Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 - September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction. Andy Adams was born in Thorncreek Township, Whitley County, Indiana, the son of Andrew Adams, who was of Irish descent, and Elizabeth Elliott, who was of Scottish descent. As a boy, he helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s, he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. His other works include A Texas Matchmaker (1904), The Outlet (1905), Cattle Brands (1906), Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907), Wells Brothers (1911), and The Ranch on the Beaver (1927).

A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams. The life of a cowboy is tough, but finding love can be even more difficult.From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.When I first found employment with Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority, while he was over sixty. Though not a native of Texas, "Uncle Lance" was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F. Austin's colonists in 1821. The colony with which his people reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos River, and shared the various hardships that befell all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality.

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The matchmakers of Cactus, Texas, are back—and all the single folkbetter beware!Everyone was convinced that Diane Peters and Jeff Hausen were perfectfor each other. Everyone but Diane and Jeff, of course. She was acarefree career girl with big-city dreams. And the town's new doctorwas content with the snail's pace of rural Texas. Never had two moreopposite individuals been forced to stay under one roof—and neverhad an attraction been so strong. So when two adorable children indesperate need of a home plus several well-meaning but meddling ladieswere thrown into the mix...well, good luck…. Because once a coupleis struck by the Texas matchmakers, the only cure is a swift trip downthe aisle!