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Pecos Bill : the greatest cowboy of all time

Title
Pecos Bill : the greatest cowboy of all time / by James Cloyd Bowman ; pictures by Laura Bannon.
Author
Bowman, James Cloyd, 1880-1961.
Publication
New York : New York Review of Books, [2007?].

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Additional Authors
Bannon, Laura
Description
254 p. : ill. (some col.) ;c 23 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
New York Review children's collection
Subject
  • Pecos Bill (Fictitious character) > Legends
  • Folklore > United States
  • Tall tales
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.
ISBN
  • 9781590172247 (alk. paper)
  • 1590172248 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2006029651
OCLC
72987796
Author
Bowman, James Cloyd, 1880-1961.
Title
Pecos Bill : the greatest cowboy of all time / by James Cloyd Bowman ; pictures by Laura Bannon.
Imprint
New York : New York Review of Books, [2007?].
Series
New York Review children's collection
Added Author
Bannon, Laura, ill.
Branch Call Number
J 398.2 B
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