Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 087565827X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Book Synopsis When Cowboys Die by : Patrick Dearen
Download or read book When Cowboys Die written by Patrick Dearen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man either chases his dreams, or he dies. Present-day ranch hand Charlie Lyles longs for an era before mechanization, when a cowboy's greatest ally was his horse. He remembers stories of cattle drives and stampedes and shallow graves in lonesome country. Society has pushed Charlie toward a conformity that he hates, but he is about to change the rules. At a remote line shack in West Texas, he steals a horse, leaving a perfectly good pickup behind. His theft leads to a manhunt with a helicopter and assault weapons, but his trackers are headed into territory that hasn't changed in a century . . . and they are trailing a man born a hundred years too late. When Cowboys Die has been acclaimed as “spellbinding” and “an instant classic.” This new volume, the first print edition in twenty-five years, includes a preface and “Requiem for a Cowboy,” a documented account of the 1976 Texas manhunt that inspired the novel.