A Thousand Texas Longhorns

In Johnny Bogg's A Thousand Texas Longhorns (Pinnacle 2020), Nelson Story, sometimes entrepreneur, sometimes miner, always a risk-taker, decides that a lot of money can be made moving Texas longhorns north. He's warned of the difficulties, challenges, and impossibility of this task but all that only......more

True story: In 1866 a cranky western entrepreneur named Nelson Story bought a thousand head of cattle in Texas and drove them 1,800 miles to Montana and built a ranch there, selling cows to mining camps and towns in the state for ten times what he paid in Texas. His drive was notable for the sheer n......more

It’s a cliché to call a Western novel a rip-snortin’ adventure, but the truth is that A THOUSAND TEXAS LONGHORNS by Johnny D. Boggs is as rip-snorting as they come. Based on the true exploits of Nelson Story, among other things one of the toughest and orneriest trail bosses that ever lived (he makes......more

I love a well written western. It includes real people performing real tasks in a true to the time background. You will find all of that in A THOUSAND TEXAS LONGHORNS. Nelson Story is looking for an adventure, but one that will make him some money. He's heard talk that driving Texas longhorns north......more

My work lately has included some reading on raising cattle and cattle drives. The drive is an adventure but very intense for the cowboys. Hot and dusty, river crossings, Indians, storms, and sometimes fox fire. Here’s one of my favorite parts from Johnny Boggs’s A THOUSAND TEXAS LONGHORNS (a book I......more