Synopses & Reviews
"If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too."John R. Erickson, author of Hank the Cowdog
"I am a big fan of this series. Last fall I included The Elk Hunt in my list of favorite books of 2013, and Texas Grit is every bit as insightful and positive as the first one."Glenn Dromgoole
"Dahlstrom writes about ranch life with flair and specific detail."WORLD magazine
In Texas Grit, Wilder spends a week in West Texas at his grandfather's ranch, while his mother and father travel to Denver to see her doctors.
Wilder finds it hard to leave his parents. Papa Milam is a cowboy, gruff and sometimes a bit intimidating, yet grandfather and grandson care for each other very muchand find they actually have lots to learn from each other, too.
Wilder works cattle on horseback and explores the rough ranch country with Papa. One night they start out to hunt for whitetail deer in the cottonwood bottoms but end up encountering a rattlesnake instead. A few days later, four cowboys arrive at the ranch to help with the branding of Papa's new calves. Wilder gets the opportunity to join the crew and takes his place alongside the grown men in the strenuous and sometimes dangerous work of herding, roping, and branding.
Wilder does a lot of growing up over the week, and together he and Papa experience the kind of adventures that only a place like Texas can provide.
S. J. Dahlstrom lives and writes in west Texas. He has numerous magazine credits for his writing and photography. The Adventures of Wilder Good is his first series. His writing draws on his experiences as a cowboy, husband, father, and founder of a boys' ranch.
Review
"I am a big fan of this series. Last fall I included The Elk Hunt in my list of favorite books of 2013, and Texas Grit is every bit as insightful and positive as the first one."—Glenn Dromgoole
Synopsis
As the sole child during his stay on his grandfather's ranch, Wilder faces the trials of old-fashioned West Texas ranching.
Synopsis
-If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.---John R. Erickson, author of Hank the Cowdog
-I am a big fan of this series. Last fall I included The Elk Hunt in my list of favorite books of 2013, and Texas Grit is every bit as insightful and positive as the first one.---Glenn Dromgoole
-Dahlstrom writes about ranch life with flair and specific detail.---WORLD magazine
Will Rogers Medallion Gold Medal Winner - 2015
In Texas Grit, Wilder spends a week in West Texas at his grandfather's ranch, while his mother and father travel to Denver to see her doctors.
Wilder finds it hard to leave his parents. Papa Milam is a cowboy, gruff and sometimes a bit intimidating, yet grandfather and grandson care for each other very much--and find they actually have lots to learn from each other, too.
Wilder works cattle on horseback and explores the rough ranch country with Papa. One night they start out to hunt for whitetail deer in the cottonwood bottoms but end up encountering a rattlesnake instead. A few days later, four cowboys arrive at the ranch to help with the branding of Papa's new calves. Wilder gets the opportunity to join the crew and takes his place alongside the grown men in the strenuous and sometimes dangerous work of herding, roping, and branding.
Wilder does a lot of growing up over the week, and together he and Papa experience the kind of adventures that only a place like Texas can provide.
S. J. Dahlstrom lives and writes in west Texas. He has numerous magazine credits for his writing and photography. The Adventures of Wilder Good is his first series. His writing draws on his experiences as a cowboy, husband, father, and founder of a boys' ranch.
Synopsis
Texas Grit is the second title in the book series The Adventures of Wilder Good. Wilder spends a week in west Texas at his grandfather's ranch as his mother receives treatment for breast cancer in Colorado. Wilder's grandfather, who he calls Papa, is gruff and sometimes intimidating to Wilder, yet they both care for each other very much.
Wilder works cattle on horseback and explores the rough ranch country with Papa, who is both a widower and a cowboy. They go on a hunt for whitetail deer in the cottonwood bottoms around the ranch which is an ancient buffalo wallow. A few days later a cowboy crew comes to the ranch to work Papa's cattle the old-fashioned waywith a rope and drag branding. Wilder gets the opportunity to do the strenuous and sometimes dangerous work with grown men.
Together Wilder and Papa face several trials that only a place like Texas can provide.
S. J. Dahlstrom is a writer in west Texas. He has numerous magazine credits for his writing and photography. The Adventures of Wilder Good is his first book series. In his writing he draws on his experiences as a cowboy, minister, husband, father, and boys ranch founder.
About the Author
S. J. Dahlstrom lives and writes in west Texas. He has numerous magazine credits for his writing and photography. The Adventures of Wilder Good is his first series. His writing draws on his experiences as a cowboy, husband, father, and founder of a boys' ranch.