Buffalo Gal
Subtitle: Buffalo Gal
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: August 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780671798994
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; General; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Children's 9-12; Children: Grades 4-6; Animals - General; Juvenile Fiction / General; Bison; Fiction
Description: As a proper, well-educated, young girl, Amanda Guthridge has only known the easy, care-free ways of her San Fransico home.  When her mother has taken up to help safe the bison in the Texas outback Amanda is taken away from her boyfriend and home.  She does not want to be in the wild country to round up a herd of bison, but is sent, unwillingly with her mother to Texas.  Once there her enjoyment looks bleak as she has to travel with a stubborn half Comanche David Talltree.  David thinks Amanda to be a spoiled little brat and she is there to try to prove him wrong.  The group of five (Amanda, David, mother, cook, and wrangler) take to the trail.  The adventures and dangers they overcome seem great in the untamed Texas country.  Both Amanda and David are head-strong towards each other, but the journey to safe the buffaloes turns their sense of pride.  What they find in each other was not what they had expected when they had first laid eyes on one another in the romantic, yet adventurous Texas Outback.
Notes: Set in the very early 1900's where buffalo run free, but are being threatened by the white folks.  Love and cowboys run free in the wild land.  Traditional ways are set free and differences are broken down by the adventure of the free, untamed country.  In this wide open prairies though are troubles and hard journeys waiting to be found to strengthen the bond of a relationship or break it?