{"product_id":"north-from-texas-james-c-shaw-9780890967300","title":"North from Texas: Incidents in the Early Life of a Range Cowman in Texas, Dakota, and Wyoming, 1852-1883","description":"In the late nineteenth century, many young Texans were lured by dreams of adventure and fortune into signing up as cowboys on cattle drives to the north. James C. Shaw, a schoolteacher who dreamed of staking out a ranch of his own on the lush northern ranges, was one of those cowboys. Shaw's story of his cattle trail experiences has become a classic in the literature of the American West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First privately published in 1931 as a pamphlet titled \u003ci\u003ePioneering in Texas and Wyoming: Incidents in the Life of James C. Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e, then edited and annotated by western historian Herbert O. Brayer for publication in 1952, North from Texas describes the fifteen-hundred-mile journey on the Northern Trail. Having set out \"to tell in a simple manner\" the tale of his journey from South Texas to South Dakota, Shaw offers a rare first-hand account of the hard conditions of the trail and the many \"bad men\"--horse and cattle thieves, and worse--who inhabited it. Also found in these pages are descriptions of the day-to-day operations of a cattle drive during the era of Texas' spectacularly large cattle companies and the reign of the \"cattle kings\" on the northern range. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Shaw's narrative heads north on the trail, the reader is offered a tour of several Texas towns still in their formative years, as well as of notorious cow towns such as Dodge City and Ogallala. Even further adventure and more toil were waiting Shaw at the end of the great trail, and his first hard years spent on the Wyoming range are described in realistic detail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James C. Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 089096730X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780890967300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.48w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/1996 pg. 112","brand":"James C. Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48087040852223,"sku":"9780890967300","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c74364a4-e8be-4fe2-a19a-beed350a2b96.jpg?v=1769097964","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/north-from-texas-james-c-shaw-9780890967300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}