Hank the Cowdog

By Barbara Brannon

“Nobody in the literary world would have touched a book narrated by a ranch dog who was five bales short of a full load of hay.” An interview with Hank the Cowdog and his creator, John R. Erickson

Results #1. For eight years this explorer traveled across what is now known as the American Southwest and northern Mexico before reconnecting with Spanish civilization. Early in his journeys, he was shipwrecked either on or near present-day Galveston. Upon his return home, the chronicles of his experiences were published in 1543. The narrative Relación, is

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