The cowboy reader
Edited by Lon Tinkle and Allen Maxwell
- New York Longmans, Green and Co. 1959
- 307 p
Editor's introduction. Lots to lasso -- Eagle's-eye view. The cow boy revisited / Paul Horgan -- Roundup and trail drive. In the brush country / J. Frank Dobie -- Coming off the trail in 1882 / Jack Potter -- Grub for the trail / Wayne Gard -- A great spread. Cattle raids on the King Ranch / Tom Lea -- Some cowboy types. How cow-boys guy a greener / W.S. James -- The story of the cowpuncher / Charles Russell -- Roping wild steers / Charles Siringo -- In a state of sin / Owen Wister -- The rustler / Emerson Hough -- Frontier types / Theodore Roosevelt -- Boss of the plains : the story behind the stetson / Lewis Nordyke -- Tough hombres, tougher pudding / James Emmit McCauley -- Some cow ponies of personality / Malcolm S. McKay -- The daily round. A working cowhand's day / Fred Gipson -- The cattle business / Granville Stuart -- A rodeo at Los Ojos / Frederic Remington -- Handling a trail herd / Charles Steedman -- Ranch life / Douglas Branch -- Wine, women, and song. Dodge : good whiskey and bad women / Andy Adams -- Abilene frolics, 1868 / Joseph G. McCoy -- Cowboy Annie of Miles City / E.C. ("Teddy Blue") Abbot and Helena Huntington Smith -- Cowboy songs and dances / Clark Stanley -- No life for a lady. Cows were our universe / Agnes Morley Cleaveland -- Storytellers' range. Art and the bronco / O. Henry -- Jaybird Bob's joke / Alfred Henry Lewis -- The drive / Stewart Edward White -- Five-hundred-mile horse race / N. Howard (Jack) Thorp and Neil M. Clark -- Old Gran'pa / Frank Hastings -- The rough string / Ross Santee -- The summing-up. The cattle kingdom / Walter Prescott Webb.