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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Andy Adams which are The Log of a Cowboy and Wells Brothers.Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it compelling. 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."Novels selected for this book: The Log of a Cowboy.Wells Brothers.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West. For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author: - Drifting North. - Siegerman's Per Cent. - "Bad Medicine". - A Winter Round-Up. - A College Vagabond. - The Double Trail. - Rangering.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Outlet by Andy Adams Andy Adams was an American writer best known for his western fiction. Adams was born and raised on a farm in Indiana and helped with the cattle and horses. The Outlet is a novel that gives a great portrayal of the lives of cattle drivers in the late 19th century. Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as found in other books by Adams. Extract: 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 Cherokees, 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."

Andy Adams (1859 - 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. His other works include A Texas Matchmaker (1904), The Outlet (1905), Cattle Brands (1906), Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907), Wells Brothers (1911), and The Ranch on the Beaver (1927). 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. In this book: The Log of a Cowboy Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet Reed Anthony, Cowman Wells Brothers

"Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings" is a 1911 Western novel by American writer Andy Adams. The story revolves around two young would-be cowboys and their attempt to build a herd along the cattle trail between Kansas and Texas. As with other of Adams' novels, it offers a profound insight into authentic frontier life based on Adams' own experiences. "Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings" is highly recommended for lovers of Western Fiction and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Adams' work. Andy Adams (1859 - 1935) was an American western fiction writer. Other notable works by this author include: "A Texas Matchmaker" (1904), "A Texas Matchmaker" (1905) and "Cattle Brands" (1906). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction and biography of the author.

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.

Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it._x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days_x000D_ A Texas Matchmaker_x000D_ The Outlet_x000D_ Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography_x000D_ The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings_x000D_ Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories_x000D_ The Double Trail_x000D_ Rangering_x000D_ The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora_x000D_ Drifting North_x000D_ Seigerman's Per Cent_x000D_ "Bad Medicine"_x000D_ A Winter Round-Up_x000D_ A College Vagabond_x000D_ At Comanche Ford_x000D_ Around The Spade Wagon_x000D_ The Passing of Peg-Leg_x000D_ In The Hands of His Friends_x000D_ A Question of Possession_x000D_ The Story of a Poker Steer_x000D_

A cowboy story from Andy Adams “The country was as large as the men were daring, and there was elbow room for all and to spare.”- Andy Adams, A Texas Matchmaker A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams is the tale of Texas cowboys, based on Andy Adams’s own experience. It is an interesting log of how the west once used to be.

Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it. Content: Novels: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories The Double Trail Rangering The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora Drifting North Seigerman's Per Cent "Bad Medicine" A Winter Round-Up A College Vagabond At Comanche Ford Around The Spade Wagon The Passing of Peg-Leg In The Hands of His Friends A Question of Possession The Story of a Poker Steer