Most Popular Books by Will James

Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James - This is the classic great horse story written by a cowboy who trains a little black colt to become the most dependable horse. The experiences of a fascinating horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

Follows the experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.

The range, corral, round-up, and rodeo are seen through the eyes of Smoky, a mouse-colored cow horse. Grades 6-9.

Sent away as a colt because his color didn''t reflect his fine racing lineage, Colonel, the Dark Horse, finds himself in a strange land thousands of miles from home. Charro, born in the badlands of the arid West and orphaned at a few months of age, is rescued from starvation by a cowboy named Brad. At the Hip-O Ranch on the edge of the badlands, fate brings the two colts together to form a bond that cannot be broken. With 40 line drawings and colorful prose, Will James renders two weak-kneed, green colts who become the best of their breeds: Colonel, a race-winning champion, and Charro, the wiliest wild mustang the West has ever seen.

Will James (1892-1942), artist and writer of the American West, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. It was during his creative years everyone grew to know him as Will James. During the next several years, he drifted, worked at several jobs, was briefly jailed for cattle rustling, served in the army, and began selling his sketches and in 1922 sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders. The sale of several books followed. In 1926 his most famous book, Smoky the Cowhorse, was published, which won the Newbery Medal in 1927. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930. He also wrote Home Ranch (1935) and he wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942. In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books.

A young city man learns to become a cowboy.

Stories about a working cowboy named Bill who drifts from Montana to Arizona.

Will James delivers round-up wagons, saddle horses, riders, branding irons, and more in this collection of eight short stories.

Will James'' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives. This first appeared in 1930 as James'' life story, following the author''s evolution from boy to cowboy to artist and writer. This will offer new audiences a spirited blend of fiction and autobiography as James traces the early influences which marked his life... --Midwest Book Review

Collection of some of James''s best stories from his previous work along with seven original stories, all accompanied by the author''s lively illustrations. Here are sixteen stories of cowboys growing up, learning the ropes, proving their mettle, even falling in love, each told in the inimitable, colorful style of Will James.

This composite book contains three wonderful pieces of work by famous writers - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James and The Pacing Mustang by Ernest Thompson Seton. Love to animals, to horses in particular, unites these stories. The first book became a world bestseller. It was purchased by more than 50 million readers. In Smoky the Cowhorse an old cowboy tells about hard life of a real cowboy horse in the wide expanse of the prairie. In The Pacing Mustang, the wild black Pacing Mustang couldn’t be caught by any cowboy. Only a greedy cook was able to cunningly entrap the fast horse. In the end, even the cook was left behind by the horse’s tremendous speed.

This is the story of a cowboy and a cow horse, born on the same day, who together grow big enough for most anything.

“This book is the story of a church that has begun to experience the transformative change that will happen when you consciously choose to enter a partnership type of relationship with Jesus, and allow Him to use you beyond your wildest dreams.” So says Will James, senior pastor of the Paradise Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church in National City, California. In this book he outlines how members of the Paradise Valley Church are feeding, clothing, and educating Jesus in the form of some of His needy children who are refugees from many parts of the world. Besides providing food, shelter, clothing, English language classes, and a work training program for people who have fled religious and political persecution, helping many to obtain a college education and good jobs that take these people off of government assistance, church members have learned total dependence upon a God who provides for all of their needs at just the right time.

A story told against the passage of time, The Other American explores the relationship and lack thereof between two people connected since the age of eight through different phases of life and all its twists and turns. Alan and Emma are two expatriate American children in Perth, Australia. Through the highs and lows of their lives, they have each other, until they don''t. They both try to find each other, but that may not be as easy as it seems.

"John B. Mitchell started out with nothing but a saddle and a long rope--long enough to lasso someone else''s cattle. He left Texas in a hurry with an "appropriated" herd and headed north to find a spread of his own. Half a century later he reigned over the Seven X Ranch, a "fair sized outfit" about sixty miles long and more than forty miles wide. With characteristic understatement and drawl, Will James tells the story of life on the Seven X--a story of hard work, tough humor, and longtime friendships. Join John B. and his family on the home ranch as they round up long horns, ride circle with the cowboys, and try in vain to keep tenderfoots from the city out of trouble." --

Will James (1892-1942), artist and writer of the American West, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. It was during his creative years everyone grew to know him as Will James. During the next several years, he drifted, worked at several jobs, was briefly jailed for cattle rustling, served in the army, and began selling his sketches and in 1922 sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders. The sale of several books followed. In 1926 his most famous book, Smoky the Cowhorse, was published, which won the Newbery Medal in 1927. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was written in 1930. He also wrote Home Ranch (1935) and he wrote his last book, The American Cowboy, in 1942. In all, he wrote and illustrated 23 books.

Andy, Stub and Hugh are hired by a range superintendent to round up the orneriest mustangs in the county.

The story of the first cowboy in the Southwest and of his son and grandson.

While spending their summer vacation with Uncle Frank and Uncle Bill, two city children discover and begin to explore what seems to be an old gold mine shaft, but find that it is guarded by mountain lions.

A young orphan boy finds companionship with his horses and an old trapper as they travel together through the Rocky Mountains of the Old West.

Kip and Scootie spend the summer out west with Uncle Bill.

A fine-looking chestnut bronc receives the name Scorpion when he explodes unexpectedly after several days of unusually good behavior. "That horse, " a cowboy says, "is going to be either mighty good or mighty bad." Tim, an outlaw on the run, trades his tired horse for Scorpion. The horse acts truly wicked only when Tim makes poor decisions--keeping him out of trouble. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Join Flint Spears in his quest to be the best all-around cowboy on the rodeo circuit, from busting broncs in the very first rodeo on the range to roping steers in front of European royalty.

By the time Billy Roper was one year old, his dad was toting him along on horseback rides, and in a few more years Billy was leading his own pony around the corral. While keeping there branding fire hot at roundup time, young Billy watches the skillful ri

En un campo aislado en el oeste americano, un joven caballamado Smoky nace y se cría. Se le permite correr libre durante los primeros años de su vida, más tarde es capturado y domesticado por un vaquero llamado Clint. Clint ve algo especial en Smoky, y rápidamente se enamora del joven caballo inteligente y salvaje. A medida que pasan los años, Smoky debe superar muchos desafíos que van desde leones de montaña y tormentas de invierno hasta ladrones de caballos y el mayor desafío que enfrenta el desierto: la sociedad moderna. Ganador de la Medalla Newbery de 1927, Smoky the Cowhorse es el libro más famoso de Will James. Al ganar el premio, James expresó sorpresa, porque había pensado el libro para adultos.