The Log of a Cowboy

by Andy Adams

Overview

"If all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could get an 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481247146
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Pages:	206
Sales rank:	275,617
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Andy Adams, one of the most accurate chroniclers of the authentic "Old West," was born in Columbia City, Indiana. Adams distinguished himself from the majority of other western authors of the day with his meticulous accuracy and fidelity to the truth. As its name implied, The Log of a Cowboy was a day-by-day account of a cattle drive Adams had made from Texas to Montana. The book had little plot beyond the progress of the cattle herd toward Montana, and had none of the romantic excitement offered by less literal chroniclers of the West. Adams' self-avowed goal was to make his fiction indistinguishable from fact, and as one commentator has noted, "in this he succeeds only too well."