Critical Essay by Introduciion
Adams is best known for his novel The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, which is widely acknowledged as one of the most realistic and well-written acc...
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[In the following excerpt, the reviewer faults Reed Anthony, Cowman for its lack of compelling action but praises Adams's ingenuousness.]
Taking "Reed Anthony" to be Andy Adams...
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[The following anonymous review characterizes Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings as stilted and unconvincing in tone compared to Adams's earlier novels.]
The writer of [Wells Brothers, t...
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[J. Frank Dobie was an American educator and author who often wrote about the American southwest and southwestern literature. In the following essay, Dobie discusses critical neglect of Adams's...
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[In the essay below, Davidson evaluates Adams's unpublished novels, plays, and short stories.]
At his death in 1935, at the age of seventy-six, Andy Adams left a considerable number of manus...
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[In the following excerpt Porter characterizes the stories in Adams's collection Why the Chisholm Trail Forks as simple but convincing narratives.]
Andy Adams (1859-1935) was, like Sam Bass,...
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[Boatright was an American educator who edited many histories and studies of the American Southwest during his thirty-year career. In the following excerpt, Boatright offers a favorable review of Why ...
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[Capps is an American novelist whose works are often set in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. In the following explication of Log of a Cowboy, he affirms the book's primary value as a ...
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[In the following excerpt from his Andy Adams: His Life and Writings, Hudson describes the publication history of Log of a Cowboy and evaluates the noveL]
In July, 1901, J. O'H. Cosgrove rej...
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[In the following essay, Quissel comments on Adams's treatment of the American West in Log of a Cowboy.]
Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy ranks as an established classic of Western Ame...
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Critical Essay by Biographical Information
Born in Whitley County, Indiana, Adams was raised on a cattle farm. He had little formal education and left home at the age of fifteen. After briefly workin...
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Critical Essay by Bibliography
Hudson, Wilson M. "Andy Adams: A Bibliography." In his Andy Adams: His Life and Writings, pp. 259-65. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1964.
Detailed pri...
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Critical Essay by Criticism
Branch, Douglas. "Andy Adams." In his The Cowboy and His Interpreters, pp. 254-70. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926.
Applauds the realism of Adams's works.
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Critical Essay by Major Works
The Log of a Cowboy is a first-person account of a cattle drive north from Texas to the Blackfoot Reservation in Northern Montana. In this work Adams provided an accurat...
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Critical Essay by Critical Reception
None of Adams's later novels are considered as successful as The Log of a Cowboy. Critics note that Adams's ability to portray realistic scenes and ...
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Critical Essay by Principal Works
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (novel) 1903
A Texas Matchmaker (novel) 1904
The Outlet (novel) 1905
Cattle-Brands: A Collection of W...
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[In the following review, the critic praises The Log of a Cowboy for its realism.]
[The Log of a Cowboy] bears about it all the marks of being what is called a document—a record of actual ex...
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[In the following review of A Texas Matchmaker, the critic praises Adams's realistic treatment of life on a Texas cattle range.]
[A Texas Matchmaker] is a 'human document' rath...
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[Below, the reviewer commends Adams's treatment of Western life in the 1800s in The Outlet.]
To take a big herd of cattle from the southwestern corner of Texas up through the Indian Territor...
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Critical Essay by Introduciion
