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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
Author: Andy Adams, Elmer Boyd Smith (Illustrator)
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.  — In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803250000
ISBN-10: 0803250002
Publication Date: 6/1964
Pages: 397
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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If all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and cow country in general from THE LOG OF A COWBOY.(J. Frank Dobie in Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest)
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Narrative about a young man's life as a cowboy on a cattle drive in 1882. Reprint of an account published in 1903, it includes stories of the everyday life of a cowboy, as well as stampedes and other hazards of trail life.
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The Log of a Cowboy is a well written adventure of the cow hand's life on an 1800's cattle drive from Texas to Montana. It is a very authentic story depicting everyday life and sometimes the sadness they experienced on the trail.

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