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Olson, Tod

How to Get Rich on a Texas Cattle Drive: In Which I Tell the Honest Truth About Rampaging Rustlers, Stampeding Steers, & Other Fateful Hazards on the Wild Chisholm Trail

48 pp. | National | March, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4263-0524-5 $18.95 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-0525-2 $27.90
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Scott Allred & Gregory Proch. This latest How to Get Rich book is a fictitious first-person account of an almost-sixteen-year-old cowboy in the 1870s on his first cattle drive. The text details a stampede, conflicts with farmers and greedy ranchers, and encounters with Native Americans. Illustrations, photographs of real people, journals, maps, ledgers, and other "artifacts" enhance the you-are-there approach. An afterword helps sort truth from fiction. Reading list, websites.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

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