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In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War.

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Here's a book every westerner, real or wannabe, should read and add to his or her library."" - Tony Hillerman, author of A Thief of Time

""This volume is an important read for educators, labor and economic historians or anyone pursuing an understanding of the work, thoughts, and common experiences of those cowhands who went up the trail in an iconic, if somewhat mythologized, era of American West history."" - Central Texas Studies: Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association Volume 1 and Volume 2

A Texas Cowboys Journal Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 6/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806146478, 978-0806146478
      ISBN10: 0806146478

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War.

      Trade Review
      Here's a book every westerner, real or wannabe, should read and add to his or her library."" - Tony Hillerman, author of A Thief of Time

      ""This volume is an important read for educators, labor and economic historians or anyone pursuing an understanding of the work, thoughts, and common experiences of those cowhands who went up the trail in an iconic, if somewhat mythologized, era of American West history."" - Central Texas Studies: Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association Volume 1 and Volume 2

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