Lyons Regional Library

Presents basic tools for use with machines, and discusses maintenance, overhaul, and use of engines from 2 to 20 horsepower.

To the spectator, the rodeo cowboy's eight-second ride has become the embodiment of freedom and the frontier spirit. But to the young men who chase glory on the backs of wild horses and angry bulls, those same eight seconds are a small chance at fame and fortune, a surer promise of broken bones and lonely roads, a moment in a much deeper struggle for survival. Dirk Johnson spent a year on the rodeo circuit with these brawny and battered cowboys, watching...

Lou must leave her city life behind to help her grandfather and sister run their debt-ridden family horse ranch in the Rocky Mountains.

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1, features thirty-five action-packed Frontier Stories.

Mary Louisa Roberts won the race of a lifetime—or so she thought. In competition with desperate homesteaders, ruthless land seekers, and a sheriff determined to see her fail, Mary rides out on a horse to strike her claim in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. When she finally thrusts her flag into the dirt, 160 acres becomes her own. But with that claim, she risks more than she could ever imagine. A naïve school teacher and young mother abandoned...

The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, temporality, and eternity interweave throughout Merwin's newest collection of poems. "I have only what I remember," he admits, and his memories are focused and profound--well-cultivated loves, the distant qualities of autumnal light, memories of Pennsylvania miners, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, and "our long evenings and astonishment." From the universe's chiaroscuro shadows, Merwin once again calls...

"A novel of love, forgiveness, and the unbreakable bonds of family from award-nominated author Marin Thomas. When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn't had much luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her, and any time a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away. But now Ruby is thirty and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what's broken between...

Raised by her aunt and uncle amidst the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, young orphan Virginia Tacci has always harbored a deep love for horses--though she knows she may never have the chance to ride. As a shepherdess in sixteenth-century Italy, Virginia's possibilities are doubly limited by her peasant class and her gender. Yet while she tends her flock, Virginia is captivated by the daring equestrian feats of the high-spirited Isabella De'...

Twenty-seven Native American folktales of the southeast, along with their tribes of origin and information about each of the tribes covered.