Cow Boyhood (#7)

Winner, 2022 Wrangler Award – Western Heritage Awards 

Winner, 2022 Spur Award – Western Writers of America

Finalist, 2022 Will Rogers Medallion

“Cow Boyhood is unapologetically traditional in its valorizing of grit, stoicism and manliness.”  – The Wall Street Journal

“Cow Boyhood is an entertaining read which gently reminds us of God’s established order in life and how we will all become those older giants in the eyes of the young.” – Pratt on Texas

“Another segment of a boy’s journey to manhood.”  WORLD magazine

“Same superb writing I’ve come to expect from S.J. Dahlstrom.”  – Roundup Magazine, Western Writers of America

“Original and inherently entertaining” Midwest Book Review

Thirteen-year-old Wilder has spent his boyhood watching men like his grandpa Papa Milam . . . and wanting to be like them. Now he is leaving on a two day cattle drive through river and canyon country with his aging Papa and another older man, Red Guffey. In big ranch country full of livestock and wild animals, Wilder is forced to recognize that his own instincts and abilities may have become greater than those of his heroes.

Click on photo for Wrangler award speech during the Western Heritage Awards at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.