Pecos Bill : the greatest cowboy of all time

Bowman, James Cloyd, 1880-1961.

Book 2007

Relates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.

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Folklore United States Juvenile literature

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Legends

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New York Review children's collection

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ISBN:

9781590172247
1590172248

Description:

254 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:

Newbery Honor book, 1938

Contents:

Pecos Bill becomes a coyote
Pecos Bill discovers he is a human
Pecos Bill meets a cowpuncher
Pecos Bill invents modern cowpunching
Pecos teaches the cowboys to play
Pecos Bill invents the perpetual motion ranch
Pecos Bill gentles the Devil's Cavalry
Pecos Bill busts Pegasus
Old Satan busts Pikes Peak
Eyeglass Dude Englishmen
Enter Slue-Foot Sue
Cutting Pee-Wee's eye teeth
Pecos Bill busts the cyclone
Mysterious stranger
Slue-Foot Sue dodges the moon
Rustlers deluxe
Going of Pecos and Widow Maker
Fabled Demigod

LCCN:

2006029651

Control Number:

1584582

Other Authors:

Bannon, Laura, illustrator

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