learned by observing people like P. T. Barnum that a little bit of truth and a lot of hokum go a long way. As Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young) states in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance",
"When the Legend Becomes fact, Print the Legend". Perhaps Cody felt the facts weren't enough and that he needed to become a legend so that he might be recognized as such during his life time and after he died. Either way, this man who was an odd combination of hero and entertainer entered the the realm of legends. Interestingly, Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock were frequently confused as the same person by people of the time.

This marvelous book covers Cody's youth, his stretch as a scout, entertainer with his Wild West Show (which did feature Wild Bill Hickock at one time although Hickock supposedly became annoyed at one point by Cody's attempts to be like him)and later as a popular celebrity who embodied the lost days of the wild west. Featuring illustrations, Warren's book brings to life a lost era in America when heroism and legends became far more than stories to be told by camp fires late into the night.

LITTLE SURE SHOT (Step Into Reading : Step 3 Book, Grades 2-3)

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A Kiddie Biography - a review of "Little Sure Shot"
Our third grade girls loved it!

LITTLE SURE SHOT (Step Into Reading : Step 3 Book, Grades 2-3)
Stephanie Spinner
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0679934324
Release Date: 1993-10-19

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Illus. in full color. Travel back to the era of Buffalo Bill and the Wild West and meet the most famous sharpshooter of all time, Annie Oakley, who could shoot backward by looking in a mirror--or a knife blade!

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A Kiddie Biography - a review of "Little Sure Shot".......2006-11-27

This interesting reader is about Annie Oakley. It combines photos as well as colorful artwork to depict Annie's life; from the time when she first dares to pick up a gun and hunt for food, circa 1869, to her death in 1926.

It covers a great many aspects of Annie's life including her failed attempt to get an education (she was ridiculed for her poverty), her long marriage to a sharp-shooter (he died 3 weeks after she did), and how she eventually sailed with Buffalo Bill to Europe where she saw Queen Victoria. All in all it is a fascinating story.

My motivation for acquiring this book was that I wanted to introduce some 'biographies' into my daughters reading. This fit the bill.

In regards to the verbal stylings of the book, I have to say that at first I was a little put off as the book is written in a very odd third-person voice - see below. But as it turns out it makes for a fairly engaging read for young folk. I've included a few paragraphs below for your perusal as there is not 'search inside' this book feature for this particular text.

Mama will not like this, thinks the girl.
But I'm going to do it anyhow. I have to.
The girl takes the gun into the woods....

And from later in the book:

Could one day change everything? Yes!
Life was never the same for the Moses
family after Annie picked up that gun.

She put food on the table. She even
sold the game she shot. A fancy restaurant
bought the quail and grouse. A trader
named Frenchy La Motte bought the
foxes, minks, and raccoons for their
skins. For the first time ever, Annie's
family didn't have to worry about money.

As for the Reading Level, I think those that are listed are pretty realistic. My daughter at six could read the words, but was put off by the shear amount of text per page. Probably by second grade this won't be a problem.

Four Stars. [B-] Colorful artwork is supplemented by photos. This book shows Annie as she struggles and overcomes obstacles. She grows from a poor girl to an accomplished woman at a time when social mobility was rather limited for women. Besides Annie, Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull are introduced to children.

The only drawback (assuming that shooting animals doesn't offend you) would be the odd choice of 'voice' that the book is written in. I've included a few paragraphs (above) so you can judge for yourself. We enjoyed this book.

Our third grade girls loved it!.......1998-12-02

This is the second book we read in our recently formed Mother-Daughter Book Club. The members of our Club are third grade students at Calvary Episcopal School in Richmond, Texas. Our girls had this to say about the book: "Little Sure Shot is the best book I've ever read. I really recommend this book. Annie Oakley is the best shot I have ever heard of. She does shooting tricks and sounds like a nice girl." Caitlin, age 8 "I liked this book because she practices and does not give up but I did not like this book because it is a little sad. P.S. You should read this book." Sarah, age 8 "You should read Annie Oakley because she can shoot a cigarette out of a prince's mouth." Grethe, age 8 "I liked this book because Annie was famous, she was a great shot, she was nice, she was the only girl that could shoot like she did, she got married, she made lots of money, she was kind and she found that she could put food on the table." Christine, age 8 If you work hard, you could do anything." Lauren, age 8 "She was a good shot and a nice person. She was very poor. She lived a long time ago. She could do lots of things with a gun." Megan, age 8 A couple of the girls read this book several times and loved it which made their moms happy as well.

Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West

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Probably the best

Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Isabelle S. Sayers
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486241203

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Wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of Annie Oakley. More than 100 rare photographs, posters, handbills, and other memorabilia.

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Check out page 10!.......2006-12-07

Awesome photos, including one on page 10 I haven't seen anywhere else. If you look closely, you can see Annie's nipple thru her outfit!! Mmmmmm--I can imagine victorian Annie blushed and was mortified and wanted to destroy the photo, but her husband grinned and kept the picture himself! I wonder....

Probably the best.......2005-08-08

This is probably the best book about Annie Oakley although it is mostly intended as an illustrated album. It narrates the life story of "little sharp shot" with particular emphasis on the period where she joined the Buffalo Bill Wild West performance, which was, of course, her prime.

The photos are great and the book teaches us a lot about show business mechanisms which we think are very recent but have been used from the days of yore.

I particularly like that amazing picture of Buffalo Bill and some indians crossing a venetian sqare in a gondola. How post-modern can you get?

The only thing preventing me from giving it a 5 star is the paper quality that is not that good but, for this price could you ask for more?

A great book for those who like the West, to know how legends and myths were made, the ways of the world in the late 19th century and, above all, why the USA has such an influence in European pop culture today.

The Reel Cowboy: Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature

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The Reel Cowboy: Essays on the Myth in Movies and Literature
Buck Rainey
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786401060

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Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the strong, silent, asexual deliverer of damsels in distress; the slick and gaudy guitar-strummer; and the virile, violent drifter. In truth, real cowboys had little in common with the fictionalized characters of literature and the silver screen. The "reel" cowboys of yesteryear are recalled in Part One of this work. The make-believe West of Gene Autry, Buck Jones, Harry Carey, and many others is contrasted with the real American West. Part Two discusses the many movies based on the writings of Western writers. The works of Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, Max Brand, Luke Short, Ernest Haycox and many others have been transformed to the silver screen, often with great success. Next examined are the movies based upon three writers of the great Northwest: James Oliver Curwood, Jack London and Rex Beach. A concluding section looks at cinema cowboys on the so-called "sawdust trail." Will Rogers, Tom Mix, Jack Hoxie were among those reel cowboys who performed in circuses and Wild West shows.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 112th Edition Souvenir Program & Magazine

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 112th Edition Souvenir Program & Magazine

Manufacturer: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GT8CAK

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Features: The Silagis, The Oblocki, Charly Baumann, article on history of wild west shows, The King Charles Troupe, The Flying Vazquez, Clown College, Elvin Bale, Dinny McGuire, program of displays, The Slavovi Troupe, Irvin & Kenneth Feld, The Axel Gautier Family, Michael & Kevin Gautier, Christopher Adams, clown names/photos, article on moving & setting up the circus, protecting vanishing animals, The Kovatchevi, The Mighty Michu, Alice Lynn, The Davit Troupe, Daniel Suskow, Parade of Peerless Productions (ensemble performance), The Wild-Wild West (ensemble performance), animal crackers advertisement, The Flying Caceres, Bela Tabak, Sandor & Elizabeth Raski, Siegfried & Roy advertisement, Don Foote, The Dobritch Duo, The Polonia Troupe, The Grantcharovi, The Duo Krisztov, clown car chuckles, behind the scenes, and Walt Disney World on Ice advertisement. Illustrated with color photographs.

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Buffalo Bill: Quite a Dude
A prespective on the college level

Wild West Shows
Paul Reddin
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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ASIN: 0252067878

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Buffalo Bill: Quite a Dude.......2000-12-11

This is an outstanding book. It is well researched, well written, engaging, and fun. Reddin discusses not only Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West show, but also the painter and showman George Catlin, the Miller brothers and their 101 Ranch and wild west show, and Tom Mix, the silent film cowboy. The Catlin segment of the book is fascinating and well conceived. I recommend this book highly.

A prespective on the college level.......2000-08-25

Reddin's book takes a look at America's reaction to the closing of the west as a frontier. Reddin takes his reader from the rise of wild west shows to its eventual demise along the way you get to know not only the people that were involved to the shows but an insight into how it went from the idea of preservation of a cultural history to an entertainment for world wide audiences. The book is painstakingly researched by the author and fits well in any library of western americana or study of the Guilded Age in America. A must read for anyone with an intrest in the history of America between Civil War reconstruction and WWI.

W.F. Cody: Buffalo Bill Collector's Guide With Values

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A Super Guide to Buffalo Bill Collectibles

W.F. Cody: Buffalo Bill Collector's Guide With Values
James W. Wojtowicz
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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ASIN: 1574320084

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No American western hero or showman has ever matched the worldwide fame of William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), known as Buffalo Bill. This American icon was not only a showman but also a bonafide hero of the Old West. Despite the throng of collectors of western memorabilia, there has been a void of resources on the great volume and variety of Buffalo Bill memorabilia available. Finally, this long overdue book is just what collectors have needed. It chronicles Cody's life and his show business career of 44 years. Displaying a staggering amount of collectibles from this entertainment dynasty, its focus is on materials that can still be obtained by collectors today. Over 600 fascinating color photos of advertising pieces, toys, buttons, books, dime novels, and much more are separated into 14 categories and placed in chronological order. For the first time, collectors will be able to see at least one Buffalo Bill Wild West program for each of the 34 seasons. 1998 values. AUTHORBIO: Jim Wojtowicz started collecting at the age of seven - coins, stamps, baseball cards, non-sport cards, soda bottle caps, toy soldiers, cowboys, Indians, and comic books were his boyhood pursuits. After an intermission for marriage and starting a family, he continued on with Western items and antique toys, particularly Buffalo Bill collectibles for 18 years. REVIEW: Little information had been published on Buffalo Bill collectibles and memorabilia until the publication of this book. Besides all the photographs of collectibles, the book gives a very detailed historical account of Buffalo Bill's life.

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A Super Guide to Buffalo Bill Collectibles.......2001-11-01

This 1998 272 page volume features more than 600 large, great, sharp, mostly color photos of every type of Buffalo Bill collectible, along with values. There's plenty of text to inform the reader. Major topics include Wild West Show Programs, Route Books, Lithographs, Books, Letterheads, Dime Novels, Tobacco, Tickets, Toys, Pinbacks, Postcards, and much more. It's like visiting a Buffalo Bill Museum. Very informative and a joy to read.

Annie Oakley in the Wild West Extravaganza!: A Historical Novel (Disney's American Frontier, No 9)

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Annie Oakley in the Wild West Extravaganza!: A Historical Novel (Disney's American Frontier, No 9)
Ron Fontes , and Justine Korman
Manufacturer: Disney Pr (Lib)
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 1562824929

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Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show

Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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ASIN: 068985191X

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From the day she was born, Hannah Mae O'Hannigan has dreamed of being the root-tootinest cowgirl ever. Too bad for Hannah Mae, she lives smack-dab in the middle of a city.

But Hannah Mae's Uncle Coot lives way out West, and Hannah Mae is sure-as-sunshine determined to make it to his ranch. So with the help of her parents, Hannah Mae trains for the life of a rodeo star. She practices her horse ridin' with Sassafras -- a sweet pony from the pony-ride in the park. Her stuffed animals are perfect for ropin' practice, and she masters cow herdin' by rounding up a bunch of pet-store hamsters.

Finally Hannah Mae is ready to lasso her destiny. But when she gets to Uncle Coot's ranch, she is given only ranch-hand chores. Thanks to a mysterious herd on the horizon, Hannah Mae learns that with some quick thinkin' and some sure ridin', she can be the cowgirl who saves the day (and the frontier)!

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Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show.......2004-06-18

This book is wonderful! It's ideal for children of all ages that dream of being cowboys or cowgirls. My 7, 5 and 4 yo love this book. A delight to read aloud. It is packed full with humorous pages.

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