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Hardman, Ric Lynden

 
9780385325431: Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western

Sinopsis

A historically accurate, yet comically offbeat story of the Wild West follows the adventures of a teenaged cowboy and his companion "cattalo"--a cross between a cow and buffalo--as they follow a cattle drive to Oklahoma.

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81. The place: Odessa, Texas. Seventeen-year-old Wylie Jackson lands a job as assistant cook on what will be his first cattle drive. Before he departs, Wylie's friend Alice charges him with taking her pet cattalo, Roselle, to her aunt in Enid, Oklahoma. Alice's father bred a longhorn cow with a buffalo and Roselle was the result: a gangly, gawky animal trained to count with her hooves and sit on her haunches.

Only days into the drive, a disastrous stampede occurs. Fearing he was the cause, Wylie abandons the drive and sets off for Enid, riding a stolen horse with Roselle in tow. Now a wanted man, he lives in constant fear of capture. Along his journey, he encounters Tim-oo-leh the medicine man, Majul Majul the electric belt salesman, Carl Merkle, infamous thief and killer, and other friendly, dastardly, and suspicious types. Wylie's story is a Western adventure, a search for self, and a sensitive portr

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9780440228127: Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western (Laurel-Leaf Books)

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ISBN 10:  0440228123 ISBN 13:  9780440228127
Editorial: Laurel Leaf, 1999
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