The Cowboys

The Cowboys is the first book in the Time-Life series "The Old West". It was written by William H. Forbis.

Releases
1st Printing - © 1973 2nd Printing - © 1973, Reprinted 1974 3rd Printing - © 1973, Revised 1975 4th Printing - © 1973, Revised 1977 5th Printing - © 1973, Revised 1978 6th Printing - © 1973, Revised 1980 7th Printing - 8th Printing - © 1973, Revised 1996 9th Printing - © 1973, Revised 1997 10th Printing - © 1973, Revised 2004

Copyright Page
Credits NOTE: Items that do not list a printing number behind them appear the same in every edition. Whenever there is a change, for example, the 4th Printing removes William Frankel as a Text Editor, the parenthesized printing number following the item shows in which edition the change occurs. Certain items, such as Traffic, does not appear in the first printing, but appears in the fourth and later printings.

Series Editor: Ezra Bowen (1st Printing)

Editor: Ezra Bowen (4th Printing)

EDITORIAL STAFF FOR "THE COWBOYS"

Picture Editor: Carole Kismaric

Text Editors: William Frankel, Anne Horan (1st Printing)

Text Editors: Anne Horan (4th Printing)

Designers: Herbert H. Quarmby, Albert Sherman

Staff Writers: Erik Amfitheatrof, George Constable, Sam Halper, Bryce Walker, Peter Wood

Researchers: Joan Mebane, Malabar Brodeur, Michael Drons, Frances Gardner, Nancy Jacobson, Mary Leverty, Mary Kay Moran, Kathryn Ritchell, Kathy Slate, Jane Sugden

Design Assistant: Anne B. Landry

EDITORIAL PRODUCTION

Production Editor: Douglas B. Graham

Operations Manager: Gennaro C. Esposito (4th Printing)

Assistant Production Editor: Feliciano Madrid (4th Printing)

Quality Director: Robert L. Young

Assistant: James J. Cox (1st Printing)

Assistant Quality Director: James J. Cox (4th Printing)

Associate: Serafino J. Cambareri

Copy Staff: Rosalind Stubenberg, Roberta Frost, Florence Keith (1st Printing)

Copy Staff: Susan B. Galloway (chief), Roberta Frost, Florence Keith, Celia Beattie (4th Printing)

Picture Department: Delores A. Littles, Barbara S. Simon

Traffic: Barbara Buzan (4th Printing)

THE AUTHOR: William H. Forbis was born in cowboy country and has returned there. A native of Missoula, Montana, he graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in journalism and left for Central America, where he was to spend more than a decade as a reporter, editor and correspondent. He moved to New York in 1951 to become a writer for TIME and then a senior editor in charge of art, theater, cinema and education. Since his retirement in 1969, he has been dividing his time between freelance writing and teaching at the University of Montana. Before undertaking The Cowboys, he completed and edited the late John Gunther's Inside Australia, published in 1972.

THE COVER: The spirit and dash—even the titles—of Frederic Remington's cover painting, The Cowboy, and his bronze frontispiece, The Outlaw, reflect the heroic American conception of the Old West. Remington sold The Cowboy to a friend for $2,500 and then, in a grand gesture, lit their cigars with the check.

Valuable assistance was provided by the following departments and individuals of Time Inc.: Editorial Production, Norman Airey, Nicholas Costino Jr.; Library, Peter Draz; Picture Collection, Doris O'Neil; Photographic Laboratory, George Karas; TIME-LIFE News Service, Murray J. Gart; Correspondents Blanche Hardin (Denver), Alfred Polczinski (Wichita), Lynne Waugh (Santa Fe).

Cultural Counterparts
Time-Life released versions of this series in several different languages through its international division, and the wiki aspires to cover the international series as comprehensively as it covers the American version. Information about languages currently known to the TLTOW wiki are listed below.

French
NAME: "Les Cow-Boys" SERIES: Le Far West AUTHOR: William H. Forbis TRANSLATOR: Jean-Pierre Rieupeyrou PUBLISHER: Time-Life International, ©1978

German
NAME: "Die Cowboys" SERIES: Der Wilde Westen AUTHOR: William H. Forbis TRANSLATOR: Jürgen Abel PUBLISHER: Time-Life International / Time-Life Bücher, ©1978

Structure
1|Fest im Sattel 2|Die Rinderbarone 3|Leben auf der Range 4|Die Zeit des Roundup 5|Der große Viehtreck 6|Städte am Ende der Trails 7|Ein widersprüchlicher Kodex

Japanese
NAME: "カウボーイ" / "Kaubōi" SERIES: Daiseibu monogatari AUTHOR: ウィリアム・H.フォービス原著 / William H. Forbis TRANSLATOR: タイムライフブックス編集部編集 / Taimu Raifu Bukkusu Henshūbu PUBLISHER: タイムライフブックス / Tōkyō : Taimuraifubukkusu, ©1976

Swedish
NAME: "Cowboys" SERIES: Wild West (Wiken/Bokorama) AUTHOR: William H. Forbis TRANSLATOR: Nils Erik Bæhrendtz PUBLISHER: Höganäs / Bokoram, Höganäs / Bra Böcker, ©1978

Structure
1. En svettig liten man, stor i sadeln 2. Boskansbaronerna 3. Hemma på prärien 4. Tud för inringning 5. Det långa spåret 6. Städer som blomstrade på boskap 7. Västerns lag

Slovenian
NAME: "Kavboji" SERIES: Resnična Zgodovina Divjega Zahoda AUTHOR: William H. Forbis TRANSLATOR: Stanko Jarc PUBLISHER: Ljubljana / Cankarjeva Založba, ©1974