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Reed Anthony, Cowman, by Andy Adams- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .48" w x 6.00" l, .54 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 212 pages
About the Author Andy Adams (1859-1935) was an American writer of western fiction, the son of pioneers. In the early 1880’s he worked in Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trail. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. 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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. magnificent By Carla S. Kelly Where, oh where, has Andy Adams been all my life? I love this book. To some, it may seem a dry account of the open range and cattle drives. It is far more. Reed Anthony rings as true as history, because it is a history of a brief time in the life of the American West that many still dream about. It may be fiction, but just barely. Such is Adams' talent as a writer. I recommend this highly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Educational and Intertaining. By T. Squid Reed Anthony, Cowman was more than a story about building a cattle empire in Texas. It is useful in describing how to build a company.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not this author's best By K Watson This is the second book I've read by Andy Adams after discovering him through excerpts in an anthology of western writing. Adams is tops in writing from his own authentic personal experience as a cattle driver in the 1880's, though even at his best he's no McMurtry or Louis L'amour when it comes to writing vivid narrative. You actually get some sense of what it was really like to be a cowboy, or in the case of this book, what it was like to build up a cattle empire in the 1800's. This book is more about the business side of being a cowman than it is about the experience of a cowboy, except for the early chapters when the protagonist hasn't really gotten into the business side. Those early chapters are actually the best in the book. As the book continues, he becomes a top-tier cattle trader and owner of 750,000 acres of Texas ranchland, more of a hands-on CEO than a cowboy. Andy Adams was not writing from his own first-hand personal experience as any kind of CEO, since he left Texas and the cattle business to go into gold mining and then took up living in Colorado Springs and became a writer. This may explain why this book doesn't have as much life to it as some of Adams' other books. Also, it suffers too much through poor narrative pacing, meaning that it tells the account of each year's business in about the same amount of detail. Rarely is there a particularly entertaining episode which is expanded in greater detail. Rather, there is a preponderance of the following kind of account, for page after page, chapter after chapter (I selected this excerpt pretty much at random from the middle part of the book):"George Edwards was accordingly sent for, and met us at Waco. He was furnished a letter of credit on our San Antonio bank, and authorized to buy and equip two complete outfits for the Uvalde beeves. Edwards was a good judge of horses, there was an abundance of saddle stock in the country, and he was instructed to buy not less than one hundred and twenty-five head for each remuda, to outfit his wagons with four-mule teams, and announce us as willing to engage fourteen men to the herd. Once these details were arranged for, Major Hunter and myself bought two good horses and struck west for Coryell County, where we had put up two herds the spring before. Our return met with a flood of offerings, prices of the previous year still prevailed, and we let contracts for sixty-five hundred three-year-old steers and an equal number of dry and barren cows. We paid seven dollars a head for the latter, and in order to avoid any dispute at the final tender it was stipulated that the offerings must be in good flesh, not under five nor over eight years old, full average in weight, and showing no evidence of pregnancy. Under local customs, "a cow was a cow," and we had to be specific."
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