Recommended Reading
The romance of the cowboy and cattleman's West is evident in popular novels, television series, and Hollywood feature films. The reality of that experience can be found in the following books, available through your local library, which we recommend as among the best for understanding this aspect of America's heritage.
Many of these marked with an asterisk (*) are available for sale through the non-profit Glacier Natural History Association outlet at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. Proceeds from book sales benefit the site's educational program. Contact us for further information.
Abbott, E.C., and Helen Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.*
Adams, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.*
Adams, Ramon F. Come and Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.*
Drago, Harry Sinclair. Great American Cattle Trails. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1965.
Ewing, Sherm. The Range. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1990.*
Forbis, William H. The Cowboys. Time-Life Old West Series. Alexandria, Virg.: Time-Life Books, 1973, 1997.
Freedman, Russell. Cowboys of the Wild West. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985.* (Juvenile)
Katz, William Loren. The Black West. New York: Anchor Books, 1973.
Lindmier, Tom, and Steve Mount. I See By Your Outfit: Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains. Glendo, Wyo.: High Plains Press, 1995.
Meikle, Lyndel, ed. Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir. Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1996.*
Moynihan, Ruth B., ed. So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontiers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Savage, William W. Jr. The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
Skaggs, Jimmy M. The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866-90. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
Wellman, Paul I. The Trampling Herd: The Story of the Cattle Range in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1939, 1988.*
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