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Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s. Adopted by a war chief, he was trained to be a warrior and waged merciless war on Apache enemies, both Indian and Euro-American. After killing an Apache medicine man in self-defense, he fled to a lonely hermitage on the Southern Plains until he joined the Comanches. Against his will, Lehmann was returned to his family in 1879. The final chapters relate...

These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas--those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life stories--some humorous, some chilling, some rambling, all interesting--form an invaluable cornerstone to the literature, history, and folklore of Texas and the West. First published in the 1920s and reissued by the University of Texas Press in 1985, this classic work is now available in a handsome paperback edition...

REVIEWS

"The Gruene Cowboy shines a new spotlight on the fantastic stories captured in the original Trail Drivers of Texas."
-Rebecca Huffstutler Norton, Executive Director, Frontier Times Museum, Bandera, Texas

"Absolutely the best source there is on the cattle trail."
-Walter Prescott Webb, historian, author and president of the Texas State Historical Association

"The most monumental single source on the old-time Texas trail drives north to Kansas and beyond."
-Elmer Kelton, Dallas Morning News

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