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Little Jake & Many Skies Strike Gold Format: Paperback, 160pp. 5.5 x 8.5 LITTLE JAKE & MANY SKIES STRIKE GOLD, completes a trilogy to the Little Jake western adventure series. The kids live on the Double C Ranch, neighbour to the world famous Douglas Lake Cattle Company. Tension exists between Little Jake and Many Skies because she’s ‘fooled’ with the cowboss’ stud, Rebel. He is jealous of her ability in handling horses. Little Jake is incensed that she broke the ‘buckaroo code’ by working the stud without the owner’s permission. One afternoon, Little Jake rides out to his favourite place, the Upper Meadows. To his chagrin he spots Many Skies following on Rebel. He tries to lose her by riding high into the hills. Soon they are caught in a bad thunderstorm. Little Jake decides the closest shelter would be Pearl Crebbin’s log cabin, deep in the forest. Totally drenched, they dry out around Pearl’s kitchen stove. After cookies and hot chocolate, the spinster hands them a tattered map. The map belonged to Billy Miner, Canada’s famous train robber. Saddle up your pony and ride along with Little Jake and Many Skies as they search for Billy Miner’s hidden cache! |
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Little Jake & The Intruder ISBN 0-9684444-1-5 The sequel to LITTLE JAKE’S COWDOG. LittleJake and his Mom left the city of Vancouver to live on the family ranch in the beautiful Nicola Valley. The Double CRanch is located near one of the world’s largest ranches, The Douglas Lake Cattle Company. Little Jake’s hero, his Gramps, taught him all about ‘the buckaroo way’. But in order to become bonafide buckaroo he had to train his very own cowdog. Relishing a challenge, he trains a coyote to be a ‘cowyote’. And then, he is chased by a grizzly bear! And, he even considers doing something ‘against the law’! And then...Oh My Gosh... ‘the intruder’ shows up to make his lifetotally miserable. Saddle up your pony and ride along to fi nd out what happens to Little Jake. |
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Little Jake's Cowdog: A Western Tale Format: Trade Paperback · Published: March 1999 No one can deny the lure of the West. Our enduring fascination with cowboys and dusty trails, the open range and most of all, horses, provides great entertainment and inspiration for kids and adults. A cowboy poet who has already published a book of trail-mix verse, Silk 'n' Silver, Gerald "Jake" Conkin offers up a Western adventure novel for kids in Little Jake's Cowdog. A rustic tale that draws young readers away from the noxious fumes of the city and the glare of TV screens, this adventure novel recalls a time when a buckaroo could leap onto his - or her - horse and ride off into the sunset. |
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Silk 'n Silver: Cowboy Poetry Format: Trade Paperback · Published: October 1991 Cowboy poetry is far from its brethren in big Canadian cities, where angst, debauchery and malaise are often the dominant themes. As Jake Conkin shows, this genre of the open air, horseback and stretching plains is a celebration of a more clearly articulated lifestyle, even a more romantic one at that. Silk ‘n Silver is a great testament to the West and a unique collection for readers of Canadian poetry. |
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