An old cowboy recalls a big cattle drive from Texas to Montana in 1882
This is a must-read for fans of Western writers including Zane Gray and Louis L'Amour. Andy Adams (1859-1935) was an American writer of westerns, who grew up on his family’s farm in Indiana.
Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A fictionalized account of 1882 cattle drive from Texas to the Blackfoot Agency in Montana.
A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written.
The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days author: Andy Adams The Chicago Herald said: As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing.
Compelling narrative by a real-life cowboy traces the events of an 1882 cattle drive, during which 3,000 longhorns traversed the Great Western Cattle Trail from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana.
In "The Log of a Cowboy," Adams captures the excitement and the reality of the old West, including routine days and nights punctuated by episodes of another kind: a rigged horse race, in which the cowboys lose several hundred dollars in ...
Populated by a wide variety of well-drawn, lively characters, The Log of a Cowboy remains the landmark novel of the American West a century after its first appearance. This is the first edition of this work published as a Penguin Classic.
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith /1903/: Western (Original...
Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This is a must-read for any fans of the Old West, a time when courage and adventure were all part of a day’s work.