The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time

Written by Edward Abbey

Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright

From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave-a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West.

The Brave Cowboy is a classic of modern Western literature. It follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West-a once beautiful land now smothered beneath airstrips and superhighways. An "anarchist cowboy," he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. After a prison breakout plan goes awry, he finds himself and his horse, Whisky, pursued across the desert towards the mountains that lead to Mexico, and to freedom. With local law enforcement, the feds, and the military on their tails, the cowboy and his horse race towards their destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666191066

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was born in Home, Pennsylvania. He received graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, and attended the University of Edinburgh. He worked for a time as a forest ranger and was a committed naturalist and a fierce environmentalist; such was his anger, eloquence, and action on the subject that he has become a heroic, almost mythic figure to a whole host of environmental groups and literally millions of readers. Abbey's career as a writer spanned four decades and encompassed a variety of genres, from essays to novels. One of his early successes was the novel The Brave Cowboy, which was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave. His 1968 collection of essays, Desert Solitaire, became a necessary text for the new environmentalists, like the group 'Earth First,' and his rambunctious 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, a picaresque tale of environmental guerillas, which launched a national cult movement and sold over half-a-million copies. Other titles include The Journey Home, Fool's Progress, and the posthumously released Hayduke Lives!

Reviews for The Brave Cowboy

[Robert D Cameron · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What made this book so great is that it was written by Edward Abbey, one fine author who had an uncanny ability to paint scenes with words. Words about everyday things, places, and people.

The Brave Cowboy leads us to hope for redemption and for escape to a better time. The final chapter plants us, and The Brave Cowboy, back in reality.

This is not a book about buckaroos, although Burns, the protagonist, most certainly was one.

[Sky Gridley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What made this book so great? Two words—Edward Abbey. There is nothing that man put pen to page that was not extraordinary. This is the third book of his authoring I have read and it did not disappoint in any fashion. For all readers out there who have wanted to to read Abbey or have not so much as heard of the man, read him!! He is an American hidden gem in American literature.