The Last Cattle Drive: A Novel (30th Anniversary Edition)
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The Last Cattle Drive: A Novel (30th Anniversary Edition)
By: Robert Day
First published in 1977, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive--an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection--is now a modern-day Western classic.
This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the imagination of readers nationwide.
To honor the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, the University Press of Kansas is proud to announce a new 30th anniversary edition of this much-loved work.
This edition includes these new features: a foreword by acclaimed Western historian Howard R. Lamar, reflecting on the novel's enduring popularity; an afterword by Robert Day recalling the experience of writing the novel and commenting on his own literary heroes (among them Mark Twain); The Last Cattle Drive Stampede, Day's hilarious piece about failed attempts to make a movie of the book; and special endpaper maps of the cattle-drive route.
Whether you're renewing your affection for an old favorite or coming to the work for the first time, this new edition will be a book to treasure and return to time and time again.
Paperback; 252 pages
ISBN: 978-0700615247
About the Author
Robert Day finished his B.A. and M.A. degrees (the M.A. in 1965) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, then went on to teach at Fort Hays University, Hays, Kansas. He took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arkansas and began working in the English Department at Washington College, where he was currently writer in residence.
Robert Day’s novel The Last Cattle Drive was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His short fiction has won a number of awards and citations, including two Seaton Prizes, a Pen Faulkner/NEA prize, and Best American Short story and Pushcart citations.
His fiction has been published by Tri-Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Summerset Review, and New Letters among other belles-lettres magazines.
He is the author of two novellas, In My Stead, and The Four Wheel Drive Quartet, as well as three collections of short fiction: Speaking French in Kansas, Where I Am Now, and The Billion Dollar Dream.
His nonfiction has been published in the Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Forbes FYI, Modern Maturity, World Literature Today, American Scholar, and Numero Cinq.
As a member of the Prairie Writers Circle, his essays have been reprinted in numerous newspapers and journals nationwide, and on such internet sites as Counterpunch, and Arts and Letters Daily.
Recent book publications include We Should Have Come By Water (poems), The Committee to Save the World (literary non-fiction), and Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind (memoir), Let Us Imagine Lost Love (a novel,) and Robert Day for President: an Embellished Campaign Autobiography.
Among his awards and fellowships are a National Endowment to the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Yaddo and McDowell Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award, and the Edgar Wolfe Award for distinguished fiction.
His teaching positions include The Iowa Writers Workshop; The University of Kansas; and the Graduate Faculty at Montaigne College, The University of Bordeaux. He is past Acting President of the Associated Writing Programs; the founder and former Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House; and founder and Publisher of the Literary House Press at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.
He returns to Kansas for the summers.
By: Robert Day
First published in 1977, Robert Day's The Last Cattle Drive--an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection--is now a modern-day Western classic.
This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the imagination of readers nationwide.
To honor the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, the University Press of Kansas is proud to announce a new 30th anniversary edition of this much-loved work.
This edition includes these new features: a foreword by acclaimed Western historian Howard R. Lamar, reflecting on the novel's enduring popularity; an afterword by Robert Day recalling the experience of writing the novel and commenting on his own literary heroes (among them Mark Twain); The Last Cattle Drive Stampede, Day's hilarious piece about failed attempts to make a movie of the book; and special endpaper maps of the cattle-drive route.
Whether you're renewing your affection for an old favorite or coming to the work for the first time, this new edition will be a book to treasure and return to time and time again.
Paperback; 252 pages
ISBN: 978-0700615247
About the Author
Robert Day finished his B.A. and M.A. degrees (the M.A. in 1965) at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, then went on to teach at Fort Hays University, Hays, Kansas. He took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Arkansas and began working in the English Department at Washington College, where he was currently writer in residence.
Robert Day’s novel The Last Cattle Drive was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His short fiction has won a number of awards and citations, including two Seaton Prizes, a Pen Faulkner/NEA prize, and Best American Short story and Pushcart citations.
His fiction has been published by Tri-Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Summerset Review, and New Letters among other belles-lettres magazines.
He is the author of two novellas, In My Stead, and The Four Wheel Drive Quartet, as well as three collections of short fiction: Speaking French in Kansas, Where I Am Now, and The Billion Dollar Dream.
His nonfiction has been published in the Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Forbes FYI, Modern Maturity, World Literature Today, American Scholar, and Numero Cinq.
As a member of the Prairie Writers Circle, his essays have been reprinted in numerous newspapers and journals nationwide, and on such internet sites as Counterpunch, and Arts and Letters Daily.
Recent book publications include We Should Have Come By Water (poems), The Committee to Save the World (literary non-fiction), and Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind (memoir), Let Us Imagine Lost Love (a novel,) and Robert Day for President: an Embellished Campaign Autobiography.
Among his awards and fellowships are a National Endowment to the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Yaddo and McDowell Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award, and the Edgar Wolfe Award for distinguished fiction.
His teaching positions include The Iowa Writers Workshop; The University of Kansas; and the Graduate Faculty at Montaigne College, The University of Bordeaux. He is past Acting President of the Associated Writing Programs; the founder and former Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House; and founder and Publisher of the Literary House Press at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.
He returns to Kansas for the summers.