What tomgirl growing up in town didn't dream of being a cowgirl and riding off into the sunset? Though bound by the big city, this little girl dreams of the wide-open spaces. Throughout the story, she laments over the “girly”things she must do, and explains to her city slicker dad what the life of a cowgirl would be like. She breaks in “broncos” (her dog), sleeps beneath the moon (on top of their twenty story flat), and rides her “piebald mare” (the junkyard dog), all the while imagining clouds of cactuses, cattle, and cowboy hats.

The surprise ending to this delightful, rhyming story should serve to inspire all aspiring cowgirls that their dreams (no matter how absurd they may seem), really can come true!