The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Adams, Andy
Adams, Andy( 1859–1935), born in Indiana, moved to Texas to become a cowboy, and during the mining boom went to Colorado, where he later wrote his stories of the cattle kingdom. He is one of the few authors of cowboy stories who are considered to have achieved high literary merit. Among his books are The Log of a Cowboy (1903), a novel of the cattle drive north from Texas; The Outlet (1905), treating a similar subject, and the sharp methods of the railway companies, contractors, and congressional lobbyists concerned with the drive; Cattle Brands (1906), short stories of frontier life in the 1880s; and Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907), a novel about a Confederate army veteran who becomes a cattle rancher in Texas.
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