Download or read book Real Love n Cowboy written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter Buckley meets the wedding cake baker Violet Kringle and feels jingles all the way to his heart… But can he let his heart feel what he’s most scared of? Can he take the step forward that his brother and many of his cousins have taken? Can he seek love when it’s the thing that hurts the most when it’s gone? Don’t miss this delightful, touching story of a cowboy who locked his heart up--and the tiny woman who looks like a swirl of whip cream when she whirls into town, turns his world upside down, and puts his heart into an uproar. Welcome back to Lone Star, Texas… the town full of wonderful, meddling people who now have a wedding about to happen and a new couple falling in love as they fight hard to feel nothing. Sometimes love opens its arms wide and sweeps away everything but sweet love... like icing on the cake Violet is baking for Hunter's cousin's wedding--like the cake, he's just too sweet to ignore.

Download or read book The Feminist and the Cowboy written by Alisa Valdes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club returns with an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down. Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’s childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career—at twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms Magazine. Yet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jackets—until she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject. Yet as she falls head-over-spurs for him and their relationship finds harmony, she finds the strength, peace, and happiness that comes from embracing her femininity. From their first date the Cowboy makes her pulse race, and she discovers that “when men… act like men rather than like emasculated boys, you as a woman will find not only great pleasure in submitting to them but also great growth as a person.” Told with plenty of humor and candor, The Feminist and the Cowboy will delight the many readers who made The Pioneer Woman a bestseller—not to mention every woman who dreams of being swept away by a rugged cowboy.

Download or read book The Cowboy s Unexpected Love written by S. J. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cowboy's Unexpected Love is the first book in the new, sweet n steamy, western romance series from USA Today Bestselling author SJ McCoy. The MacFarland Ranch series takes us back to Paradise Valley, Montana, where the winters are cold and hard, and the cowboys are hot and harder. Wade MacFarland is one of life's good guys. He built and runs a guest lodge on the family ranch. His marriage to his high school sweetheart ended in bitter divorce years ago, his only consolation being that they didn't have kids. He's not looking for love anymore, but he'd be happy if it found him. What he doesn't expect is to find love sitting in a ditch on the side of the highway - in a wedding dress. Sierra Hartford is running from her wedding - and running for her life. The life that she's never been in charge of. She's the heiress to Hartford Enterprises, and with her father and brother dead, she's a billionaire in her own right. Running from someone who plans to kill her lands her in the arms of a kind, sexy cowboy who makes her want a whole new life. And if simply staying alive wasn't enough to deal with, Sierra's also about to become the adoptive mom to two small children. She's never met them, but she's determined to give them a good life. She might be falling hard for Wade, but he's divorced because he didn't want children. He didn't expect her to come into his life, how can she expect him to accept the children? Pick up your copy of this sweet and steamy romance and you'll laugh and cry with Wade and Sierra as they discover that unexpected love can be the very best kind.

Download or read book Cowboy Wills written by Monica Holloway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christened “charming” and “winning” by the Washington Post and “touching” by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway’s deeply moving memoir shares the unforgettable story of an extraordinary little boy and the irresistible puppy who transformed his life. The day Monica Holloway learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son has autism spectrum disorder, she takes him to buy an aquarium. But what Wills really wants is a puppy, and from the moment Cowboy Carol Lawrence, an overeager and affectionate golden retriever, joins the family, Monica watches as her cautious son steps a little farther into the world. With his new “sister” Cowboy by his side, Wills finds the courage to invite kids over for playdates, conquer his debilitating fear of water, and finally sleep in his own bed with the puppy’s paws draped across his small chest. And when Cowboy turns out to need her new family as much as they need her, they discover just how much she has taught them about devotion, loyalty, and never giving up. Sometimes it’s what you don’t know to hope for that saves you. For Monica and Wills, salvation came in the form of a puppy with pale blond fur, chocolate brown eyes, a fondness for chewing the crotch out of underpants, and a limitless capacity for love.

Download or read book Love Catch n Cowboy written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ace Buckley lost his parents when he and his twin brother were ten. Embraced by their uncle and aunt, they joined the family of all their cousins. Ace is strong, determined and a lover of both ranching and fishing. He’s too busy for love—or actually taking the chance of finding it, then leaving behind broken-hearted children if something ever happened to him. Basically, he’s a chicken and hides it behind his love of the outdoors, determined to never take a chance on loving and losing. Kelsy Camry has come to Lone Star to be closer to the grandfather she hasn’t seen in years because of family issues. Her grandfather’s antique fishing store holds much joy from years gone by, but it’s his main customer, Ace Buckley, who holds her attention most. The strong, handsome cowboy is stirring up a herd of emotions she’s not ready for… but her heart keeps floating to the to the surface every time he turns those amazing blue-green eyes on her. Can love find them when they both have deep, serious reasons to evade it? In Lone Star, Texas, the pastures are green; the water is inviting and love… it’s undeniable. These are entertaining, emotion-filled clean and wholesome love stories that will leave you smiling.

Download or read book Sweet Love n Cowboy written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire cowboy with a huge crush on an intriguing store owner in need of his help…can West help Genna find more than she’s asked for, with true love and a future with him? Genna Barry grew up traveling the world with her parents but dreamed of settling down in a small town and making a life of her own. Now, as an adult dropped by the man, she thought she loved she’s found Lone Star, Texas and opened a real store to go with her booming online store. She’s loving her life, a life that involves no dating since she’s not willing to sacrifice the happiness she’s found by being rejected ever again. West Buckley admires the beautiful store owner and is highly infatuated with her, but word is she’s not interested in dating anyone. So, he’s trying to hide how he feels and just be her friend—a hard task when his interest is so strong even his brothers see it. When one of Genna’s online clients wants to come to town and bring her single daughter to shop and hopefully meet some cowboys, West is pulled in to help. And hiding his feelings for Genna gets tougher. But though he keeps the books for his family’s huge ranch and likes raising cattle he lives at his grandparent’s old homestead and raises lots of goats, keeping his grandmother’s favorite hobby alive—little does he know it’s also a dream of Genna’s…can it be a lead into the two of them finding love together? Welcome to Lone Star, Texas: in this fun, inspirational, heartwarming romance series, you’ll watch as each of the Buckleys find love in the small town, surrounded by wonderful...meddling people eager to see all of them happy. These are entertaining, emotion-filled love stories that will leave you smiling.

Download or read book Cowboy Dad written by Melissa Broughton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up as the child of an alcoholic can be full of heartbreak, disappointment, and pain-but it can also contain moments of brilliance, passion, and love. In Cowboy Dad: Love, Alcoholism, and a Dying Way of Life, author Melissa Broughton offers a raw and candid look at life with her alcoholic father, as well as the beautiful country lifestyle she led while living on a small-town ranch. Poignant but also full of humor and wit, these true stories take a heart wrenchingly honest look at alcoholism, grief, death, and faith while detailing a tight-knit family's attempt to cope with a horrible disease...and its profound consequences. Both inspiring and encouraging, these tales detail Broughton's life growing up on the ranch under the specter of addiction and convey the acute effect that alcoholism can have-not only on the addicts, but also on the loved ones around them. For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, Cowboy Dad is a beautiful story of family, sorrow, and learning how to separate the person from the disease.

Download or read book Heart Love n Cowboy written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She lost the love of her life, now she’s looking for a new start that has nothing to do with her heart; looking for the love of his life he sees quickly that she’s had what he wants and isn’t interested in risking her heart again. In this town full of sweet, inviting people, can Sydney Foster find the new start her and her daughter need? Her grandfather gave her a hint of where she should begin again when he left his home in Lone Star, Texas to her, but she hadn’t taken the hint. Now, after someone from the town inquired about buying the house to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, she’s rethinking her life and checking out her grandfather’s hopes for her. Is this sweet and friendly town where she and her darling daughter can take control of their lives, the place their hearts can recover from the loss of the man they’d loved so desperately? Was her grandfather right? Was this place their new start? Dustin Buckley had a tendency to get stuck on the sad things in life—especially where women were concerned. He’d learned in college that it didn’t matter if his family had more money than he cared about, money he didn’t talk about or take for granted—he’d learned where love was concerned it got in the way. Since then, he’s guarded his heart until now… the day he's met the new woman in town. The woman he can’t stop thinking about—the woman who wants nothing to do with him. Can the sweet and hopeful town of Lone Star, Texas work a miracle and give Sydney and Dustin help in finding love that waits on them? This is a heartfelt love story of overcoming loss and embracing what life offers—wonderful memories to cherish and new beginnings full of love, laughter with a heart love'n cowboy. These are entertaining, emotion-filled love stories that will leave you smiling.

Download or read book Forever Love n Cowboy written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance that started it all… when the Buckley brothers tried to fix up their brother Tucker’s friend Jace—they didn’t know they were next! Eight years ago, just before they were to be married, Lila Willis walked away, believing a lie about Jace Calhoun, and she never came back to Lone Star, Texas, to visit her gram or to chance a glimpse at the man who’d broken her heart. Rancher Jace Calhoun had lost the love of his life because she’d believed the worst of him and left without hearing him out. She had driven out of town and he hadn’t gone after her to try to change her mind. After all, how could he love someone who believed he was that low? That’s how it all began but now, after years of staying away, Lila is back in town to help her injured grandmother, who owns the store next to Jace’s grandfather’s feed store—the place their romance began. And of course, Jace’s large dog, a Weimaraner—or “Weim”—loves to love on people, and makes sure Jace and Lila meet again, right from the start. Jace’s life changed years earlier when the woman he loved left. Now she’s back, so what’s he going to do about it? Enjoy this introduction to Lone Star, Texas, and the Buckley family and all their friends—you’re going to love these cowboys as they find their happily-ever-afters in this small Texas town full of love, laughter, and promises of forever.

Download or read book A Death at Crooked Creek written by Marianne Wesson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama…The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at its best: a marriage of spectacular writing and hard, documented truth presented by a brilliant author who doubles as a gifted and fastidious legal scholar and historian." —Andrew Popper, American University One winter night in 1879, at a lonely Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death. The dead man’s traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboy from Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blustery prairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, Sallie Hillmon, left to mourn—except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmon had taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance companies refused to pay on the policies, claiming that the dead man was not John Hillmon, and Sallie was forced to take them to court in a case that would reach the Supreme Court twice. The companies’ case rested on a crucial piece of evidence: a faded love letter written by a disappeared cigarmaker, declaring his intent to travel westward with a “man named Hillmon.” In A Death at Crooked Creek, Marianne Wesson re-examines the long-neglected evidence in the case of the Kansas cowboy and his wife, recreating the court scenes that led to a significant Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of hearsay evidence. Wesson employs modern forensic methods to examine the body of the dead man, attempting to determine his true identity and finally put this fascinating mystery to rest. This engaging and vividly imagined work combines the drama, intrigue, and emotion of excellent storytelling with cutting-edge forensic investigation techniques and legal theory. Wesson’s superbly imagined A Death at Crooked Creek will have general readers, history buffs, and legal scholars alike wondering whether history, and the Justices, may have misunderstood altogether the events at that bleak winter campsite. Marianne Wesson is Professor of Law and President’s Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado Law School. She is the author of best-selling and prize-winning legal novels including Render up the Body, A Suggestion of Death, and Chilling Effect. She lives in a Colorado mountain valley with her husband, llamas, dogs, and visiting wildlife.

Download or read book Her Billionaire Cowboy s Inconvenient Marriage Blessing written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He needs a temporary wife to save his business and his parent's legacy, she needs money to save her dream...will an inconvenient wedding be a blessing of love? Beck McCoy would have given up every cent of his inheritance to have his mother and father back from the fatal plane crash that killed them when he was a boy. Instead of being afraid to fly he grew up obsessed with flying. It has always been his connection to his father, who also loved to be in the sky. Part owner of a private jet charter service he loves every moment of it. When his grandfather demands he find a bride or lose his inheritance, the legacy his dad and mom helped build for him, Beck is furious but determined to do whatever it takes. He must marry or start from scratch--something he's not afraid to do but losing the inheritance from his parents makes his heart hurt. He needs a plan and he needs it fast. Mollie Mae Darling is about to lose everything. First her beloved grandfather and now she’s just learned that the ranch she loves is about to belong to the bank. In a fateful moment she meets a handsome, sympathetic cowboy and unexpected sparks flame to life inside of her hurting heart. But she’s suspicious when he makes her a crazy offer of marriage in exchange for the money she needs to keep her dream alive. Can this be for real? Her heart says yes, but that makes his offer all the more dangerous. Is this the blessing she's needed for so very long? McCoy Billionaire Brothers series...Two Billionaire Brothers determined to marry off their grandchildren...one is going to do it from the grave using his last will and testament...can the other do it before it’s too late!

Download or read book The Horse Lover written by H. Alan Day and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity then dropped into his lap to establish a sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses previously warehoused by the Bureau of Land Management. After Day successfully lobbied Congress, those acres became Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary established in the United States. The Horse Lover is Day’s personal history of the sanctuary’s vast enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Day’s deep connection with the animals in his care is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, with which he trained fifteen hundred wild horses. The Horse Lover weaves together Day’s recollections of his cowboying adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance, and hope. This heartfelt memoir reveals the Herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of wild horses.

Download or read book Billionaire Cowboy s Dream Come True written by Debra Clopton and published by Debra Clopton Parks Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last Doctor Austin Tanner catches the garter at his brother’s wedding while at the same time his gaze locks with a beautiful server watching him—the next moment she’s down. All of his brothers believe after catching the garter he’ll meet his match, just like all but one of them did. But not Austin—she’s hurt and that’s all he’s thinking about as he rushes forward. He’s never totally believed as his brothers have that catching a garter led to them finding the loves of their lives. Tess Piper has had a disastrous several months that led her to take the job as a server at weddings. She’s lost so much in the last heartbreaking months and is trying to overcome it all by starting a new life in a new town where no one knows her. But the moment her gaze meets the handsome cowboy, who she’d also learned was a doctor, she freezes and then she falls…and when she opens her eyes, she finds the gorgeous doctor gazing down at her…and her life changes. Or it will if she lets it. Once again, when these billionaire cowboys each catch a wedding garter, the next woman they meet is their one true-love. Sounds simple but as always not so easy… This is a smile worthy clean & wholesome romance series you’ll love.

Download or read book Ghetto Cowboy written by G. Neri and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way. When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philadelphia to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing Cole expects to see is a horse, let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t live in the inner city. But in his dad’s ’hood, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on. At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home. But when the City threatens to shut down the stables-- and take away the horse Cole has come to think of as his own-- he knows that it’s time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known urban riders of Philly and Brooklyn, this compelling tale of latter -day cowboy justice champions a world where your friends always have your back, especially when the chips are down.

Download or read book Black Cowboys in the American West written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published articles and exciting new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience. Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work—and to do it without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited on African Americans in many southern communities and northern cities. Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.

Download or read book A Taste of Cowboy written by Kent Rollins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he's beating Bobby Flay at chicken-fried steak on the Food Network, catering for a barbecue, bar mitzvah, or wedding, or cooking for cowboys in the middle of nowhere, Kent Rollins makes comfort food that satisfies. A cowboy's day starts early and ends late. Kent offers labor-saving breakfasts like Egg Bowls with Smoked Cream Sauce. For lunch or dinner, there's 20-minute Green Pepper Frito Pie, hands-off, four-ingredient Sweet Heat Chopped Barbecue Sandwiches, or mild and smoky Roasted Bean-Stuffed Poblano Peppers. He even parts with his recipe for Bread Pudding with Whisky Cream Sauce. (The secret to its lightness? Hamburger buns.) Kent gets creative with ingredients on everyone's shelves, using lime soda to caramelize Sparkling Taters and balsamic vinegar to coax the sweetness out of Strawberry Pie.

Download or read book Aloha Rodeo written by David Wolman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo championships Oregon Book Award winner * An NPR Best Book of the Year * Pacific Northwest Book Award finalist * A Reading the West Book Awards finalist "Groundbreaking. … A must-read. ... An essential addition." —True West In August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka’au’a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions—and American legends. An unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West. What few understood when the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands’ rugged volcanic slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s. Tracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, “Holy City of the Cow.” At the turn of the twentieth century, larger-than-life personalities like “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne’s annual Frontier Days celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the “Daddy of ‘em All.” The hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders’ shoulders during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn’t just astound the locals; they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the binary narrative of “cowboys versus Indians,” and the very concept of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring questions of identity, imperialism, and race, Aloha Rodeo spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the American West.