The Log of a Cowboy

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Andy Adams, Richard Etulain

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Penguin Classics
25 April 2006

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

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. This is the first edition of this work published as a Penguin Classic.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

By: Andy Adams
Introduction by: Richard Etulain
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 206g
ISBN: 9780143039686
ISBN 10: 0143039687
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 25 April 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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The most significant fictional treatment of the cattle drive alongside Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. (Richard W. Etulain, in his introduction) 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

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