Top 10 Trail Drive & Early Ranching Books | The WRCA Blog

Books on the cowboy lifestyle and cattle industry are much too numerous to boil down to a definitive Top 10 list. Nonetheless, I’m going to share 10 of my favorite non-fiction books covering the trail drive and early ranching in the West eras. I’d love to see some of your favorites.

10. Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United States

9. The Log of a Cowboy, Andy Adams

8. My Life on the Range, John Clay

7. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest, Joseph McCoy

6. Trail Dust and Saddle Leather, Jo Mora

5. The Longhorns, J. Frank Dobie

4. Trail Drivers of Texas, J. Marvin Hunter

3. Interwoven, Sally Reynolds Matthews

2. Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman, J. Evetts Haley

1. We Pointed Them North, Teddy Blue Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith