A COLLEGE VAGABOND by ANDY ADAMS

In this 1906 short story by Texas author Andy Adams a young eastern college bound man is offered a trip out west to Texas to check up on his father's investment of property outside of San Antonio. His trip, taken primarily to restore his health, turns out to be to his great liking and he finds ways to extend it for a few years, becoming throuroughly western in the process.  Adams spent most of his adult life working with cattle and at age 43 became a very good writer of western life.   

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