Why Cows Need Cowboys - And Other Seldom-Told Tales From the American West

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers**
Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. We invite you to journey westward with us in this collection of twenty true--and seldom-told--tales of the American West. Here you’ll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. The stories in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western. We hope you enjoy the ride!

About the author

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss’s most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont “The Fifth Marx Brother,” and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Gibbons Plain
• Assisted by: Rocky Gibbons (Editor), Nancy Plain (Editor), Plain Nancy (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2021
• EAN: 9781493051076
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-5107-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Local History, History of the Americas, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History & the past, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states