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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1911
  • Latest Book:
    April 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Wells Brothers

1 - The Young Cattle Kings (1911)
2 - The Ranch on the Beaver (1927)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Andy Adams was an American author known for his Westerns, and his most famous work was his first novel, The Log of a Cowboy....



  • The Ranch on the Beaver continues the hide-and-hoof Horatio Alger story of Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings (also available as a Bison Book). By 1887 the teenage boys, Joel and Dell, have weathered several seasons as ranchers in northwest Kansa...



  • Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy has long been acknowledged a classic of western American literature. Hoffman Birney, in the New York Times Book Review, once declared, "If there is such a thing as an all-time 'best' Western, that is it." One of the mo...



  • Andy Adams was an American author known for his Westerns, and his most famous work was his first novel, The Log of a Cowboy....



  • Andy Adams was an American author known for his Westerns, and his most famous work was his first novel, The Log of a Cowboy. Many of his books are still widely read today, including The Outlet, which is set along the frontier during the late 19th cen...



  • An Incredible Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories!...



  • According to Wikipedia: Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 - September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. Andy Adams was born in Indiana. His parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Elliott) Adams, were pioneers. As a boy he helped with the cattle and...




  • Ride the Great Western Trail from Texas to Montana with the Lovell Herd of 3100 prime Mexican cattle. Forced to leave Georgia following the Civil War, a Rebel soldier packs up his family and heads west. The youngest boy, Tom, leaves home in 1882 and ...






  • "Bad Medicine" The evening before the Cherokee Strip was thrown open for settlement, a number of old timers met in the little town of Hennessey, Oklahoma. On the next day the Strip would pass from us and our employers, the cowmen. Some of the boys ha...



  • It was one day yet before the round-up of the Cherokee Strip. This strip of leased Indian lands was to be worked in three divisions. We were on our way to represent the Coldwater Pool in the western division, on the annual round-up. Our outfit was fo...



  • We were Texas Rangers. It was nearly noon of a spring day, and we had halted on sighting our destination, --Comanche Ford on the Concho River. Less than three days before, we had been lounging around camp, near Tepee City, one hundred and seventy-fiv...



  • The elder Wells some years previously had become interested in western and southern real estate, and among other investments which he had made was the purchase of an old Spanish land grant on a stream called the Salado, west of San Antonio, Texas. Th...



  • Early in the summer of '78 we were rocking along with a herd of Laurel Leaf cattle, going up the old Chisholm trail in the Indian Territory. The cattle were in charge of Ike Inks as foreman, and had been sold for delivery somewhere in the Strip. Ther...



  • Guard this letter as you would your life! With these words ringing in his ears, Biff Brewster boards the Brazil-bound plane to join his father on a safari to the headwaters of the Amazon River—a safari that, to Biff's amazement, becomes a dead...



    • / General Fiction
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    From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature....



    • / Historical
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    The landmark novel of the American West Straightforwardly told, rich in detail, and laced with appealing campfire humor, Andy Adams's realistic The Log of a Cowboy is a classic portrayal of the western cattle country. Drawing on his own experienc...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andy Adams has published 17 books.

Andy Adams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure, was published in April 2016.

The first book by Andy Adams, The Young Cattle Kings, was published in January 1911.

Yes. Andy Adams has 1 series.