This Day in the Texas History - Sept 26 1935 - Famed cowboy memoirist and short-term Rockport resident, dies | #fultonwx Andy Adams was born May 3 1859 in Thor Creek Township in Indiana and died September 26th 1935 in Colorado Springs in Colorado. He was an American writer who in a series of books told the very realistic stories of the daily life of the American cowboy. As he himself about fifteen years during the time of the great cattle business in Texas was cowboy, he knew what he wrote. As his best work, even judged by him to apply The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days , in which the story of a cattle treks in 1882 from Texas to Montana is told. The book falls far from the frame of the conventional novel, Wild West , and is regarded as an important work of American literature itself. Andy Adams was Irish-Scottish descent. In Thor Creek Township, a municipality in Whitley County , Indiana, he was born on the farm of his parents (Andrew and Elizabeth Adams). Together with two brothers, he grew up on here. After attending a rural primary school, he left his family and for a time worked in a sawmill in Arkansas . To around 1876 he went to Texas and became a cowboy. It was the era of the great cattle treks on the trails from Texas to the north, so there was a lot of work that had probably attracted him like so many others. Much later, he would not be allowed to come because of the "Texas drive" slowly approaching its end, and much to blame were the ever continuing expansion of the railway network, which facilitated the transport of cattle and reduced-price, and less and less expectant open pasture , forcing more and more detours. - 1882 Andy Adams went on his first trail and has done that yet in the next eight years, so a few times. In 1890 he gave up cowboy life. He remained in Texas and continued operation in Rockport with a partner in any business, but was not very successful and had to be abandoned after two years. After that he worked in gold mines in Nevada and Colorado and moved to Colorado Springs in 1894, where he then probably started sometime serious writing. In 1903, when his first book The Log of a Cowboy published, which, as he said, had written the "hurricane deck of a horse from Texas." In Germany it is titled The Trail of the Wild West came out in 1907. Although it is a narrative fiction , the events during a cattle treks and also the world of cowboys in it are described as authentic, that it is a unique source for the historian. The Log of a Cowboy is not the stereotypical cowboy image as about by Owen Wister has been drawn, a co-founder of the Wild West novel and in his book The Virginian , the cows are hardly mentioned, for example, like Andy Adams once remarked critically. - In addition to his cowboy stories Andy Adams has also two youth books ( Well Brothers and The Ranch on the Beaver written). Some other narratives and dramatic trials have remained unpublished. Except for two interruptions (in Nevada from 1908 to 1909 and in Kentucky from 1920 to 1922), Andy Adams has always lived from 1894 until his death in 1935 in Colorado Springs. In Texas, where he traveled from time to time to his stories for research and revive memories, he has been for the last time in 1918. tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fad04 To read the online book "The Log of a Cowboy" use like below - americanliterature/author/andy-adams/book/the-log-of-a-cowboy/summary For Daily Tidbits and Weather, Like or Subscribe to: facebook/FultonWeather ®
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