Best Selling Books by Will James

On an isolated range in the American West, a young horse named Smoky is born and raised. Allowed to run free for the first few years of his life, he’s later captured and tamed by a cowboy named Clint. Clint sees something special in Smoky, and quickly falls in love with the intelligent, wild young horse. As the years pass, Smoky must overcome many challenges ranging from mountain lions and winter storms to horse thieves and the greatest challenge the wilderness faces: modern society. Winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal, Smoky the Cowhorse is Will James’s most famous book. Upon winning the award, James expressed surprise, because he had intended the book for adults.

Smoky, the Cowhorse is the story of a horse--from his first hours on the prairie sod to his final years out to pasture. Smoky grows up wild and wise to the ways to the range, fighting wolves and braving stiff winds. Clint, a bronco-busting cowboy on the R

Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James - This is the classic great horse story written by a cowboy who trains a little black colt to become the most dependable horse. The experiences of a fascinating horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

This composite book contains three wonderful pieces of work by famous writers - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James and The Pacing Mustang by Ernest Thompson Seton. Love to animals, to horses in particular, unites these stories. The first book became a world bestseller. It was purchased by more than 50 million readers. In Smoky the Cowhorse an old cowboy tells about hard life of a real cowboy horse in the wide expanse of the prairie. In The Pacing Mustang, the wild black Pacing Mustang couldn’t be caught by any cowboy. Only a greedy cook was able to cunningly entrap the fast horse. In the end, even the cook was left behind by the horse’s tremendous speed.

Will James'' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives. This first appeared in 1930 as James'' life story, following the author''s evolution from boy to cowboy to artist and writer. This will offer new audiences a spirited blend of fiction and autobiography as James traces the early influences which marked his life... --Midwest Book Review

A young city man learns to become a cowboy.

Will James (1892-1942), artist and writer of the American West, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. It was during his creative years everyone grew to know him as Will James. During the next several years, he drifted, worked at several jobs, was briefly jailed for cattle rustling, served in the army, and began selling his sketches and in 1922 sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders. The sale of several books followed. In 1926 his most famous book, Smoky the Cowhorse, was published, which won the Newbery Medal in 1927. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930. He also wrote Home Ranch (1935) and he wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942. In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books.

Will James delivers round-up wagons, saddle horses, riders, branding irons, and more in this collection of eight short stories.

"Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" is a seminal chronicle of the most famous boomtown in the American West. This narrative history brings to life the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona, during its most violent and legendary era. The work meticulously recounts the rise of the mining camp and the inevitable clashes between lawmen and outlaws that defined the frontier. Central to the story is the legendary feud involving the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil-and Doc Holliday against the Clanton and McLaury families, culminating in the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Walter Noble Burns blends historical fact with a dramatic prose style, capturing the epic proportions of the Old West''s struggle for order amidst chaos. Beyond the famous shootout, the book explores the colorful characters, from silver miners to stagecoach robbers, who shaped the destiny of the Southwest. With its vivid descriptions and compelling storytelling, "Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest" remains an essential piece of Western Americana, preserving the grit and grandeur of a bygone age for modern readers seeking to understand the mythology of the American frontier. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is the story of a cowboy and a cow horse, born on the same day, who together grow big enough for most anything.

A story told against the passage of time, The Other American explores the relationship and lack thereof between two people connected since the age of eight through different phases of life and all its twists and turns. Alan and Emma are two expatriate American children in Perth, Australia. Through the highs and lows of their lives, they have each other, until they don''t. They both try to find each other, but that may not be as easy as it seems.