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During three swift decades it had moved over ten million cattle and one million range horses, stamped the entire West with its character, given economic and personality prestige to Texas, made the longhorn historic, glorified the cowboy over the globe, and endowed America with its most romantic tradition relating to any occupation.
During three swift decades it had moved over ten million cattle and one million range horses, stamped the entire West with its character, given economic and personality prestige to Texas, made the longhorn historic, glorified the cowboy over the globe, and endowed America with its most romantic tradition relating to any occupation.
The best known cowboy writers include [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who lost his inheritance ranching in the Dakotas in the 1880s, [[Will Rogers]], the leading humorist of the 1920s, and Indiana-born Andy Adams (1859-1935), who spent the 1880s and 1890s in the cattle industry and mining in the Great Plains and Southwest. When an 1898 play's portrayal of Texans outraged Adams, he started writing plays, short stories, and novels drawn from his own experiences. His ''The Log of a Cowboy'' (1903) became a classic novel about the cattle business, especially the cattle drive. It described a fictional drive of the Circle Dot herd from Texas to Montana in 1882, and became a leading source on cowboy life; historians retraced his path in the 1960s, confirming his basic accuracy. His writing is acclaimed and criticized for their fidelity to truth and their lack of literary qualities.<ref>See [http://books.google.com/books?id=1Ho4AAAAIAAJ&dq=The+Log+of+a+Cowboy&pg=PP1&ots=JNb77NHCKz&sig=HNrd_DpLlSKAdGWsCqwNum2Z0EQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result ''The Log of a Cowboy'' (1903) full text]</ref>
The best known cowboy writers include [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who lost his inheritance ranching in the Dakotas in the 1880s, [[Will Rogers]], the leading humorist of the 1920s, and Indiana-born Andy Adams (1859-1935), who spent the 1880s and 1890s in the cattle industry and mining in the Great Plains and Southwest. When an 1898 play's portrayal of Texans outraged Adams, he started writing plays, short stories, and novels drawn from his own experiences. His ''The Log of a Cowboy'' (1903) became a classic novel about the cattle business, especially the cattle drive. It described a fictional drive of the Circle Dot herd from Texas to Montana in 1882, and became a leading source on cowboy life; historians retraced his path in the 1960s, confirming his basic accuracy. His writing is acclaimed and criticized for their fidelity to truth and their lack of literary qualities.<ref>See [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ho4AAAAIAAJ&dq=The+Log+of+a+Cowboy&pg=PP1&ots=JNb77NHCKz&sig=HNrd_DpLlSKAdGWsCqwNum2Z0EQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result ''The Log of a Cowboy'' (1903) full text]</ref>
===Cowboy culture===
===Cowboy culture===
===Primary Sources===
===Primary Sources===
* Adams, Andy. ''The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days'' (1903) [http://books.google.com/books?id=1Ho4AAAAIAAJ&dq=The+Log+of+a+Cowboy&pg=PP1&ots=JNb77NHCKz&sig=HNrd_DpLlSKAdGWsCqwNum2Z0EQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result full text online]
* Adams, Andy. ''The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days'' (1903) [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ho4AAAAIAAJ&dq=The+Log+of+a+Cowboy&pg=PP1&ots=JNb77NHCKz&sig=HNrd_DpLlSKAdGWsCqwNum2Z0EQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result full text online]
* Cattle Raisers Association of Texas. ''History of the Cattlemen of Texas.'' (1914, reprint 1991). 350 pp.
* Cattle Raisers Association of Texas. ''History of the Cattlemen of Texas.'' (1914, reprint 1991). 350 pp.
* Collins, Hubert E. ''Storm and Stampede on the Chisholm'' (1928, reprint 1998) [http://www.questia.com/read/43221490?title=Storm%20and%20Stampede%20on%20the%20Chisholm online edition]
* Collins, Hubert E. ''Storm and Stampede on the Chisholm'' (1928, reprint 1998) [http://www.questia.com/read/43221490?title=Storm%20and%20Stampede%20on%20the%20Chisholm online edition]
* Logsdon, Guy, ed. ''"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing.'' (1989). 388 pp.
* Logsdon, Guy, ed. ''"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing.'' (1989). 388 pp.
* McCoy, Joseph G. ''Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest'' (1874, reprint 1940). McCoy opened the first railhead to large shipments of Texas cattle in 1867.
* McCoy, Joseph G. ''Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest'' (1874, reprint 1940). McCoy opened the first railhead to large shipments of Texas cattle in 1867.
* Saunders, George W. et al. ''The Trail Drivers of Texas,'' ed. by J. Marvin Hunter (1925, reprint 1985), by far the most valuable source for individual experiences on the long drives. [http://books.google.com/books?id=jaSqzvV1NUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Trail+intitle:Drivers+intitle:of+intitle:Texas&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&ei=XCloSL-XNY_aigGI04HmAw&sig=ACfU3U3aNI1yWI7hS4rAnYLWwe6DCYjTRA excerpts and text search]
* Saunders, George W. et al. ''The Trail Drivers of Texas,'' ed. by J. Marvin Hunter (1925, reprint 1985), by far the most valuable source for individual experiences on the long drives. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jaSqzvV1NUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:The+intitle:Trail+intitle:Drivers+intitle:of+intitle:Texas&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&ei=XCloSL-XNY_aigGI04HmAw&sig=ACfU3U3aNI1yWI7hS4rAnYLWwe6DCYjTRA excerpts and text search]
* Stanley, David and Thatcher, Elaine, eds. ''Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry.'' (2000) 392 pp.
* Stanley, David and Thatcher, Elaine, eds. ''Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry.'' (2000) 392 pp.