Memoirs of a Texas Cowboy
Author: James Robinson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-01-22
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 145002002X
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A Texas Cowboy, Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Author: Charles Siringo
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-22
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781540575937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - "money, and lots of it", he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. 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. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir. Perhaps the most vivid highlight among these recollections regards Billy the Kid, one of the most notorious outlaws to ever emerge in the West. Something of a nemesis for the law-abiding Siringo, the pursuit of Billy occupies several chapters of this book. In 1886, the year after this autobiography appeared, Siringo would enroll in the Pinkertons: bored with cowboy life, it was as a detective working undercover that his abilities were truly realized.
A Texas Cowboy: Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Author: Charles A. Siringo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-08-28
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781387905850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - ""money, and lots of it,"" he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. 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. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir.
A Texas Cowboy
Author: Charles A. Siringo
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-25
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781387905843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - ""money, and lots of it"", he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. 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. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir.
Cowboys and Cattleland
Author: Harry H. Halsell
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA must read for anyone with even remote interest in cowboy working history. The detail involving driving a working cattle is unsurpassed, as well as childhood adventures involving Indian interactions. Hard to put down. The wild west, not all pretty, but very real and told by a first hand witness. He lived during the era that spanned the Civil War to the atomic bomb, and describes it starkly.
Shades of the West
Author: Ted Gray
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780965798549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of over a hundred of what Gray calls "stories," we have his memoir of more than 50 years in the saddle combined with fascinating glimpses into the lives, deeds, and misdeeds of a remarkable array of "characters." Set in the Big Bend country of West Texas, Gray´s stories cover the gamut of the cowboy´s life, from roping to roundups, from bulls to broken bones, from butchering camp meat to roping elk, and from raw, pitching broncs to fine, well-trained cutting horses. The "characters" that inhabit these pages are at times so wild and engage in such outlandish behavior that the reader must occasionally remind himself that these are real people and real events and not the fictional creations of a Hollywood screenplay. Many of the stories told here are very funny, some are tragic, but all of them teach us something about people. We certainly learn a lot about Ted Gray in their telling: the extraordinary strength of his belief in hard work, loyalty, friendship, honesty, and being a good neighbor. He has enjoyed the wonderful bonds of lifelong friendship with men like Dick Riddle, Nicasio Ramirez, Lupe Ramirez and Jerome Dees. His loyalty to the Kokernots for whom he worked many years and the importance he places upon being a good neighbor are evident in many of the stories. Over and over Gray reveals his admiration for those who know their profession well and can demonstrate great skill at it. His greatest compliment to any man is, "He can do it all, and get it done right." "Shades of the West" is a memoir with a special foreword by Elmer Kelton. Ted Gray grew up around Jacksboro, Texas, but as a teenager in the 1930s moved to the Big Bend country of West Texas to seek his fortune as a cowboy. After 50 years in the saddle, he is now retired and lives in Alpine, Texas, with his wife, Addie. Ted now enjoys occasionally appearing as a speaker at cowboy gatherings where he can exercise his considerable talents as a story-teller
The Cowboy Encyclopedia
Author: Richard W. Slatta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780393314731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Cow Boys and Cattle Men
Author: Jacqueline M. Moore
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0814757391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy
Author: Charley Hester
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780803273467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptures the remarkable experiences, exploits, and adventures of a teenage runaway from Illinois in the Wild West, in a memoir that describes his encounter with Wild Bill Hickok and Doc Holliday, a surprise encounter with Indians, and conflicts with nature. Original.
