I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.

I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction; can you recommend nonfiction works about the trail driving era? Dave Bourne Agoura Hills, California Sure. We Pointed Them North by “Teddy Blue” Abbott is great nonfiction. So is Charlie Siringo’s A Texas Cowboy; or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Cow Pony, which was the first real personal account, written in 1885. The great Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie really liked it, saying, “No record of cowboy li