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At the age of 16, Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio valley and took to the range "as a preacher's son takes to vice" and became a cowboy. By the age of twenty-three, there was no better cowhand in the county. Adams tells of the real cowboy life in the late nineteenth century: the dusty cattle drives, brandings, stampedes, river crossings, and meetings with the Blackfoot, Oglala, and Platte Indian tribes. Cattle country is brought brilliantly to life in this narrative, along with the characters who peopled the untamed West.
