Step into the rugged and romantic world of the American West with Edward Everett Dale's Cow Country. This evocative work paints a vivid portrait of life on the vast cattle ranges, capturing the essence of the cowboy era that defined a significant chapter of American history.Dale, a distinguished historian and storyteller, offers readers an immersive experience into the daily lives, struggles, and triumphs of cowboys and ranchers who tamed the wild landscapes of the West. With meticu...

The classic account of what day-to-day life was like for cowboys and pioneer families in the American West.Born in a log cabin in 1879—Edward Everett Dale sought education and become a prolific and versatile professional writer—but always remained rooted in his close connection to the frontier. He lived in a sod house, and once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. His life experiences brought exceptional authenticity to his work, including this classic fir...

The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to "speaking pieces" or to spelling and ciphe...

Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with the supreme significance which they attach to the work of the pulpit, have thus sought to magn...