A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868

Jack Bailey

A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868

In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. David Dary's introduction and notes place the journal in historical context, and it includes 13 b&w illustrations and 2 maps.

Book 3 of the Western Legacies series



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