U. Taylor, San Antonio, 1936--a
hodgepodge.
JAMES, WILL. _Cowboys North and South_, New York, 1924. _The
Drifting Cowboy_, 1925. _Smoky_--a cowhorse story--1930.
Several other books, mostly repetitious. Will James knew his
frijoles, but burned them up before he died, in 1942. He
illustrated all his books. The best one is his first, written
before he became sophisticated with life--without becoming in
the right way more sophisticated in the arts of drawing and
writing. _Lone Cowboy: My Life Story_ (1930) is without a date
or a geographical location less generalized than the space
between Canada and Mexico.
JAMES, W. S. _Cowboy Life in Texas_, Chicago, 1893. A genuine
cowboy who became a genuine preacher and wrote a
book of validity. This is the best of several books of
reminiscences by cowboy preachers, some of whom are as lacking
in the real thing as certain cowboy artists. Next to _Cowboy
Life in Texas_, in its genre, might come _From the Plains to
the Pulpit_, by J. W. Anderson, Houston, 1907. The second
edition (reset) has six added chapters. The third, and final,
edition, Goose Creek, Texas, 1922, again reset, has another
added chapter.
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