The Day The Cowboys Quit [REQUESTED] - Elmer Kelton

Category: Full Cast, Teen & Young Adult, Westerns
Language: English
Keywords: Elmer Kelton GraphicAudio The Day The Cowboys Quit

Written by Elmer Kelton
Read by GraphicAudio
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Dramatization

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By : Elmer Kelton

Release Date : March 1, 2012

Approximate Running Time : 6 Hours

Content Rating : Ages 13+

In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883.

Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you’re a cowboy, you can’t own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things “that ought to be left alone.”

The cowboys working in the Canadian River country of the Texas Panhandle decide to fight back, to do the unthinkable: go on strike.

In this celebrated novel, Elmer Kelton uses the true but little-known Canadian River incident to focus on the changes brought to ranching by big-money syndicates.

© 1999 Elmer Kelton. Published by arrangement with the estate of Elmer Kelton, care of Sobel-Webber Associates, Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. (P) 2011 The Cutting Corporation. All rights reserved.

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