NAPPA Honors Winner: Cowboys and Coffin Makers

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Books
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9 & up

Cowboys and Coffin Makers: One Hundred 19th-Century Jobs You Might Have Feared or Fancied, by Laurie Coulter, illustrated by Martha Newbigging; Annick Press, 2007; $25.95 (hardcover), $16.95 (paperback); www.annickpress.com. Offbeat but fascinating nonfiction account of the jobs of yore – including mountain man (or woman), candy maker, dime novel writer, chuckwagon cook, even robber baron.

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