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Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country As Deadwood Dick, by Himself : a True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the Wild and Woolly West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library,
2017.
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| Edición: | DocSouth books edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; About This Edition; Summary; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. Slavery Days; the Old Plantation; My Early Foraging; the Stolen Demijohn; My First Drunk; CHAPTER II. The War; the Rebels and the Yankees; I Raise a Regiment; Difficulty in Finding an Enemy; Ash Cake; Freedom; CHAPTER III. Raising Tobacco; Our First Year of Freedom; More Privations; Father Dies; "It Never Rains but It Pours; " I Become the Head of the Family; I Start to Work at One Dollar and Fifty Cents a Month; CHAPTER IV. Boyhood Sports; More Devilment; the Rock Battles.
- I Hunt Rabbits in My Shirt Tail My First Experience in Rough Riding; a Question of Breaking the Horse or Breaking My Neck; CHAPTER V. Home Life; Picking Berries; the Pigs Commit Larceny; Nutting; We Go to Market; My First Desire to See the World; I win a Horse in a Raffle; the Last of Home; CHAPTER VI. The World is Before Me; I join the Texas Cowboys; Red River Dick; My First Outfit; My First Indian Fight; I Learn to Use My Gun; CHAPTER VII. I Learn to Speak Spanish; I Am Made Chief Brand Reader; the Big Round-up; the 7XL Steer; Long Rides; Hunting Strays.
- CHAPTER VIII. On the Trail a Texas Storm; Battle with the Elements; After Business Comes Pleasure; CHAPTER IX. Enroute to Wyoming; the Indians Demand Toll; the Fight; a Buffalo Stampele; Tragic Death of Cal Surcey; An Eventful Trip; CHAPTER X. We Make a Trip to Nebraska; the "Hole in the Wall Country; " a Little Shooting Scrape; Cattle on the Trail and the Way to Handle Them; a Bit of Moralization; CHAPTER XI. A Buffalo Hunt; I Lose My Lariat and Saddle; I Order a Drink for Myself and My Horse; a Close Place in Old Mexico; CHAPTER XII. A Big Mustang Hunt; We Tire Them Out.
- The Indians Capture Mess Wagon and Cook Our Bill of Fare Buffalo Meat without Salt; CHAPTER XIII On the Trail with Three Thousand Head of Texas Steers; Rumors of Trouble with the Indians; at Deadwood, S.D.; the Roping Contest; I Win the Name of "Deadwood Dick; " the Shooting Match; the Custer Massacre; We View the Battlefield; Government Scouts; at Home Again; CHAPTER XIV. Riding the Range; the Fight with Yellow Dog's Tribe; I am Captured by the Indians and Adopted into the Tribe; My Escape; I ride a Hundred Miles in Twelve Hours without a Saddle; My Indian Pony.
- "Yellow Dog Chief" the Boys Present Me with a New Outfit; in the Saddle and on the Trail Again; CHAPTER XV. On a Trip to Dodge City, Kan.; I Rope One of Uncle Sam's Cannon; Captured by the Soldiers; Bat Masterson to My Rescue; Lost on the Prairie; the Buffalo Hunter Cater; My Horse Gets Away and Leaves Me Alone on the Prairie; the Blizzard; Frozen Stiff; CHAPTER XVI. The Old Haze and Elsworth Trail; Our Trip to Cheyenne; Ex-Sheriff Pat F. Garret; the Death of Billy the "Kid; " the Lincoln County Cattle War; CHAPTER XVII. Another Trip to Old Mexico; I Rope an Engine.