· 6 by Andy Adams; The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams. Download This eBook. Format Url Size; Adams, Andy, Title: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject. Andy Adams was born in Indiana to pioneer parents. In the early s he moved to Texas, where he spent the next ten years driving cattle along the Western trail. At the age of forty-three, he published The Log of a Cowboy, his most successful book. He died in Colorado Springs in /5(43). The log of a cowboy () by Andy Adams (A western clasic,Original Version) - Kindle edition by Adams, Andy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The log of a cowboy () by Andy Adams (A western clasic,Original Version)/5(15).
The log of a cowboy by Andy Adams, unknown edition, The log of a cowboy a narrative of the old trail days. This edition was published in by Grosset Dunlap in New York. ID Numbers Open Library OLM Internet Archive logofacowboy00adamrich. Lists containing this Book. Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adams's realistic The Log of a Cowboy is a classic portrayal of the western cattle country. Drawing on his own experiences as a cowboy working in cattle and horse drives, Adams presents a vivid portrait of the challenges of trail life on a cattle drive from Texas to Montanaâ the daily drudgery of cattle. 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.
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. LibriVox recording of The Log of a Cowboy, by Andy Adams. Read by Richard Kilmer. The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3, cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. It’s not just the thrill of adventure that makes this such a fascinating tale; The Log of a Cowboy is often seen as a narrative of Andy Adams’s own life after twelve years in the saddle, and although some liberties were taken, it remains one of the most reliable accounts ever written, helping cement the lawless, and revered, Wild West into a national subconscious. Through Moore we learn cowboy colloquialisms like “drifting” and “cutting,” the perils of stampedes, and the innate.
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