The Log of a Cowboy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Andy Adams, Donald Reeves (Introduction)

Overview

Told with campfire-story spirit, The Log of a Cowboy is of the best tales of the cowboy life ever written.  Drawing from his own life as a cattle driver, Andy Adams recounts the adventures of America’s frontier.  Through such memorable characters as Bill Blades and Bull Durham, we become witness to gunfights, buffalo stampedes, and cattle drives from Texas to Montana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411428553
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	912 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Andy Adams was born in Indiana to pioneer parents.  For ten years, he drove cattle in Texas before turning to gold mining in Colorado and Nevada.  He eventually settled in Colorado Springs, where he wrote such books as A Texas Matchmaker, Cattle Brands, and The Rand on the Beaver.

Table of Contents

Introduction IX

I Up the Trail 3

II Receiving 9

III The Start 20

IV The Atascosa 27

V A Dry Drive 37

VI A Reminiscent Night 46

VII The Colorado 55

VIII On the Brazos and Wichita 66

IX Doan's Crossing 77

X "No Man's Land" 86

XI A Boggy Ford 100

XII The North Fork 112

XIII Dodge 119

XIV Slaughter's Bridge 133

XV The Beaver 147

XVI The Republican 152

XVII Ogalalla 163

XVIII The North Platte 174

XIX Forty Islands Ford 182

XX A Moonlight Drive 194

XXI The Yellowstone 206

XXII Our Last Campfire 219

XXIII Delivery 228

XXIV Back To Texas 239

Endnotes 245

Suggested Reading 247