The Last Cattle Drive

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.

This anniversary edition 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); and "The Last Cattle Drive Stampede," Day's hilarious piece about failed attempts to make a movie of the book.