MY COWBOY BOOK
Bruce / illust.by Jack Merryweather Grant
Hardcover
(randmcnally & co chicago, March 15, 1957)
In this series, Rand McNalley is presenting carefully selected, good literature for the very young child. Books in this series are factual, fanciful, humorous, questioning and adventurous. MY COWBOY BOOK makes a clear effort to show the facts of cowboy life around the 1870's. This book reveals the ingenuity the cowboy used in meeting his everyday needs. Note that he drank out of the outside brim of his hat and watered his horse using the inside of the hat. The illustrations carefully and accurately depict the cowboy's saddle, his clothes and the uses to which he put his clothes. Encourage children to seek out these interesting little details about how the cowboy lived.