Summary of Hank The Cowdog: It's a Dog's Life

The pages are p. 1-130 it have ch. 1-12. I like this good book and it is by John R. Erickson and illustrations by Gerald L. Holmes. If you want to check out this book go to the library and pick it up.

It's me again, Hank the Cowdog. One morning around ten o'clock Dover brought me some incredible news. He said the world was coming to an end. I had gotten in from work around daylight, washed up in the septic tank, and hit my gunnysack just as the sun peeked over that big cottonwood tree down by the creek. It had been a slow night but still I was bushed. Must have been the accumulation of long nights. This security work begins to wear on a guy after a while. I had given Drover the night off, so by the time I came dragging in he was all fresh and ready to go exploring or some such foolishness.

He asked if I wanted to go with him. They were coming out of my bed. Derned gunnysack was getting a little ripe and needed changing. You'd think the cowboys would notice something like that and give me a fresh cake sack every six months or so, but they can sell'em back to the Co-op for a nickel apiece, see, and that sort of puts a price on my services. You never really know these ranch folks until there's a nickel involved. Give the Head of Ranch Security a five-cent bed every six months? No siree, not with cattle prices the way they are. That new gunnysack just might take the ranch down into bankruptcy.

Long story short it wasn't going to end. The author and illustration biography said "John R. Erickson began writing stories in 1967 while working full time as a cowboy, farmhand, and ranch manager in Texas and Oklahoma-where two of the dogs were Hank and his sidekick Drover. Hank the Cowdog made his debut a long time ago in the pages of The Cattleman, a magazine about cattle for adults. Soon after, Erickson began receiving "Dear Hank" letters and realized that many of his eager fans were children. The Hank the Cowdog series won Erickson a Publishers Weekly "Listen Up" Award for Best Humor in Audio. He also received an Audie from the Audio Publishers Association for Outstanding Children's Series. The author of more than thirty-five books, Erickson lives with his wife, Kris, and their three children on a ranch near his boyhood home of Perryton, Texas. Gerald L. Holmes met John Erickson after moving to Perryton, Texas, a long time ago...and that's when Hank and his pals came to life for the first time in pictures. Mr. Holmes has illustrated numerous cartoons and textbooks in addition to the Hank the Cowdog series." In book 3 in 1984. To go to the website is http://www.hankthecowdog.com.