Category: Fiction: Youth

Copyright/published Year: 2001 by Mountain Press

ISBN: 0-87842-439-3

Binding: Cloth

Description: Billy is orphaned at the age of four when a steer gores his ì father. A year later, Billy leaves his home ranch--the only life ì he has known--and strikes out across the land with Bopy, an old ì French-Canadian trapper. Bopy doesn't speak English very well, ì but they develop a strong friendship as they gallop across ì plains, over mountains, and through forested landscapes. While ì Bopy is busy prospecting and trapping, Billy spends his time ì drawing, reading, roping with cowboys, and playing with his pet ì wolves, Gros and Otay. Through his adventures, Billy discovers ì what he values most and learns that he can weather anything life ì throws at him, including a nosy grizzly bear and the harsh winter ì of the Canadian north-country.

First published in 1937, Cowboy in the Making is a ì timeless coming-of-age story that shows how life experiences ì develop character. Will James' writing and his 25 pen-and-ink ì drawings capture a boy's view of the West at the turn of the ì twentieth century.

104 pages, illustrated, cloth binding

Condition Information

This book is new.