The letters of the alphabet are represented by words, set in short rhymes with additional information, relating to cowboys and ranch life.

While visiting a western ranch, Clarence the pig plays cards, line dances, plays the washtub in a cowboy band, and reads stories at bedtime with his new friend Smoky the purple horse.

A huge Rottweiler the size of King Kong (according to Hank) threatens the security of Hank the Cowdog's ranch.

Hank the Cowdog investigates when Pete the Barncat reports about a strange, tree-devouring creature.

"Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays about lessons learned by ranch women, cowgirls, and farmers about what they've learned while standing in or stepping out of "mud, manure, and other offal" in their...

In the first work, Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes; and in the second work, Hank almost loses his job when he develops a case of Eye-crosserosis.

A brief introduction to the day-to-day life of cowboys in the American West.