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Gr 3-6 The Old West surfaces again in three light, verse tales from the cow town of Fiasco. Rhyming quatrains recount the adventures of a stable full of stock Western characters: a deceptively hard-boiled Law-woman ("I seem a tough old sheriff, /Two-fisted, coarse, and hard; /But beneath it all-you guessed it, boys-I'm soft as melted lard"); a lonesome cowboy; a repentant horse thief; a father/daughter traveling medicine show; a heartbroken waitress; and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Steig takes a gentle cowpoke at the conventions of cowboy poetry with these three tales from Gizzard's Grill, the center of the action in the small dusty town of Fiasco. The first tale rustles up some horse thieving, the second tracks the fate of a motherless child, and the third involves a kind of duel: "Point blank their feet were aimin'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More