A Texas Cowboy: Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, Taken from Real Life
- ISBN-10
- 0803291116
- ISBN-13
- 9780803291119
- Series
- A Texas Cowboy
- Category
- History (General)
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Charles A. Siringo
Description
My boyhood days -- My introduction to the late war -- My first lesson in cow punching -- My second experience in St. Louis -- A new experience -- Adopted and sent to school -- Back at last to the Lone Star State -- Learning to rope wild steers -- Owning my first cattle -- A start up the Chisholm Trail -- Buys a boat and becomes a sailor -- Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly cow boy -- Mother and I meet at last -- On a tare in Wichita, Kansas -- A lonely trip down the Cimeron -- My first experience roping a buffalo -- An exciting trip after thieves -- Seven weeks among Indians -- A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles -- Another start up the Chisholm Trail -- A trip which terminated in the capture of "Billy the Kid" -- Billy the Kid's capture -- A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule -- Waylaid by unknown parties -- A trip down the Reo Pecos -- A true sketch of "Billy the Kid's" life -- Wrestling with a dose of small pox on the Llano Estacado -- In love with a Mexican girl -- A sudden leap from cow boy to merchant.
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