Andy Adams was a true Texas cowboy, a veteran of the long, dangerous trail drives of the 1880s. He knew firsthand the buying, handling, and selling of cattle and the varied skills of the ranch hand. About Adams' classic introductory novel, noted Texas historian J. Frank Dobie had this to say: "If all other books on trail driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from THE LOG OF A COWBOY....WELLS BROTHERS ...
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Andy Adams was a true Texas cowboy, a veteran of the long, dangerous trail drives of the 1880s. He knew firsthand the buying, handling, and selling of cattle and the varied skills of the ranch hand. About Adams' classic introductory novel, noted Texas historian J. Frank Dobie had this to say: "If all other books on trail driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from THE LOG OF A COWBOY....WELLS BROTHERS and THE RANCH ON THE BEAVER are stories for boys. I read them with pleasure long after I was grown."
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