Cattle Brands (Esprios Classics)

Andy Adams (May 3 1859 - September 26 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. Andy Adams was born in Thorncreek Township Whitley County Indiana the son of Andrew Adams who was of Irish descent and Elizabeth Elliott who was of Scottish descent. As a boy he helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas where he stayed for 10 years spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. He began writing at the age of 43 publishing his most successful book The Log of a Cowboy in 1903. His other works include A Texas Matchmaker (1904) The Outlet (1905) Cattle Brands (1906) Reed Anthony Cowman: An Autobiography (1907) Wells Brothers (1911) and The Ranch on the Beaver (1927).