Novels
- The Log of a Cowboy (1903)
- A Texas Matchmaker (1904)
- The Outlet (1905)
- Reed Anthony, Cowman (1907)
- Wells Brothers (1911)
- The Ranch On the Beaver (1927)
- Trail Drive (1965)
Omnibus
- Log of a Cowboy / Rise and Fall of Jesse James / Cowboy Detective (1998)
Collections
- Cattle Brands (1906)
- Why the Chisholm Trail Forks (1956)
- Campfire Tales (1976)
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Andy Adams Books Overview
The Log of a Cowboy
What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between cattle rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children’s coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop and cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor such as branding, castration, or rustling in the cowboy’s ‘work culture.’ He looks at early oral poems recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in ranch bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories, and autobiographies written by cowboys about their work most of which have never before received scholarly attention. Allmendinger shows how these texts address larger concerns than the work at hand including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Louis L’Amour, Larry McMurtry, and others. Unique among studies of the American cowboy, Allmendinger’s study looks at what cowboys thought of themselves, and the ways in which they represented those thoughts in their own prose, poetry, and artifacts. Richly illustrated with photographs of cowboys at work and at play, many previously unpublished, The Cowboy will interest scholars of American literature and history, and American Studies, as well as those interested in Western history and culture,folklore, and gender studies.
A Texas Matchmaker
Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG When I first found employment with Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority, while he was over sixty. Though not a native of Texas, ‘Uncle Lance’ was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F. Austin’s colonists in 1821. The colony with which his people reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos River, and shared the various hardships that befell all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality. Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation. Like other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness. When Austin hoisted the new born Lone Star flag, and called upon the sturdy pioneers to defend it, the adventurous settlers came from every quarter of the territory, and among the first who responded to the call to arms was young Lance Lovelace. After San Jacinto, when the fighting was over and the victory won, he laid down his arms, and returned to ranching with the same zeal and energy. The first legislature assembled voted to those who had borne arms in behalf of the new republic, lands in payment for their services. With this land scrip for his pay, young Lovelace, in company with others, set out for the territory lying south of the Nueces. They were a band of daring spirits. The country was primitive and fascinated them, and they remained. Some settled on the Frio River, though the majority crossed the Nueces, many going as far south as the Rio Grande.
The Outlet
Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG At the close of the civil war the need for a market for the surplus cattle of Texas was as urgent as it was general. There had been numerous experiments in seeking an outlet, and there is authority for the statement that in 1857 Texas cattle were driven to Illinois. Eleven years later forty thousand head were sent to the mouth of Red River in Louisiana, shipped by boat to Cairo, Illinois, and thence inland by rail. Fever resulted, and the experiment was never repeated. To the west of Texas stretched a forbidding desert, while on the other hand, nearly every drive to Louisiana resulted in financial disaster to the drover. The republic of Mexico, on the south, afforded no relief, as it was likewise overrun with a surplus of its own breeding. Immediately before and just after the war, a slight trade had sprung up in cattle between eastern points on Red River and Baxter Springs, in the southeast corner of Kansas. The route was perfectly feasible, being short and entirely within the reservations of the Choctaws and Chero kees, civilized Indians. This was the only route to the north; for farther to the westward was the home of the buffalo and the unconquered, nomadic tribes. A writer on that day, Mr. Emerson Hough, an acceptable authority, says: ‘The civil war stopped almost all plans to market the range cattle, and the close of that war found the vast grazing lands of Texas fairly covered with millions of cattle which had no actual or determinate value. They were sorted and branded and herded after a fashion, but neither they nor their increase could be converted into anything but more cattle. The demand for a market became imperative.’
Reed Anthony, Cowman
Reed Anthony, Cowman Oo tt H Reed Anthony, Cowman AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY ANDY ADAMS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1907 BY ANDY ADAMS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published May iqy TO CAPTAIN JOHN T. LYTLE SECBETARY OF THE TEXAS CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION FORT WORTH, TEXAS CONTENTS I. IN RETROSPECT 1 II. MY APPRENTICESHIP 18 III. A SECOND TRIP TO FORT STTMNER . . 38 IV. A FATAL TRIP 55 V. SUMMER OF 68 72 VI. SOWING WILD OATS 89 VII. THE ANGEL…
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. 107 VIIL THE LAZY L 124 IX. THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE…
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. 154 XL A PROSPEROUS YEAR 171 XII. CLEAR FORK AND SHENANDOAH . . 189 XIII. THE CENTENNIAL YEAR . 206 XIV. ESTABLISHING A NEW RANCH…
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.. 259 XVII. FORESHADOWS 277 XVIII. THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOM . . 295 XIX. THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHOE CATTLE COMPANY 313 XX. HOLDING THE FORT 330 XXI. THE FRUITS OF CONSPIRACY…
. 347 XXII. IN CONCLUSION 366 Reed Anthony, Cowman CHAPTER I IN RETKOSPECT truthfully say that my entire life has heen spent with cattle. Even during my four years service in the Confederate army, the greater por tion was spent with the commissary department, in charge of its beef supplies. I was wounded early in the second year of the war and disabled as a soldier, but rather than remain at home I accepted a menial position under a quartermaster. Those were strenuous times. During Lees invasion of Pennsylvania we followed in the wake of the army with over a thousand cattle, and after Gettysburg we led the retreat with double that number. Near the close of the war we frequently had no cattle to hold, and I became little more than a camp follower. I was born in the Shenandoah Valley, northern Virginia, May 3, 1840. My father was a thrifty planter and stockman, owned a few slaves, and as 2 Reed Anthony, Cowman early as I can remember fed cattle every winter for the eastern markets. Grandfather Anthony, who died before I was born, was a Scotchman who had emigrated to the Old Dominion at an early day, and acquired several large tracts of land on an affluent of the Shenandoah. On my paternal side I never knew any of my ancestors, but have good cause to believe they were adventurers. My mothers maiden name was Eeed she was of a gentle family, who were able to trace their forbears beyond the colonial days, even to the gentry of England. Generations of good birth were reflected in my mother and across a rough and eventful life I can distinctly remember the refinement of her manners, her courtesy to guests, her kindness to child and slave. My boyhood days were happy ones. I attended a subscription school several miles from home, riding back and forth on a pony. The studies were ele mentary, and though I never distinguished myself in my clas*ses, I was always ready to race my pony, and never refused to play truant when the swim ming was good. Evidently my father never intended any of his boys for a professional career, though it was an earnest hope of my mother that all of us should receive a college education. My elder brother and I early developed business instincts, buying calves and accompanying our father on his trading expeditions. Once during a vacation, when we were
Wells Brothers
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE BOTTOM RUNG Af early start was delayed. Joel had figured without his guest, as the Texan stands in a class by himself. The peace and serenity of pastoral life affects its people, influencing their normal natures into calm and tranquil ways. Hence, instead of the expected start at sunrise, after breakfast the trail foreman languidly sauntered out to the corral, followed by the boys. The old physician, even, grew impatient. ‘ What on earth do you think is detaining that man ? ‘ he inquired of Forrest. ‘ Here the sun is nearly an hour high, and not a wheel turning. And I can see him from the tent opening, sitting on a log, flicking the ground with his quirt and chatting with those boys. What do you suppose they are talking about?’ ‘Well, now, that’s a hard question,’ answered Forrest. ‘I ‘ll chance the subject is of no importance. Just a little social powwow with the boys, most likely. Sit down, Doctor, and take life easy the cows will calve in the spring.’ Patience had almost ceased to be a virtue when the trail boss put in an appearance at the tent. ‘ You are in no particular hurry, are you, Doctor?’ he inquired, with a friendly smile. ‘Oh, no,’ said the physician, with delightful irony; ‘ I was just thinking of having the team unhooked, and lay over another day. Still, I am some little distance from home, and have a family that likes to see me occasionally.’ The buckboard rattled away. ‘ Come in the tent,’ called Forrest to the boys. ‘ If old Paul sees you standing out there, he’s liable to think of something and come back. Honestly, when it comes to killing time, that old boy is the bell steer.’ Only three were now left at the homestead. The first concern was to intercept the next passing herd. Forrest had a wide acquaintance among trail fo…
The Ranch On the Beaver
The Ranch On the Beaver continues the hide and hoof Horatio Alger story of Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings also available as a Bison Book. 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 from maturing beef to managing, shipping, and selling it. Drawing on firsthand knowledge, the author of Log of a Cowboy offers a realistic and spirited story mixing hard work and fun.
Cattle Brands
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: Western stories Frontier and pioneer life Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Westerns Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books. com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II SEIGERMAN’S PER CENT TOWARDS the wind up of the Cherokee Strip Cattle Association it became hard to ride a chuck line in winter. Some of the cattle companies on the range, whose headquarters were far removed from the scene of active operations, saw fit to give orders that the common custom of feeding all comers and letting them wear their own welcome out must be stopped. This was hard on those that kept open house the year round. There was always a surplus of men on the range in the winter. Sometimes there might be ten men at a camp, and only two on the payroll. These extra men were called ‘chuck line riders.’ Probably eight months in the year they all had employment. At many camps they were welcome, as they would turn to and help do anything that was wanted done. After a hard freeze it would be necessary to cut the ice, so that the cattle could water. A reasonable number of guests were no drawback at a time like this, as the chuck line men would be the most active in opening the ice withaxes. The cattle belonging to those who kept open house never got so far away that some one did n’t recognize the brand and turn them back towards their own pasture. It was possible to cast bread upon the waters, even on the range. The new order of things was received with many protests. Late in the fall three worthies of the range formed a combine, and laid careful plans of action, in case they should get let out of a winter’s job. ‘ I ‘ve been…
Why the Chisholm Trail Forks
This sparkling collection of tales told around Western campfires, written by the master chronicler of the range, is a literary find of great interest and genuine importance. Andy Adams is remembered chiefly as the author of The Log of a Cowboy. Among the most charming features of the Log are the stories the cowhands told around the fires at night when the day’s work was done. Similar and equally delightful stories are scattered throughout several other less successful novels, long out of print, while others that never saw publication were found by the editor among Adams’ papers. In the present book, Wilson M. Hudson has gathered together these tales of the trail and camp into one volume that surely will delight the hearts of all readers who are interested in the old West.
Campfire Tales
Andy Adams’ The Log of a Cowboy has long been acknowledged a classic of western American literature. Hoffman Birney, in the New York Times Book Review, once declared, ‘If there is such a thing as an all time ‘best’ Western, that is it.’ One of the most delightful features of the Log is the inclusion of tales told by the cowboys at night. Adams was a master of the campfire tale, and the fifty one collected here, each told by an Andy Adams character, touch upon every aspect of range life. Readers will never forget characters like Bull Durham, Uncle Dave Hapfinger, and Aaron Scales, or the tale of the tubercular drifter whose death caused tough cowboys to cry, or the gruesome account of the hanging of the renegade Kansas lawman, or the humorous incident of the ‘big brindle muley ox’ that decided to ride instead of walk.
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