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I'm looking for a fun read aloud for especially Mark (11) and also Grace (9) about cowboys and the wild west. Post Civil War time frame but not "prairie" type books....This boy could use some excitement in a read aloud set during this time frame. 1865-1900
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It's not Wild West but Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and set during that time. hmmmm a lot of the old westerns would be in that time frame but I don't know the appropriateness.. like Zane Gray and Louis Lamour..
What about the Ralph Moody books?
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Holling C. Holling's The Book of Cowboys!!!
FANTASTIC READ ALOUD!!!!
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Ahhhh!!! Our whole library system doesn't have with and I don't have any money to purchase it right now....so keep those suggestions coming... 
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JodieLyn wrote:
It's not Wild West but Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and set during that time.
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I have never read Tom Sawyer aloud...that would be fun, or maybe an afternoon "listen aloud".
What Ralph Moody books? I don't know about his different books?
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The Little Britches books are the ones I was thinking of. I haven't read them but a friend of mine who is pretty choosey about what she reads recommended them to me.
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 The Ransom of Red Chief a short story by O Henry maybe?
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Hi Joann,
I asked a question last year during Rodeo Time about book ideas (under Living Literature) and was given some suggestions.
Hopefully the link below works and will send you to it. Some of the books may have the pioneer theme but I hope this helps.
http://4real.thenetsmith.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=33161&KW=ro deo
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Not exactly what you are looking for, but for a funny and quick read aloud, how about Hank the Cowdog.
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JodieLyn wrote:
| The Little Britches books are the ones I was thinking of. I haven't read them but a friend of mine who is pretty choosey about what she reads recommended them to me. |
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The Little Britches books are our FAVORITES, but they are set a bit later. He does become a cowboy when his family moves out West, but it is the time frame when the end of the time of the cowboy is coming in. VERY good, and some exciting parts that are realistic (he becomes a trick rider and competes in rodeos as well as actually working with the horses and cattle), but not really a Wild West story as much as a coming of age.
Ralph Moody (the Little Britches series is autobiographical) was a horseman, and a lot of his books have that theme. We have Come On Seabiscuit on cd and like it a lot, but I haven't read his Wild West books. However, based on what I have read and thoroughly enjoyed of his, if I were looking Wild West books, I'd check his.
Here are the ones listed in the bibliography on Wikipedia:
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* Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier (1955)
* Geronimo, Wolf of the Warpath (1958)
* Riders of the Pony Express (1958)
* Wells Fargo (1961)
* Silver and Lead: The Birth and Death of a Mining Town (1961)
* America Horses (1962)
* Come on Seabiscuit (1963)
* The Old Trails West (1963)
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And, can I just add that I LOVE how it is clear Ralph Moody's education came from his home life even though he was sent to school in fits and starts, never completed a formal education, and didn't become an author until he was 50 years old! But, his mother was constantly reciting poetry to them, reading Dickens to them (the read A Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve), and they would all do something like hooking a rug while reciting Shakespeare's Julius Caesar together the children having memorized multiple assigned roles. Just really cool stuff to read as a homeschooler.
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The Black Pony, Old Yeller, Little Arlis, Smokey the Cow Horse, The Long Horn Trail, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, The wind Blows free are all books we've read out loud. Old Yeller is our Favorite.
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Good suggestions. I'm listening also as we are doing our annual western mini unit at the time of our annual National Western Stock Show visit this month. I am hoping to include more new cowboy/western reads we haven't done.
My first thoughts here were to include the Pony Express and famous frontiersman (Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Kickok, etc.). As Linsday psoted, Ralph Moody has a Pony Express story. I'm hoping to get that one. Another one that is very enjoyable is Riding the Pony Express by Clyde RObert Bulla. It's a shorter chapter book so would be a quick read aloud. We are going to be focusing on the Pony Express as it is the 150th anniversary of the Pony Epress during the 2010-11 years (the Pony only lasted 18 months). I'm going to start a specific Pony Express thread.
Mrs. B. I loved your recommendations. I hadn't thought about some of those books in awhile - thinking of them more as animal stories than cowboy - but they certainly are cowboy stories. Cowboys is a big broad topic and cowboy/ranchers (like Little Bristches) are very much representatives of true cowboys - not just the gunslinging, cattle driving, Indian fighting sterotype.
And we have never tackled Old Yellar here - which I can't believe - probalby because the movie was so sad for me when I was a kid. I didn't realize that the author, Frank Gipson, had more books. Have to look into those. He has a book, Cowhand: The True Story of a Working COwboy. That looks like a very realistic account.
We haven't done the western/cowboy stories republished by Bethlehem books that you mentioned.
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Well, I hope that you find some that you like. A few others are "A Lantern in her Hand." Margurite Henry's "Medicine hat stallion" is about a boy who becomes a pony express rider. And then a really great classic would be "The Virginian." Also, Rose Wilder Lane wrote a story called "Young Pioneers" that wasn't bad.
We love cowboy stories here... 
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It's not "cowboy", exactly, but it's definitely 1880's west - the Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald describes his fictionalized experiences growing up in Utah (in a Catholic family) with a conniving, brilliant older brother.
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Thank you, Jen for listing The Book of Cowboys. I just ordered a used copy off of Amazon. And thanks to everyone for the great list.
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I just want to advise everyone to get an older, used hardcover edition as opposed to the newer brown-covered edition. I ordered the new edition and was sorely disappointed. I assumed at that price it would be very similar to the original...but no! It is small with hard-to-read type. None of the original colored plates are in color; many of the side illustrations are so small that they are very difficult to really see well. Holling's illustrations are so vital to his books. We have The Book of Indians in the original edition and it is so far superior to this reprint of The Book of Cowboys that I feel it is worth the money even if an older edition is slightly more expensive (which actually it wasn't...I don't even know what I was thinking when I ordered the newer paperback edition! ) The new edition would work as a read-aloud if you don't care about the size of the illustrations, or if your eyes are younger than mine! 
Hope someone else can benefit from my mistake!
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