A Cowboy of the Pecos

ROBERT DUVALL calls this "a wonderful book to read if you want to learn about the life of a cowboy. It's not as romantic as we think!"

Now available in an updated edition, "A Cowboy of the Pecos" tells the full story of cowboying on the river from early trail drive days to the 1920s. An 1886 newspaper referred to the Pecos River of Texas and southern New Mexico as "the cowboy's paradise." One cowhand even reckoned "the Pecos boys were the most expert cowboys in the world." On the Pecos they had to be, for in frontier times it was a river so treacherous it was known as the "graveyard of the cowman's hopes ."

Documented and supported by vintage photographs, this book will carry readers through the Old West with the cowboys.