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^ Read # The Last Cattle Drive: 30th Anniversary Edition by Robert Day ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Last Cattle Drive: 30th Anniversary Edition Lamar, reflecting on the novel's enduring popularity; an afterword by Robert Day recalling the experience of writing the novel and commenting on his own literary heroes (among them Mark Twain); "The Last Cattle Drive Stampede," Day's hilarious piece about failed attempts to make a movie of the book; and special endpaper maps of the cattle-drive route. This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the im
| Title | : | The Last Cattle Drive: 30th Anniversary Edition |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700615245 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 266 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Lamar, reflecting on the novel's enduring popularity; an afterword by Robert Day recalling the experience of writing the novel and commenting on his own literary heroes (among them Mark Twain); "The Last Cattle Drive Stampede," Day's hilarious piece about failed attempts to make a movie of the book; and special endpaper maps of the cattle-drive route. This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the imagination of readers nationwide. Whether you're renewing your affection for an old favorite or coming to the work for the first time, this new edition will be a book to treasure and return to time and time again.. First published in 1977, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive—an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection—is now a modern-day Western classic. To honor the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, the University Press of Kansas is proud to announce a new 30th anniversary edition of this much-loved work.This edition includes these new features: a foreword by acclaimed Western historian Howard R
. Robert Day is professor of English and creative writing at Washington College in Chestertown Maryland
delightful literature A Customer At last, a fiction set in Kansas that gets the state out of the old "Wizard of Oz" trap! I grew up in the Hays area and moved to Lawrence several years ago, so it was sheer delight to see places I've always been familiar with, e.g. Betty's Cafe in Gorham, Dirty Dan's, Brookville Hotel, gain notice in popular fiction. This book captures so well the contrast between eastern and western Kansas -- the snobs versus the hicks, the suburbs of Johnson County against the flat horizon of Gorham, the rushed noise of mechanized diesel, such a part of the industrialized world, against the solitude and stillness of the Hi. My Best Fiction Read in Years Barry Davis If you want a well written, highly entertaining and truly funyny book, this is your baby. The story centers around Spangler Terkel a modern day cattleman in Hayes Kansas and his misguided efforts to drive 250 steers to Kansas City. His misadventures are many and range from hilarious to heartbreaking. By the time the book is finished you will haave become good friends with allof the characters and will miss them when you p;ut the book down.Barry Davis University of Kansas class of 1951. "Hilarious classic!" according to A Customer. This book is true classic. It is a hilarious account of cattle drive across modern day Kansas. The book is written from the perspective of an city boy who has just graduated from college and takes a job teaching at a small town in western Kansas. He takes a job with a local rancher for extra pay and ends up driving cattle across Kansas. Its more than about cattle but a lot about the characters found on the Great Plains. The route will be a familiar one to Kansans but the drive will be one never to forget for anyone else reading the book.
(Tukle is so choleric that he empties a shotgun into a power mower that has offended him.) When the rancher decides to drive his 250 head of cattle to the Kansas City stockyards to save shipping costs, you can expect Murphy's Law to become 100 percent operative. Exceedingly well told and funny.""Fetching, with some tall, raunchy saddletalk and a style as clear as sweet buttered corn.""Tightly written and powerfully evocative. The smells, sights, and sounds of Kansas are described so well at times that one begins to cough as the dust crawls up through the floorboards of the battered pickup.""Spangler Star Tukle is a Kansas cattleman with 6,000 acres and a low boiling point. Atmospheric." . "Very real, earthy, and vital
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