The legendary cowboy offers a chronicle of his life as an adventurer, range detective, and cowhand for the noted Texas cattle king Shanghai Pierce.
Reproduction of the original: A Texas Cow Boy by Chas. A. Siringo
The book begins with Charles Siringo's account of his early life, as the son of immigrants; his father an Italian and his mother Irish.
A Texas Cowboy
There being no opening in the building except the door, Garrett and Lee Hall crawled up to the end wall so they could watch the door from around the corner, while the rest of us concealed ourselves behind knolls, etc.
“I'll fight the bastards with my bare hands like Crockett and Travis did in the Alamo. I'm not licked yet.” Houston leaned against the wagon, glancing down at his bloody chest. He could barely remember the ...
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This is the story of Charles Siringo. It details the adventures and hardships of what it was like in the old west driving cattle across vast stretches of open land. It is told in the cowboy's own words.
34 ; Butcher , Custer County , pp . 42-44 ; Dutton , " Print Olive , " Handbook of Texas , vol . 4 , pp . 1145-46 ; Thrapp , Frontier Encyclopedia , p . 1080 ; Chrisman , Ladder of Rivers , pp . 234-39 ; Dary , Cowboy Culture , p.
"Created from the original book published in 1885."--Cover.