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Brave Cowboy

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HarperCollins, Apr 1, 1992 - Fiction - 320 pages
The Brave Cowboy

Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. Now he has stepped over the line by breaking one too many of society's rulus. The hounds of justice are hot in his trail. But Burnes would rather die than spend even a single night behind bars. And they have to catch him first.

  

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Choppy. Saw a different ending coming. - Goodreads
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Review: The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time

User Review  - Jared - Goodreads

Eh, I've loved Abbey books, both fiction and non- but this one was lacking the gritty humor and brazen environmentalism I'm use to. Barely finished it, and the ending was tragic but predictable. Read full review

Review: The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time

User Review  - Richard Hayes - Goodreads

Abbey wrote his MA thesis on the topic of justifications of violence in the anarchist movement. The philosophy department at University of New Mexico awarded him the MA in 1956. Abbey spent the rest ... Read full review

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Abbey, Edward, THE BRAVE COWBOY, 2, 1957, Pocket Books, PB. Edward Abbey's second novel presents the old fashioned cowboy as an anarchist spirit in the ...
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About the author (1992)

Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the much celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, Abbey was one of the country's foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.

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