The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told; Incredible Tales of the Western Frontier

by Edited by Stephen Brennan

• ISBN13: 9781592285563
• ISBN10: 1592285562
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

Tales of the adventure and influence of a timeless American character

Author Biography

STEPHEN VINCENT BRENNAN has worked as a book editor, teacher, actor, and playwright. He is now an actor and director with the Theater Wing of the Kaufman Center in New York City, where he lives with his wife, his daughter, and his son.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	IX
LIFE IN THE CATTLE COUNTRY	1	(8)
by Frederic Remington
THE TROUBLE MAN	9	(16)
by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
SUGAR	25	(10)
by Tom McGuane
THE KID	35	(12)
by Walter Noble Burns
A MEXICAN PLUG	47	(6)
by Mark Twain
JACK HILDRETH AMONG THE INDIANS	53	(30)
by Karl May
AN ELEVEN HUNDRED MILE HORSEBACK RIDE DOWN THE CHISHOLM TRAIL	83	(12)
by Charles A. Siringo
DEADWOOD DICK	95	(10)
by Nat Love
JUSTICE IN THE SADDLE	105	(22)
by Andy Adams
PECOS BILL	127	(18)
by Mody C. Boatright
ESTABLISHING A RANCH ON THE PLAINS	145	(12)
by James Frank Dobie
CATTLE DETECTIVE	157	(10)
by Tom Horn
THE RACE	167	(8)
by Stewart Edward White
DODGE	175	(14)
by William Macleod Raine
END OF THE TRAIL (COWBOY LOGIC AND FROLIC)	189	(12)
by Edgar Beecher Bronson
THE QUEST BEGINS	201	(22)
by Max Brand
AFORESAID BATES	223	(28)
by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
TWENTY STRAIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE	251	(8)
by Emerson Hough
HOPALONG NURSES A GROUCH	259	(14)
by Clarence E. Mulford
COWBOY DAVE	273	(14)
by Frank V. Webster
HOW I BECAME A COWBOY	287	(22)
by Frank Harris
LONESOME DOVE	309	(10)
by Larry McMurtry
THE LAST RUNNING	319	(14)
by John Graves
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	333