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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.
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- Chas. A. Siringo
- Preface.
- Chapter I.
- Chapter II.
- Chapter III.
- Chapter IV.
- Chapter v.
- Chapter VI.
- Chapter VII.
- Chapter VIII.
AN OLD STOVE UP "COW PUNCHER," WHO HAS SPENT NEARLY TWENTY YEARS ON THE GREAT WESTERN CATTLE RANGES. M. UMBDENSTOCK & CO., Publishers, Chicago, Illinois. 1885. THE AUTHOR after he became stove-up—financially, as well as otherwise.
My excuse for writing this book is money—andlots of it. I suppose the above would suffice, but as time isnot very precious I will continue and tell how theidea of writing a book first got into my head: While ranching on the Indian Territory line,close to Caldwell, Kansas, in the winter of '82 and'83, we boys—there being nine of us—made an iron-clad...
MY BOYHOOD DAYS. It was a bright morning, on the 7th day of February1856, as near as I can remember, that yourhumble Servant came prancing into this wide andwicked world. By glancing over the map you will find his birthplace,at the extreme southern part of the LoneStar State, on the Peninsula of Matagorda, a narrowstrip of land bordered by the Gulf...
MY INTRODUCTION TO THE LATE WAR. It was Monday morning—a day that I despised.Need you wonder, for it was mother's wash dayand I had to carry wood from the Gulf beach tokeep the "pot boiling." I tried to play off sick that morning but it wouldnot work, for mother had noticed that I got awaywith two plates of mush besides three hard boiledeggs for br...
MY FIRST LESSON IN COW PUNCHING. The next day after arriving in town, Mr. Faldiensent me out to his ranch, twenty miles, on BigBoggy. I rode out on the "grub" wagon with thecolored cook. That night, after arriving at theranch, there being several men already there, wewent out wild boar hunting. We got back aboutmidnight very tired and almost used u...
MY SECOND EXPERIENCE IN ST. LOUIS. Bright and early next morning I gave my dimeto the ferryman and pulled out for the bustlingcity, where I was soon lost in the large crowd whichthronged the levee. I left my satchel in a saloon and struck out to findMr. Socks, hoping he could give me some informationas to mother and sister's whereabouts, but Iwas s...
A NEW EXPERIENCE. The next day about noon I came to my senses.I found myself all alone in a nice little room ona soft bed. I tried to get up but it was useless; myback felt as if it was broken. I couldn't think whathad happened to me. But finally the door openedand in stepped a doctor, who explained the wholematter. He said the captain, just as the...
ADOPTED AND SENT TO SCHOOL. Mr. and Mrs. Myers had no children and after Ihad been with them about a month, they proposedto adopt me, or at least they made mepromise to stay with them until I was twenty-oneyears of age. They were to send me to school until I was seventeenand then start me in business. They alsopromised to give me everything they ha...
BACK AT LAST TO THE LONE STAR STATE. Everything went on lovely until the coming fall,about the latter part of November when I skippedthe country for good. I will tell you how ithappened. One afternoon a fire broke out close to the schoolhouse and as everybody was rushing by, I becameexcited and wanted to go too, to see the fun. Iasked the teacher i...
LEARNING TO ROPE WILD STEERS. Arriving on the Navadad river, we went to workgathering a herd of "trail" beeves and alsobranding Mavricks at the same time. Some dayswe would brand as high as three or four hundredMavricks—none under two years old. After about a month's hard work we had the herdof eleven hundred ready to turn over to Mr. Blackwho had ...
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.
- Paperback
Dec 1, 2000 · 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.
- Charles A. Siringo
Mar 15, 2017 · When legendary Charlie Siringo wrote this classic work, he was only thirty years old and had already spent half that life as a cowboy. 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.
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Nov 22, 2016 · Charles 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.
- Charles A. Siringo
Dec 15, 2011 · A Texas Cow Boy by Charles A. Siringo. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
