ADAMS, ANDY: 1859-1935.
Andy Adams , writer of popular Western fiction, was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Elliot Adams. Born in Whitley County, Ind., on May 3, 1859, he was reared on the family farm and attended the country schools–probably for not more than the five or six years customary at that time.
Evidently affected by the epidemic of Texas fever which well nigh depopulated the Middlewest of male youths in the Seventies, Adams made his way to that state and spent ten years as a cowhand. At the end of that period he went to the Cripple Creek country in Colorado in order to try his hand at mining. Through some strange transition he eventually took up writing and produced several successful books.
In his later years he made his home at Colorado Springs, Colo. He died on Sept. 26, 1935.
Information from Who's Who in America and Burke and Howe–American Authors and Books, 1640-1940.
- The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail
Days; Illustrated byE. Boyd Smith. Boston, 1903.
- A Texas Matchmaker. Boston,
1904.
- The Outlet. Boston, 1905.
- Cattle Brands. A Collection of Western Camp-fire
Stories. Boston, 1906.
- Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography.
Boston, 1907.
- Wells Brothers; the Young Cattle Kings.
Boston, 1911.
- The Ranch on the Beaver; A Sequel to 'Wells
Brothers, the Young Cattle Kings'; with Illustrations byEdward Borein. Boston, 1927.
- Golden Tales of the Far West.
- North Platte.
- The Western Himalayas and Cashmere.
