基本信息书名:Smoky the Cowhorse 黑骏马 作者:Will James(威尔·詹姆斯) 著出版社:Simon & Schuster US出版日期:2008-01-08ISBN:9781416949411字数:页码:336版次:装帧:平装开本:商品重量:0.8kg编辑推荐暂无相关内容内容提要Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living othe operange, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He cabeat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can"t imagine anything else.nnBut thehe comes a ... 展开完整描述 ▼
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书名:Smoky the Cowhorse 黑骏马
作者:Will James(威尔·詹姆斯) 著
出版社:Simon & Schuster US
出版日期:2008-01-08
ISBN:9781416949411
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页码:336
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装帧:平装
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商品重量:0.8kg
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Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living othe operange, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He cabeat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky can"t imagine anything else. n nBut thehe comes across a new enemy, one that walks otwo legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can"t beat this enemy the way he has all the others. But does he really want to Or could giving up some of his freedom meagetting something ireturthat"s evemore valuable
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Will James (June 6, 1892 - September 3, 1942) was aartist and writer of the AmericaWest. n nJames was borJoseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, i1892 iSaint-Nazaire-d"Acton, Quebec, Canada. He started drawing at the age of four othe kitchefloor. James, a CanadiaFrancophone, settled ithe new French-Saskatchewasettlement of Val Marie i1910 and learned to be a westercowboy. Accused of cattle theft, he left three years later and traveled to the United States with a new name, William Roderick James. n nDuring the next several years, he drifted and worked at several jobs. He was briefly jailed iCarsoCity, Nevada, for cattle rustling and took care of the prison"s horses during his sentence. He theworked as a stuntmaimovies and served ithe U. S. Army from 1918-1919. He begaselling his sketches. He was a horse wrangler for the First Annual Nevada round-Up iReno iJuly 1919. He met and married Alice Conradt, while living iReno, Nevada, i1920 and sold his first writing, Bucking Horse Riders, i1922. The sale of several short stories and books followed, enabling him and his wife to buy a small ranch iWashoe Valley, Nevada, where he wrote his most famous book, Smoky the Cow Horse. It was published i1926 and wothe Newbery Medal for children"s literature i1927. Several film adaptations were made of the book, with James narrating the 1933 film. His fictionalized autobiography, Lone Cowboy, was writtei1930 and was a bestselling Book-of-the-Month Club selection. He wrote his last book, The AmericaCowboy, i1942. Iall, he wrote and illustrated 23 books. n nHis later years were spent ohis ranch at Pryor Creek, Montana and at his Billings home oSmoky Lane. He died iHollywood, California, i1942. n nThe largest public collectioof James" writings, artwork, and personal effects is at the Yellowstone Art Museum iBillings, Montana. n nJames was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame i1991.
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