A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 Volume 3

by Jack Bailey

Book Overview

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. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806146478
• ISBN13: 9780806146478
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 6.9"