A little girl imagines what her daily life would be like if she were a cowgirl, living out west on a ranch with cows and sheep, riding a horse, and sleeping under the stars.

Texas Homecoming Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that's what the cowboys she snatches from under the hooves of bucking horses think. Outside the ring, she's got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family's struggling rodeo. When she takes business into her own hands and hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus. She never expected Joe Cassidy. Rough and tumble, cocky...

Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift her Aunt Sal, a city slicker, sent.

Explains and illustrates the equipment, work, and lifestyle of cowboys and cowgirls in the Old West.

"Two young buckaroos (a brother and sister) wake up with the sun and get ready for a fun-filled day! They sneak past the sheriff (Mom), grab some breakfast, and head outside, using Spanish words as they go along"--Front jacket flap.