The Drifting Cowboy

Will James€s books are an American treasure. His writings and drawings introduced generations of captivated readers to the lifestyle and spirit of the American cowboy and the West. With his superb artwork and colorful prose, Will James captured the essence of the American cowboy.

€œWill James is the ideal fellow to make a book. He can draw horses with the best, he can write the American language, he has narrative gift.€ New York World
€œHe has an unvarnished but singularly salty and effective style€"and when James draws a bucking horse, the horse isn€t merely bucking, he€s exploding.€ New York Times

First published in 1925, The Drifting Cowboy is the second of Will James€s twenty-four books. The seven stories in the book revolve around the adventures of a lanky cowboy named Bill, whose drifting takes him throughout the West, from Montana to Arizona, as he lives the hard life of a working cowboy. Each story is perfectly complemented by the author€s spirited pen-and-ink and charcoal drawings.

And now, for the first time, The Drifting Cowboy is available to a new audience as an ebook. As James explains in the preface, €œIn this book you€ll find the cowboy still very much alive and all cowboy the same as ever as he drifts and hunts for new cow county; the call from new ranges still makes him run in his saddle and pack horse and hit out.€