Bibliograph

The last cowboys, a pioneer family in the new West, John Branch

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The last cowboys, a pioneer family in the new West, John Branch

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last cowboys

Responsibility statement

John Branch

Sub title

a pioneer family in the new West

Summary

"A gripping portrait of one family?s gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West?and not just its past. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders?some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents to 13 children and grandparents to many more, find themselves struggling to hang on to the majestic landscape where they?ve been running cattle for 150 years as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? In a powerful follow-up to his prize-winning, best-selling first book, New York Times reporter John Branch delivers an epic and intimate family story deep in the American grain. Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of ranch life and the high drama of saddle-bronc competition, The Last Cowboys chronicles three years in the life of the Wrights, each culminating in rodeo?s National Finals in Las Vegas. Will Bill and Evelyn be able to hold the family together as rodeo injuries pile up and one of their sons goes off on a religious mission? Will their son Cody, a two-time world champion, make it to the finals one last time?and compete with his own son? And will the younger generation?Rusty, Ryder, Stetson, and the rest?be able to continue the family?s ways in the future?"--Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Branding day -- King of the rodeo -- Cowbells in the fog -- Blood and tradition

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