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Andy Adams was born in Indiana to pioneers, helping with cattle and horses as a youth on the family farm forged the beginnings of this American western fiction writer. Moving to Texas he started worked on cattle drives down the western trail and then moved into gold mining in... Read Full Overview

Andy Adams was an American author known for his Westerns, and his most famous work was his first novel, The Log of a Cowboy.

Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography is a book written by Andy Adams and published in 1907. The book is an autobiographical account of the author's life as a cowman in the late 19th century in Texas. The book is divided into several chapters that chronicle the author's experiences... Read Full Overview

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.

Teenage and adult readers will be inspired by this historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by H. Rider Haggard will remind each reader of the value of religious liberty... Read Full Overview

Born in Virginia, Reed Anthony serves in a regiment of his home state during the Civil War before travelling to Texas to take up the hard life of a cowboy. Driving cattle for a living, Reed transitions from a hired hand cowboy to a cattle owning cowman. Presented as an autobiography,... Read Full Overview

Born in Virginia, Reed Anthony serves in a regiment of his home state during the Civil War before travelling to Texas to take up the hard life of a cowboy. Driving cattle for a living, Reed transitions from a hired hand cowboy to a cattle owning cowman. Presented as an autobiography,... Read Full Overview

Born in Virginia, Reed Anthony serves in a regiment of his home state during the Civil War before travelling to Texas to take up the hard life of a cowboy. Driving cattle for a living, Reed transitions from a hired hand cowboy to a cattle owning cowman. Presented as an autobiography,... Read Full Overview

Born in Virginia, Reed Anthony serves in a regiment of his home state during the Civil War before travelling to Texas to take up the hard life of a cowboy. Driving cattle for a living, Reed transitions from a hired hand cowboy to a cattle owning cowman. Presented as an autobiography,... Read Full Overview

The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's... Read Full Overview

The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's... Read Full Overview

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.