The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Stephen Brennan
SeriesBest Stories Ever Told
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:572
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWesterns
ISBN/Barcode 9781616082161
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.
Publication Date 20 October 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

A hearty collection of stories, each of which captures a different aspect of what it means to be a cowboy. Some invoke the danger and drama, some the pride, and others the sheer fun of it all. Get to know what the cowboy life was really like and be caught up in thrilling adventures in a lawless land. The Best Cowboy Stories Ever Told fits right in to a long and solid tradition of American fascination with the Wild West. By bringing a variety of heralded names in cowboy literature together in one place, Brennan guarantees there will be a story for everyone in this collection. Authors include Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frederic Remington, and Charles M. Russell. Part of the well-established The Best Stories series, each of which is selectively edited and hand-crafted to include only the best stories from the best writers of the genre.

Author Biography

Stephen Brennan is the author of The Adventurous Boy's Handbook and The Adventurous Girl's Handbook. He has also edited and arranged An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt and An Autobiography of General Custer, among others. He has worked as a circus clown, book editor, teacher, cabaret artist, actor, director, shepherd, and playwright. He resides in New York City and West Cornwall, Connecticut.