NMLP P-036644 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Brave Cowboy

Edward Abbey · Dodd, Mead · 1956

A book-club edition does exist: the Western Book Club issue (1957), bound in bright turquoise-blue paper boards with the spine stamped in black, readily distinguished from the trade first's half black cloth over tan boards with red spine lettering. Separately, the 1977 University of New Mexico Press reissue revises the text by deleting the second-to-last sentence, which in the 1956 first declares Jack Burns dead; any text lacking that sentence is the later revised version, not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-036644 for "The Brave Cowboy" by Edward Abbey (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036644, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).