Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range

by Frank Maynard

Book Overview

In 1870, sixteen-year-old Frank Maynard left his home in Iowa and arrived in Towanda, Kansas, where he soon took a job helping to trail a small herd of cattle from Missouri to Colorado. Thus began his adventures as an open-range cowboy, a ten-year career that coincided with the peak of the great trail-drive era. Among the highlights of Maynard's time on the range were brushes with outlaws and encounters with famous lawmen, such as Bill Tilghman and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089672705X
• ISBN13: 9780896727052
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"