Over the hill of a small town there is a lone shadow of a man on a horse watching over the town making sure that everything within the town is safe and no bandit is going to raid or rob any of the townsfolks. He is the saver of damsels in distress, the rider of freedom and peace, however this image of the cowboy that so many people have in their minds is not the true cowboy, but an image from popular literature, to films. The real cowboys were the men that would run cattle drives making sure that cows got from point A to point B. Even with popular belief that these men were gun slingers, Andy Adams, shows the true side of what it was to be a cowboy.
Andy Adams, was an Indiana born man, who grew up raising cattle with his parents, and at the …show more content…
Now these are extremely important topics for an author of his type in the early twentieth century, Adams wanted to educate Americans what it was to be an actual cowboy. Adams did this by creating a fictional story based on events that he had experienced through his ten years of being a cowboy. Though through just reading the book a reader would not know right away that this was fictional piece of literature, but would believe it as an autobiography. This is seen in Wayne Gard review which towards the end he goes into detail about how Adams work on The log of a Cowboy is, "the only acknowledged masterpiece in the literature of the cattle country. And Andy's campfire tales are the best ever committed to paper,” this is a strong opinion of Gard, which comes off as very biased. I believe however that Gard’s accusation of how Adams book is the only known masterpiece of the cattle country to be extremely subjected to the time period it was written in. I believe this because, while yes Adams book properly portrays the idea of a cowboy accurately, if the book was published in the twenty-first century he would not have much popularity among the modern man of this century. This belief comes from my own way of reading Adams work, I personally found his work extremely dry and there being not much …show more content…
Though a century has pasted since Adams book, I think that it should be kept into a more historical fiction then being placed with just fiction novels. The Log of a Cowboy, is an incredibly dry book and is extremely hard to follow when it uses such weird characteristics such as in chapter three where the author writes; “…an outfit of four men out beyond Nueces Cañon hunting wild cattle for their hides,” within the sentence the word “Cañon” does not make any sense, and even looking up the word came to a blank. Now that word isn’t the only example of strange writing in Adams book. Words like this one and many more can be found throughout the book, which then cause issues when the reader proceeds to try to figure out what said word really
Andy Adams, was an Indiana born man, who grew up raising cattle with his parents, and at the …show more content…
Now these are extremely important topics for an author of his type in the early twentieth century, Adams wanted to educate Americans what it was to be an actual cowboy. Adams did this by creating a fictional story based on events that he had experienced through his ten years of being a cowboy. Though through just reading the book a reader would not know right away that this was fictional piece of literature, but would believe it as an autobiography. This is seen in Wayne Gard review which towards the end he goes into detail about how Adams work on The log of a Cowboy is, "the only acknowledged masterpiece in the literature of the cattle country. And Andy's campfire tales are the best ever committed to paper,” this is a strong opinion of Gard, which comes off as very biased. I believe however that Gard’s accusation of how Adams book is the only known masterpiece of the cattle country to be extremely subjected to the time period it was written in. I believe this because, while yes Adams book properly portrays the idea of a cowboy accurately, if the book was published in the twenty-first century he would not have much popularity among the modern man of this century. This belief comes from my own way of reading Adams work, I personally found his work extremely dry and there being not much …show more content…
Though a century has pasted since Adams book, I think that it should be kept into a more historical fiction then being placed with just fiction novels. The Log of a Cowboy, is an incredibly dry book and is extremely hard to follow when it uses such weird characteristics such as in chapter three where the author writes; “…an outfit of four men out beyond Nueces Cañon hunting wild cattle for their hides,” within the sentence the word “Cañon” does not make any sense, and even looking up the word came to a blank. Now that word isn’t the only example of strange writing in Adams book. Words like this one and many more can be found throughout the book, which then cause issues when the reader proceeds to try to figure out what said word really