The Day the Cowboys Quit [Dramatized Adaptation]
Author: Elmer Kelton
Narrator: A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Bradley Smith, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, Eric Messner, James Konicek, James Lewis, Joe Brack, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Thomas Penny, Tim Carlin
Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: GraphicAudio
Published: 06/03/2020
Category: Fiction - Westerns
Synopsis
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.