Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. The story of adventure on a cattle drive from Brownsville, Texas, where they receive the cattle across the Rio Grand from Mexico, on up to Fort Benton, Montanna, to an Indian Reservation where the cattle is delivered. Stampedes, Indians, cattle hustlers, tall tales around campfires, shootouts, "good whiskey and bad women" in towns along the way. A novel worth reading.