A Texas Cowboy: Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071JZ3YSY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 574 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In plain language you'll hear what it was like to live on the "hurricane deck of a Spanish pony" for months on end, earning enough to head into town and have a good time. When legendary Charlie Siringo wrote this classic work, he was only 30 years old and had already spent half that life as a cowboy. Crisscrossing the Lone Star State, he lived a vanishing way of life. With enduring wit, he tells the tale of long cattle drives, small-town beauties, meetings with Billy the Kid, and growing up on the Texas frontier. After only a few years of setting down, he was back in the saddle as a Pinkerton detective, a career he tells of in later books.
I @&*#@&#$ love this book I @&*#@&#$ love this book. From it's faux leather cover to the incredible tales contained within. If you are from Texas, if you have ANY interest in Texas whatsoever, you need to read this book. One tale in particular stands out: A neighbor(?) of Siringo's on the Texas coast was tinkering with an unexploded Yankee artillery shell when the shell ignited and blew his legs off. Oh, and Siringo WALKED across. S. May said Wrangling Ways. Sincere recollections of Charlie from his youth in Matagorda, TX; his love of cowboying on the open range, an absolute window on the true past of wrangling, roping, branding, driving and selling wild cattle to the east to feed the nation after the Civil War. A winsome trail is travelled as you immerse in the world that was from cowboy to detective. It informs how we got to where we are today, with railro. "A good read!" according to Barry P. Evans. This was a good book in as much as it gives one an insight on how the cowboys lived and worked in the early days of the great cattle drives.