Cowboy Cookies

2 cups melted butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups white sugar
4 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups flour
3 cups chocolate chips (1 and 1/2 pkgs. 12-oz)
3 cups rolled oats

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a large microwave safe
bowl or on the stove. Add sugars and let cool a bit. Add eggs and
stir. add baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Stir some
more. Ad flour and stir. Then add chips and oats and mix everything
really well. (The dough will be quite stiff. Don't worry. It's
supposed to be that way.)

Use a teaspoon and drop by rounded spoonful onto a greased cookie
sheet, 12 to a sheet. (Each spoonful should be about the size of a
walnut with its shell on.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet for 2
minutes. Then remove to rack. (The rack is very important--it make
them crispy on the outside and moist on the inside.)

(These freeze well if you roll them in foil and put them in a freezer
bag, but they probably won't last that long.)

Source:
A Romance novel. I think it was called Cowboys and Kisses, but I'm not sure, it was ages ago.