The Last Cowboys
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The Last Cowboys

A Pioneer Family in the New WestBy John BranchNarrated by John Pruden
Length8h 8m

About this audiobook

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping portrait of one western family struggling to hold on to age-old American ways New York Times reporter and bestselling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smith Mesa have for generations raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Filled with vivid scenes of cattle ranching and the high drama of rodeo, The Last Cowboys follows three generations of Wrights through the seasons as they are battered by drought, the falling price of beef, battles over land-use and federal regulation, and rodeo’s ever-present risks of serious injury. This is an epic but intimate story of real-life cowboys squeezed by social change in the twenty-first century, their soiled boots planted firmly in the past while they optimistically build a future.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byJohn Pruden
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 15, 2018
LanguageEnglish

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