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Author Love, Nat, 1854-1921.

Title 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 / by Nat Love.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2017.

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Edition DocSouth books edition.
Description 1 online resource (147 pages) : illustration
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 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.
Note I Fall in Love.
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Subject Love, Nat, 1854-1921.
Love, Nat, 1854-1921.
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Biography.
African Americans.
Tennessee.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Tennessee -- Biography.
Enslaved persons.
Plantation life -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery -- United States -- Personal narratives.
Slavery.
United States.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Subject Slavery -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century.
African American cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
African American cowboys.
Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Cowboys.
West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Other Form: Print version: Love, Nat. 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. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, ©2017 9781469633220
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