Andy Adams

Max Lester Loges (Lamar University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 3 May 1859
Died 26 Sep 1935
Activity 1903-1935

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Adams' Works

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Andy Adams was an early 20th century writer of American Western fiction. He focused entirely on the figure of the cowboy and his roles of caring for cattle on the ranch and driving them to markets in the North. These drives are a well known part of American history taking place from 1867 to around 1887. Most of these drives began in central or southern Texas and ended in central or southern Kansas, the destination slowly moving further south and west as railroads advanced. Adams’ best known work,

TheLog of a Cowboy

, tells the story of a drive from the Rio Grande to the Blackfoot Indian Reservation near Fort Benton, Montana, a distance of around 2200 miles.

Adams was born to Scotch-Irish immigrants on May 3, 1859, on a farm in Whitely County, Indiana. His entire formal education

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Citation: Loges, Max Lester. "Andy Adams". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13180, accessed 31 October 2024.]