Andy Adams
Andy Adams' most popular novel, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, is a painstaking recreation of Adams' own experiences on long cattle drives. Legend has it that the long-time cowboy was disgusted with the overly romanticized Westerns that began appearing on bookstore shelves in the late 1800s and decided to set the record straight with his own account. Scholars and fans agree that the gritty realism of The Log of
...In the Old West, family fortunes were often made—and sometimes lost—with amazing rapidity. In Andy Adams' novel Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings, a pair of orphaned brothers put their scrappy determination to work and establish a thriving ranch in an extremely inhospitable environment with tall odds stacked against them. Praised for its realism, Wells Brothers is a must-read for those interested in well-researched
...Andy Adams (1859-1935) was an American writer of western fiction, the son of pioneers. In the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trail. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882
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