Research Catalog

Title

Wells brothers : the young cattle kings / by Andy Adams ; with illustrations by Erwin E. Smith ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Jim Hoy.

Author

Adams, Andy, 1859-1935

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 356 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Two orphans face starvation on the prarie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885-86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have barely reached shaving age, are about to abandon their dead father's claim on Beaver Creek because it won't grow crops. Then unexpected events, and a drover seeking aid, allow them a decent chance in life. First published in 1911, this book shows what happens when experienced enterprise meets youthful energy. The boys develop their own ranch on the Beaver, without capital but with honor. No amount of savvy can entirely prepare them for the risks: cruel winters, wolf packs, summer droughts, mysterious Texas fever, the shifting circumstances of the cattle trade.

Subject

• Ranch life > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century > Fiction
• Ranching > West (U.S.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Western stories
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Note

• "Bison books"--P. [i].

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0803259298 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96052808^//r98

OCLC

• 36074584
• SCSB-11276301

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library