| The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Contributor(s): Adams, Andy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515003094 ISBN-13: 9781515003090 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6" W x 9" (0.42 lbs) 134 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just why my father moved, at the close of the civil war, from Georgia to Texas, is to this good hour a mystery to me. While we did not exactly belong to the poor whites, we classed with them in poverty, being renters; but I am inclined to think my parents were intellectually superior to that common type of the South. Both were foreign born, my mother being Scotch and my father a north of Ireland man, -as I remember him, now, impulsive, hasty in action, and slow to confess a fault. It was his impulsiveness that led him to volunteer and serve four years in the Confederate army, -trying years to my mother, with a brood of seven children to feed, garb, and hous |