Research Catalog

Title

The best cowboy stories ever told / edited and introduced by Stephen Brennan.

Publication

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brennan, Stephen Vincent

Description

ix, 558 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Western stories
• Cowboys > Fiction

Genre/Form

Western stories

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Aforesaid Bates / Eugene Manlove Rhodes -- My first lesson in cow punching / Charles Siringo -- A moonlight drive / Andy Adams -- The true cowboy / H.H. Halsell -- Abilene in 1868 / Joseph G. McCoy -- Dodge / William Macleod Raine -- The cowboy / Emerson Hough -- The story of the cowpuncher / Charles M. Russell -- Cowboy Dave / Frank V. Webster -- Hopalong nurses a grouch / Clarence E. Mulford -- How I became a cowboy / Frank Harris -- A trip to Chicago as cow-puncher. My first aquaintance with outlaw "Billy the Kid" / Charles A. Siringo -- The kid / Walter Noble Burns -- A rodeo at Los Ojos / Frederic Remington -- Jack Hildreth among the Indians / Karl May -- The drive / Stewart Edward White -- Forty Islands Ford / Andy Adams -- The round-up / Theodore Roosevelt -- The race / Stewart Edward White -- Charles Russell / Bob Kennon -- Whiskey / Charles M. Russell -- Twenty straight on the prairie / Emerson Hough -- The quest begins / Max Brand -- Cattle detective / Tom Horn -- A pair of outlaws / Charles M. Russell / Deadwood Dick / Nat Love --
• Some cooks I have known / Bob Kennon -- An eleven hundred mile horseback ride down the Chisholm Trail / Charles A. Siringo -- Style on the ranch / W.S. James -- Some pranks / Bob Kennon -- Life in the cattle country / Frederic Remington -- A Mexican plug / Mark Twain -- Some glimpses into ranch life / Frank S. Hastings -- The cattle country of the Far West / Theodore Roosevelt -- Coming off the trail in '82 / Jack Potter -- End of the trail (cowboy logic and frolic) / Edgar Beecher Bronson -- Justice in the saddle / Andy Adams -- The trouble man / Eugene Manlove Rhodes -- Bit by bit / Clarence E. Mulford -- Range horses / Charles M. Russell -- Good Samaritan cowboys / J.J. Halsell -- Buck Peters makes friends / Clarence E. Mulford and John Wood Clay -- On a tare in Wichita, Kansas / Charles Siringo -- Hopalong's round up / Clarence E. Mulford -- On the trail / Zane Grey -- Some liars of the Old West / Charles M. Russell -- Pecos Bill / Mody C. Boatright -- Cracker cowboys of Florida / Frederic Remington.

ISBN

• 9781616082161 (alk. paper)
• 161608216X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011014088

OCLC

• 711051883
• SCSB-10531298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library