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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
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| Named Person: | Nat Love |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nat Love |
| ISBN: | 0803279558 9780803279551 |
| OCLC Number: | 32780272 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Los Angeles : Wayside Press, 1907. "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." |
| Description: | xviii, 162 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Series Title: | Blacks in the American West. |
| Responsibility: | introduction to the Bison Books edition by Brackette F. Williams. |
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Abstract:
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 fourteen 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 he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.
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