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Plot summary. This book is the story of a cowboy, Jack Burns, who lives as a transient worker and roaming ranch hand much as the cowboys of old did, and refuses to join modern society.
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time. Edward Abbey. 3.92. 2,077 ratings182 reviews. Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West; a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways.
Oct 20, 2014 · The brave cowboy : an old tale in a new time by Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989. Publication date 1992 Topics Cowboys Publisher New York : Avon Books Collection
Feb 23, 2016 · After a prison breakout plan goes awry, he finds himself and his horse, Whisky, pursued across the desert toward the mountains that lead to Mexico and to freedom. With local law enforcement, the feds, and the military on their tails, the cowboy and his horse race toward their destiny.
Aug 19, 2011 · A cowboy takes on the forces of twentieth century tyranny in a tale by “the Thoreau of the American West” that became the classic film Lonely Are the Brave (Larry McMurtry,...
Although largely ignored by the critics when it was first published in 1956, The Brave Cowboy has since attained the status of a minor classic of Western literature. Set in a thinly disguised Albuquerque, New Mexico, this anarchist fable is perhaps best known as the source of the superb "adult western" movie Lonely Are the Brave .
Feb 23, 2016 · The Brave Cowboy is a classic of modern Western literature. It follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West—a...
