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Classic western stories: the most beloved stories
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Publication Date
c2009
Language
English
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ISBN
9780811863254
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Western wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet --
Clementine / Percy Montoss --
Old Chisholm Trail --
Old Dan Tucker / Dan Emmett --
A song of greatness --
Little sure shot / Alan Axelrod --
The ballad of Davy Crockett / Tom Blackburn, George Burns --
The coyote and the bear --
I ride an old paint --
The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service --
Home on the range / Brewster Higley and Dan Kelly --
When I was a child on the prairie / Thomas Traherne --
Daniel Boone's last look westward / Humbert Wolfe --
California here I come / Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva, Joseph Meyer --
Buffalo gals --
Oklahoma! / Rodgers and Hammerstein --
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grand / Johnny Mercer --
Gathering wildflowers --
Tom Mix and the hoard of Montezuma / Wilton West --
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys / Ed and Patsy Bruce --
Russell and Remington, "cowboy artists" --
Desperado / Don Henley, Glenn Frey --
Deep in the heart of Texas / June Hershey, Don Swander --
The child is introduced to the cosmos at birth --
Sweet Betsy from Pike --
What the engines said / Brett Harte --
Ogalalla: Indian love song / Vincent Bryan --
Paul Bunyan and his great blue ox / Wallace Wadsworth --
Happy trails / Dale Evans --
This land is your land / Woody Guthrie --
Don't fence me in / Cole Porter --
The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
The prince of the pistoleers --
My sweet Wyoming home / Bill Staines --
Little chipmunks and great owls / Joseph Campbell --
The brave man / Wallace Stevens --
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show / Charles P. Graves --
The Lone Ranger and Tonto --
Thank you, masked man-thank you, Clayton Moore / SamDonato --
The cowboy's lament --
Red wing: an Indian fable / Thurland Chattaway --
Git along little dogies --
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral / Cathy Luchetti --
The shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert Service --
America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward --
The five stork birth / Thomas G. Alword Jr. --
Song of myself / Walt Whitman --
Schoolcraft's diary, written on the Missouri, 1830 / Robert Bly --
Battle of the Little Big Horn --
Little house on the prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder --
Hiawatha's fishing / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Cat's int he cradle / Harry Chapin --
The central mountain of the world / Black Elk --
Cheyenne Warrior Nation trilogy / Lance Henson --
Back in the saddle again / Gene Autry --
She'll be coming round the mountain --
Rocky Raccoon / John Lennon, Paul McCartney --
John Henry --
The days of '49 --
Rawhide! / Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin --
The Wells and Fargo Line vs. "Old Bill" Miner / Roland Evers-Hoyt --
Red River Valley / James Kerrigan --
Billy the Kid / Alan Axelrod --
Calamity Jane / John Heard --
Pecos Bill meets Paul Bunyan and starts a new ranch / Leigh Peck --
On top of Old Smoky --
Patches of sky / Debora Greger --
What the Lewis and Clark Expedition began / Joseph Campbell --
Magic words --
Ol' Man River / Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern --
The yellow rose of Texas --
Refrain.
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