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Title: The Log of a Cowboy
A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

Author: Andy Adams

Release Date: July 1, 2004 [EBook #12797]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE STAMPEDE]

THE LOG OF A COWBOY

A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

BY ANDY ADAMS

_ILLUSTRATED BY E. BOYD SMITH_

"Our cattle also shall go with us."
--_Exodus_ iv. 26.

[Illustration: The Riverside Press]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

_1903_.

TO THE COWMEN AND BOYS OF THE OLD WESTERN TRAIL

THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. UP THE TRAIL

II. RECEIVING

III. THE START

IV. THE ATASCOSA

V. A DRY DRIVE

VI. A REMINISCENT NIGHT

VII. THE COLORADO

VIII. ON THE BRAZOS AND WICHITA

IX. DOAN'S CROSSING

X. NO MAN'S LAND

XI. A BOGGY FORD

XII. THE NORTH FORK

XIII. DODGE

XIV. SLAUGHTER'S BRIDGE

XV. THE BEAVER

XVI. THE REPUBLICAN

XVII. OGALALLA

XVIII. THE NORTH PLATTE

XIX. FORTY ISLANDS FORD

XX. A MOONLIGHT DRIVE

XXI. THE YELLOWSTONE

XXII. OUR LAST CAMP-FIRE

XXIII. DELIVERY

XXIV. BACK TO TEXAS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE STAMPEDE

MAP SHOWING THE TRAIL

HEAT AND THIRST

MEETING WITH INDIANS

CELEBRATING IN DODGE

STORY-TELLING

SWIMMING THE PLATTE

THE LOG OF A COWBOY

CHAPTER I

UP THE TRAIL

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