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For about as long as folks can remember, cowboys have been telling tall tales about the greatest cowboy ever known …
Now, you won’t nd Pecos Bill in history books …
No, to nd out about ol’ Bill, you just have to sit around a camp re and listen as someone tells you the tale.
How many cactus plants can you nd on this page?
Bill was the youngest of 18 kids. When Bill was just a baby, he fell out of his folks’ wagon out on the Texas prairie. And, naturally, he began to cry and howl as the wagon traveled out of sight. His howling attracted a pack of coyotes. They joined in howling with Bill, but after a few hours, their voices were gone. They decided that Bill must be a coyote at heart, and they adopted him into their pack.
The cyclone mixed up the letters. Unscramble them to reveal the name of this famous body of water.
That poor cyclone had never met a cowboy like Pecos Bill and after trying to shake him loose from Texas to Arizona, it gave up and decided to turn to rain. That rain flowed and flowed and created one of the wonders of the natural world: The Grand Canyon!
During a __________ drought, Pecos Bill needed to get water to his _______. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, so he got himself a big ol’ stick and ___________ it across the Texas desert to the Gulf of __________. And that’s how the ________ called the Rio Grande was born!
Replace the missing words.
© Vicki Whiting May 2025
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