The Kansas City Cowboys

Name: The Kansas City Cowboys
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Johnny D. Boggs
ISBN: 9781504788465

Author: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Western

Published: 07/25/2017

Categories: Fiction, Sports, Western

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player—and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes.

About Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives—all in the name of finding a good story. He has won nine Spur Awards, making him the all-time leader in Western Writers of America’s history.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Kind of combo, Western, and historical novel surrounded by a woeful turn of the century baseball team named the kansas city Cowboys. There really was a team with that name and was well researched with correct names of Kansas City businesses and locations of the times. A fun read.......more

Goodreads review by Karen & Gerard

I thought this was a fun read! The characters were brought out very well. I did not have to think too much with this one, just relaxed and enjoyed the read. (Gerard's review) This is an historical fiction account of pro baseball in 1886. The story is told in the first person from Silver, a young pitc......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This book was great fun! Not exactly true historical fiction. Love going back in time to the basis of America's pastime, imagining 1886, cowboys and baseball. I was born too late!......more

Quotes

“One of the best Western writers at work today!” Publishers Weekly

“Boggs…writes with depth, flavor, and color.” Booklist

“Johnny Boggs has produced another instant page-turner…don’t put down the book until you finish it.” Tony Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author, on Killstraight