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A history of Southern California's apple-growing region, its founding farmers, and its largest apple ranch.
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True tales of lawmen overlooked, forgotten, or - in the parlance of their day - "disremembered," who each paid the ultimate sacrifice in helping bring law and order to the West.
Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok: most people could recount at least a few details of such celebrated Old West figures whose fame rests mainly upon their exploits as lawmen. Though they are icons today, these men represent only a small fraction of the vast number who risked everything to bring law and order to the frontier. Many other "law dogs" of the untamed West engaged in exploits rivaling or surpassing those of their renowned contemporaries, yet their names are little, if at all, known today. They've been overlooked, forgotten, or - in the parlance of their day - & | |  | | The Littlest Wrangler
New York City orphan Joe Monday dreams of finding a family, and of being a cowboy. Things look up when he’s sent West on an “orphan train,” until he ends up with a pair of pig farmers who only want the free labor he provides. Joe runs away with a cattle drive headed north from Texas, but the cowboys are unsure of their young tag-along. When disaster strikes, Joe proves that even a kid can be a hero, and learns that dreams really can come true.
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