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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Paperback - 2000

by Andy Adams; Introduction by Thomas McGuane

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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.

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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.
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.
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.

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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.
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.
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.

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  • Title The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
  • Author Andy Adams; Introduction by Thomas McGuane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
  • Publication date 2000-11-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780618083480 / 0618083480
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.6 x 0.75 in (21.13 x 14.22 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Western stories, Cowboys
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00046546
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"If ever there were such a thing as an all-time 'best' western, THE LOG OF A COWBOY is it." The New York Times

“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

"Personal and often poignant...'The Log of a Cowboy' is indeed a classic." --Sybil Downing The Denver Post

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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade PB in illustrated wraps; orig. c.r. 1903. Near Fine w/bent bottom corners; square w/flat spine and firm binding, interior clean and unmarked. xiii, 287pp inc. Introduction by Thomas McGuane.
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