Andy Adams (1859–1935) was an American writer renowned for his western novels and non-fiction accounts of life in the American Old West. His works, including “The Log of a Cowboy,” provide valuable insights into cowboy culture and cattle drives.
Short Stories written by Andy Adams
- A College Vagabond 1906 - The ease and apparent willingness with which some men revert to an aimless life can best be accounted for by… ... Read more
- A Question of Possession 1892 - Along in the 80's there occurred a question of possession in regard to a brand of horses, numbering nearly two… ... Read more
- A Winter Round-Up 1906 - An hour before daybreak one Christmas morning in the Cherokee Strip, six hundred horses were under saddle awaiting the dawn.… ... Read more
- Around the Spade Wagon 1892 - It was an early spring. The round-up was set for the 10th of June. The grass was well forward, while… ... Read more
- At Comanche Ford 1892 - "There's our ford," said Juan,--our half-blood trailer,--pointing to the slightest sag in a low range of hills distant twenty miles.… ... Read more
- Bad Medicine 1906 - The evening before the Cherokee Strip was thrown open for settlement, a number of old timers met in the little… ... Read more
- Drifting North 1892 - It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd… ... Read more
- In the Hands of His Friends 1892 - There was a painting at the World's Fair at Chicago named "The Reply," in which the lines of two contending… ... Read more
- Rangering 1892 - No State in the Union was ever called upon to meet and deal with the criminal element as was Texas.… ... Read more
- Seigerman’s Per Cent 1892 - Towards the wind-up of the Cherokee Strip Cattle Association it became hard to ride a chuck-line in winter. Some of… ... Read more
- The Double Trail 1892 - Early in the summer of '78 we were rocking along with a herd of Laurel Leaf cattle, going up the… ... Read more
- The Passing of Peg-Leg 1892 - In the early part of September, '91, the eastern overland express on the Denver and Rio Grande was held up… ... Read more
- The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora 1892 - On the southern slope of the main tableland which divides the waters of the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers in… ... Read more
- The Story of a Poker Steer 1892 - He was born in a chaparral thicket, south of the Nueces River in Texas. It was a warm night in… ... Read more