SOURCE: A review of The Log of a Cowboy in The Athenaeum, No. 3972, December 12, 1903, p. 790.

[In the following review, the critic praises The Log of a Cowboy for its realism.]

[The Log of a Cowboy] bears about it all the marks of being what is called a document—a record of actual experience, rather than a work of imagination. A good deal of work of this sort has recently been published in the form associated with fiction, and is welcomed, one fancies, as a relief from the broad stream of ineffective, mediocre stuff which appears under that name. The Log of a Cowboy tells the story day by day of a trip with cattle, several thousand strong, from Texas, through Arkansas and Wyoming, to the Blackfoot Agency in Montana in the year 1882. The long journey was full of adventure, which is set forth in crisp, straightforward style, and...