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The Many of you who know me well know that although I've lived in the east for most of my life, my heart remains in the old west.

This story by Andy Adams, written in 1906,

is about a young college man who has the chance to go out west and does and enjoys it so much

he doesn't want to return back home. For those of you whose hearts are in the Old West, I think

you'll enjoy this story. So we're putting this at 1001 are in the Old West, I think you'll enjoy this story.

So we're putting this at 1001 stories from the Old West, as well as 1001 classic short stories and tales.

Enjoy.

Welcome back, everyone, to 1001 classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

It's been a while since we did an Andy Adams story. Andy Adams was a cowboy author

and a very, very good one. I'll give you a little bit of his background. He began his writing

career at the age of 43. His parents were pioneers and he grew up handling cattle and horses on the

family farm before moving to Texas in the 1880s where he spent 10 years driving cattle.

He failed at a business venture and then attempted gold mining, finally settling in Colorado

Springs in 1894, where he lived until his death. As a writer, Adams would draw heavily on

that experience when he began writing. Disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published at the time,

Andy Adams took it upon himself to provide a better account and drew heavily on his first-hand

experiences to write the log of a cowboy in 1903. By almost all accounts, Andy Adams succeeded his

effort to produce a realistic portrait of life on the trail, and it's still widely considered the most compelling and accurate portrayal of cowboy life ever written.

He wrote a lot of great short stories, and we'll cover him as we go forward here.

And now, a college vagabond by Andy Adams, published in the Adams Collection, Cattle Brands, a collection of winter campfire

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