Authors: Andy Adams
ISBN-13: 9781406504071, ISBN-10: 1406504076
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Book Depository
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Andy Adams (1859-1935) was born to pioneer parents in Indiana, worked in Texas for ten years driving cattle, and settled in Colorado Springs, where he began writing his "real" stories of cowboys in the West.
Richard W. Etulain is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. He has authored or edited more than forty books.
The landmark novel of the American West
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 Montana-the daily drudgery of cattle trailing, as well as the dramatic stampedes and other treacherous disruptions. Populated by a wide variety of well-drawn, lively characters, The Log of a Cowboy remains the landmark novel of the American West a century after its first appearance.
Introduction | 3 | |
1 | Skin Grammar: Cattle Branding and Symbolic Wounds | 15 |
2 | Frontier Gender: Livestock Castration and Square Dancing | 48 |
3 | Dual/Dueling Identities: Rustlers and Cowboy Detectives | 83 |
4 | Where Seldom Is Heard a Discouraging Word: Orphanhood and Orality at Home on the Range | 121 |
Notes | 159 | |
Bibliography | 185 | |
Index | 195 |