A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Illustrated)

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    Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas. Cowboys -- Texas -- Biography.

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    He describes wonderfully the conditions in which the early cowboys worked and their attitudes to life, their ups and downs and the struggle to make their way in the world. Nov 15, Darren rated it it was amazing. Then in his early teen years, shortly after the Civil War, Siringo trades book learning for the school of hard knocks as he sets o Fast, fun, and insightful — a memoir as entertaining as it is informative. And there are also matters of the heart, as the young cowboy falls in love with a string of sweethearts he meets along the way, finally marrying one he meets in Kansas and ending his career as a cowboy. Separate different tags with a comma. Physical Description xxiv, p. It was a best seller for many years and must have been a great influence in disseminating the myth and symbolic power of the Cowboy figure throughout the United States and beyond to Europe.

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    Cowboys -- Texas -- Biography. Texas -- History -- Summary "After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king Shanghai Pierce and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm Trail," driving 2, head of cattle from Austin to Kansas; knew Tascosa - now a historic monument - when it was home to raucous saloons, red-light districts, and a fair share of violence; and joined a posse of cowboys in pursuit of Billy the Kid and his gang.

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    A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony ( Illustrated) - Kindle edition by C. Stephen Badgley, Charles A. Siringo. Download it. , English, Book, Illustrated edition: A Texas cowboy ; or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life / by Charles A. Siringo.

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