Andy Adams

Based on Log of a Cowboy, first published in 1903, it is an account of a trail drive from the Mexican border to the Blackfoot Indian Agency in Montana in the 1880s.

The Ranch on the Beaver continues the hide-and-hoof Horatio Alger story of Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings. By 1887 the teenage boys, Joel and Dell, have weathered several seasons as ranchers in northwest Kansas. With help from drovers on the nearby Western Trail, they have built up a herd. Looking beyond Beaver Creek, the boys acquire grazing rights in Colorado and Texas. As others fail, they persevere, learning all aspects of a rapidly changing operation{u2014}from maturing beef to managing, shipping, and selling it.

Wells Brothers

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Reed Anthony, Cowman

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Cattle Brands

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From the book:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five other herds waiting for the river to go down. This river had tumbled over her banks for several days, and the driftwood that was coming down would have made it dangerous swimming for cattle. We were expected to arrive in Dodge early in June, but when we reached the North Fork of the Canadian, we were two weeks behind time.

The Outlet

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An account of a drive when Adams was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana.

A Texas Matchmaker

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Immerse yourself in the world of the Wild West with this novel from renowned writer Andy Adams. A Texas Matchmaker offers a detailed look at what life was like on a cattle ranch more than a century ago, from brutal dawn-to-dusk labor to the occasional romantic courtship.

The log of a cowboy

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The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 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. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it a compelling classic. 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."