The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love (English) Paperback Book

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Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. This autobiography Of Nat Love includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship.

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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 fifteen 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 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.

Author Biography

Introducing this Bison Books edition is Brackette F. Williams, an associate professor of anthropology in African American studies at the University of Arizona. Her books include Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle.

Review

"The Life and Adventures of Nat Love is a tale of three lives—a slave boy, a cowboy, and a porter—woven together by the kind of hyperbole that any lover of good storytelling ought to appreciate. In both content and effect it is a quintessential American tale."—Brackette F. Williams

Review Text

" The Life and Adventures of Nat Love is a tale of three lives--a slave boy, a cowboy, and a porter--woven together by the kind of hyperbole that any lover of good storytelling ought to appreciate. In both content and effect it is a quintessential American tale."--Brackette F. Williams

Review Quote

" The Life and Adventures of Nat Love is a tale of three lives-a slave boy, a cowboy, and a porter-woven together by the kind of hyperbole that any lover of good storytelling ought to appreciate. In both content and effect it is a quintessential American tale."-Brackette F. Williams

Details ISBN0803279558 Author Brackette F. Williams Series Blacks in the American West Language English ISBN-10 0803279558 ISBN-13 9780803279551 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1995 Country of Publication United States Short Title LIFE & ADV OF NAT LOVE Birth 1854 Death 1921 Publisher University of Nebraska Press Edition New edition DOI 10.1604/9780803279551 UK Release Date 1995-09-01 AU Release Date 1995-09-01 NZ Release Date 1995-09-01 US Release Date 1995-09-01 Illustrations Illus. Imprint Bison Books Place of Publication Nebraska Pages 162 Publication Date 1995-09-01 DEWEY 978 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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