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The Log of a Cowboy - by Andy Adams (Paperback)

The Log of a Cowboy - by  Andy Adams (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Newly introduced by Thomas McGuane, "The Log of a Cowboy" offers the truest depiction of a cowboy's life and work as well as a classic adventure of the great American frontier. The book is a fictional chronicle of life on the open trail as told by one of our nation's greatest cowboys. 6 illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br> 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 bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided by his plainspoken, sure-saddled voice and the living, breathing feel of firsthand experience on every page, we relive dusty cattle drives, perilous river crossings, honor-based gunfights, and narrow escapes from buffalo stampedes, not to mention tall tales passed around the campfire and such unforgettable characters as Bull Durham and Bill Blades.<br> THE LOG OF A COWBOY, newly introduced by Thomas McGuane, offers a true depiction of a cowboy's life and work as well as a classic adventure story of the great American frontier.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>If ever there were such a thing as an all-time 'best' western, THE LOG OF A COWBOY is it. The New York Times <p/>"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 <p/> Personal and often poignant...'The Log of a Cowboy' is indeed a classic. --Sybil Downing The Denver Post<br>

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