The Log of a Cowboy
Written by Andy Adams
Narrated by LibriVox Community
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About this audiobook
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it a compelling classic. The Chicago Herald said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page." (Introduction by wikipedia)
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Reviews for The Log of a Cowboy
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5“Nigger Boy”!!?? Really? “Darkie”? Does Andy Adams have a very limited vocabulary or is he a racist? Ether way I will not read any more of his books. My first and my last!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story of the details of life on a trail drive.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the first story I’ve read of this author & I found it an excellent one!