The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

by Andy Adams

Overview

Andy Adams is one of the most authentic writers of western life ever to appear. He wrote from direct experience as a cowboy on the great cattle trails that ran from Texas to Montana. Born in Indiana in 1859, while still a boy he joined the emigration to the cattle country of the southwest. From 1875 to 1890 he helped drive the herds across the Red River & north to the collection stations along the railroad. This book, his personal record of 15 years of cattle driving, is one of the most accurate accounts of cowboy life during this colorful but short-lived period. Here is the complete story of what cowboy life was really like. Reprint of 1903 edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473346185
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	07/19/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Andy Adams was born in Indiana to pioneer parents. In the early 1880s he moved to Texas, where he spent the next ten years driving cattle along the Western trail. At the age of forty-three, he published The Log of a Cowboy, his most successful book. He died in Colorado Springs in 1935.

Editorial Reviews

"If ever there were such a thing as an all-time 'best' western, THE LOG OF A COWBOY is it." The New York Times

“If all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just as authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from The Log of a Cowboy.” -- J. Frank Dobie

"Personal and often poignant...'The Log of a Cowboy' is indeed a classic." --Sybil Downing The Denver Post

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