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To the fan, the rodeo cowboy is the distinctly American embodiment of the romantic Old West. But to the young men who live the profession, the realities are modest pay, continuous travel, and the constant threat of injury. While he was the Denver bureau chief of the New York Times, Dirk Johnson spent a year on the professional rodeo circuit with cowboys, watching them try to hang on to bucking horses and Brahma bulls?and to wives and livelihoods that seemed only one fall away from disappearing. Biting the Dust covers the circuit?s biggest events in Denver, the capital of the New West, to small towns on the Great Plains like McCook, Nebraska, where rodeo continues to thrive even as the population shrinks. Johnson takes the reader beyond sentimental visions of the rodeo cowboy and the American West and provides an unforgettable and authentic story of the rodeo today.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Michael Lair first rode outside the law as the Hyco Kid. Here’s your chance to ride the trails of the Old West with him. Walk the dusty boardwalks of his town as the marshal confronts his past in “Crossed Trails.” Live his last days with Doc Holliday in “No Bullet for Doc.” Watch the Hyco Kid regain his self-respect and become a deputy U.S. marshal in “Alias: The Hyco Kid.” Ride into Mexico as the Hyco Kid rides for vengeance in “The Hyco Bounty.” Stand with the posse as they fight to save their town from an outlaw gang’s revenge in “Drop of a Rope.” See your hero through different eyes in “Dime Novels and Two-Dollar Pistols.” Watch the Hyco Kid get tamed when he meets “Rachel of Twin Oaks.”