Ages 3 to 10: This picture book was inspired by the real Mary Ann Goodnight, a settler in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, during the senseless massacres of buffalo herds in the 1880s. She is a woman as “tough as old beef jerky,” who has a soft spot for the buffalo orphans left behind. She takes two scrawny little calves into her dugout to revive the
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