As a former patient of Remuda, I was given this book on my first day of treatment. I read it faithfully throughout the year, and I found hope and encouragement in those pages as I read the stories of women like me. For anyone struggling with an eating disorder or for their loved ones, this book is an important tool for recovery.

My daughter has used this book and was recommended by a counselor to her. It is very good for beginning the day with God and touches on many struggles, joys, fears, etc. that those with an eating disorder go through.

Big Truck and Little Truck lived and worked together on Farley's Farm and Big Truck took care of Little Truck and taught him everything he knew. That is until the day Big Truck's engine wouldn't start. Little Truck cried as he watch Tow Truck pull Big Truck away. He had never been alone. "I'll be back soon," Big Truck assured him. "Just remember the things I taught you." Little Truck was sad and anxious, but he got right to work. He took all the fruits and vegetables to market. He drove alone on the highway and remembered to keep his lights on the road. And when he skidded into a ditch, Little Truck knew how to go easy and rock back and forth to get himself out. After a few days Big Truck came back home and he looked great. His engine purred and he even had a nice new paint job. Little Truck couldn't wait to tell him all the "big truck" things he had done. But there was no time to talk right then. They had lots of work to do on Farley's Farm..... Jan Carr has written a very tender and sensitive story about love and the fear of separation all pre-schoolers experience, from time to time. Her gentle text is complimented by Ivan Bates colorful and expressive artwork and youngsters will be entranced as they watch Little Truck triumph and become more and more sure of himself. This is a wonderful, reassuring story that helps teach self-reliance and the big lesson that separation isn't forever.

My son spent hours at the bookstore reading this book over and over again. So we had to get it. Amazing illustrations!

Hasselstrom's poetry is simply written, easily understood and compelling, but don't let that fool you, her subjects and thinking are complex. This author of both essays and poetry confronts and defines the toughest of life's problems including the death of those we love or hate. My favorite poems are those about accepting and making peace with the ghosts who visit us from time to time. Women with women friends will cherish it.

The acclaimed poet and critic Randall Jarrell must have had Linda Hasselstrom in mind when he described a good poet as "...someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times." If you have read previous works by Hasselstrom you will readily recognize what Jarrell meant. If you have not had that opportunity, you are in luck. This latest effort is your chance to stand in the eye of a thunderstorm and smell the rain, hear the thunder, and experience the brilliant light of pure talent up close and personal. Bitter Creek Junction is the author's fourth volume of poetry and it is a keeper. She writes from, and out, of her western experience but manages to relate such experiences in a manner that has universal meaning and appeal. While I did not grow up in the new or old west and have never experienced ranching, Hasselstrom's narrative poems dealing with her personal experiences in such venues, touch me in familiar ways. But don't be misled. These are not touchy-feely, sugar and spice poems. They are gritty, haunting, powerful, no-nonsense, straight-talking stories of everyday life and living. They are also hopeful, poignant, sensual and, in short, a recognition of the stuff that everyday life demands of each of us. The trick is in the way we handle such events. She writes tellingly about "the stranger Death..." both in memory of her husband; in the story of a cowhand that was the subject of an obituary sent her by a friend; and the death of a friend thirty years ago. The references to a daughter never realized will give you pause. The stories of ranch life, the lives of mothers and grandmothers, and a poem with the advice "Slow grinding-a good technique for any job," will leave you with a longing for more lightning strikes. The title poem, about a mother and her daughter and the non-western cowboy myth of domestic abuse, will leave you with a sense of the landscape and environment Hasselstrom knows so well. I suspect you will long remember this powerful and stirring poem. Randall Jarrell would be proud of Linda Hasselstrom.This is a wonderful collection of life's experiences by a poet that ranks among the best.

I'm neither a young adult, or in any grade between four and eight, but this book is one that everyone should read, no matter what your age. Some pictures are grainy, yes, but then again, THEY'RE OLD and they SHOULD be grainy. This is one book you'll want to pick up every now and then and read all in one sitting. Remember the names of the cowboys and read more books on them. They are as much a part of our history as the American Indians. BUY IT!!! Better yet, BUY THREE!!!

This entertaining and informative book for young adults not only describes the daily lives of black cattlemen; it also includes tales of black pioneers, settlers, lawmen, and outlaws, whose names have been largely forgotton but who were influential in shaping the American West. Despite what we may read and see in western books and films, African Americans played an integral part in America's expansion during the 19th century.

The Black Cowboys is a well-illustrated and beautifully written book

This is a great book for anyone interested in the cattle business, Texas history, or the politics of big business in the middle of this century. One need not be a rancher or cattleman to enjoy this book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone from any background.

If you have an interest in the King Ranch, you should read this book.

If you are at all interested in natural history, history, the prairie, Oklahoma, or families in general, this is a book you will greatly enjoy. It 's also a beautiful book with generous numbers of great black and white photos. Definitely a "must read."

The Buffalo Creek Chronicles is a team effort, uniting the photographs and commentary of Don House, memoirs by Sue Selman and observations by Gary Lantz focusing on the personal, cultural and natural history of the Selman Ranch, some 16,000 acres of native prairie along Buffalo Creek in northwest Oklahoma.

The ranch dates back to when founder J.O. Selman herded longhorns up from Texas during the 1890s while he accumulated land of his own in the big, unfenced cattle country known as the Cherokee Strip.

J.O., or "Jimmy Few Clothes" as he was called due to the stark poverty that inspired him to join a trail drover crew at age 15, eventually amassed more than 60,000 acres between the North Canadian and Cimarron Rivers. Today Sue Selman's children represent the family's fourth generation to live and work on the ranch.

Lantz and House spent over a year exploring the ranch from every angle-on foot, through the window of a pickup truck, in the saddle, in a wagon pulled by a team of draft horses.

During that time they became acquainted with Selman family history, the sodbusters who lived in dugouts carved into dirt bluffs, pioneers who arrived here in covered wagons, epidemics that swept the countryside, plagues of grasshoppers, cowboys with a taste for whiskey, the last horseback bank robbery in Oklahoma, blizzards, dust storms, droughts. The authors found Indian artifacts and ancient buffalo bones half buried in the banks of Sleeping Bear Creek. They rode with the Selmans as they celebrated their family heritage during a two day longhorn cattle drive held on the ranch. The men dodged rattlesnakes, made the acquaintance of a few porcupines, helped guide hunters from as far away as Buffalo, New York and watched a remnant flock of lesser prairie chickens stage a spring courtship drama that once thundered from every suitable knoll stretching from the Cimarron River sandhills to the rainshadow of the Rockies.

A sampling of some of each can be found in this book, along with Sue Selman's recollections of growing up in the rough 'n tumble Buffalo Creek cattle country during the 1950s, a time when little girls learned to rope as well as cope in what was traditionally a man's hard-edged, sunburned world.

This book is about cows, grass and a proud heritage and culture seeking new ways to survive. Fickle cattle markets have prompted Sue and her children to explore nontraditional land use practices, including fee hunting and nature tourism, to keep the family together and the ranch intact.

A special section devoted to Don House's black and white photographs seeks to portray the stark dignity of a landscape that oftentimes unnerves visitors due to the encircling bigness of it all. Capturing he Buffalo Creek country on film is an exercise in interpreting overpowering horizons, a landscape that must be dissected and examined in increments, then somehow visually and philosophically reconnected to grasp the sum of all the parts.

Don's camera examines not just the landscape, but also moments of time and space contained within that landscape. In addition to his contemporary photographs, he has judiciously selected and edited historical pictures that add faces and places to the personalities represented in the text.

The mission of the Buffalo Creek Chronicles was to write the biography of a ranch that continues to defy all odds and exist under the founder's name, along with the people, the plants, the animals and the weather that comprise the character of this particular place on earth. The Buffalo Creek country can have a hard edge to it, and the people must acquire a special toughness to survive here. Yet at the same time this land can be beautiful and brimming with life. The writers hope this book will give readers a new appreciation for not only our rapidly disappearing native grasslands, but also the ranchers who do so much to preserve what little remains

All of John's books are funny and cute. In this book a foxhypnotizes the chickens and makes them dance on the floor. While hedoes that he sneaks over and eats the eggs. The next day Sally May is mad because she did not get her 12 eggs. You should read this book sometime and find out what else happens. END

As usual, Hank is up against an unusual problem. The fox is in the hen house, but he's been INVITED!! The rooster, Drover and Hank are all suspicious about music in the night, but no one seems to be able to stay awake to find out what it is...

I thought that this was a wonderful book. Actually, we heard it on tape, which is many times better than the book form. The author gives each character their own voice and personalities, and sings his songs as they are meant to be heard. These tapes are great for long car rides, rainy days, and just about any other kind of day in between. I HIGHLY recommend these children AND adults.

I liked this book. It was one of the best books I have ever read because the eyes of the bone monster at the end was firefly. Hank give a dog tips on taking to girls and Hank gat scratched on the nose by a cat.

This book is beyond funny. It almost makes you want to wet yourself. In this eposode of Hank The Cowdog, Hank must be brave and try to find out who took his T-bones that he has buried ever so carefully. Pick up this book to read now!

One of my favorite books I have read in the past year was Hank the Cowdog by John R.Erickson. It is A marvelous book about Hank tries to fall in love with another dog he met. One of the major reasons I in joyed this book is because Hank and Drover stays ahead of the ranch security so nothing wouldn't happen to the farm or the chickens, but they decide that its time for A break from the ranch security. Another reason I found in the book to be so wonderful Hank and Drover goes out into the woods and they see four yellow eyes in the dark it was Rip and Snort. They were brothers but Rip and Snort didn't remember Hank and Drover, but Hank told them about the pit where they had parties and got drunk. Then Snort and Rip mumbled about it. Then they thought they would go we eat Hunk later and Drover for snacks then Hank said member what I told you about that don't eat friends that is bad manners. Then snort said, "Oh," but Drover ran off. when Rip seen the silage pit he ran but not snort; he stayed behind Hank. Then Hank said, "That was my chance to escape." To conclude Hank the Cowdog by John R.Erickson was truly my favorite book

Hank 36 is a very good book.I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE!

Loved this book !! Hank , Drover ,and Little Alfred are the main carecters in this book along with some songs this is one of my favorite Hank books I have ever !!

A very funny book starin Hank ,Drover , Little Alferd ,and the rest of the gang. One of my favorite Hank books I have read , a heart warming story mostly about Hank , Little Alferd , and Drover . I loved this book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!