"The most compelling parts of Cowboys come when Reding describes how Duck drinks to stave off boredom and how Edith uses gaucho ghost stories to make sense of his drunken, violent behavior." -- USA Today "Heroic...What matters most about The Last Cowboys at the End of the World is that it introduces us to people whom few of us have met and who, if they haven't vanished yet, will surely do so within a generation or two." -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World