Robert Day (3)

Author of The Last Cattle Drive

For other authors named Robert Day, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Robert Day's short fiction has received Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize citations. Among his awards and fellowships are National Endowment for the Arts, both Yaddo, and MacDowell Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award. His fiction has appeared in such places as TriQuarterly, show more North Dakota Quarterly, and New Letters, and his nonfiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel The Last Cattle Drive, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, two novellas, In My Stead, and The Four-Wheel Drive Quartet, and Speaking French in Kansas, a collection of short stories. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop; University of Kansas; and Montaigne College, University of Bordeaux. He is past president of the Associated Writing Programs; the founder and former director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House; and founder and publisher of the Literary House Press at Washington College, where he is an adjunct professor of English literature. show less

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Works by Robert Day

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The Last Cattle Drive (1976) 64 copies, 1 review

Speaking French in Kansas and Other Stories (1989) 6 copies

Where I Am Now (2012) 5 copies

In my stead 2 copies

Road Show (1979) 2 copies, 1 review

The ABCs of Enlightenment (2007) 1 copy

The Committee to Save the World (2009) 1 copy

Talk to Strangers and Stop on By; Essays on William Stafford and Other Folk of the American High Plains 1 copy

The Billion-Dollar Dream (2015) 1 copy

A Table of Republicans 1 copy

Robert Day for President (2016) 1 copy

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The Best of the West 4: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri (Vol. 4) (1991) — Contributor — 15 copies

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Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Kansas, USA
Associated Place (for map): Kansas, USA

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laurieindra 34 reviews

The Last Cattle Drive: 30th Anniversary Edition by Robert Day

I grew up 25 miles south of Hays, Ks and know the area and it's characters and this book is dead on. Some of the technical details may be off (the mechanics of selling cattle at the sockyards), but the spirit and the attitudes of Kansas people shines through. Quirky, independent, and determined.

If the only books you've ever read about the plains are The Wizard of Oz and In Cold Blood, you really, really, need to read this.

Jan 4, 2015

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Road show by Robert Day

This book looks good on my shelf; if pressed, I will admit that I'm NOT the author. This appears to be a film tie-in edition to a film that was never made.....

Aug 7, 2009 (Edited)