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Summer of the Dudes

Author : Tyler Reynolds
Publisher : Epic Spiel Press
ISBN 13 : 1949212084
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Summer of the Dudes written by Tyler Reynolds and published by Epic Spiel Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leave No Dude Behind! It's gonna be a summer like no other. Luckily, the Dudes are prepared to take on: · Being Lost at Sea! · An Earthquake! · Bigfoot! · A Robot Invasion! And... · Teresa's pet Chihuahua! Don't miss the mayhem! Another suburban summer with nothing to do…unless you’re the Dudes! Come along as the Dudes become river rafting commandos, pull off a remote-controlled heist, and track a cryptid to its lair. Start your summer off with a laugh in Summer of the Dudes! All new outdoor adventures! If you liked Save the Dudes and Dudes Take Over, you’ll love the hilarious adventures in Summer of the Dudes! The perfect reading for summer vacation! Fun on an epic scale for preteens! The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series for intermediate readers 8-14 who can’t get enough madcap adventure and hilarious hijinks. Each chapter book provides several stories realistic enough and wacky enough to keep them reading to the delicious conclusion. The Dudes are a diverse group of preteen boys whose clever ways to screw up turn their suburban neighborhood upside down. Spoilers: Classic humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to modern middle grade readers who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. If you like Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins or Barbara Robinson's The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you'll love the Dudes! Warning to Parents: The Dudes’s insane take on parents, school, and the PTA just might be catching. Anecdotal evidence suggests that readers of the Dudes may imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own. Makes a Great Gift or a Perfect Stocking Stuffer. Great read-a-loud for the whole family. Crazy funny!

Dude!

Author : Aaron Reynolds
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250313902
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Dude! written by Aaron Reynolds and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Reynolds, the author of Nerdy Berdy and Creepy Carrots! teams up with Dan Santat, the Caldecott–winning illustrator behind The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend to create the hilarious, gnarly summer adventure picture book, Dude! Dude! You have to read this book. It's totally about this platypus and this beaver who are friends. They want to go surfing but dude, there's this shark who's in the ocean, too. But don't worry. This shark approaches and you'll never guess what happens. Kirkus Reviews named this one of their "BEST PICTURE BOOKS OF 2018" for a good laugh!

Hot Dudes Reading

Author : Hot Dudes Reading
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501127543
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Hot Dudes Reading written by Hot Dudes Reading and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans of New York meets Porn for Women in this collection of candid photos, clever captions, and hilarious hashtags about one of the most important subjects of our time: hot dudes reading. Based on the viral Instagram account of the same name, Hot Dudes Reading takes its readers on a ride through all five boroughs of New York City, with each section covering a different subway line. Using their expert photography skills (covert iPhone shots) and journalistic ethics (#NoKindles), the authors capture the most beautiful bibliophiles in all of New York—and take a few detours to interview some of the most popular hot dudes from the early days of the Instagram account. Fun, irreverent, and wittily-observed, this book is tailor-made for book lovers in search of their own happy endings—and those who just want to get lost between the covers for a while.

The Dudes Adventure Chronicles Collection: Books 1-3

Author : Tyler Reynolds
Publisher : Epic Spiel Press
ISBN 13 : 1949212157
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Dudes Adventure Chronicles Collection: Books 1-3 written by Tyler Reynolds and published by Epic Spiel Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get started with the first three books of the Dudes Adventure Chronicles unabridged in one complete volume. It's a digital box set for tweens or preteens! Easily navigate between books with the combined Table of Contents. Perfect for travel. 3 hilarious adventures for middle grade readers: Save the Dudes--Can the Dudes save Nate from the threat of private school? Dudes Take Over--See how the Dudes become kings of Sherwood Elementary and liberate a mega-weapon from the principal's closet. Summer of the Dudes--Know what to do in an emergency? Never fear, the Dudes are on the case! Five 5th-grade friends swing into action and Sherwood heights will never be the same! Middle-grade readers love the zany, action-packed, adventure! The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series of realistic but zany suburban adventures featuring a diverse group of boys who know how to make their own fun! For intermediate readers 8-12. Praise for Save the Dudes: "With one priceless, laugh-out-loud scenario after another, the mother and son team of Johnson and Reynolds delivers a fine tale... "...the story is given depth by emotional challenges each friend must face, described with subtlety. "Readers will likely be eager to read the next adventure. "Hilarious comic mayhem, rounded out by affection and insight." --Kirkus Reviews Situational humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to kids who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. Can be read as a series or in any order. Great choice for summer reading or family read-a-louds. Classic fun for modern kids! Save the Dudes: A Dude in peril? Operation Destiny is a go! A ninja stealth picnic? Supervillain jail? Zombie apocalypse anyone? The Dudes are on a mission to save Nate from the peril of private school. But code-names, battle training, and a camp-out of doom don't help as much as you'd think they would. Besides that, the girl next door has a teacup-sized pit bull, Tyler's mom has banned "screen time", and there's the rising cost of fake blood. Can the Dudes use inadvisable stunts and madcap plans to save the day? That's how they roll! Dudes Take Over: It’s 5th Grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school. The mission: Inflate the class economy, Rock down the walls, Race to the state capitol, and Take over the governor’s office. The Goal: To lay claim to the most powerful dart gun ever invented! You won’t want to miss Deven’s hilarious election speech, Jayden’s Dude-themed birthday bash, or the battle with baby-stealing bandits! You'll crack up when these five friends take on backyard downhill skiing, and a spy mission to the principal's office. Guard your garden gnome because Dudes are taking over! Summer of the Dudes: Leave No Dude Behind! It'll be a summer like no other. Luckily, the Dudes are prepared to take on: Being Lost at Sea! An Earthquake! Bigfoot! A Robot Invasion! And Teresa's pet Chihuahua! Don't miss the mayhem! Another suburban summer with nothing to do…unless you’re the Dudes! Come along as the Dudes become river rafting commandos, pull off a remote-controlled heist, and track a cryptid to its lair. Start your summer off with a laugh in Summer of the Dudes! WARNING: Evidence suggests that readers may imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own.

Dudes Take Over

Author : Tyler Reynolds
Publisher : Epic Spiel Press
ISBN 13 : 194921205X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Dudes Take Over written by Tyler Reynolds and published by Epic Spiel Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 5th Grade, and the Dudes are ready to rule the school. The mission: Inflate the class economy, Rock down the walls, Race to the state capitol, and Take over the governor’s office. The Goal: To take possession of the most powerful dart gun ever invented! You won’t want to miss Deven’s hilarious election speech, Jayden’s Dude-themed birthday bash, or the battle with baby-stealing bandits! Guard your garden gnome because Dudes are taking over! In 5th Grade, you have to be totally mature and responsible. That’s why the Dudes are taking their wacky brand of humor to the school! You’ll crack up when these five friends take on babysitting, back yard downhill skiing, and a spy mission to the principal’s office. You'll LOL through the talent show, the election, and a robot bidding war. Sherwood Elementary will never be the same! Fun on an epic scale for your kids! Book Two of The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series of realistic but zany suburban adventures featuring kids who know how to make their own fun! This modern series is for intermediate readers 8-14 who can’t get enough madcap adventure and hilarious hijinks. Each chapter book provides several stories realistic enough and wacky enough to keep kids reading to the delicious conclusion. The Dudes are a diverse group of preteen boys whose clever mischief turns their suburban neighborhood upside down. The books can be read as a series or in any order. Fun for boys that will run a mile from an award-winning novel. Spoilers: Classic humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to middle grade readers who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. Classic middle grade humor with modern kids and realistic misadventures make for better-than-real-life hilarity. If you like Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins or Barbara Robinson's The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you'll love the Dudes! Warning to Parents: The Dudes’s insane take on parents, school, and the PTA just might be catching. Anecdotal evidence suggests that readers of the Dudes may imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own. Can be read as a series or in any order. Makes a Great Gift or a Perfect Stocking Stuffer for preteens. Great choice for summer reading or as a read-a-loud for the whole family. Easy to take along for travel. Crazy funny!

Rusty Summer

Author : Mary McKinley
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1617732583
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Rusty Summer written by Mary McKinley and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s school, and then there’s the real world. If you’re lucky enough to survive the first, you owe it to yourself to explore the second... So let’s roll... With graduation a month away, I’m hitting the road with my best friends Beau, Leonie, and Leonie’s awesome rescue dog, The Bomb. We’ve all got something on our minds. Beau is schooling our school for ignoring brutal bullying. Beautiful, crazy Leonie is striving to become a model. And I’m drilling to join a local roller derby team—The Rat City Roller Girls—where my bulk is actually a benefit! But first, somewhere between finals and graduation, I need some answers. I need to see my dad. Face to face. Unless he’s moved without telling me, my dad is out in the wilds of Alaska—somewhere remote, beautiful, and amazing, where there will be wild animals, and hot guys, and adventures and lies and heartbreaks. It’s further from home than any of us have ever been. Sometimes that’s how far you need to go to figure out exactly where you want to be...

Tin House Magazine: Summer Reading 2015: Vol. 16, No. 4 (Tin House Magazine)

Author : Win McCormack
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0991258266
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Tin House Magazine: Summer Reading 2015: Vol. 16, No. 4 (Tin House Magazine) written by Win McCormack and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tin House's Summer Reading brings you all the things you've come to expect from the acclaimed literary journal. Packed with thrilling fiction, introspective essays, and artful poetry, this issue is perfect company for an afternoon in the shade. Summer Reading 2015 features previously untranslated work from 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano on Paris and a timely essay from Lewis Hyde revisiting the 1964 murder of two young black men in Mississippi. In addition to these works by established authors, this issue also presents work from five New Voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Featuring fiction from: Jodi Angel, Smith Henderson, Greg Hrbek, Tara Ison, Patrick Modiano, Matthew Socia, and Sarah Elaine Smith Poetry by: Catherine Barnett, Cody Carvel, Diana M. Chien, Rita Gabis, Robert Duncan Gray, Kimiko Hahn, Ed Skoog, and Jenny Xie Nonfiction by: Mary Barnett, David Gessner, and Lewis Hyde Lost & Found: S. Shankar on Agnes Smedley, John Reed on André Gide, Jessica Handler on Berton Roueché, Jonathan Russell Clark on H.D., and Rachel Riederer on Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.

Summer's Child

Author : Sherry Derr-Wille
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1593740115
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Summer's Child written by Sherry Derr-Wille and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solveig, Anne, and Libby each grow up in a different time and place, with different values. Solveig's story begins the journey of the Jorgenson family as they immigrate from Norway and try to fit into the unfamiliar surroundings of New Oslo, Minnesota. With the arrival of their first American-born child, Anne, the Jorgenson's lives begin to unravel. An outsider in her own family for all of her life, Anne Jorgenson doesn't understand why her parents don't love her. Fame only widens the gap she feels. When her oldest brother, Karl, takes the first step toward reconciliation, Anne is guardedly receptive. It takes an accident involving Anne's daughter, Libby, to finally bring Anne back to Minnesota, in an attempt to heal past hurts and reunite a family torn apart by their differences.

Summer Skin

Author : Kirsty Eagar
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250145996
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Summer Skin written by Kirsty Eagar and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kirsty Eagar, Summer Skin is a young adult novel about a modern-day riot grrl and an alpha male jock who explore love, trust, and double standards against the backdrop of today's hookup culture. Jess Gordon is out for revenge. Last year the jocks from Knights College tried to shame her best friend. This year she and a hand-picked college girl gang are going to get even. The lesson: Don't mess with Unity College girls. The target: Blondie, a typical Knights stud, arrogant, cold . . . and smart enough to keep up with Jess. A neo-riot grrl with a penchant for fanning the flames meets a rugby-playing sexist pig—sworn enemies or two people who happen to find each other when they're at their most vulnerable? It's all Girl meets Boy, Girl steals from Boy, seduces Boy, ties Boy to a chair, and burns Boy's stuff. Just your typical love story. Kirsty Eagar expertly handles a searingly honest and achingly funny story about love and sex amid the college hookup culture.

Random Summer Storms

Author : Denise Ann Stock
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 168235878X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Random Summer Storms written by Denise Ann Stock and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can sometimes be a collection of random storms that we must weather, like ships at sea. Families maneuver these storms throughout their lives. Ian and Dee Conner share the storms their family members experience in this third book of a series. The Conners are a close-knit family of five who live in a beach community, enjoying surfing, biking, and doing what most families do. Together they weather some tumultuous storms. The couple tried to run from a big storm they created in California, moving to the east coast of Florida to start over and raise their family. They shut away the skeletons of their past, never telling anyone their secrets. Other skeletons appear on both sides of Ian and Dee’s family trees, but often these skeletons (storms) are what bring families together. Eventually, Ian and Dee realize that nothing can stop a raging storm: They must face the past to have a future. Their family and children must chart their own course in life. It may not always be what they hoped, but one day the storm will end, and the waters will calm. That is, until the next Random Summer Storms.

A Dude's Guide to Baby Size

Author : Taylor Calmus
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 059319442X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book A Dude's Guide to Baby Size written by Taylor Calmus and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The viral video star behind Dude Dad offers a humorous and heartfelt guide to helping expectant fathers survive and thrive during the wild ride that is forty weeks of pregnancy. Numerous apps and books exist to help expectant parents understand their baby’s development by comparing their unborn child to a raspberry or a stalk of broccoli, but Taylor Calmus takes issue with that. First off, your baby is not some wimpy little vegetable. Your baby is a hardcore little lug nut who is straight-up growing organs on a weekly basis. Second, how big is a stalk of broccoli? And what the heck is a kumquat? Clearly this situation calls for a better approach. Enter . . . A Dude’s Guide to Baby Size. • At week nine, your little shredder resembles the circumference of a guitar pick. • At week twenty-four, your budding jalapeño is the size of some concession-stand nachos. • By week thirty-four, your little lopper is now the size of a sixteen-inch largemouth bass that weighs four to five pounds! This book is full of fun facts about your growing baby, advice on how to help Mom-to-be, as well as ideas and encouragement for you on your journey from Dude to Dude Dad. Buckle up for a wild ride full of maternity metaphors, gnarly playlists for all the special occasions, new parenting tales, dos and don’ts for expecting dads, and even an entire chapter dedicated to beef brisket!

The Boys of Summer

Author : Elizabeth Zack
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030741695X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Boys of Summer written by Elizabeth Zack and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO HOT TO HANDLE Thanks to the explosive popularity of Fox’s hit television show The O.C., actors Benjamin McKenzie and Adam Brody are men on the move. Their jaw-dropping good looks and impressive talent have catapulted them to the top of the It-list, making them two of Hollywood’s hottest hunks. If you want to know how these gorgeous guys arrived in Orange County, look no further. The Boys of Summer gives you the complete 411 on Benjamin McKenzie and Adam Brody–hometown histories, dating dilemmas, and favorite pastimes. Find out about Ben’s adventures in New York City as he pursued his passion for acting. Discover the other projects Adam has tackled, including Gilmore Girls and the horror flick The Ring. And, of course, get all the behind-the-scenes gossip from the set of The O.C. Ben and Adam have just begun to unleash their talent–stay tuned and see what lies ahead!

His Secret Summer: A Portville Mpreg Summer Romance (M/M Non-shifter Omegaverse)

Author : Xander Collins
Publisher : Xander Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Secret Summer: A Portville Mpreg Summer Romance (M/M Non-shifter Omegaverse) written by Xander Collins and published by Xander Collins. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shane has a secret. He likes to be bad. He spends the little free time he has searching online for guys he can hook up with in men’s bathrooms. The hookups are hot, but they never give him what he desperately craves … a deep connection … and a baby. Austin has a secret too. He also meets men for no-strings hookups. But he’s the professor at Portville State University and would lose his job if anyone found out. He’s careful to meet men far from Portville, so no one recognizes him. But one night Austin realizes he hasn’t been careful enough. He finds out the young man in the stall next to him, the one he just used through a glory hole, was one of his students. Austin knows he’s the one that’s screwed now. His Steamy Summer is a forbidden, student/teacher, Dom/sub romance of 30k words. It includes some men’s room sex, kinky D/s activities, male pregnancy that leads to the birth of a baby, and the kind of disgustingly optimistic HEA you've come to expect from Xander Collins.

Summer in the Tri-Cities

Author : Ruth A. Stillings
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Summer in the Tri-Cities written by Ruth A. Stillings and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No About the Book available this time.

Treehouse Summer

Author :
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595313140
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Treehouse Summer written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blow Out Summer

Author : Denise Ann Stock
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682358798
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Blow Out Summer written by Denise Ann Stock and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surf, party, and romance take center stage in the breezy novel Blow Out Summer, as a group of local surfers in Huntington Beach, California, enjoy a summertime of hanging out and having fun. Their story takes place in the mid 1970s, when no one was paying much attention to the drugs being brought into California at an alarming rate. But Dee Dee’s eyes are about to be opened. Dee Dee lives in a very well-to-do area and is introduced to social drug experimentation and drug trafficking while maintaining a normal family life. She and her friends enjoy the surf up and down the coast of California. Her friends run the gamut from the very wealthy to beach bums she met at the pier. Dee Dee’s lazy summer is spent under beautiful sunny days with slow drifting clouds and perfect barrel waves. But the ups and downs in her relationships and the dangers of dabbling in drugs ultimately force her a decision that will change her life.

American Dude Ranch

Author : Lynn Downey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806190442
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book American Dude Ranch written by Lynn Downey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the tradition of the dude ranch, America’s original western vacation, is much more interesting and deeply connected with the culture and history of the American West. In American Dude Ranch, Lynn Downey opens new perspectives on this buckaroo getaway, with all its implications for deciphering the American imagination. Dude ranching began in the 1880s when cattle ranches ruled the West. Men, and a few women, left the comforts of their eastern lives to experience the world of the cowboy. But by the end of the century, the cattleman’s West was fading, and many ranchers turned to wrangling dudes instead of livestock. What began as a way for ranching to survive became a new industry, and as the twentieth century progressed, the dude ranch wove its way into American life and culture. Wyoming dude ranches hosted silent picture shoots, superstars such as Gene Autry were featured in dude film plots, fashion designers and companies like Levi Strauss & Co. replicated the films’ western styles, and novelists Zane Grey and Mary Roberts Rinehart moved dude ranching into popular literature. Downey follows dude ranching across the years, tracing its influence on everything from clothing to cooking and showing how ranchers adapted to changing times and vacation trends. Her book also offers a rare look at women’s place in this story, as they found personal and professional satisfaction in running their own dude ranches. However contested and complicated, western history is one of America’s national origin stories that we turn to in times of cultural upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the real to the imagined past, and their persistence and popularity demonstrate how significant this link remains. This book tells their story—in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.