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Blanca was born different-and in the wild, different can be dangerous. In a thundering sea of dark-coated buffalo, Blanca's snowy white hide makes her impossible to hide and impossible to forget. Teased, shunned, and driven away by the other calves, she grows up lonely on the windswept plains of Texas, longing for one simple gift: to belong. When her only friend disappears, Blanca must learn to survive on her own in a world growing more perilous by the day because an even greater threat is coming. Hunters are closing in. Herds are falling. The age of the great buffalo nations is collapsing under the advance of settlement and steel. Yet where others see an outcast, the Comanche see a sign. They believe Blanca is no ordinary buffalo--but a sacred one. A living legend. A symbol of hope. And perhaps the last chance to save her kind from destruction. Can one unusual calf change the fate of the plains? Filled with danger, discovery, frontier history, and heart, Blanca Is My Name brings young readers face-to-face with the drama of the Old West through the eyes of an unforgettable animal hero. Part of the Old West Critters Collection and recipient of the Elmer Kelton Award from the West Texas Historical Association for best creative work on West Texas, Blanca Is My Name is inspired by real events and real animals from Western history. History lives. Legends run wild. And every critter has a story to tell.

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Preston Lewis is the award-winning author of more than sixty western, historical, juvenile, and nonfiction works. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary achievements. The Will Rogers Medallion Awards named him the 2025 recipient of the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the literature of the American West.Western Writers of America (WWA) has honored Lewis with three Spur Awards, one for best article, a second for best western novel and a third one for YA nonfiction in 2025. He has received eleven Will Rogers Medallion Awards (seven gold, two silver and two bronze) for written western humor, short stories, YA nonfiction, short nonfiction, and traditional Western novel.Lewis is a past president of WWA and the West Texas Historical Association, which has named him a fellow. He holds a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a master's degree from Ohio State University, both in journalism. Additionally, he has a second master's degree in history from Angelo State University. He lives in San Angelo, Texas, with wife Harriet Kocher Lewis. In her capacity as publisher of Bariso Press, Harriet Kocher Lewis is an award-winning author and editor. Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time, which she co-authored with her husband, earned her a Spur Award and a Will Rogers Gold Medallion for young adult nonfiction. Since establishing Bariso Press in 2021, she has edited and published a dozen fiction and nonfiction works. Those books have earned 18 awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Will Rogers Medallion Awards, Western Writers of America, the Independent Author Awards, the Literary Global Book Awards, and the Literary Global Children's Book Awards.A retired physical therapist and PT educator, she was an assistant clinical professor of physical therapy at Angelo State University where she taught documentation and scientific writing among other topics as the department's coordinator of clinical education.Kocher Lewis holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Baylor University, a physical therapy certificate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and a master's degree in exercise and sports science from Texas Tech University. She and her husband Preston Lewis live in San Angelo, Texas. They have a son, a daughter, four granddaughters and a grandson.

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