Twenty-Four Years a Cowboy and Ranchman : Or, Desperate Fights with the Indians and Mexicans.

Get a glimpse into the mind of a real outlaw cowboy as you follow Will Hale through Indian fights, cattle raids, murders, love affairs, practical jokes, and wars.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hale, Will (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Crabtree : Narrative Press, the, Sept. 2004.
Temas:
Stone, William Hale, > 1875-
Frontier and pioneer life > Texas.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Cowboys.
Cowboys
Frontier and pioneer life
Texas
West United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • MY START.
  • BATTLE OF RESACA DE PALMA.
  • BATTLE IN THE NARROW MOUNTAIN PASS OF BUENA VISTA.
  • CAPTURE SOME NEGRO SOLDIERS AND ONE OF THE BOYS SHOOTS AN INDIAN, WHO WAS ACTING LIKE A HOG, SO HE COULD SCARE THE HORSES OFF, THEN STEAL THEM.
  • SCHOOL COMMENCES AGAIN â€? THE SAME OLD TEACHER â€? THE PRINCIPAL AGAIN. ME AND JIM SAYS WE WILL DEAL HIM MISERY.
  • FIGHT WITH THE MEXICAN AND INDIAN HORSE THIEVES.
  • SCHOOL COMMENCES IN OCTOBER AGAIN WITH A NEW TEACHER WHOSE NAME WAS MOORE.
  • A TRIP TO GALVESTON AND THEN TO THE RANCH. MY TRIP WAS VERY DISAGREEABLE AND WEARISOME.ANOTHER TRIP TO GALVESTON AND THEN TO THE RANCH.
  • FIRST YEAR A COWBOY. A BIG FIGHT WITH THE KICKAPOO INDIANS.
  • FATHER AND I SPEND THE WINTER AT CORPUS CHRISTI. I FALL IN LOVE WITH A MEXICAN GIRL.
  • THE WAR OF SECESSION AND THE FIRST BATTLE AT BULL RUN â€? WE ARE BADLY DEFEATED IN THIS BATTLE.
  • CAMPAIGN IN 1862.
  • THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY â€? CAMPAIGN OF 1864 AND 1865 ENDS THE WAR.
  • AFTER THE WAR WENT BACK TO THE LONE STAR STATE AND FOLLOWED THE WILD LIFE OF A COWBOY.
  • I make another trip to fort brown. shooting scrape with two mexicans and a negro.i take a partner in the cattle trade, and father's opinion. he says a woman should be the one.
  • another cattle raid and one of mr. pink's detectives comes to see us.
  • we relieve the mexicans of their gold and silver and then take a trip to galveston.
  • killing of captain gondales, major decelli vercipuci, and whan deoli.
  • we make another trip to matamoros. jim smith saves a girl's life.
  • The smith boys and scott arrive at the de soyos. jim smith goes to the horse races and the bull fights.san tigo comes in and jim gets a good look at him.
  • the fight close to the canyon. palametho and many a mexican chews the dust.
  • jim smith cuts a mexican sentry's throat and relieves them of their captives.
  • the last days of the smith gang. we never see tom scott again. we all were glad to leave.
  • these are our last days in south-ern texas and old mexico. we sell our property and go to missouri.
  • A trip to galveston. me and tom and the smith boys go to missouri. jack lewis kills two negroes and then goes to western texas.tom rily marries and then i am alone.
  • in the wild west again. trip to southwestern texas or southeast-ern new mexico with bob dixon.
  • war in lincoln county, new mexico, known as the lincoln county war.
  • the kid returns from the texas panhandle and kills a man at fort sumner, and shoots one of his own men through the shoulder.
  • the kid kills jim caralyle and makes his escape to antonchico and steals some horses.

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