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Summary Of The Day The Cowboys Quit By Elmer Kelton

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“The Day the Cowboys Quit” was written by the highly-acclaimed Texas native, Elmer Kelton and received the Spur award in 1971 for the best novel. Elmer Kelton was a famous American journalism and writer. He was known particularly for his Western novels. In this book, Elmer Kelton describes the true story about the cowboys’ strike of 1883. The book was published in the January 1,1986 by Texas Christian University Press. Kelton is writing for the people in order to tell them a story about a group of the Texas cowboys. This novel is based on a real historic event that is a strike against large ranches on the high plains in Texas. Kelton develops his thesis by explaining a process. This real historic story was an excellent way to look at changing …show more content…

The cowboys were very civilized individual. Unlike the common misunderstanding of the cowboys. In this novel, we can see cowboys were inebriated individual with itchy trigger finger. In this novel, he displays some characters as moderate people, calm when they did job, and no gun around their waist. In general speaking, I would like to say this book tells all about the cowboys. When the big ranchers versus the little ranchers. The old-style ways change to the new style ways. The big ranchers try to build up some rules for the cowboys and they treat the cowboys as just resources. Although the cowboy’s jobs were very difficult but fewer owners recognized them. The cowboys were allocated a whole string of horses to work with. The longer the cowboys stayed the better horse they received. If the cowboys worked hard enough and they could get some own …show more content…

When the ranchers try to boycott the ownership of cattle by cowboys, the cowboys hit back with a strike. Some cowboys tried to doing another thing for living, but the corporation did not stop to leave them away. The ranchers against the remaining cowboys. Their next step was to try and take away all the cattle that was still owned by remaining cowboys like Hitchcock and his friends Rascal and Law. In the clear example of corruption and abuse of power the big ranchers make the decision of hanging Law McGinty under the accusation of stealing cattle, and carrying out the handing without a proper trial. This was an outrage and the cowboys organized one more time and got Hitchcock to run for Sheriff. After being Sheriff Hitchcock yield the power to convict the big corporations for the murder of his friend Law McGinty and for stealing his cattle. By becoming Sheriff Hitchcock help to ensure that the big corporations would no longer be able to run over good honest people by buying political influence

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