Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West.For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author: - Drifting North. - Siegerman's Per Cent. - "Bad Medicine". - A Winter Round-Up. - A College Vagabond. - The Double Trail. - Rangering.
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Andy Adams which are The Log of a Cowboy and Wells Brothers.Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it compelling. The Chicago Herald said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page."Novels selected for this book: The Log of a Cowboy.Wells Brothers.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy has long been acknowledged a classic of western American literature. Hoffman Birney, in the New York Times Book Review, once declared, "If there is such a thing as an all-time 'best' Western, that is it." One of the most delightful features of the Log is the inclusion of tales told by the cowboys at night. Adams was a master of the campfire tale, and the fifty-one collected here, each told by an Andy Adams character, touch upon every aspect of range life. Readers will never forget characters like Bull Durham, Uncle Dave Hapfinger, and Aaron Scales, or the tale of the tubercular drifter whose death caused tough cowboys to cry, or the gruesome account of the hanging of the renegade Kansas lawman, or the humorous incident of the "big brindle muley ox" that decided to ride instead of walk.
Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it. Content: Novels: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories The Double Trail Rangering The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora Drifting North Seigerman's Per Cent "Bad Medicine" A Winter Round-Up A College Vagabond At Comanche Ford Around The Spade Wagon The Passing of Peg-Leg In The Hands of His Friends A Question of Possession The Story of a Poker Steer
The Story of a Poker Steer, The Log of a Cowboy, A College Vagabond, The Outlet, Reed Anthony, Cowman, The Wells Brothers, The Double Trail, Rangering, A Texas Matchmaker and many more
The Story of a Poker Steer, The Log of a Cowboy, A College Vagabond, The Outlet, Reed Anthony, Cowman, The Wells Brothers, The Double Trail, Rangering, A Texas Matchmaker and many more
Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it. Content: Novels: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories The Double Trail Rangering The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora Drifting North Seigerman's Per Cent "Bad Medicine" A Winter Round-Up A College Vagabond At Comanche Ford Around The Spade Wagon The Passing of Peg-Leg In The Hands of His Friends A Question of Possession The Story of a Poker Steer
The Double Trail, Rangering, A Winter Round-Up, A College Vagabond, At Comanche Ford, The Log of a Cowboy, The Outlet, Reed Anthony Cowman, The Wells Brothers, Around The Spade Wagon…
The Double Trail, Rangering, A Winter Round-Up, A College Vagabond, At Comanche Ford, The Log of a Cowboy, The Outlet, Reed Anthony Cowman, The Wells Brothers, Around The Spade Wagon…
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Andy Adams Cowboy Collection” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it. Content: The Double Trail Rangering The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora Drifting North Seigerman's Per Cent "Bad Medicine" A Winter Round-Up A College Vagabond At Comanche Ford Around The Spade Wagon The Passing of Peg-Leg In The Hands of His Friends A Question of Possession The Story of a Poker Steer A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
A Texas Matchmater by Andy Adams Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 - September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. Andy Adams was born in Indiana. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth (Elliott) Adams. As a boy he helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. In 1890 he tried working as a businessman, but the venture failed, so he tried gold-mining in Colorado and Nevada. In 1894, he settled in Colorado Springs, where he lived until his death.
It was one day yet before the round-up of the Cherokee Strip. This strip of leased Indian lands was to be worked in three divisions. We were on our way to represent the Coldwater Pool in the western division, on the annual round-up. Our outfit was four men and thirty horses. We were to represent a range that had twelve thousand cattle on it, a total of forty-seven brands. We had been in the saddle since early morning, and as we came out on a narrow divide, we caught our first glimpse of the Cottonwoods at Antelope Springs, the rendezvous for this division. The setting sun was scarcely half an hour high, and the camp was yet five miles distant. We had covered sixty miles that day, traveling light, our bedding lashed on gentle saddle horses. We rode up the mesa quite a little distance to avoid some rough broken country, then turned southward toward the Springs. Before turning off, we could see with the naked eye signs of life at the meeting-point. The wagon sheets of half a dozen chuck-wagons shone white in the dim distance, while small bands of saddle horses could be distinctly seen grazing about.
We were Texas Rangers. It was nearly noon of a spring day, and we had halted on sighting our destination, --Comanche Ford on the Concho River. Less than three days before, we had been lounging around camp, near Tepee City, one hundred and seventy-five miles northeast of our present destination. A courier had reached us with an emergency order, which put every man in the saddle within an hour after its receipt. An outfit with eight hundred cattle had started west up the Concho. Their destination was believed to be New Mexico. Suspicion rested on them, as they had failed to take out inspection papers for moving the cattle, and what few people had seen them declared that one half the cattle were brand burnt or blotched beyond recognition. Besides, they had an outfit of twenty heavily armed men, or twice as many as were required to manage a herd of that size.
The Chicago Herald said: As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page.
Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 - September 26, 1936) was an American writer of western fiction. Andy Adams was born in Indiana. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth (Elliott) Adams. As a boy he helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. In 1890 he tried working as a businessman, but the venture failed, so he tried gold-mining in Colorado and Nevada. In 1894, he settled in Colorado Springs, where he lived until his death. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. His other works include A Texas Matchmaker (1904), The Outlet (1905), Cattle Brands (1906), Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907), Wells Brothers (1911), and The Ranch on the Beaver (1927). The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it compelling. The Chicago Herald said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page..." Born in St. John, New Brunswick, and raised in Boston, Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) spent several years studying art in France before finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. While living abroad, Smith absorbed a wide swath of influences ranging from the muted, mystery-laden palette and epic vision of French muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to the dashing graphic shorthand of poster artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He based My Village (1896), the first of the more than seventy books he illustrated for adults and children, on his summer sojourns in the village of Valombre, near Paris. Like so many artists of his generation, Smith, being acutely aware of living in a time of breathtaking technological and social change, dedicated himself in part to documenting aspects of the everyday world-sail power, the family farm-that he knew to be on the verge of disappearing forever.
The evening before the Cherokee Strip was thrown open for settlement, a number of old timers met in the little town of Hennessey, Oklahoma. On the next day the Strip would pass from us and our employers, the cowmen. Some of the boys had spent from five to fifteen years on this range. But we realized that we had come to the parting of the ways.
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