In his latest collection, cowboy poet extraordinaire Mike Puhallo continues scouting cowboy territory, rounding up new rhymes to entertain and engage his readers.

Drift back in history to a time when the rivermen still plied their trade throughout the northern rivers of British Coumbia.

Crooked River Rats tells the tales of the men and women who traveled the river highways living and working in the wilderness. Generations of trappers, hunters, big game guides and prospectors depended on the riverboats for their supplies. Using brute strength and strong will, these river pioneers endured much hardship as they opened up the northern bush. Here are their stories.

Cowboy poet, artist and raconteur, Mike Puhallo continues his poetic exploration of the cowboy and modern life. At various times in his life a working cowboy, saddlebronc rider, horse trainer, packer and truck driver, he is also a respected western painter. He has combined a lifelong love of words with the cowboy yarning tradition to produce sometimes silly, sometimes serious, and always entertaining poems from the heart. This sixth collection of his work once again benefits from the witty cartoons and caricatures of Wendy Liddle, whose work delightfully enhances Mike's words.

This collection of memories is fan echo of the stories Bette Wolfe Duncan heard as a granddaughter of early Montana and North Dakota pioneers. These are accounts of a time when the great buffalo herds still thundered through the valleys, when Cheyenne and Crow still canped aroung the Yellowstone River, when mountain men and cowboys, prospectors and miners, rustlers and vigilantes still populated Russell Country.