00910cam a2200193 4500 63340162 TxAuBib 20000701120000.0 930513s1951||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u W TxAuBib James, Will. The American cowboy. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. 273 p. : ill. "This narrative has three heroes and each one is the father of the next...Three Bills. The story begins in the Southwest when most of the men were away fighting with Sam Houston. After an Apache raid, the First Bill found himself on his own...and though he didn't know it, became the first cowboy. And his grandson Bill, is still a boy when the saga ends.". 20000701. Cowboys Fiction. Horses Fiction.