cowgirl books

Carli Jameson is the co-owner of a struggling horse training business who hopes winning a prestigious equestrian show will help gain clients.  She eagerly anticipates she and her horse Beau will do well in the competition and that her professional pursuits will improve.   Little did Carli know the day of the show Beau would...

Springtime and summer beckons nature lovers with a wide range of activities including hiking, birdwatching, and horseback riding.  Some combine birdwatching with hiking and horseback riding.  According to a variety of national news outlets, birdwatching has taken flight as America’s number one hobby.  All bird watchers need is an inexpensive pair of binoculars and a...

Hit the road Rachael Ray. There’s only room in this saddle bag for one cookbook and right now its Cowboy Cuisine: Beyond Biscuits and Beans. Award winning cowgirl poet, rancher, and cook Deanna Dickinson and cattle woman and master chef Gay Gardella have combined their talents to create a cookbook that delivers an array of diverse and...

Meghan Callahan was just like most girls her age.  She enjoyed being outdoors, spending time with her friends, and, most of all, horseback riding. Her parents lovingly noted that she was “horse crazy.”  Horses offered a whole new view of the world and Meghan wanted that.  She becomes a confident rider on the back of...

Equine enthusiast and author Cathy Woods has loved horseback riding for many years.  Not only is she an avid trail rider but she’s also a devotee of yoga.  In the book Yoga for Riders, Woods combines those passions to enable rider and horse to better connect to one another and build the undeniable bond between...

Grilling and Campfire Cooking from the Everyday Cookbook Collection by Jo Ann Martin and Vickie Hutchins (Gooseberry Patch Publishers). Cowgirls working their ranch or traveling from rodeo to rodeo in their campers and having to come up with tasty meals on the fly will appreciate the new book Grilling and Campfire Cooking by Jo Ann Martin...

Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the RailroadBy Chris Enss (TwoDot). When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad’s completion from New York to San Francisco.  For more than five...

Owning and training a wild horse is not for the faint of heart. According to the most seasoned professionals, training a wild horse takes more time than most expect. For horsewoman, horse clinician, and Western trainer Vivian Gabor, the task was one of the most difficult she’d ever undertook but also the most rewarding. In the...