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Name: The Day the Cowboys Quit Audiobook
Brand: Recorded Books, Inc.
SKU: c285
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Rating: 4.01 (184 reviews)
Author: Elmer Kelton
ISBN: 9781436116725

By: Elmer Kelton

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Read By: Pete Bradbury Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: 9.75 hours at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2008 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781436116725

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52:32 minutes

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09:49 minutes

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28:31 minutes

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Publisher Description

Recipient of Golden Saddleman, Lone Star Lifetime Achievement, and Western Heritage Awards, Elmer Kelton is WWA's "Greatest Western Writer of All Time." Honored by WWA as one of history's 25 Best Westerns and based on an actual 1883 Texas cowboys' strike, this Golden Spur Award-winning novel tells the gripping saga of veteran cowboys and upstart cattle lords vying for power-vainly resisting change. ". a damned good novel."-San Francisco Chronicle

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"I really learned a lot from this book. it is on the list of 25 best western westerns ever written. (And, I do like westerns.) it is about the time when the law came to the west. It is about strike and bad and good desisions and where they lead. it is about the people of the west and "Cowboying up.""
— Angela (4 out of 5 stars)

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" Based on a true story of a cowboy strike in the Panhandle of Texas in the 1880's. A very good story told by a great author. "
— Michael, 8/31/2011
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" This is a different type of western. Who ever heard of cowboys striking? Somehow the story works and portrays the feel of truth. "
— Dan, 3/16/2011
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" A very good book, a fictionalized tale of a true cowboy strike that occurred in the Canadian River section of Texas. Kelton is an excellent writer and his lead character is a man of great common sense who is reluctantly drawn into the strike. Recommended! "
— Jeff, 6/9/2010
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" This was a western that was based on a real incident. Prior to the labor unions, a group of cowboys get disgruntled and refuse to work. Far from being a typical western with shootouts, etc. the realistic response of these people to a realistic situation. An excellent novel-- offbeat western. "
— David, 7/28/2008
Overall Performance:
" This was a western that was based on a real incident. Prior to the labor unions, a group of cowboys get disgruntled and refuse to work. Far from being a typical western with shootouts, etc. the realistic response of these people to a realistic situation. An excellent novel-- offbeat western. "
— David, 4/15/2008
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" Based on a true story of a cowboy strike in the Panhandle of Texas in the 1880's. A very good story told by a great author. "
— Michael, 12/28/2007

About Elmer Kelton

George Guidall, winner of more than eighty AudioFile Earphones Awards, has won three of the prestigious Audie Award for Excellence in Audiobook Narration. In 2014 the Audio Publishers Association presented him with the Special Achievement Award for lifetime achievement/ During his thirty-year recording career he has recorded over 1,700 audiobooks, won multiple awards, been a mentor to many narrators, and shown by example the potential of fine storytelling. His forty-year acting career includes starring roles on Broadway, an Obie Award for best performance off Broadway, and frequent television appearances.

About Pete Bradbury

Pete Bradbury has appeared both on and off-Broadway and at many of the leading regional theaters across the country in plays ranging from Shakespeare and Molière to Edward Albee and David Mamet. He has also been seen on the CBS miniseries Sally Hemings. A former company member of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Bradbury received his training in their three-year advanced program. He lives in New York City with his family.