[Gutenberg 47399] • Jack the Young Cowboy: An Eastern Boy's Experiance on a Western Round-up

• Two of American author George Bird Grinnell’s westerns for boys are bound together in this Kindle book: Jack the Young Cowboy (1913) and Jack in the Rockes (1904)

JACK, THE YOUNG COWBOY, An Eastern Boy's Experience on a Western Round-up (1913)

Jack's cowboy life begins just as a great change was sweeping over the cattle range. Cattle had first been brought into the country only a few years before—old-fashioned long-horns driven up over the trail from Texas. The cowboy’s life seemed one of romance. Yet as time went on competition grew sharper and ranges were being overstocked. As news of their profits drifted eastward many young men, allured by the romance of the cowboy's life, came to the cattle country.

This too is when young Jack entered on his cowboy life.

Jack in the Rockies, A Boy's Adventures with a Pack Train (1904)

Jack Danvers came from New York to Bismarck, Dakota, where he met Hugh Johnson, as grave, as white-haired, and as cheery as ever. At Bismarck they took the up-river steamer, "Josephine," and the boat had sailed early on the morning of July 5th.

Hugh and Jack were on their way back up to the Piegan country to see their friend Joe, the Blackfoot Indian who was to meet them with the horses. Adventure was in the air.

About The Author

George Bird Grinnell (1849 –1938) was an American anthropologist and historian born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Yale University originally specializing in zoology. He was also a conservationist and student of Native American life.

Grinnell was editor of Forest and Stream magazine and contributed articles including "In Buffalo Days", in American Big-Game Hunting, edited by Theodore Roosevelt.

His best-known works included The Fighting Cheyennes (1915), and a two-volume work, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways (1923). He also focused on the Pawnee and Blackfeet people: Pawnee Hero Stories (1889), Blackfoot Lodge Tales (1892), and The Story of the Indian (1895).

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Books Available in the Series, published by Pearl Necklace Books and available through Amazon, include:

1\. Jack, the Young Ranchman

2\. Jack the Young Explorer

3\. Jack the Young Trapper

4\. Jack the Young Canoeman