Fantasy on Parade

Fantasy on Parade is a book in The Walt Disney Parade series. It was originally published in 1970, but the revised 1977 edition features Pecos Bill on the cover.

Summary
Many fantastic stories are told in the Disney style. One of these stories involves our man Bill, adapted from the film Melody Time.

Pecos Bill Great Cowboy
Baby Pecos Bill falls off his family's covered wagon as it travels a bumpy trail in West Texas. Raised by a pack of coyotes, he learned all their tricks. As a child, he found a stray colt surrounded by vultures. He fought off the birds and raised the colt himself. When it came time to saddle the horse, it bucked off so many cowboys it earned its name, Widowmaker. Only Bill could ride him.

When a cyclone stirred up trouble across the plains, they called Bill. He hopped on Widowmaker, lassoed the twister and tamed it to a breeze. Once, while leading his herd through the desert, he and the cattle became parched. He dug for water until he had scraped out the Rio Grande. Sluefoot Sue rode down the river on a giant fish, and Bill fell in love with her at first sight. She agreed to marry him, but only if he bought her a bouncy bustle and let her ride Widowmaker. Mean old Widowmaker used that bouncy bustle to buck her so high up into the clouds that she never came down. Today, when the coyotes howl at the moon, some still swear they can hear Bill howling with them, lonesome for his Sue somewhere up in the sky.