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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"
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By Nat Love
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This book is an autobiography of Nat Love, an American cowboy and former slave. It follows his life in the period after the Civil War and his adventures in the Old West, where he became a legendary hero. It is an inspiring and fascinating account of one man's journey from slavery to becoming one of the most respected cowboys in the American West.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateDec 4, 2019
ISBN4057664584106
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Nat Love (1854–1921) was born on a plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee. After many years as a cow herder in the West, he retired to Los Angeles.
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Prime edition, 1999
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162 p., ill.
Los Angeles California
1907
Call number Duke 326.93 L897L (Rare Complete, Man
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Thousands of Black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was 15 and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, “I had an unusually adventurous life”.
That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love’s claim: “I carry the marks of 14 bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled”. In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence.
This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor h