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A Texas Cowboy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie.

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A Texas Cowboy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie.

by SIRINGO, Charles A

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About This Item

New York: William Sloane Associats, (1950). First edition with the Dobie introduction. Typography by Carl Herzog. Illustrations by Tom Lea. Octavo. xl, 198 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Pictorial dust jacket by Tom Lea. An excellent copy.

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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 2,500 heads 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 led a posse of cowboys in pursuit of Billy the Kid and his gang.First published in 1885, Siringo's chronicle of his life as a itchy-footed boy, cowhand, range detective, and adventurer was one the first classics about the Old West and helped to romanticize the West and its myth of the American cowboy. Will Rogers declared, "That was the Cowboy's Bible when I was growing up."

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Bookseller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
74993
Title
A Texas Cowboy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie.
Author
SIRINGO, Charles A
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
William Sloane Associats
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
(1950)

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About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.

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