Ned Huddleston , aka Isom Dart, was an ex-slave turned cowboy and an early settler and successful rancher in the northwest corner of Colorado called "Browns Park." He was both a friend of the infamous Butch Cassidy and his ranching neighbors. He also made some powerful enemies. The life of Isom Dart was never dull, and often dangerous.

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses, men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the...

From a New York Times–bestselling author, "intrigue, danger, and greed are up against integrity, kindness, and love in this engrossing western romance" (Booklist). When news arrived that there was trouble back in Texas, Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot. And he never looked back. He just prayed he'd be in time to save the man who had raised him as a son and keep his best friend from the gallows. He knew he'd...

Depicts how cowboys lived in the Old West, describes their methods of raising cattle, and discusses their pastimes

A wise old cowboy once said, "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around." That about sums up what this book is all about. Just when you think you have it all figured out, some cowboy comes along and puts a simple, plain-spoken spin on life that makes you rethink things a bit.

Luchetti, author of Women of the West and Children of the West, completes the demographic panorama in this absorbing, lavishly illustrated historical celebration. The Old West being the mythic heartland of masculinity, Luchettiś loosely structured thematic treatment has plenty of archetypes to explore, complicate or debunk, including mountain men, Forty-Niners, outlaws and sheriffs (often one and the same), cowboys and Indians and cavalry.

Muddy Waters, whose real name is Dusty, is an old one-legged cowboy who is perfectly happy living alone on his small ranch.