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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, Nat, 1854-1921, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cowboys--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Cowboys.

African American cowboys--West (U.S.)--Biography.

African American cowboys.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

Love, Nat, 1854-1921.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017

Summary:

Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.

Contents:

Slavery days. The old plantation. My early foraging. The stolen demijohn. My first drink. The curse of slavery.

War. "The rebels and the Yankees." I raise a regiment to fight. Difficulty in finding an enemy. Ash cake. Freedom.

Raising tobacco, our first year of freedom. More privations. Father dies. It never rains—but it pours. I become the head of the family and start to work at $1.50 per month.

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.

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.

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.

I learn to speak Spanish and am made chief brand reader. The big round-ups. Riding the 7-Y-L steer. Long rides. Hunting strays.

On the trail. A Texas storm. A cattle stampede. Battle with the elements. After business comes pleasure.

En route to Wyoming. The Indians demand toll. The fight. A buffalo stampede. Tragic death of Cal. Surcey. An eventful trip.

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.

A buffalo hunt. I lose my lariat and saddle. I order a drink for myself and my horse. A close place in Old Mexico.

The big wild mustang hunt. We tire them out. The Indians capture our mess wagon and cook. Our bill of fare buffalo meat without salt.

On the trail with three thousand head of Texas steers. Rumors of trouble with the Indians at Deadwood. The roping contest. I win the name of Deadwood Dick. The shooting match. The Custer Massacre. The view of the battle field. Government scouts. At home again.

Riding the range. The fight with yellow dog's tribe. I am captured and adopted by the Indians. 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.

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.

The Old Haze and Elsworth Trail. Our trip to Cheyenne. Ex-sheriff Pat A. Garret. The death of "Billy the Kid." The Lincoln County cattle war.

Another trip to Old Mexico. I rope an engine. I fall in love. My courtship. Death of my sweetheart. My promised wife. I must bear a charmed life. The advent of progress. The last of the range.

The Pullman service. Life on the rail. My first trip. A slump in tips. I become disgusted and quit. A period of husking. My next trip on the Pullman. Tips and the people who give them.

The Pullman sleeping car. Long trips on the rail. The wreck. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. A few of the railroads over which I have traveled. The invalid and the care we give them.

The tourist sleeping car. The chair car. The safeguards of modern railroading. See America, then let your chest swell with pride that you are an American.

A few of the railroad men under whom I have served. George M. Pullman. The town of Pullman, Ill. American railroads lead the world. A few figures.

A few reminiscences of the range. Some men I have met. Buffalo Bill. The James brothers. Yellowstone Kelley. The murder of Buck Cannon by Bill Woods. The suicide of Jack Zimick.

Notes:

Originally published: Los Angeles, California : Nat Love, author, {copy}1907.

"A DocSouth Books edition."

"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."

Includes bibliographical references (page 6).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890854360

9798890854377

9781469633237

146963323X

9781469633244

1469633248

OCLC:

988892821