You will find Prickly Pear recipes ranging from drinks/appetizers to main dishes/desserts and everything in between. Jean Groen is a featured teacher at the first annual Prickly Pear Festival to be held in Superior, AZ. She also is a favorite teacher at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. When she goes picking, it is nothing to have enough for 40 gallons of juice, and she carefully guards that juice to make it last until the following year. In this book, she explains how to pick, remove stickers, and clean for use either raw or cooked/canned/frozen; and this is for both the pads and the fruit known as the tuna. There are many recipes in here for appetizers, breads, candies, salads, main dishes, soups, desserts, and sauces. One lady said, "When the prickly pear is so good, why do I ever go to the grocery store? And the price is right "

Welcome back to Mule Hollow for a romance that’s sure to make you smile. No, it’s not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown but like the old song there’s trouble brewing and romance that won’t go away… Max Cantrell is building his Prickly Pear Jelly business he and his mom opened when they first came to Mule Hollow when he got off the bus at thirteen. Max is now twenty-five and zeroed in on expanding and going full speed ahead with the business. Then she rides into the prickly pears on her red motorcycle and turns his whole life into turmoil. Lee Ann Brown’s life has been bad, really bad even her name isn’t her own. It’s given to her because she had no name, no family just flung to the side like she was nothing. Now, after moving from family to family she’s in control and her and her motorcycle are free and on their own. She’s learned to take up for herself, enjoy life as she wants to and no one’s messing with her. Yep, she’s seeing the USA then the world one job and town at a time—until she has a flat in the middle of a prickly pear farm whose wild, beautiful colors drew her off-road. And then, she sees him—the striking cowboy wrangling the prickly pears and his eyes turn to her and things she’s not expecting erupt inside and the fight is on. Welcome back to Mule Hollow where love is still in the air—and the prickly pears. The Matchmakin’ Posse get that old song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown stuck in their heads and see a gal whose determined to live life her way. But God’s got a plan and the Matchmakers are in on it full throttle. And sweet-old-meddling Esther Mae wants a ride on the red motorcycle and plans to get it.

She’s the happiest person he’s ever met. His world has turned upside and he’s in no mood for Christmas. Will these coworkers find middle ground as they head into the holidays? Reeling from a shocking family secret, Drake Vargas heads into the holiday season grumpier than he’s ever been. He can’t seem to get his footing and his new barista is way too much sunshine for him. Candi Kaine loves Christmas! Nothing can stop her sunny disposition. As she starts a new job at Vargas Ranch, she’s determined to fix the grumpy, hipster cowboy who just happens to be her boss. Nothing will deter her from making sure he experiences a very Merry Christmas. Will Drake find his joy again or has Candi Kaine finally met her match?

Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.

Something is missing…can Chet find a woman he could let himself love? Can he take the chance on something his childhood has shown him won’t work, something that could mess up the peace he’s found at Sunrise Ranch? Sunset Ranch, a foster home to many boys like Chet Grall had been and always would be the place he now calls home. Grown, he’s remained on the ranch as the top ranch hand to the McDermott brothers—his brothers here where his new life began. But after watching all three of them marry there’s a hollow spot inside him, a spot he’s trying to ignore. April Mallory lives a life all to herself. A much-loved fiction writer—under a pen name, no one knows who she is or her real name. Her entire life has been lived in hiding and now, though there is no longer a need to hide, she has remained a person who keeps to herself. But now, she’s come to Dew Drop, Texas to meet Mabel, a reader whose letter to April—actually to her writing name has intrigued April. Not that she will reveal to the Inn owner who she is, but she couldn’t help but come check out the Sunrise Ranch, the home for foster kids that Mabel has written to her about. She’s here for research, nothing more, but she isn’t counting on a flood, getting swept away and being rescued by a cowboy—a cowboy who immediately took her breath away and made her heart pound like never, ever has it done before. She’ll keep her secrets and then move on…but can she? Mable had been right when she’d said meeting the boys at Sunrise Ranch would be life changing because Chet is one of those foster boys, he’s just all grown up and the stunning cowboy has put her world into an undeniable spin. Can she overcome her past and let love take over? Will the boys and ladies of Dew Drop help make another match of hearts?

A young lady seeking a peculiar kind of husband. A ranch full of cowhands who have long adored her from a distance. A foreman who’s got his hands full … and his heart on the line … Sophie Vandercook leaves her post as an instructor at an Academy for Young Ladies in St. Louis, and heads to the OS Ranch in Wyoming Territory with a plan. It seems the perfect place, since her older half-brother is employed there. There's just one thing in her way – the ranch's foreman, Nate Abbott. Nate has a ranch to run, a vital roundup to get through, and a bunkhouse full of cowhands smitten from afar with a young lady they all consider Our Sophie. So there’s no time – or reason – to consider exactly what her letters might be stirring in him. Then Sophie arrives in Wyoming. Secrets tumble, problems multiply, and the OS outfit is turned on its head wondering if Sophie will wed a cowboy? Another western historical romance from Patricia McLinn: Widow Woman * Or get both Courting a Cowboy and Widow Woman in the boxed set To Love a Cowboy * Praise for Widow Woman “A richly textured Western about a strong woman, a dark tormented man, and a love as fierce and irresistible as the Wyoming wind.” -- Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author “One of the most entertaining and interesting western historicals I’ve read in a long time.” -- The Romance Reader "A moving confirmation of the healing power of love" -- Romantic Times Patricia McLinn contemporary romance series set in Wyoming: Wyoming Wildflowers A Place Called Home Bardville, Wyoming Wyoming Marriage Association

Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.