Wilder Good: Cow Boyhood

The Adventures of Wilder Good #7 176-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 9781589881549 Publication Date: 7/20/2021 Thirteen-year-old Wilder has spent his boyhood watching men like his grandpa Papa Milam . . . and wanting to be like them. Now he is leaving on a two day cattle drive through river and canyon country with his aging Papa and another older man, Red Guffey. In big ranch country full of livestock and wild animals, Wilder is forced to recognize that his own instincts and abilities may have become greater than those of his heroes.Winner of the Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Book Winner of Western Writers of America Spur Award for Juvenile Fiction Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Young Readers (Silver) "Cow Boyhood is unapologetically traditional in its valorizing of grit, stoicism and manliness."―The Wall Street Journal "Same superb writing I've come to expect from S.J. Dahlstrom."―Roundup Magazine, Western Writers of America "Original and inherently entertaining."