Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories
by Andy Adams
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About This Book
Here is a collection of gripping cowboy stories - written by a real-life cowboy. From the touching and elegiac "Around the Spade Wagon," a tale of two friends reminiscing over a campfire, to the thrilling kidnap by bandits of "The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora," to the slice-of-life account of a wolf hunt in "A Winter Round-up," the tales of Cattle Brands are steeped in the sights, smells and sounds of the old West. Adams knew his subject well, having spent a decade on the cattle trails of Texas and beyond in the 1890s. With fourteen short stories in all, Cattle Brands is a treat for all lovers of ...
Chapters (20)
- CATTLE BRANDS
- A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories
- 1906
- TO MR. AND MRS. HENRY RUSSELL WRAY
- BRANDS
- CATTLE BRANDS
- I DRIFTING NORTH
- II SEIGERMAN’S PER CENT
- III “BAD MEDICINE”
- IV A WINTER ROUND-UP
- V A COLLEGE VAGABOND
- VI THE DOUBLE TRAIL
- VII RANGERING
- VIII AT COMANCHE FORD
- IX AROUND THE SPADE WAGON
- X THE RANSOM OF DON RAMON MORA
- XI THE PASSING OF PEG-LEG
- XII IN THE HANDS OF HIS FRIENDS
- XIII A QUESTION OF POSSESSION
- XIV THE STORY OF A POKER STEER
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